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Psalm 89

A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. ^[a]

 ² I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
       that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

 ³ You said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
       I have sworn to David my servant,

 ⁴ 'I will establish your line forever
       and make your throne firm through all generations.' "
       Selah

 ⁵ The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,
       your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

 ⁶ For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD ?
       Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?

 ⁷ In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared;
       he is more awesome than all who surround him.

 ⁸ O LORD God Almighty, who is like you?
       You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

 ⁹ You rule over the surging sea;
       when its waves mount up, you still them.

 ¹⁰ You crushed Rahab like one of the slain;
       with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

 ¹¹ The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth;
       you founded the world and all that is in it.

 ¹² You created the north and the south;
       Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

 ¹³ Your arm is endued with power;
       your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.

 ¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
       love and faithfulness go before you.

 ¹⁵ Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
       who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD.

 ¹⁶ They rejoice in your name all day long;
       they exult in your righteousness.

 ¹⁷ For you are their glory and strength,
       and by your favor you exalt our horn. ^[b]

 ¹⁸ Indeed, our shield ^[c] belongs to the LORD,
       our king to the Holy One of Israel.

 ¹⁹ Once you spoke in a vision,
       to your faithful people you said:
       "I have bestowed strength on a warrior;
       I have exalted a young man from among the people.

 ²⁰ I have found David my servant;
       with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

 ²¹ My hand will sustain him;
       surely my arm will strengthen him.

 ²² No enemy will subject him to tribute;
       no wicked man will oppress him.

 ²³ I will crush his foes before him
       and strike down his adversaries.

 ²⁴ My faithful love will be with him,
       and through my name his horn ^[d] will be exalted.

 ²⁵ I will set his hand over the sea,
       his right hand over the rivers.

 ²⁶ He will call out to me, 'You are my Father,
       my God, the Rock my Savior.'

 ²⁷ I will also appoint him my firstborn,
       the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
       ²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever,
       and my covenant with him will never fail.

 ²⁹ I will establish his line forever,
       his throne as long as the heavens endure.

 ³⁰ "If his sons forsake my law
       and do not follow my statutes,

 ³¹ if they violate my decrees
       and fail to keep my commands,

 ³² I will punish their sin with the rod,
       their iniquity with flogging;

 ³³ but I will not take my love from him,
       nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

 ³⁴ I will not violate my covenant
       or alter what my lips have uttered.

 ³⁵ Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—
       and I will not lie to David-

 ³⁶ that his line will continue forever
       and his throne endure before me like the sun;

 ³⁷ it will be established forever like the moon,
       the faithful witness in the sky."
       Selah

 ³⁸ But you have rejected, you have spurned,
       you have been very angry with your anointed one.

 ³⁹ You have renounced the covenant with your servant
       and have defiled his crown in the dust.

 ⁴⁰ You have broken through all his walls
       and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

 ⁴¹ All who pass by have plundered him;
       he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

 ⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
       you have made all his enemies rejoice.

 ⁴³ You have turned back the edge of his sword
       and have not supported him in battle.

 ⁴⁴ You have put an end to his splendor
       and cast his throne to the ground.

 ⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth;
       you have covered him with a mantle of shame.
       Selah

 ⁴⁶ How long, O LORD ? Will you hide yourself forever?
       How long will your wrath burn like fire?

 ⁴⁷ Remember how fleeting is my life.
       For what futility you have created all men!

 ⁴⁸ What man can live and not see death,
       or save himself from the power of the grave ^[e] ?
       Selah

 ⁴⁹ O Lord, where is your former great love,
       which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

 ⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, how your servant has ^[f] been mocked,
       how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

 ⁵¹ the taunts with which your enemies have mocked, O LORD,
       with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

 ⁵² Praise be to the LORD forever!
       Amen and Amen.

Psalm 90

BOOK IV : Psalms 90-106

A prayer of Moses the man of God.

 ² Before the mountains were born
       or you brought forth the earth and the world,
       from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

 ³ You turn men back to dust,
       saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."

 ⁴ For a thousand years in your sight
       are like a day that has just gone by,
       or like a watch in the night.

 ⁵ You sweep men away in the sleep of death;
       they are like the new grass of the morning-

 ⁶ though in the morning it springs up new,
       by evening it is dry and withered.

 ⁷ We are consumed by your anger
       and terrified by your indignation.

 ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
       our secret sins in the light of your presence.

 ⁹ All our days pass away under your wrath;
       we finish our years with a moan.

 ¹⁰ The length of our days is seventy years—
       or eighty, if we have the strength;
       yet their span ^[g] is but trouble and sorrow,
       for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

 ¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger?
       For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

 ¹² Teach us to number our days aright,
       that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

 ¹³ Relent, O LORD! How long will it be?
       Have compassion on your servants.

 ¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
       that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

 ¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
       for as many years as we have seen trouble.

 ¹⁶ May your deeds be shown to your servants,
       your splendor to their children.

 ¹⁷ May the favor ^[h] of the Lord our God rest upon us;
       establish the work of our hands for us—
       yes, establish the work of our hands.

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Romans 14

The Weak and the Strong

 ⁵One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. ⁸If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

 ⁹For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. ¹⁰You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. ¹¹It is written:
   " 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,
   'every knee will bow before me;
      every tongue will confess to God.' "^{[a] 12}So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

 ¹³Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. ¹⁴As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food^[b] is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. ¹⁵If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. ¹⁶Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

 ¹⁹Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. ²¹It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

 ²²So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ²³But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.