Psalm 93

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Psalm 93

¹The Lord reigns,^(A) he is robed in majesty;^(B)
    the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength;^(C)
    indeed, the world is established,^(D) firm and secure.^(E)
²Your throne was established^(F) long ago;
    you are from all eternity.^(G)

³The seas^(H) have lifted up, Lord,
    the seas have lifted up their voice;^(I)
    the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.^(J)
⁴Mightier than the thunder^(K) of the great waters,
    mightier than the breakers^(L) of the sea—
    the Lord on high is mighty.^(M)

⁵Your statutes, Lord, stand firm;
holiness^(N) adorns your house^(O)
for endless days.

2 Kings 19:21-37

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²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against^(A) him:

“‘Virgin Daughter^(B) Zion
    despises^(C) you and mocks^(D) you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head^(E) as you flee.
²²Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(F)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One^(G) of Israel!
²³By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,^(H)
    “With my many chariots^(I)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down^(J) its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁴I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

²⁵“‘Have you not heard?^(K)
    Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned^(L) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(M)
²⁶Their people, drained of power,^(N)
    are dismayed^(O) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,^(P)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched^(Q) before it grows up.

²⁷“‘But I know^(R) where you are
    and when you come and go
    and how you rage against me.
²⁸Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(S) in your nose
    and my bit^(T) in your mouth,
and I will make you return^(U)
    by the way you came.’

²⁹“This will be the sign^(V) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,^(W)
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
    plant vineyards^(X) and eat their fruit.
³⁰Once more a remnant^(Y) of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root^(Z) below and bear fruit above.
³¹For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,^(AA)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.^(AB)

“The zeal^(AC) of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

³²“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“‘He will not enter this city
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp against it.
³³By the way that he came he will return;^(AD)
    he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
³⁴I will defend^(AE) this city and save it,
    for my sake and for the sake of David^(AF) my servant.’”

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord^(AG) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^(AH) ³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.^(AI) He returned to Nineveh^(AJ) and stayed there.

³⁷One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek^(AK) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,^(AL) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.^(AM) And Esarhaddon^(AN) his son succeeded him as king.

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1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorant^(A) of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud^(B) and that they all passed through the sea.^(C) ²They were all baptized into^(D) Moses in the cloud and in the sea. ³They all ate the same spiritual food^(E) ⁴and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock^(F) that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(G)

⁶Now these things occurred as examples^(H) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷Do not be idolaters,^(I) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^[a]^(J) ⁸We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^(K) ⁹We should not test Christ,^[b]^(L) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^(M) ¹⁰And do not grumble, as some of them did^(N)—and were killed^(O) by the destroying angel.^(P)

¹¹These things happened to them as examples^(Q) and were written down as warnings for us,^(R) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(S) ¹²So, if you think you are standing firm,^(T) be careful that you don’t fall! ¹³No temptation^[c] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;^(U) he will not let you be tempted^[d] beyond what you can bear.^(V) But when you are tempted,^[e] he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 10:7 Exodus 32:6
1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord
1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.
1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.
1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.

Matthew 8:18-27

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The Cost of Following Jesus^(A)

¹⁸When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake.^(B) ¹⁹Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

²⁰Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man^(C) has no place to lay his head.”

²¹Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²²But Jesus told him, “Follow me,^(D) and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Jesus Calms the Storm^(E)^(F)

²³Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. ²⁴Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. ²⁵The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶He replied, “You of little faith,^(G) why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.^(H)

²⁷The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

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