Psalm 56

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In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A ^(A)Miktam^[a] of David, when the ^(B)Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 ^(C)Be gracious to me, O God, for man ^(D)tramples on me;
    all day long an attacker oppresses me;
²my enemies trample on me all day long,
    for many attack me proudly.
³When I am afraid,
    I ^(E)put my trust in you.
⁴In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; ^(F)I shall not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they injure my cause;^[b]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶They ^(G)stir up strife, they ^(H)lurk;
    they ^(I)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
⁷For their crime will they escape?
    ^(J)In wrath ^(K)cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸You have kept count of my tossings;^[c]
    ^(L)put my tears in your bottle.
    ^(M)Are they not in your book?
⁹Then my enemies will turn back
    ^(N)in the day when I call.
    This I know, that^[d] ^(O)God is for me.
¹⁰In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
¹¹in God I trust; ^(P)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

¹²I must perform my ^(Q)vows to you, O God;
    I will ^(R)render thank offerings to you.
¹³^(S)For you have delivered my soul from death,
    yes, my feet from falling,
^(T)that I may walk before God
    ^(U)in the light of life.

Footnotes

Psalm 56:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 56:5 Or they twist my words
Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings
Psalm 56:9 Or because

Deuteronomy 24:1-25:10

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Laws Concerning Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and ^(A)he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, ²and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, ³and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, ⁴then ^(B)her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Miscellaneous Laws

⁵^(C)“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year ^(D)to be happy with his wife^[a] whom he has taken.

⁶“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

⁷^(E)“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he ^(F)treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. ^(G)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

⁸“Take care, in ^(H)a case of leprous^[b] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. ⁹Remember what the Lord your God did to ^(I)Miriam ^(J)on the way as you came out of Egypt.

¹⁰“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge. ¹¹You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. ¹²And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. ¹³^(K)You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and ^(L)bless you. And ^(M)it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

¹⁴“You shall not ^(N)oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. ¹⁵^(O)You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), ^(P)lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.

¹⁶^(Q)“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷^(R)“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, ^(S)or take a widow's garment in pledge, ¹⁸but ^(T)you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.

¹⁹^(U)“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, ^(V)that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. ²¹When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. ²²^(W)You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.

25 “If there is a ^(X)dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, ^(Y)acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, ²then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. ³^(Z)Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

⁴^(AA)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

⁵^(AB)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her ^(AC)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ^(AD)his name may not be blotted out of Israel. ⁷And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall ^(AE)go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’ ⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ^(AF)‘I do not wish to take her,’ ⁹then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and ^(AG)pull his sandal off his foot and ^(AH)spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not ^(AI)build up his brother's house.’ ¹⁰And the name of his house^[c] shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 24:5 Or to make happy his wife
Deuteronomy 24:8 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Deuteronomy 25:10 Hebrew its name

John 15:18-16:15

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The Hatred of the World

¹⁸^(A)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹^(B)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(C)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ^(D)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(E)they will also persecute you. ^(F)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹But ^(G)all these things they will do to you ^(H)on account of my name, ^(I)because they do not know him who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(J)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³^(K)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴^(L)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(M)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(N)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But ^(O)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(P)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶“But ^(Q)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(R)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷And ^(S)you also will bear witness, ^(T)because you have been with me ^(U)from the beginning.

16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. ²^(V)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ^(W)the hour is coming when ^(X)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. ³And they will do these things ^(Y)because they have not known the Father, nor me. ⁴But ^(Z)I have said these things to you, that when ^(AA)their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, ^(AB)because I was with you. ⁵But now ^(AC)I am going to him who sent me, and ^(AD)none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶But because I have said these things to you, ^(AE)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for ^(AF)if I do not go away, ^(AG)the Helper will not come to you. But ^(AH)if ^(AI)I go, ^(AJ)I will send him to you. ⁸^(AK)And when he comes, he will ^(AL)convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹concerning sin, ^(AM)because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰^(AN)concerning righteousness, ^(AO)because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ¹¹^(AP)concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world ^(AQ)is judged.

¹²“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³When ^(AR)the Spirit of truth comes, ^(AS)he will ^(AT)guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but ^(AU)whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴He will ^(AV)glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵^(AW)All that the Father has is mine; ^(AX)therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.