Psalm 119:49-72

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Zayin

⁴⁹Remember the word to Your servant,
^[a]In which You have made me hope.
⁵⁰This is my ^(A)comfort in my misery,
That Your word has ^[b]revived me.
⁵¹The arrogant ^(B)utterly deride me,
Yet I do not ^(C)turn aside from Your Law.
⁵²I have ^(D)remembered Your judgments from ^[c]of old, Lord,
And comfort myself.
⁵³Burning ^(E)indignation has seized me because of the wicked,
Who ^(F)abandon Your Law.
⁵⁴Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my ^(G)pilgrimage.
⁵⁵Lord, I ^(H)remember Your name ^(I)in the night,
And keep Your Law.
⁵⁶This has become mine,
^[d]That I ^(J)comply with Your precepts.

Heth

⁵⁷The Lord is my ^(K)portion;
I have ^[e]promised to ^(L)keep Your words.
⁵⁸I ^(M)sought Your favor ^(N)with all my heart;
^(O)Be gracious to me ^(P)according to Your ^[f]word.
⁵⁹I ^(Q)considered my ways
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
⁶⁰I hurried and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.
⁶¹The ^(R)snares of the wicked have surrounded me,
But I have ^(S)not forgotten Your Law.
⁶²At ^(T)midnight I will rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your ^(U)righteous judgments.
⁶³I am a ^(V)companion to all those who ^[g]fear You,
And to those who keep Your precepts.
⁶⁴^(W)The earth is full of Your goodness, Lord;
^(X)Teach me Your statutes.

Teth

⁶⁵You have treated Your servant well,
Lord, according to Your word.
⁶⁶Teach me good ^[h]^(Y)discernment and knowledge,
For I believe in Your commandments.
⁶⁷^(Z)Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
⁶⁸You are ^(AA)good and You ^(AB)do good;
^(AC)Teach me Your statutes.
⁶⁹The arrogant ^[i]have ^(AD)forged a lie against me;
With all my heart I will ^(AE)comply with Your precepts.
⁷⁰Their heart is ^(AF)insensitive, like fat,
But I ^(AG)delight in Your Law.
⁷¹It is ^(AH)good for me that I was afflicted,
So that I may learn Your statutes.
⁷²The ^(AI)Law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

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Psalm 119:49 Lit On
Psalm 119:50 Or preserved me alive
Psalm 119:52 Or everlasting
Psalm 119:56 Or Because
Psalm 119:57 Lit said that I would keep
Psalm 119:58 Or promise
Psalm 119:63 Or revere
Psalm 119:66 Or judgment
Psalm 119:69 Lit besmear me with lies

Psalm 49

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The Foolishness of Trusting in Riches.

For the music director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

49 ^(A)Hear this, all peoples;
Listen, all ^(B)inhabitants of the world,
²Both ^(C)low and high,
Rich and poor together.
³My mouth will ^(D)speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart will be ^(E)understanding.
⁴I will incline my ear to ^(F)a proverb;
^(G)I will ^[a]express my ^(H)riddle on the harp.

⁵Why should I ^(I)fear in days of adversity,
When the injustice of those who betray me surrounds me,
⁶Those who ^(J)trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?
⁷No one can by any means ^(K)redeem another
Or give God a ^(L)ransom for him—
⁸For ^(M)the redemption of ^[b]his soul is priceless,
And he should cease imagining forever—
⁹That he might ^(N)live on eternally,
That he might not ^[c]^(O)undergo decay.

¹⁰For he sees that even ^(P)wise people die;
The ^(Q)foolish and the stupid alike perish
And ^(R)leave their wealth to others.
¹¹Their ^[d]^(S)inner thought is that their houses ^(T)are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have ^(U)named their lands after their own names.
¹²But ^(V)man in his splendor will not endure;
He is like the animals that ^[e]perish.

¹³This is the ^(W)way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who ^(X)approve their words. Selah
¹⁴Like sheep they sink down ^(Y)to ^[f]Sheol;
Death will be their shepherd;
And the ^(Z)upright will rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for ^[g]Sheol ^(AA)to consume
^[h]So that they have no lofty home.
¹⁵But God will ^(AB)redeem my soul from the ^[i]power of ^[j]Sheol,
For ^(AC)He will receive me. Selah

¹⁶Do not be afraid ^(AD)when a person becomes rich,
When the splendor of his house is increased;
¹⁷For when he dies, he will ^(AE)take nothing with him;
His ^[k]wealth will not descend after him.
¹⁸Though while he lives he ^(AF)congratulates ^[l]himself—
And though people praise you when you do well for yourself—
¹⁹^[m]He will ^(AG)go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see ^(AH)the light.
²⁰^(AI)Mankind in its splendor, yet without understanding,
Is ^(AJ)like the animals that ^[n]perish.

Footnotes

Psalm 49:4 Lit open up
Psalm 49:8 Lit their
Psalm 49:9 Or see corruption; lit see the pit
Psalm 49:11 Some ancient versions graves are their houses
Psalm 49:12 Lit are destroyed
Psalm 49:14 I.e., the netherworld
Psalm 49:14 I.e., the netherworld
Psalm 49:14 Lit Away from his habitation
Psalm 49:15 Lit hand
Psalm 49:15 I.e., the netherworld
Psalm 49:17 Lit glory
Psalm 49:18 Lit his soul
Psalm 49:19 Lit You; or It
Psalm 49:20 Lit are destroyed

Psalm 53

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Foolishness and Wickedness of People.

For the music director; according to ^[a]Mahalath. A ^[b]Maskil of David.

53 ^(A)The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
^(B)There is no one who does good.
²God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of mankind
To see if there is ^(C)anyone who ^[c]understands,
Who ^(D)seeks after God.
³^(E)Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

⁴Have the workers of injustice ^(F)no knowledge,
Who eat up My people like they ate bread,
And have not called upon God?
⁵They were in great ^[d]fear there, ^(G)where no ^[e]fear had been;
For God ^(H)scattered the bones of ^[f]him who encamped against you;
You ^(I)put them to shame, because ^(J)God had rejected them.
⁶Oh, that ^(K)the salvation of Israel would come from Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of His people,
Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad.

Footnotes

Psalm 53 Title I.e., sickness, a sad tone
Psalm 53 Title Possibly Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful Psalm
Psalm 53:2 Or acts wisely
Psalm 53:5 Or dread
Psalm 53:5 Or dread
Psalm 53:5 Or possibly those

Revelation 12:1-6

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The Woman, Israel

12 A great ^(A)sign appeared ^(B)in heaven: ^(C)a woman ^(D)clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; ²and she was pregnant and she *^(E)cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

The Red Dragon, Satan

³Then ^(F)another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red ^(G)dragon having ^(H)seven heads and ^(I)ten horns, and on his heads were ^(J)seven crowns. ⁴And his tail *swept away a ^(K)third of the stars of heaven and ^(L)hurled them to the earth. And the ^(M)dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth ^(N)he might devour her Child.

The Male Child, Christ

⁵And ^(O)she gave birth to a Son, a male, who is going to ^[a]^(P)rule all the ^[b]nations with a rod of iron; and her Child was ^(Q)caught up to God and to His throne. ⁶Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there ^[c]she would be nourished for ^(R)1,260 days.

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Revelation 12:5 Or shepherd
Revelation 12:5 Or Gentiles
Revelation 12:6 Lit they would nourish her for

Luke 11:37-52

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Woes upon the Pharisees

³⁷Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸When the Pharisee saw this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first ^[a]^(A)ceremonially washed before the ^[b]meal. ³⁹But ^(B)the Lord said to him, “Now ^(C)you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish; but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰^(D)You foolish ones, did He who made the outside not make the inside also? ⁴¹But ^(E)give that which is within as a charitable gift, and ^[c]then all things are ^(F)clean for you.

⁴²“^(G)But woe to you Pharisees! For you ^(H)pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ^[d]ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For you ^(I)love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴^(J)Woe to you! For you are like ^[e]unseen tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

⁴⁵One of the ^[f]^(K)lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us too.” ⁴⁶But He said, “Woe to you ^(L)lawyers as well! For ^(M)you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, ^[g]while you yourselves will not even ^[h]touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷^(N)Woe to you! For you build the ^[i]tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them. ⁴⁸So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their ^[j]tombs. ⁴⁹For this reason also, ^(O)the wisdom of God said, ‘^(P)I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will ^[k]persecute, ⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets, shed ^(Q)since the foundation of the world, may be charged ^[l]against this generation, ⁵¹from ^(R)the blood of Abel to ^(S)the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged ^[m]against this generation.’ ⁵²Woe to you ^[n]^(T)lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; ^(U)you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”