Psalm 68:24-35

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²⁴Your procession, God, has come into view,
    the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.^(A)
²⁵In front are the singers,^(B) after them the musicians;^(C)
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.^(D)
²⁶Praise God in the great congregation;^(E)
    praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel.^(F)
²⁷There is the little tribe^(G) of Benjamin,^(H) leading them,
    there the great throng of Judah’s princes,
    and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.^(I)

²⁸Summon your power,^(J) God^[a];
    show us your strength,^(K) our God, as you have done^(L) before.
²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem
    kings will bring you gifts.^(M)
³⁰Rebuke the beast^(N) among the reeds,^(O)
    the herd of bulls^(P) among the calves of the nations.
Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver.
    Scatter the nations^(Q) who delight in war.^(R)
³¹Envoys will come from Egypt;^(S)
    Cush^[b]^(T) will submit herself to God.

³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth,^(U)
    sing praise^(V) to the Lord,
³³to him who rides^(W) across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,
    who thunders^(X) with mighty voice.^(Y)
³⁴Proclaim the power^(Z) of God,
    whose majesty^(AA) is over Israel,
    whose power is in the heavens.
³⁵You, God, are awesome^(AB) in your sanctuary;^(AC)
    the God of Israel gives power and strength^(AD) to his people.^(AE)

Praise be to God!^(AF)

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Footnotes

Psalm 68:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts Your God has summoned power for you
Psalm 68:31 That is, the upper Nile region

2 Samuel 6:16-23

New International Version

¹⁶As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David,^(A) Michal^(B) daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it,^(C) and David sacrificed burnt offerings^(D) and fellowship offerings before the Lord. ¹⁸After he had finished sacrificing^(E) the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed^(F) the people in the name of the Lord Almighty. ¹⁹Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins^(G) to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women.^(H) And all the people went to their homes.

²⁰When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked^(I) in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

²¹David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed^(J) me ruler^(K) over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. ²²I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”

²³And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

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Luke 7:31-35

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³¹Jesus went on to say, “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? ³²They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other:

“‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not cry.’

³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine,^(A) and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ ³⁴The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’^(B) ³⁵But wisdom is proved right by all her children.”

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