Psalm 33:12-22

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¹²^(A)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has ^(B)chosen as his heritage!

¹³The Lord ^(C)looks down from heaven;
    he sees all the children of man;
¹⁴from ^(D)where he sits enthroned he ^(E)looks out
    on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵he who fashions the hearts of them all
    and observes all their deeds.
¹⁶^(F)The king is not saved by his great army;
    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
¹⁷^(G)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
    and by its great might it cannot rescue.

¹⁸Behold, ^(H)the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
^(I)on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹that he may ^(J)deliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in ^(K)famine.

²⁰Our soul ^(L)waits for the Lord;
    he is our ^(M)help and ^(N)our shield.
²¹For our heart is ^(O)glad in him,
    because we ^(P)trust in his holy name.
²²Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
    even as we hope in you.

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Genesis 12:1-9

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The Call of Abram

12 Now ^(A)the Lord said^[a] to Abram, “Go from your country^[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. ²^(B)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. ³^(C)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and ^(D)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”^[c]

⁴So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from ^(E)Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ⁶Abram ^(F)passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to ^(G)the oak^[d] of ^(H)Moreh. At that time ^(I)the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(J)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸From there he moved to the hill country on the east of ^(K)Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. ⁹And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.