Psalm 119:73-88

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Yodh

⁷³^(A)Your hands have made and fashioned me;
    ^(B)give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
⁷⁴Those who fear you shall see me and ^(C)rejoice,
    because I have ^(D)hoped in your word.
⁷⁵I know, O Lord, that your rules are ^(E)righteous,
    and that in ^(F)faithfulness you have afflicted me.
⁷⁶Let your steadfast love comfort me
    according to your promise to your servant.
⁷⁷Let your ^(G)mercy come to me, that I may live;
    for your law is my ^(H)delight.
⁷⁸Let ^(I)the insolent be put to ^(J)shame,
    because they have ^(K)wronged me with falsehood;
    as for me, I will ^(L)meditate on your precepts.
⁷⁹Let those who fear you ^(M)turn to me,
    that they may know your testimonies.
⁸⁰May my heart be ^(N)blameless in your statutes,
    ^(O)that I may not be put to shame!

Kaph

⁸¹My soul ^(P)longs for your salvation;
    I ^(Q)hope in your word.
⁸²My ^(R)eyes long for your promise;
    I ask, ^(S)“When will you comfort me?”
⁸³For I have ^(T)become like a ^(U)wineskin in the smoke,
    yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
⁸⁴^(V)How long must your servant endure?^[a]
    ^(W)When will you judge those who persecute me?
⁸⁵^(X)The insolent have ^(Y)dug pitfalls for me;
    they do not live according to your law.
⁸⁶All your commandments are ^(Z)sure;
    they persecute me ^(AA)with falsehood; ^(AB)help me!
⁸⁷They have almost made an end of me on earth,
    but I have not forsaken your precepts.
⁸⁸In your steadfast love ^(AC)give me life,
    that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.

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Footnotes

Psalm 119:84 Hebrew How many are the days of your servant?

Jeremiah 48

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Judgment on Moab

48 ^(A)Concerning Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“Woe to ^(B)Nebo, for it is laid waste!
    ^(C)Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame ^(D)and broken down;
²    the renown of Moab is no more.
In ^(E)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off ^(F)from being a nation!’
You also, O ^(G)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

³“A voice! A cry from ^(H)Horonaim,
    ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
⁴Moab is destroyed;
    her little ones have made a cry.
⁵^(I)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[a]
for ^(J)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[b] of destruction.
⁶Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like ^(K)a juniper in the desert!
⁷For, ^(L)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and ^(M)Chemosh ^(N)shall go into exile
    with ^(O)his priests and his officials.
⁸^(P)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and ^(Q)the plain shall be destroyed,
    as the Lord has spoken.

⁹“Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.

¹⁰^(R)“Cursed is he who does ^(S)the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

¹¹“Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has ^(T)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
    and his scent is not changed.

¹²“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his^[c] jars in pieces. ¹³Then ^(U)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as ^(V)the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(W)Bethel, their confidence.

¹⁴“How do you say, ‘We are heroes
    and mighty men of war’?
¹⁵The destroyer of ^(X)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have ^(Y)gone down to slaughter,
    declares ^(Z)the King, ^(AA)whose name is the Lord of hosts.
¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
    and his affliction hastens swiftly.
¹⁷^(AB)Grieve for him, all you who are around him,
    and all who know his name;
say, ^(AC)‘How the mighty scepter is broken,
    the glorious staff.’

¹⁸^(AD)“Come down from your glory,
    and sit on the parched ground,
    O inhabitant of ^(AE)Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹^(AF)Stand by the way ^(AG)and watch,
    O inhabitant of ^(AH)Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
    say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(AI)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(AJ)the Arnon,
    that ^(AK)Moab is laid waste.

²¹“Judgment has come upon ^(AL)the tableland, upon Holon, and ^(AM)Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²and ^(AN)Dibon, and ^(AO)Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³and ^(AP)Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and ^(AQ)Beth-meon, ²⁴and ^(AR)Kerioth, and ^(AS)Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵^(AT)The horn of Moab is cut off, and ^(AU)his arm is broken, declares the Lord.

²⁶^(AV)“Make him drunk, ^(AW)because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall ^(AX)wallow in his vomit, ^(AY)and he too shall be held in derision. ²⁷^(AZ)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(BA)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(BB)you wagged your head?

²⁸^(BC)“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab!
Be ^(BD)like the dove that nests
    in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
²⁹^(BE)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
    and the haughtiness of his heart.
³⁰I know his insolence, declares the Lord;
    ^(BF)his boasts are false,
    his deeds are false.
³¹^(BG)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(BH)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³²More than for ^(BI)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(BJ)O vine of ^(BK)Sibmah!
^(BL)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(BM)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
³³^(BN)Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.

³⁴^(BO)“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to ^(BP)Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. ³⁵And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in ^(BQ)the high place and makes offerings to his god. ³⁶Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of ^(BR)Kir-hareseth. ^(BS)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

³⁷^(BT)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ^(BU)On all the hands are gashes, and ^(BV)around the waist is sackcloth. ³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like ^(BW)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. ³⁹How it is broken! How they wail! ^(BX)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab ^(BY)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

⁴⁰For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(BZ)one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
    ^(CA)and spread his wings against Moab;
⁴¹^(CB)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
^(CC)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of ^(CD)a woman in her birth pains;
⁴²Moab shall be ^(CE)destroyed and be no longer a people,
    because ^(CF)he magnified himself against the Lord.
⁴³^(CG)Terror, pit, and snare
    are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!
declares the Lord.
⁴⁴He who flees from the terror
    shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
    shall be caught in the snare.
^(CH)For I will bring these things upon Moab,
    the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

⁴⁵“In the shadow of Heshbon
    fugitives stop without strength,
for fire came out from Heshbon,
    flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed ^(CI)the forehead of Moab,
    the crown of ^(CJ)the sons of tumult.
⁴⁶^(CK)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of ^(CL)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷^(CM)Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
    in the latter days, declares the Lord.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 48:5 Hebrew weeping goes up with weeping
Jeremiah 48:5 Septuagint (compare Isaiah 15:5) heard the cry
Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their

Romans 3

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God's Righteousness Upheld

3 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? ²Much in every way. To begin with, ^(A)the Jews were entrusted with ^(B)the oracles of God. ³^(C)What if some were unfaithful? ^(D)Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? ⁴By no means! ^(E)Let God be true though ^(F)every one were a liar, as it is written,

^(G)“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you ^(H)are judged.”

⁵But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict ^(I)wrath on us? (^(J)I speak in a human way.) ⁶By no means! For then how could ^(K)God judge the world? ⁷But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, ^(L)why am I still being condemned as a sinner? ⁸And why not ^(M)do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

No One Is Righteous

⁹What then? Are we Jews^[a] any better off?^[b] No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both ^(N)Jews and ^(O)Greeks, are ^(P)under sin, ¹⁰as it is written:

^(Q)“None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹    no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
¹²All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”
¹³^(R)“Their throat is ^(S)an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
^(T)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
¹⁴    ^(U)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
¹⁵^(V)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶    in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷and ^(W)the way of peace they have not known.”
¹⁸    ^(X)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

¹⁹Now we know that whatever ^(Y)the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, ^(Z)so that every mouth may be stopped, and ^(AA)the whole world may be held accountable to God. ²⁰For ^(AB)by works of the law no human being^[c] will be justified in his sight, since ^(AC)through the law comes knowledge of sin.

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

²¹But now ^(AD)the righteousness of God ^(AE)has been manifested apart from the law, although ^(AF)the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— ²²the righteousness of God ^(AG)through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. ^(AH)For there is no distinction: ²³for ^(AI)all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴^(AJ)and are justified ^(AK)by his grace as a gift, ^(AL)through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God ^(AM)put forward as ^(AN)a propitiation ^(AO)by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in ^(AP)his divine forbearance he had passed over ^(AQ)former sins. ²⁶It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

²⁷^(AR)Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. ²⁸For we hold that one is justified by faith ^(AS)apart from works of the law. ²⁹Or ^(AT)is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰since ^(AU)God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and ^(AV)the uncircumcised through faith. ³¹Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.