25 (A)Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

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Indeed, I count everything as loss because of (A)the surpassing worth of (B)knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I (C)have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

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Because your (A)steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.

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I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
    (A)I have no good apart from you.”

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(A)Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will (B)give you the desires of your heart.

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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, (A)the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will (B)dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:3 Or tabernacle
  2. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts peoples
  3. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts omit as their God

In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
(A)your name and (B)remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
(C)For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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(A)I stretch out my hands to you;
    (B)my soul thirsts for you like (C)a parched land. Selah

(D)Answer me quickly, O Lord!
    (E)My spirit fails!
(F)Hide not your face from me,
    (G)lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
(H)Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
    for in you I (I)trust.
(J)Make me know the way I should go,
    (K)for to you I lift up my soul.

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11 You make known to me (A)the path of life;
    in your presence there is (B)fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are (C)pleasures forevermore.

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37 (A)Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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34 May my (A)meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.

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Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

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Beloved, we are (A)God's children (B)now, and what we will be (C)has not yet appeared; but we know that (D)when he appears[a] (E)we shall be like him, because (F)we shall see him as he is.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:2 Or when it appears

Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 (A)yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
    (B)I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

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For (A)who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
    (B)Who among the heavenly beings[a] is like the Lord,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 89:6 Hebrew the sons of God, or the sons of might

15 As for me, I shall (A)behold your face in righteousness;
    when I (B)awake, I shall be (C)satisfied with your likeness.

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22 And (A)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city (B)has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for (C)the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of (A)the Sons of Korah.

42 (B)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
(C)My soul thirsts for God,
    for (D)the living God.
When shall I come and (E)appear before God?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God

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