Psalm 138

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Give Thanks to the Lord

Of David.

138 ^(A)I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart;
    before ^(B)the gods I sing your praise;
²I bow down ^(C)toward your ^(D)holy temple
    and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,
    for you have exalted above all things
    your name and your word.^[a]
³On the day I called, you answered me;
    my strength of soul you increased.^[b]

⁴^(E)All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O Lord,
    for they have heard the words of your mouth,
⁵and they shall sing of ^(F)the ways of the Lord,
    for great is the glory of the Lord.
⁶^(G)For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,
    but the haughty he knows from afar.

⁷^(H)Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
    you ^(I)preserve my life;
you ^(J)stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
    and your ^(K)right hand delivers me.
⁸The Lord will ^(L)fulfill his purpose for me;
    ^(M)your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
    Do not forsake ^(N)the work of your hands.

Footnotes

Psalm 138:2 Or you have exalted your word above all your name
Psalm 138:3 Hebrew you made me bold in my soul with strength

Numbers 27:12-23

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Joshua to Succeed Moses

¹²The Lord said to Moses, “Go up into ^(A)this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel. ¹³When you have seen it, you also ^(B)shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, ¹⁴^(C)because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing ^(D)to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are ^(E)the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) ¹⁵Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, ¹⁶“Let the Lord, ^(F)the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation ¹⁷who ^(G)shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be ^(H)as sheep that have no shepherd.” ¹⁸So the Lord said to Moses, “Take ^(I)Joshua the son of Nun, a man ^(J)in whom is the Spirit, and ^(K)lay your hand on him. ¹⁹Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall ^(L)commission him in their sight. ²⁰You shall invest him with some of your authority, ^(M)that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey. ²¹And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him ^(N)by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.” ²²And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, ²³and he laid his hands on him and ^(O)commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses.

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Acts 9:26-31

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Saul in Jerusalem

²⁶And ^(A)when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. ²⁷But ^(B)Barnabas took him and ^(C)brought him to the apostles and declared to them ^(D)how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and ^(E)how at Damascus he had ^(F)preached boldly in the name of Jesus. ²⁸So he went ^(G)in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. ²⁹And he spoke and disputed against ^(H)the Hellenists.^[a] But ^(I)they were seeking to kill him. ³⁰And when ^(J)the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off ^(K)to Tarsus.

³¹So ^(L)the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And ^(M)walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, ^(N)it multiplied.

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