Psalm 106

English Standard Version

Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good

106 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Oh give thanks to the Lord, ^(C)for he is good,
    ^(D)for his steadfast love endures forever!
²Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
    or declare all his praise?
³Blessed are they who observe justice,
    who ^(E)do righteousness at all times!

⁴^(F)Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
    help me when you save them,^[a]
⁵that I may look upon the prosperity of your ^(G)chosen ones,
    that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
    that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶^(H)Both we and ^(I)our fathers have sinned;
    we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
⁷Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
    did not consider your wondrous works;
they ^(J)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
    but ^(K)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸Yet he saved them ^(L)for his name's sake,
    ^(M)that he might make known his mighty power.
⁹He ^(N)rebuked the Red Sea, and it ^(O)became dry,
    and he ^(P)led them through the deep as through a desert.
¹⁰So he ^(Q)saved them from the hand of the foe
    and ^(R)redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
¹¹And ^(S)the waters covered their adversaries;
    not one of them was left.
¹²Then ^(T)they believed his words;
    they ^(U)sang his praise.

¹³But they soon ^(V)forgot his works;
    they did not wait for ^(W)his counsel.
¹⁴But they had ^(X)a wanton craving in the wilderness,
    and ^(Y)put God to the test in the desert;
¹⁵he ^(Z)gave them what they asked,
    but sent ^(AA)a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶When men in the camp ^(AB)were jealous of Moses
    and Aaron, ^(AC)the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷^(AD)the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
    and covered the company of Abiram.
¹⁸^(AE)Fire also broke out in their company;
    the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They ^(AF)made a calf in Horeb
    and worshiped a metal image.
²⁰They ^(AG)exchanged the glory of God^[b]
    for the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹They ^(AH)forgot God, their Savior,
    who had done great things in Egypt,
²²wondrous works in ^(AI)the land of Ham,
    and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
²³Therefore ^(AJ)he said he would destroy them—
    had not Moses, his ^(AK)chosen one,
^(AL)stood in the breach before him,
    to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they ^(AM)despised ^(AN)the pleasant land,
    having ^(AO)no faith in his promise.
²⁵They ^(AP)murmured in their tents,
    and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
²⁶Therefore he ^(AQ)raised his hand and swore to them
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
    ^(AR)scattering them among the lands.

²⁸Then they ^(AS)yoked themselves to the ^(AT)Baal of Peor,
    and ate sacrifices offered to ^(AU)the dead;
²⁹they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then ^(AV)Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was stayed.
³¹And that was ^(AW)counted to him as righteousness
    from generation to generation forever.

³²They ^(AX)angered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,
³³for they ^(AY)made his spirit bitter,^[c]
and he ^(AZ)spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not ^(BA)destroy the peoples,
    ^(BB)as the Lord commanded them,
³⁵but they ^(BC)mixed with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.
³⁶They served their idols,
    which became ^(BD)a snare to them.
³⁷They ^(BE)sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to ^(BF)the demons;
³⁸they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was ^(BG)polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus they ^(BH)became unclean by their acts,
    and ^(BI)played the whore in their deeds.

⁴⁰Then ^(BJ)the anger of the Lord was kindled against ^(BK)his people,
    and he abhorred his ^(BL)heritage;
⁴¹he ^(BM)gave them into the hand of the nations,
    so that those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴²Their enemies ^(BN)oppressed them,
    and they were brought into subjection under their power.
⁴³^(BO)Many times he delivered them,
    but they were rebellious in their ^(BP)purposes
    and were ^(BQ)brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
    when he ^(BR)heard their cry.
⁴⁵For their sake he ^(BS)remembered his covenant,
    and ^(BT)relented according to ^(BU)the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁴⁶He caused them to be ^(BV)pitied
    by all those who held them captive.

⁴⁷^(BW)Save us, O Lord our God,
and ^(BX)gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.

⁴⁸^(BY)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
^(BZ)And let all the people say, “Amen!”
^(CA)Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 106:4 Or Remember me, O Lord, with the favor you show to your people; help me with your salvation
Psalm 106:20 Hebrew exchanged their glory
Psalm 106:33 Or they rebelled against God's Spirit

Numbers 12-13

English Standard Version

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. ²And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? ^(A)Has he not spoken through us also?” And ^(B)the Lord heard it. ³Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. ⁴And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. ⁵And ^(C)the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. ⁶And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him ^(D)in a vision; I speak with him ^(E)in a dream. ⁷Not so with ^(F)my servant Moses. ^(G)He is faithful in all my house. ⁸With him I speak ^(H)mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in ^(I)riddles, and he beholds ^(J)the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” ⁹And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

¹⁰When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, ^(K)Miriam was ^(L)leprous,^[a] like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. ¹¹And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, ^(M)do not punish us^[b] because we have done foolishly and have sinned. ¹²Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb.” ¹³And Moses cried to the Lord, “O God, please heal her—please.” ¹⁴But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but ^(N)spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be ^(O)shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.” ¹⁵So Miriam ^(P)was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again. ¹⁶After that the people set out from ^(Q)Hazeroth, and camped in ^(R)the wilderness of Paran.

Spies Sent into Canaan

13 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²^(S)“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” ³So Moses sent them from ^(T)the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. ⁴And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; ⁵from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; ⁶^(U)from the tribe of Judah, ^(V)Caleb the son of Jephunneh; ⁷from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; ⁸from the tribe of Ephraim, ^(W)Hoshea the son of Nun; ⁹from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; ¹⁰from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; ¹¹from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi; ¹²from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; ¹³from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; ¹⁴from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; ¹⁵from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. ¹⁶These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called ^(X)Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

¹⁷Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into ^(Y)the Negeb and go up into ^(Z)the hill country, ¹⁸and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, ¹⁹and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, ²⁰and whether the land is ^(AA)rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. ^(AB)Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

²¹So they went up and spied out the land ^(AC)from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, ^(AD)near Lebo-hamath. ²²They went up into ^(AE)the Negeb and came to ^(AF)Hebron. ^(AG)Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the ^(AH)descendants of Anak, were there. (^(AI)Hebron was built seven years before ^(AJ)Zoan in Egypt.) ²³And ^(AK)they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. ²⁴That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,^[c] because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

Report of the Spies

²⁵At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. ²⁶And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at ^(AL)Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It ^(AM)flows with milk and honey, ^(AN)and this is its fruit. ²⁸^(AO)However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. ²⁹^(AP)The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. ^(AQ)And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

³⁰But ^(AR)Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” ³¹^(AS)Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” ³²So ^(AT)they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(AU)all the people that we saw in it are of great height. ³³And there we saw the ^(AV)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the ^(AW)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves ^(AX)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Footnotes

Numbers 12:10 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Numbers 12:11 Hebrew do not lay sin upon us
Numbers 13:24 Eshcol means cluster

Matthew 23:37-24:14

English Standard Version

Lament over Jerusalem

³⁷^(A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ^(B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have ^(C)gathered ^(D)your children together ^(E)as a hen gathers her brood ^(F)under her wings, and ^(G)you were not willing! ³⁸See, ^(H)your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ^(I)‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

24 ^(J)Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. ²But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, ^(K)there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

Signs of the End of the Age

³As he sat on ^(L)the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him ^(M)privately, saying, “Tell us, ^(N)when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your ^(O)coming and of ^(P)the end of the age?” ⁴And Jesus answered them, ^(Q)“See that no one leads you astray. ⁵For ^(R)many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am ^(S)the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ⁶And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you ^(T)are not alarmed, for this ^(U)must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷For ^(V)nation will rise against nation, and ^(W)kingdom against kingdom, and there will be ^(X)famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸All these are but the beginning of ^(Y)the birth pains.

⁹“Then ^(Z)they will deliver you up ^(AA)to tribulation and ^(AB)put you to death, and ^(AC)you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. ¹⁰And then many will fall away^[a] and ^(AD)betray one another and hate one another. ¹¹And many ^(AE)false prophets will arise ^(AF)and lead many astray. ¹²And because lawlessness will be increased, ^(AG)the love of many will grow cold. ¹³^(AH)But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom ^(AI)will be proclaimed throughout the whole world ^(AJ)as a testimony ^(AK)to all nations, and ^(AL)then the end will come.