Psalm 35

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Great Is the Lord

Of David.

35 Contend, O Lord, with those who ^(A)contend with me;
    ^(B)fight against those who fight against me!
²Take hold of ^(C)shield and buckler
    and rise for my help!
³Draw the spear and javelin^[a]
    against my pursuers!
Say to my soul,
    “I am your salvation!”

⁴^(D)Let them be ^(E)put to shame and dishonor
    who seek after my life!
Let them be ^(F)turned back and disappointed
    who devise evil against me!
⁵Let them be like ^(G)chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
⁶Let their way be dark and ^(H)slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

⁷For ^(I)without cause ^(J)they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug ^(K)a pit for my life.^[b]
⁸Let ^(L)destruction come upon him ^(M)when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his destruction!

⁹Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
    ^(N)exulting in his salvation.
¹⁰All my ^(O)bones shall say,
    “O Lord, ^(P)who is like you,
delivering the poor
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

¹¹^(Q)Malicious^[c] witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I do not know.
¹²^(R)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.^[d]
¹³But I, ^(S)when they were sick—
    I ^(T)wore sackcloth;
    I ^(U)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed ^(V)with head bowed^[e] on my chest.
¹⁴    I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I ^(W)bowed down in mourning.

¹⁵But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
    they gathered together against me;
^(X)wretches whom I did not know
    tore at me without ceasing;
¹⁶like profane mockers at a feast,^[f]
    they ^(Y)gnash at me with their teeth.

¹⁷How long, O Lord, will you ^(Z)look on?
    Rescue me from their destruction,
    ^(AA)my precious life from the lions!
¹⁸I will thank you in ^(AB)the great congregation;
    in the mighty throng I will praise you.

¹⁹^(AC)Let not those rejoice over me
    who are ^(AD)wrongfully my foes,
and let not those ^(AE)wink the eye
    who ^(AF)hate me ^(AG)without cause.
²⁰For they do not speak peace,
    but against those who are quiet in the land
    they devise words of deceit.
²¹They ^(AH)open wide their mouths against me;
    they say, ^(AI)“Aha, Aha!
    Our eyes have seen it!”

²²^(AJ)You have seen, O Lord; ^(AK)be not silent!
    O Lord, ^(AL)be not far from me!
²³Awake and ^(AM)rouse yourself for ^(AN)my vindication,
    for my cause, my God and my Lord!
²⁴^(AO)Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
    according to your righteousness,
    and ^(AP)let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵Let them not say in their hearts,
    ^(AQ)“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, ^(AR)“We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶Let them be ^(AS)put to shame and disappointed altogether
who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be ^(AT)clothed with shame and dishonor
who ^(AU)magnify themselves against me!

²⁷Let those who delight in my righteousness
    shout for joy and be glad
    ^(AV)and say evermore,
^(AW)“Great is the Lord,
    who ^(AX)delights in the welfare of his servant!”
²⁸Then my ^(AY)tongue shall tell of your righteousness
    and of your praise all the day long.

Footnotes

Psalm 35:3 Or and close the way
Psalm 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life
Psalm 35:11 Or Violent
Psalm 35:12 Hebrew it is bereavement to my soul
Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back
Psalm 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain

Job 42

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Job's Confession and Repentance

42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

²“I know that you can ^(A)do all things,
    and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
³^(B)‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things ^(C)too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴‘Hear, and I will speak;
    ^(D)I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;
⁶therefore I despise myself,
    and repent^[a] in ^(E)dust and ashes.”

The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends

⁷After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz ^(F)the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. ⁸Now therefore take ^(G)seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and ^(H)offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall ^(I)pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” ⁹^(J)So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes

¹⁰And the Lord ^(K)restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job ^(L)twice as much as he had before. ¹¹Then came to him all his ^(M)brothers and sisters and all who had ^(N)known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they ^(O)showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil^[b] that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him ^(P)a piece of money^[c] and ^(Q)a ring of gold.

¹²And the Lord blessed ^(R)the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had ^(S)14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. ¹³He had also ^(T)seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance ^(U)among their brothers. ¹⁶And after this Job lived 140 years, and ^(V)saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. ¹⁷And Job died, an old man, and ^(W)full of days.

Footnotes

Job 42:6 Or and am comforted
Job 42:11 Or disaster
Job 42:11 Hebrew a qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

1 John 2:7-29

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The New Commandment

⁷Beloved, I am writing you ^(A)no new commandment, but ^(B)an old commandment ^(C)that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. ⁸At the same time, it is ^(D)a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because^[a] ^(E)the darkness is passing away and ^(F)the true light is already shining. ⁹Whoever says he is in the light and ^(G)hates his brother is still in darkness. ¹⁰Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him^[b] there is no ^(H)cause for stumbling. ¹¹But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and ^(I)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹²I am writing to you, little children,
    because ^(J)your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
¹³I am writing to you, fathers,
    because you know ^(K)him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
    because ^(L)you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, children,
    because ^(M)you know the Father.
¹⁴I write to you, fathers,
    because you know ^(N)him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
    because ^(O)you are strong,
    and the word of God abides in you,
    and you have overcome the evil one.

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵^(P)Do not love the world or the things in the world. ^(Q)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world—^(R)the desires of the flesh and ^(S)the desires of the eyes and pride of life^[c]—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷And ^(T)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

¹⁸Children, ^(U)it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ^(V)antichrist is coming, so now ^(W)many antichrists have come. ^(X)Therefore we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹^(Y)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ^(Z)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ^(AA)that it might become plain that they all are not of us. ²⁰But you have been ^(AB)anointed by ^(AC)the Holy One, and ^(AD)you all have knowledge.^[d] ²¹I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²²Who is the liar but ^(AE)he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is ^(AF)the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. ²³^(AG)No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴Let ^(AH)what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then ^(AI)you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise that he made to us^[e]—^(AJ)eternal life.

²⁶I write these things to you about ^(AK)those who are trying to deceive you. ²⁷But ^(AL)the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and ^(AM)you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and ^(AN)is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Children of God

²⁸And now, little children, abide in him, so that ^(AO)when he appears ^(AP)we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his ^(AQ)coming. ²⁹If you know that ^(AR)he is righteous, you may be sure that ^(AS)everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.