Psalm 95

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Psalm 95

¹Come,^(A) let us sing for joy^(B) to the Lord;
let us shout aloud^(C) to the Rock^(D) of our salvation.
²Let us come before him^(E) with thanksgiving^(F)
and extol him with music^(G) and song.

³For the Lord is the great God,^(H)
    the great King^(I) above all gods.^(J)
⁴In his hand are the depths of the earth,^(K)
    and the mountain peaks belong to him.
⁵The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.^(L)

⁶Come, let us bow down^(M) in worship,^(N)
    let us kneel^(O) before the Lord our Maker;^(P)
⁷for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,^(Q)
    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,
⁸“Do not harden your hearts^(R) as you did at Meribah,^[a]^(S)
    as you did that day at Massah^[b] in the wilderness,^(T)
⁹where your ancestors tested^(U) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
¹⁰For forty years^(V) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(W)
    and they have not known my ways.’^(X)
¹¹So I declared on oath^(Y) in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”^(Z)

Footnotes

Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.

Song of Songs 6:13-7:9

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Friends

¹³Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!

He

Why would you gaze on the Shulammite
as on the dance^(A) of Mahanaim?^[a]

7 ^[b]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
    O prince’s^(B) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
    the work of an artist’s hands.
²Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
³Your breasts^(C) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
⁴Your neck is like an ivory tower.^(D)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon^(E)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon^(F)
    looking toward Damascus.
⁵Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.^(G)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.
⁶How beautiful^(H) you are and how pleasing,
    my love, with your delights!^(I)
⁷Your stature is like that of the palm,
    and your breasts^(J) like clusters of fruit.
⁸I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
    I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
    the fragrance of your breath like apples,^(K)
⁹    and your mouth like the best wine.

She

May the wine go straight to my beloved,^(L)
flowing gently over lips and teeth.^[c]

Footnotes

Song of Songs 6:13 In Hebrew texts this verse (6:13) is numbered 7:1.
Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.
Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers

Revelation 9:13-21

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¹³The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns^(A) of the golden altar that is before God.^(B) ¹⁴It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels^(C) who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”^(D) ¹⁵And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released^(E) to kill a third^(F) of mankind.^(G) ¹⁶The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.^(H)

¹⁷The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths^(I) came fire, smoke and sulfur.^(J) ¹⁸A third^(K) of mankind was killed^(L) by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur^(M) that came out of their mouths. ¹⁹The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

²⁰The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent^(N) of the work of their hands;^(O) they did not stop worshiping demons,^(P) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.^(Q) ²¹Nor did they repent^(R) of their murders, their magic arts,^(S) their sexual immorality^(T) or their thefts.

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Luke 10:38-42

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At the Home of Martha and Mary

³⁸As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha^(A) opened her home to him. ³⁹She had a sister called Mary,^(B) who sat at the Lord’s feet^(C) listening to what he said. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care^(D) that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

⁴¹“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried^(E) and upset about many things, ⁴²but few things are needed—or indeed only one.^[a]^(F) Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”