Psalm 100-101

English Standard Version

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

A Psalm for ^(A)giving thanks.

100 ^(B)Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
² ^(C)Serve the Lord with gladness!
^(D)Come into his presence with singing!

³Know that ^(E)the Lord, he is God!
It is he who ^(F)made us, and ^(G)we are his;^[a]
we are his ^(H)people, and ^(I)the sheep of his pasture.

⁴^(J)Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his ^(K)courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; ^(L)bless his name!

⁵^(M)For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his ^(N)faithfulness to all generations.

I Will Walk with Integrity

A Psalm of David.

101 I will sing of ^(O)steadfast love and justice;
    to you, O Lord, I will make music.
²I will ^(P)ponder the way ^(Q)that is blameless.
    Oh when will you ^(R)come to me?
I will ^(S)walk with ^(T)integrity of heart
    within my house;
³I will not set before my eyes
    anything ^(U)that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who ^(V)fall away;
    it shall not cling to me.
⁴^(W)A perverse heart shall be far from me;
    I will ^(X)know nothing of evil.

⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor ^(Y)secretly
I will ^(Z)destroy.
Whoever has a ^(AA)haughty look and an ^(AB)arrogant heart
I will not endure.

⁶I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in ^(AC)the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.

⁷No one who ^(AD)practices deceit
shall dwell in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall ^(AE)continue before my eyes.

⁸^(AF)Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land,
^(AG)cutting off all ^(AH)the evildoers
from ^(AI)the city of the Lord.

Footnotes

Psalm 100:3 Or and not we ourselves

Ezekiel 30

English Standard Version

A Lament for Egypt

30 The word of the Lord came to me: ²^(A)“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

^(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
³    ^(C)For the day is near,
    ^(D)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be ^(E)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for^[a] the nations.
⁴^(F)A sword shall come upon Egypt,
    ^(G)and anguish shall be in ^(H)Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
    and ^(I)her wealth^[b] is carried away,
    and ^(J)her foundations are torn down.

⁵^(K)Cush, and ^(L)Put, and Lud, and ^(M)all Arabia, and Libya,^[c] and the people of the land that is in league,^[d] shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶“Thus says the Lord:
^(N)Those who support Egypt shall fall,
    and ^(O)her proud might shall come down;
^(P)from Migdol to Syene
    they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
⁷^(Q)And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
    and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
⁸^(R)Then they will know that I am the Lord,
    when ^(S)I have set fire to Egypt,
    and ^(T)all her helpers are broken.

⁹“On that day ^(U)messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting ^(V)people of Cush, and ^(W)anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom;^[e] for, behold, it comes!

¹⁰“Thus says the Lord God:

^(X)“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,
    by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him, ^(Y)the most ruthless of nations,
    shall be brought in to destroy the land,
^(Z)and they shall draw their swords against Egypt
    and fill the land with the slain.
¹²And ^(AA)I will ^(AB)dry up the Nile
    and will sell the land into the hand of ^(AC)evildoers;
^(AD)I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,
    by the hand of ^(AE)foreigners;
^(AF)I am the Lord; I have spoken.

¹³“Thus says the Lord God:

^(AG)“I will destroy the idols
    and put an end to the images in ^(AH)Memphis;
^(AI)there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
    so ^(AJ)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ^(AK)Pathros a desolation
    and will set fire to ^(AL)Zoan
    ^(AM)and will execute judgments on ^(AN)Thebes.
¹⁵And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,
    the stronghold of Egypt,
    and cut off the multitude^[f] of Thebes.
¹⁶And I will set fire to Egypt;
    Pelusium shall be in great agony;
Thebes shall be breached,
    and ^(AO)Memphis shall face enemies^[g] by day.
¹⁷The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,
    and the women^[h] shall go into captivity.
¹⁸At ^(AP)Tehaphnehes ^(AQ)the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and ^(AR)her proud might shall come to an end in her;
    she shall be covered by a cloud,
    and her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹Thus ^(AS)I will execute judgments on Egypt.
    ^(AT)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Egypt Shall Fall to Babylon

²⁰^(AU)In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²¹^(AV)“Son of man, ^(AW)I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, ^(AX)it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and ^(AY)will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand. ²³^(AZ)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. ²⁴And ^(BA)I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^(BB)my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him ^(BC)like a man mortally wounded. ²⁵I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. ^(BD)Then they shall know that I am the Lord, ^(BE)when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for
Ezekiel 30:4 Or multitude; also verse 10
Ezekiel 30:5 With Septuagint; Hebrew Cub
Ezekiel 30:5 Hebrew and the sons of the land of the covenant
Ezekiel 30:9 Hebrew the day of Egypt
Ezekiel 30:15 Or wealth
Ezekiel 30:16 Or distress
Ezekiel 30:17 Or the cities; Hebrew they

2 Timothy 4

English Standard Version

Preach the Word

4 ^(A)I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, ^(B)who is to judge the living and the dead, and by ^(C)his appearing and his kingdom: ²preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; ^(D)reprove, rebuke, and ^(E)exhort, with complete patience and teaching. ³^(F)For the time is coming when people will not endure ^(G)sound^[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴and ^(H)will turn away from listening to the truth and ^(I)wander off into myths. ⁵But as for you, ^(J)always be sober-minded, ^(K)endure suffering, do the work of ^(L)an evangelist, ^(M)fulfill your ministry.

⁶For ^(N)I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my ^(O)departure has come. ⁷^(P)I have fought the good fight, ^(Q)I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸Henceforth there is ^(R)laid up for me ^(S)the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, ^(T)the righteous judge, will award to me on ^(U)that day, and not only to me but also to all ^(V)who have loved his appearing.

Personal Instructions

⁹^(W)Do your best to come to me soon. ¹⁰For ^(X)Demas, ^(Y)in love with ^(Z)this present world, ^(AA)has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,^[b] ^(AB)Titus to Dalmatia. ¹¹^(AC)Luke alone is with me. Get ^(AD)Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. ¹²^(AE)Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. ¹³When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. ¹⁴^(AF)Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; ^(AG)the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. ¹⁵Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. ¹⁶At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. ^(AH)May it not be charged against them! ¹⁷But ^(AI)the Lord stood by me and ^(AJ)strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and ^(AK)all the Gentiles might hear it. So ^(AL)I was rescued ^(AM)from the lion's mouth. ¹⁸The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. ^(AN)To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Final Greetings

¹⁹Greet ^(AO)Prisca and Aquila, and ^(AP)the household of Onesiphorus. ²⁰Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left ^(AQ)Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. ²¹^(AR)Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.^[c]

²²The Lord be ^(AS)with your spirit. ^(AT)Grace be with you.^[d]

Footnotes

2 Timothy 4:3 Or healthy
2 Timothy 4:10 Some manuscripts Gaul
2 Timothy 4:21 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
2 Timothy 4:22 The Greek for you is plural