Psalm 27

English Standard Version

The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation

Of David.

27 The Lord is my ^(A)light and my ^(B)salvation;
^(C)whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold^[a] of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?

²When evildoers assail me
to ^(D)eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
it is they who stumble and fall.

³^(E)Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
yet^[b] I will be confident.

⁴^(F)One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may ^(G)dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze upon ^(H)the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire^[c] in his temple.

⁵For he will ^(I)hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will ^(J)lift me high upon a rock.

⁶And now my ^(K)head shall be lifted up
above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of ^(L)joy;
^(M)I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

⁷^(N)Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
    be gracious to me and answer me!
⁸You have said, ^(O)“Seek^[d] my face.”
My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”^[e]
⁹    ^(P)Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    ^(Q)O God of my salvation!
¹⁰For ^(R)my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will ^(S)take me in.

¹¹^(T)Teach me your way, O Lord,
    and lead me on ^(U)a level path
    because of my enemies.
¹²^(V)Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for ^(W)false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they ^(X)breathe out violence.

¹³I believe that I shall look^[f] upon ^(Y)the goodness of the Lord
    in ^(Z)the land of the living!
¹⁴^(AA)Wait for the Lord;
    ^(AB)be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 27:1 Or refuge
Psalm 27:3 Or in this
Psalm 27:4 Or meditate
Psalm 27:8 The command (seek) is addressed to more than one person
Psalm 27:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Psalm 27:13 Other Hebrew manuscripts Oh! Had I not believed that I would look

Job 39

English Standard Version

39 “Do you know when ^(A)the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe ^(B)the calving of the does?
²Can you number the months that they fulfill,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
³when they ^(C)crouch, bring forth their offspring,
    and are delivered of their young?
⁴Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
    they go out and ^(D)do not return to them.

⁵“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has ^(E)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
⁶to whom I have given ^(F)the arid plain for his home
    and ^(G)the salt land for his dwelling place?
⁷He scorns the tumult of the city;
    he hears not the shouts of the driver.
⁸He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
    and he searches after every green thing.

⁹“Is ^(H)the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will he spend the night at your ^(I)manger?
¹⁰Can you bind ^(J)him in the furrow with ropes,
    or will he harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
    and will you leave to him your labor?
¹²Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
    and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
    but are they the pinions and plumage of love?^[a]
¹⁴For she leaves her eggs to the earth
    and lets them be warmed on the ground,
¹⁵forgetting that a foot may crush them
    and that the wild beast may trample them.
¹⁶She ^(K)deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
    though her ^(L)labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
¹⁷because God has made her forget wisdom
    and ^(M)given her no share in understanding.
¹⁸When she rouses herself to flee,^[b]
    she laughs at the horse and his rider.

¹⁹“Do you give the horse his might?
    Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
²⁰Do you make him leap like the locust?
    His majestic ^(N)snorting is terrifying.
²¹He paws^[c] in the valley and exults in his strength;
    he ^(O)goes out to meet the weapons.
²²He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
    he does not turn back from the sword.
²³Upon him rattle the quiver,
    the flashing spear, and the javelin.
²⁴With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
    he cannot stand still at ^(P)the sound of the trumpet.
²⁵When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle from afar,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
    and spreads his wings toward the south?
²⁷Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes his ^(Q)nest on high?
²⁸On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
    on ^(R)the rocky crag and stronghold.
²⁹From there he spies out the prey;
    his eyes behold it from far away.
³⁰His young ones suck up blood,
    and ^(S)where the slain are, there is he.”

Footnotes

Job 39:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Job 39:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Job 39:21 Hebrew They paw

2 Peter 3

English Standard Version

The Day of the Lord Will Come

3 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them ^(A)I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, ²^(B)that you should remember the predictions of ^(C)the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, ³knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come ^(D)in the last days with scoffing, ^(E)following their own sinful desires. ⁴^(F)They will say, “Where is the promise of ^(G)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” ⁵For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth ^(H)was formed out of water and through water ^(I)by the word of God, ⁶and that by means of these the world that then existed ^(J)was deluged with water and ^(K)perished. ⁷But by the same word ^(L)the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and ^(M)destruction of the ungodly.

⁸But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and ^(N)a thousand years as one day. ⁹^(O)The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise ^(P)as some count slowness, but ^(Q)is patient toward you,^[a] ^(R)not wishing that any should perish, but ^(S)that all should reach repentance. ¹⁰But ^(T)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then ^(U)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and ^(V)the heavenly bodies^[b] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.^[c]

¹¹Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, ^(W)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, ¹²^(X)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and ^(Y)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! ¹³But according to his promise we are waiting for ^(Z)new heavens and a new earth ^(AA)in which righteousness dwells.

Final Words

¹⁴^(AB)Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him ^(AC)without spot or ^(AD)blemish, and ^(AE)at peace. ¹⁵And count ^(AF)the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as ^(AG)our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you ^(AH)according to the wisdom given him, ¹⁶as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. ^(AI)There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, ^(AJ)as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷You therefore, beloved, ^(AK)knowing this beforehand, ^(AL)take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. ¹⁸But ^(AM)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ^(AN)To him be the glory both now and to the day of ^(AO)eternity. Amen.