Psalm 32

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Psalm 32

A psalm^[a] of David.

¹Oh, what joy for those
    whose disobedience is forgiven,
    whose sin is put out of sight!
²Yes, what joy for those
    whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt,^[b]
    whose lives are lived in complete honesty!
³When I refused to confess my sin,
    my body wasted away,
    and I groaned all day long.
⁴Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
    My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude

⁵Finally, I confessed all my sins to you
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.”
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone. Interlude

⁶Therefore, let all the godly pray to you while there is still time,
    that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.
⁷For you are my hiding place;
    you protect me from trouble.
    You surround me with songs of victory. Interlude

⁸The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
I will advise you and watch over you.
⁹Do not be like a senseless horse or mule
that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”

¹⁰Many sorrows come to the wicked,
but unfailing love surrounds those who trust the Lord.
¹¹So rejoice in the Lord and be glad, all you who obey him!
Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure!

Footnotes

32:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
32:2 Greek version reads of sin. Compare Rom 4:8.

Exodus 34:1-9

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A New Copy of the Covenant

34 Then the Lord told Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were on the tablets you smashed. ²Be ready in the morning to climb up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me on the top of the mountain. ³No one else may come with you. In fact, no one is to appear anywhere on the mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze near the mountain.”

⁴So Moses chiseled out two tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

⁵Then the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and he called out his own name, Yahweh.^[a] ⁶The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out,

“Yahweh!^[b] The Lord!
    The God of compassion and mercy!
I am slow to anger
    and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
⁷I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.^[c]
    I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
But I do not excuse the guilty.
    I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;
the entire family is affected—
    even children in the third and fourth generations.”

⁸Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped. ⁹And he said, “O Lord, if it is true that I have found favor with you, then please travel with us. Yes, this is a stubborn and rebellious people, but please forgive our iniquity and our sins. Claim us as your own special possession.”

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Footnotes

34:5 Yahweh is a transliteration of the proper name YHWH that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah”; in this translation it is usually rendered “the Lord” (note the use of small capitals).
34:6 See note on 34:5.
34:7 Hebrew for thousands.

Exodus 34:27-28

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²⁷Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of the covenant I am making with you and with Israel.”

²⁸Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord^[a] wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments^[b]—on the stone tablets.

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Footnotes

34:28a Hebrew he.
34:28b Hebrew the ten words.

Matthew 18:10-14

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¹⁰“Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.^[a]

Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹²“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? ¹³And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! ¹⁴In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.

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