Psalm 119:17-32

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Gimel

¹⁷^(A)Deal bountifully with your servant,
    ^(B)that I may live and keep your word.
¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold
    wondrous things out of your law.
¹⁹I am ^(C)a sojourner on the earth;
    ^(D)hide not your commandments from me!
²⁰My soul is consumed with ^(E)longing
    for your rules^[a] at all times.
²¹You rebuke ^(F)the insolent, ^(G)accursed ones,
    who ^(H)wander from your commandments.
²²Take away from me ^(I)scorn and contempt,
    ^(J)for I have kept your testimonies.
²³Even though ^(K)princes sit plotting against me,
    your servant will ^(L)meditate on your statutes.
²⁴Your testimonies are my ^(M)delight;
    they are my ^(N)counselors.

Daleth

²⁵^(O)My soul clings to the dust;
    ^(P)give me life ^(Q)according to your word!
²⁶When ^(R)I told of my ways, you answered me;
    ^(S)teach me your statutes!
²⁷^(T)Make me understand the way of your precepts,
    and I will ^(U)meditate on your wondrous works.
²⁸^(V)My soul melts away for sorrow;
    strengthen me according to your word!
²⁹Put false ways far from me
    and graciously ^(W)teach me your law!
³⁰I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
    I ^(X)set your rules before me.
³¹I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;
    ^(Y)let me not be put to shame!
³²I will run in the way of your commandments
    when you ^(Z)enlarge my heart!^[b]

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Footnotes

Psalm 119:20 Or your just decrees; also verses 30, 39, 43, 52, 75, 102, 108, 137, 156, 175
Psalm 119:32 Or for you set my heart free

Amos 8:13-9:4

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¹³^(A)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall ^(B)faint for thirst.
¹⁴Those who swear by ^(C)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^(D)the Way of ^(E)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing beside^[a] the altar, and he said:

^(F)“Strike the capitals until ^(G)the thresholds ^(H)shake,
    ^(I)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(J)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

²^(K)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(L)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³If they hide themselves on ^(M)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(N)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
⁴^(O)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(P)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

Footnotes

Amos 9:1 Or on
Amos 9:1 Hebrew all of them

1 John 2:1-6

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Christ Our Advocate

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, ^(A)we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. ²^(B)He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but ^(C)also for the sins of the whole world. ³And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we ^(D)keep his commandments. ⁴Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments ^(E)is a liar, and ^(F)the truth is not in him, ⁵but whoever ^(G)keeps his word, in him truly ^(H)the love of God is perfected. ^(I)By this we may know that we are in him: ⁶whoever says he ^(J)abides in him ^(K)ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.