Psalm 90

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BOOK 4

God’s Eternity and the Brevity of Human Life.

A Prayer of ^[a]Moses, the man of God.

90 Lord, You have been our ^[b]^(A)dwelling place in all generations.
²Before ^(B)the mountains were born
^[c]Or You ^(C)gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even ^(D)from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³You ^(E)turn mortals back into dust
And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”
⁴For ^(F)a thousand years in Your sight
Are like ^(G)yesterday when it passes by,
^[d]Or like a ^(H)watch in the night.
⁵You ^(I)have ^[e]swept them away like a flood, they ^[f]^(J)fall asleep;
In the morning they are like ^(K)grass that ^[g]sprouts anew.
⁶In the morning it ^(L)flourishes and ^[h]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it ^(M)wilts and ^(N)withers away.

⁷For we have been ^(O)consumed by Your anger,
And we have been terrified by Your wrath.
⁸You have ^(P)placed our guilty deeds before You,
Our ^(Q)hidden sins in the light of Your presence.
⁹For ^(R)all our days have dwindled away in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a ^[i]sigh.
¹⁰As for the days of our ^[j]life, ^[k]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, ^(S)eighty years,
Yet their pride is only ^(T)trouble and tragedy;
For it quickly passes, and we ^(U)disappear.
¹¹Who ^[l]understands the ^(V)power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the ^(W)fear ^[m]that is due You?
¹²So ^(X)teach us to number our days,
That we may ^[n]^(Y)present to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³Do ^(Z)return, Lord; ^(AA)how long will it be?
And ^[o]be ^(AB)sorry for Your servants.
¹⁴^(AC)Satisfy us in the morning with Your graciousness,
That we may ^(AD)sing for joy and rejoice all our days.
¹⁵^(AE)Make us glad ^[p]according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the ^(AF)years we have seen ^[q]evil.
¹⁶Let Your ^(AG)work appear to Your servants
And Your ^(AH)majesty ^[r]to their children.
¹⁷May the ^(AI)kindness of the Lord our God be upon us;
And ^[s]^(AJ)confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, ^[t]confirm the work of our hands.

Footnotes

Psalm 90 Title Deut 33:1
Psalm 90:1 Or hiding place; some ancient mss place of refuge
Psalm 90:2 Or And
Psalm 90:4 Or And
Psalm 90:5 Or flooded
Psalm 90:5 Lit become asleep
Psalm 90:5 Or passes away
Psalm 90:6 Or passes away
Psalm 90:9 Or whisper
Psalm 90:10 Lit years
Psalm 90:10 Lit in them are
Psalm 90:11 Or knows
Psalm 90:11 Lit of You
Psalm 90:12 Lit bring in
Psalm 90:13 Or repent in regard to
Psalm 90:15 Or as many days as
Psalm 90:15 Or trouble
Psalm 90:16 Or upon
Psalm 90:17 Or give permanence to
Psalm 90:17 Or give permanence to

Psalm 149

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Israel Invoked to Praise the Lord.

149 ^[a]Praise ^[b]the Lord!
Sing a ^(A)new song to the Lord,
And His praise ^(B)in the congregation of the godly ones.
²Israel shall be joyful in ^(C)his Maker;
The sons of Zion shall rejoice in their ^(D)King.
³They shall praise His name with ^(E)dancing;
They shall sing praises to Him with ^(F)tambourine and lyre.
⁴For the Lord ^(G)takes pleasure in His people;
He will ^(H)glorify the lowly with salvation.

⁵The ^(I)godly ones shall be jubilant in glory;
They shall ^(J)sing for joy on their beds.
⁶The ^(K)high praises of God shall be in their ^[c]mouths,
And a ^(L)two-edged ^(M)sword in their hands,
⁷To ^(N)execute vengeance on the nations,
And punishment on the peoples,
⁸To bind their kings ^(O)with chains,
And their ^(P)dignitaries with shackles of iron,
⁹To ^(Q)execute against them the judgment written.
This is an ^(R)honor for all His godly ones.
^[d]Praise ^[e]the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 149:1 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 149:1 Heb Yah
Psalm 149:6 Lit throat
Psalm 149:9 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 149:9 Heb Yah

Amos 5:18-27

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¹⁸Woe to you who are longing for the ^(A)day of the Lord,
For what ^[a]purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be ^(B)darkness and not light;
¹⁹As when a man ^(C)flees from a lion
And a bear confronts him,
^[b]Or he goes home, leans with his hand against the wall,
And a snake bites him.
²⁰Will the day of the Lord not be ^(D)darkness instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?

²¹“I hate, I ^(E)reject your festivals,
Nor do I ^[c]^(F)delight in your festive assemblies.
²²Even though you ^(G)offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the ^(H)peace offerings of your fattened oxen.
²³Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
²⁴But let ^(I)justice roll out like waters,
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

²⁵“^[d]^(J)Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel? ²⁶^(K)You also carried along ^[e]Sikkuth your king and ^[f]Kiyyun, your images, ^[g]the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. ²⁷Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.

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Footnotes

Amos 5:18 Lit will this be to you, the day
Amos 5:19 Or Then
Amos 5:21 Lit like to smell your
Amos 5:25 Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering
Amos 5:26 Or Sakkuth (Saturn), or the tabernacle of your Moloch
Amos 5:26 Or Kaiwan (Saturn), or stands of
Amos 5:26 Or your star gods

Jude 17-25

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Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

¹⁷But you, ^(A)beloved, ^(B)ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by ^(C)the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸that they were saying to you, “^(D)In the last time there will be mockers, ^(E)following after their own ungodly lusts.” ¹⁹These are the ones who cause divisions, ^[a]^(F)worldly-minded, ^[b]devoid of the Spirit. ²⁰But you, ^(G)beloved, ^(H)building yourselves up on your most holy ^(I)faith, ^(J)praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, ^(K)looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. ²²And have mercy on some, who are doubting; ²³save others, ^(L)snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, ^(M)hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

²⁴^(N)Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to ^(O)make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with ^(P)great joy, ²⁵to the ^(Q)only ^(R)God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, ^(S)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority ^(T)before all time and now and ^[c]forever. Amen.

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Footnotes

Jude 1:19 Or merely natural
Jude 1:19 Lit not having
Jude 1:25 Lit to all the ages

Matthew 22:15-22

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Poll-tax to Caesar

¹⁵^(A)Then the Pharisees went and ^[a]plotted together how they might trap Him ^[b]in what He said. ¹⁶And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the ^(B)Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and ^[c]do not care what anyone thinks; for You ^[d]are not partial to anyone. ¹⁷Tell us then, what do You think? Is it ^[e]permissible to pay a ^[f]^(C)poll-tax to ^(D)Caesar, or not?” ¹⁸But Jesus perceived their ^[g]malice, and said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show Me the ^(E)coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a ^[h]denarius. ²⁰And He *said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” ²¹They *said to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He *said to them, “^(F)Then pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.” ²²And hearing this, they were amazed; and ^(G)they left Him and went away.