Psalm 102

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Prayer of an Afflicted Man for Mercy on Himself and on Zion.

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is weak and ^[a]pours out his complaint before the Lord.

102 ^(A)Hear my prayer, Lord!
And let my cry for help ^(B)come to You.
²^(C)Do not hide Your face from me on the day of my distress;
^(D)Incline Your ear to me;
On the day when I call ^(E)answer me quickly.
³For my days ^(F)have ended in smoke,
And my ^(G)bones have been scorched like a hearth.
⁴My heart ^(H)has been struck like ^[b]grass and has ^(I)withered,
Indeed, I ^(J)forget to eat my bread.
⁵Because of the ^[c]loudness of my groaning
My ^(K)bones ^[d]cling to my flesh.
⁶I resemble a ^(L)pelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the ruins.
⁷I ^(M)lie awake,
I have become like a solitary bird on a housetop.

⁸My enemies ^(N)have taunted me all day long;
Those who ^[e]^(O)deride me ^[f]have used my name as a ^(P)curse.
⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And ^(Q)mixed my drink with weeping
¹⁰^(R)Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have ^(S)lifted me up and thrown me away.
¹¹My days are like a ^[g]^(T)lengthened shadow,
And ^[h]I ^(U)wither away like ^[i]grass.

¹²But You, Lord, ^[j]^(V)remain forever,
And Your ^[k]^(W)name remains to all generations.
¹³You will ^(X)arise and have ^(Y)compassion on Zion;
For ^(Z)it is time to be gracious to her,
For the ^(AA)appointed time has come.
¹⁴Surely Your servants ^[l]take pleasure in her stones,
And feel pity for her dust.
¹⁵^[m]So the ^[n]^(AB)nations will fear the name of the Lord,
And ^(AC)all the kings of the earth, Your glory.
¹⁶For the Lord has ^(AD)built up Zion;
He has ^(AE)appeared in His glory.
¹⁷He has ^(AF)turned His attention to the prayer of the ^[o]destitute
And has not despised their prayer.

¹⁸^[p]This will be ^(AG)written for the ^(AH)generation to come,
^[q]That ^(AI)a people yet to be created ^[r]may praise ^[s]the Lord:
¹⁹For He ^(AJ)looked down from His holy height;
^(AK)From heaven the Lord looked ^[t]upon the earth,
²⁰To hear the ^(AL)groaning of the prisoner,
To ^(AM)set free ^[u]those who were doomed to death,
²¹So that people may ^(AN)tell of the name of the Lord in Zion,
And His praise in Jerusalem,
²²When ^(AO)the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

²³He has broken my strength in the way;
He has ^(AP)shortened my days.
²⁴I say, “My God, ^(AQ)do not take me away in the middle of my days,
Your ^(AR)years are ^[v]throughout all generations.
²⁵In time of old You ^(AS)founded the earth,
And the ^(AT)heavens are the work of Your hands.
²⁶^[w]Even they will ^(AU)perish, but You endure;
All of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will pass away.
²⁷But You are ^[x]^(AV)the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.
²⁸The ^(AW)children of Your servants will continue,
And their ^[y]^(AX)descendants will be established before You.”

Footnotes

Psalm 102 Title Ps 142:2
Psalm 102:4 Lit herbage
Psalm 102:5 Lit voice
Psalm 102:5 Lit have cleaved
Psalm 102:8 Or made a fool of
Psalm 102:8 Lit have sworn by me
Psalm 102:11 Lit stretched out
Psalm 102:11 Or as for me, I
Psalm 102:11 Lit herbage
Psalm 102:12 Or sit enthroned
Psalm 102:12 Lit memorial
Psalm 102:14 Or have found
Psalm 102:15 Or And
Psalm 102:15 Or Gentiles, heathen
Psalm 102:17 Or naked
Psalm 102:18 Or Let this be written
Psalm 102:18 Or And
Psalm 102:18 Or will
Psalm 102:18 Heb Yah
Psalm 102:19 Lit toward
Psalm 102:20 Lit the sons of death
Psalm 102:24 Lit in generation of generations
Psalm 102:26 Lit They themselves
Psalm 102:27 Lit He
Psalm 102:28 Lit seed

Psalm 148

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The Whole Creation Invoked to Praise the Lord.

148 ^[a]Praise ^[b]the Lord!
Praise the Lord ^(A)from the heavens;
Praise Him ^(B)in the heights!
²Praise Him, ^(C)all His angels;
Praise Him, ^(D)all His heavenly armies!
³Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!
⁴Praise Him, ^[c]^(E)highest heavens,
And the ^(F)waters that are above the heavens!
⁵They are to praise the name of the Lord,
For ^(G)He commanded and they were created.
⁶He has also ^(H)established them forever and ever;
He has made a ^(I)decree, and it will not pass away.

⁷Praise the Lord from the earth,
^(J)Sea monsters, and all the ocean ^(K)depths;
⁸^(L)Fire and hail, ^(M)snow and ^(N)clouds;
^(O)Stormy wind, ^(P)fulfilling His word;
⁹^(Q)Mountains and all hills;
Fruit ^(R)trees and all cedars;
¹⁰^(S)Animals and all cattle;
^(T)Crawling things and winged fowl;
¹¹^(U)Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Rulers and all judges of the earth;
¹²Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children.

¹³They are to praise the name of the Lord,
For His ^(V)name alone is exalted;
His ^(W)majesty is above earth and heaven.
¹⁴And He has ^(X)lifted up a horn for His people,
^(Y)Praise for all His godly ones,
For the sons of Israel, a people ^(Z)near to Him.
^[d]Praise ^[e]the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 148:1 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 148:1 Heb Yah
Psalm 148:4 Lit heavens of heavens
Psalm 148:14 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 148:14 Heb Yah

Haggai 1

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Haggai Begins Temple Building

1 In the ^(A)second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet ^(B)Haggai to ^(C)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(D)governor of Judah, and to ^(E)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ²“This is what the Lord of armies ^[a]says: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’” ³Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ⁴“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains ^(F)desolate?” ⁵Now then, the Lord of armies says this: “^[b]Consider your ways! ⁶You have ^(G)sown much, only to ^[c]harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for ^[d]anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”

⁷The Lord of armies says this: “^[e]Consider your ways! ⁸Go up to the ^[f]mountains, bring wood, and ^(H)rebuild the ^[g]temple, that I may be ^(I)pleased with it and be ^(J)honored,” says the Lord. ⁹“^(K)You ^[h]start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I ^(L)blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of armies. “It is because of My house which ^(M)remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the ^(N)sky has withheld ^[i]its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹And I called for a ^(O)drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on ^(P)mankind, on cattle, and on ^(Q)all the products of the labor of ^[j]your hands.”

¹²Then ^(R)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^(S)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, ^(T)obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, just as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people ^[k]^(U)showed reverence for the Lord. ¹³Then Haggai, the ^(V)messenger of the Lord, spoke ^[l]by the commission of the Lord to the people, saying, “‘^(W)I am with you,’ declares the Lord.” ¹⁴So the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^(X)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(Y)governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the ^(Z)remnant of the people; and they came and ^(AA)worked on the house of the Lord of armies, their God, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

Footnotes

Haggai 1:2 Lit says, saying
Haggai 1:5 Lit Set your heart on
Haggai 1:6 Lit bring in
Haggai 1:6 Lit him
Haggai 1:7 Lit Set your heart on
Haggai 1:8 Lit mountain
Haggai 1:8 Lit house
Haggai 1:9 Lit turn to much
Haggai 1:10 Lit from dew
Haggai 1:11 Lit palms
Haggai 1:12 Lit feared before
Haggai 1:13 Or with the commissioned message

Revelation 2:18-29

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Message to Thyatira

¹⁸“And to the angel of the church in ^(A)Thyatira write:

^(B)The Son of God, ^(C)who has ^[a]eyes like a flame of fire, and ^[b]feet like burnished bronze, says this:

¹⁹‘^(D)I know your deeds, and your love and faith, and service and ^[c]perseverance, and that your ^[d]deeds of late are greater than ^[e]at first. ²⁰But ^(E)I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman ^(F)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they ^(G)commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹^(H)I gave her time to repent, and she ^(I)does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who ^(J)commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of ^[f]her deeds. ²³And I will kill her children with ^[g]plague, and all the churches will know that I am He who ^(K)searches the ^[h]minds and hearts; and ^(L)I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. ²⁴But I say to you, the rest who are in ^(M)Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the ^(N)deep things of Satan, as they call them—I ^(O)place no other burden on you. ²⁵Nevertheless ^(P)what you have, hold firmly ^(Q)until I come. ²⁶^(R)The one who overcomes, and the one who keeps My deeds ^(S)until the end, ^(T)I will give him authority over the ^[i]nations; ²⁷and he shall ^[j]^(U)rule them with a rod of iron, ^(V)as the vessels of the potter are shattered, as I also have received authority from My Father; ²⁸and I will give him ^(W)the morning star. ²⁹^(X)The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

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Footnotes

Revelation 2:18 Lit His eyes
Revelation 2:18 Lit His feet
Revelation 2:19 Or steadfastness
Revelation 2:19 Lit last deeds
Revelation 2:19 Lit the first
Revelation 2:22 One early ms their
Revelation 2:23 Lit death; i.e., a particular kind of death
Revelation 2:23 Lit kidneys; i.e., inner man
Revelation 2:26 Or Gentiles
Revelation 2:27 Lit shepherd

Matthew 23:27-39

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²⁷“^(A)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²⁹“^(B)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ ³¹So you testify against yourselves, that you ^(C)are ^[a]sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³²^[b]Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers. ³³You snakes, ^(D)you ^[c]offspring of vipers, how ^[d]will you escape the ^[e]sentence of ^[f]^(E)hell?

³⁴“^(F)Therefore, behold, ^(G)I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will ^(H)flog in your synagogues, and ^(I)persecute from city to city, ³⁵so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^(J)Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the ^(K)son of Berechiah, whom ^(L)you murdered between the ^[g]temple and the altar. ³⁶Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon ^(M)this generation.

Grieving over Jerusalem

³⁷“^(N)Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who ^(O)kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, ^(P)the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. ³⁸Behold, ^(Q)your house is being left to you desolate! ³⁹For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘^(R)Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!’”