Psalm 42

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

42 ^(B)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
²^(C)My soul thirsts for God,
    for ^(D)the living God.
When shall I come and ^(E)appear before God?^[b]
³^(F)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
^(G)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”
⁴These things I remember,
    as I ^(H)pour out my soul:
^(I)how I would go ^(J)with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    ^(K)a multitude keeping festival.

⁵^(L)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you ^(M)in turmoil within me?
^(N)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation^[c] ⁶and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I ^(O)remember you
^(P)from the land of Jordan and of ^(Q)Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
⁷Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
^(R)all your breakers and your ^(S)waves
    have gone over me.
⁸By day the Lord ^(T)commands his steadfast love,
    and at ^(U)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹I say to God, ^(V)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
^(W)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
^(X)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

¹¹^(Y)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

Footnotes

Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God
Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

Psalm 43

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Send Out Your Light and Your Truth

43 ^(A)Vindicate me, O God, and ^(B)defend my cause
    against an ungodly people,
from ^(C)the deceitful and unjust man
    deliver me!
²For you are ^(D)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you ^(E)rejected me?
Why do I ^(F)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

³^(G)Send out your light and your truth;
    let them lead me;
let them bring me to your ^(H)holy hill
    and to your ^(I)dwelling!
⁴Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

⁵^(J)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
^(K)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

Jeremiah 10:11-24

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¹¹Thus shall you say to them: ^(A)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth ^(B)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”^[a]

¹²^(C)It is he who ^(D)made the earth by his power,
    ^(E)who established the world by his wisdom,
    and ^(F)by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
¹³^(G)When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    ^(H)and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
^(I)He makes lightning ^(J)for the rain,
    ^(K)and he brings forth the wind ^(L)from his storehouses.
¹⁴^(M)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
    ^(N)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
    ^(O)and there is no breath in them.
¹⁵They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
¹⁶Not like these is he who is ^(P)the portion of Jacob,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
^(Q)and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    ^(R)the Lord of hosts is his name.

¹⁷^(S)Gather up your bundle from the ground,
    O you who dwell under siege!
¹⁸For thus says the Lord:
^(T)“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
    at this time,
^(U)and I will bring distress on them,
    that they may feel it.”

¹⁹Woe is me because of my hurt!
    ^(V)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
    and I must bear it.”
²⁰^(W)My tent is destroyed,
    and all my cords are broken;
my children have gone from me,
    ^(X)and they are not;
there is no one to spread my tent again
    and ^(Y)to set up my curtains.
²¹^(Z)For the shepherds ^(AA)are stupid
    and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
    ^(AB)and all their flock is scattered.

²²A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
^(AC)a great commotion out of the north country
to make ^(AD)the cities of Judah a desolation,
^(AE)a lair of jackals.

²³^(AF)I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,
that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
²⁴^(AG)Correct me, O Lord, but in justice;
not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 10:11 This verse is in Aramaic

Romans 5:12-21

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Death in Adam, Life in Christ

¹²Therefore, just as ^(A)sin came into the world through one man, and ^(B)death through sin, and ^(C)so death spread to all men^[a] because ^(D)all sinned— ¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but ^(E)sin is not counted where there is no law. ¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not ^(F)like the transgression of Adam, ^(G)who was a type of ^(H)the one who was to come.

¹⁵But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for ^(I)many. ¹⁶And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For ^(J)the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought ^(K)justification. ¹⁷For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness ^(L)reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Therefore, as one trespass^[b] led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness^[c] leads to justification and life for ^(M)all men. ¹⁹For as by the one man's ^(N)disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's ^(O)obedience the many will be made righteous. ²⁰Now ^(P)the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, ^(Q)grace abounded all the more, ²¹so that, ^(R)as sin reigned in death, ^(S)grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Footnotes

Romans 5:12 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18
Romans 5:18 Or the trespass of one
Romans 5:18 Or the act of righteousness of one

John 8:21-32

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²¹So he said to them again, ^(A)“I am going away, and ^(B)you will seek me, and ^(C)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, ^(D)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, ^(E)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(F)You are of this world; ^(G)I am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you ^(H)would die in your sins, for ^(I)unless you believe that ^(J)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, ^(K)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(L)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(M)to the world ^(N)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that ^(O)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(P)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(Q)then you will know that ^(R)I am he, and that ^(S)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(T)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹And ^(U)he who sent me is with me. ^(V)He has not left me alone, for ^(W)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he was saying these things, ^(X)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(Y)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³²and you will ^(Z)know the truth, and the truth ^(AA)will set you free.”

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