Psalm 144

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Psalm 144

Of David.

¹Praise be to the Lord my Rock,^(A)
    who trains my hands for war,
    my fingers for battle.
²He is my loving God and my fortress,^(B)
    my stronghold^(C) and my deliverer,
my shield,^(D) in whom I take refuge,
    who subdues peoples^[a]^(E) under me.

³Lord, what are human beings^(F) that you care for them,
mere mortals that you think of them?
⁴They are like a breath;^(G)
their days are like a fleeting shadow.^(H)

⁵Part your heavens,^(I) Lord, and come down;^(J)
    touch the mountains, so that they smoke.^(K)
⁶Send forth lightning^(L) and scatter^(M) the enemy;
    shoot your arrows^(N) and rout them.
⁷Reach down your hand from on high;^(O)
    deliver me and rescue me^(P)
from the mighty waters,^(Q)
    from the hands of foreigners^(R)
⁸whose mouths are full of lies,^(S)
    whose right hands^(T) are deceitful.^(U)

⁹I will sing a new song^(V) to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre^(W) I will make music to you,
¹⁰to the One who gives victory to kings,^(X)
who delivers his servant David.^(Y)

From the deadly sword^(Z) ¹¹deliver me;
rescue me^(AA) from the hands of foreigners^(AB)
whose mouths are full of lies,^(AC)
whose right hands are deceitful.^(AD)

¹²Then our sons in their youth
    will be like well-nurtured plants,^(AE)
and our daughters will be like pillars^(AF)
    carved to adorn a palace.
¹³Our barns will be filled^(AG)
    with every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by thousands,
    by tens of thousands in our fields;
¹⁴    our oxen^(AH) will draw heavy loads.^[b]
There will be no breaching of walls,^(AI)
    no going into captivity,
    no cry of distress in our streets.^(AJ)
¹⁵Blessed is the people^(AK) of whom this is true;
    blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

Footnotes

Psalm 144:2 Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text subdues my people
Psalm 144:14 Or our chieftains will be firmly established

Jeremiah 31:27-34

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²⁷“The days are coming,”^(A) declares the Lord, “when I will plant^(B) the kingdoms of Israel and Judah with the offspring of people and of animals. ²⁸Just as I watched^(C) over them to uproot^(D) and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster,^(E) so I will watch over them to build and to plant,”^(F) declares the Lord. ²⁹“In those days people will no longer say,

‘The parents^(G) have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’^(H)

³⁰Instead, everyone will die for their own sin;^(I) whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenant^(J)
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
³²It will not be like the covenant^(K)
    I made with their ancestors^(L)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,^(M)
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband^(N) to^[a] them,^[b]”
declares the Lord.
³³“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds^(O)
    and write it on their hearts.^(P)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.^(Q)
³⁴No longer will they teach^(R) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know^(S) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive^(T) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins^(U) no more.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 31:32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
Jeremiah 31:32 Or was their master

Romans 11:25-36

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All Israel Will Be Saved

²⁵I do not want you to be ignorant^(A) of this mystery,^(B) brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited:^(C) Israel has experienced a hardening^(D) in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,^(E) ²⁶and in this way^[a] all Israel will be saved.^(F) As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
²⁷And this is^[b] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”^[c]^(G)

²⁸As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies^(H) for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,^(I) ²⁹for God’s gifts and his call^(J) are irrevocable.^(K) ³⁰Just as you who were at one time disobedient^(L) to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, ³¹so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^[d] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. ³²For God has bound everyone over to disobedience^(M) so that he may have mercy on them all.

Doxology

³³Oh, the depth of the riches^(N) of the wisdom and^[e] knowledge of God!^(O)
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!^(P)
³⁴“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”^[f]^(Q)
³⁵“Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”^[g]^(R)
³⁶For from him and through him and for him are all things.^(S)
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.^(T)

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Footnotes

Romans 11:26 Or and so
Romans 11:27 Or will be
Romans 11:27 Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34
Romans 11:31 Some manuscripts do not have now.
Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the
Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13
Romans 11:35 Job 41:11

John 11:28-44

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²⁸After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher^(A) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” ²⁹When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.^(B) ³¹When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(C) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

³²When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”^(D)

³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved^(E) in spirit and troubled.^(F) ³⁴“Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵Jesus wept.^(G)

³⁶Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”^(H)

³⁷But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(I) have kept this man from dying?”^(J)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

³⁸Jesus, once more deeply moved,^(K) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.^(L) ³⁹“Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”^(M)

⁴⁰Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(N) you will see the glory of God?”^(O)

⁴¹So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(P) and said, “Father,^(Q) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴²I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(R) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(S)

⁴³When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^(T) ⁴⁴The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(U) and a cloth around his face.^(V)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

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