Isaiah 43:8-13

New King James Version

⁸^(A)Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
And the ^(B)deaf who have ears.
⁹Let all the nations be gathered together,
And let the people be assembled.
^(C)Who among them can declare this,
And show us former things?
Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified;
Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”
¹⁰“You^(D) are My witnesses,” says the Lord,
^(E)“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and ^(F)believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.
¹¹I, even I, ^(G)am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior.
¹²I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed,
And there was no ^(H)foreign god among you;
^(I)Therefore you are My witnesses,”
Says the Lord, “that I am God.
¹³^(J)Indeed before the day was, I am He;
And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I work, and who will ^(K)reverse it?”

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Psalm 124

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The Lord the Defense of His People

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

124 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our ^(A)side,”
^(B)Let Israel now say—
²“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
³Then they would have ^(C)swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
⁴Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have ^[a]gone over our soul;
⁵Then the swollen waters
Would have ^[b]gone over our soul.”

⁶Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
⁷^(D)Our soul has escaped ^(E)as a bird from the snare of the ^[c]fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
⁸^(F)Our help is in the name of the Lord,
^(G)Who made heaven and earth.

Footnotes

Psalm 124:4 swept over
Psalm 124:5 swept over
Psalm 124:7 Persons who catch birds in a trap or snare

2 Timothy 4:5-13

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⁵But you be watchful in all things, ^(A)endure afflictions, do the work of ^(B)an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Paul’s Valedictory

⁶For ^(C)I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of ^(D)my departure is at hand. ⁷^(E)I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸Finally, there is laid up for me ^(F)the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous ^(G)Judge, will give to me ^(H)on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

The Abandoned Apostle

⁹Be diligent to come to me quickly; ¹⁰for ^(I)Demas has forsaken me, ^(J)having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia. ¹¹Only Luke is with me. Get ^(K)Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry. ¹²And ^(L)Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. ¹³Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come—and the books, especially the parchments.

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Luke 4:14-21

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Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry^(A)

¹⁴^(B)Then Jesus returned ^(C)in the power of the Spirit to ^(D)Galilee, and ^(E)news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. ¹⁵And He ^(F)taught in their synagogues, ^(G)being glorified by all.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth^(H)

¹⁶So He came to ^(I)Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, ^(J)He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

¹⁸“The^(K) Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me ^[a]to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To ^(L)set at liberty those who are ^[b]oppressed;
¹⁹To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

²⁰Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. ²¹And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is ^(M)fulfilled in your hearing.”

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