Psalm 25:1-7

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Psalm 25^[a]

Of David.

¹In you, Lord my God,
I put my trust.^(A)

²I trust in you;^(B)
    do not let me be put to shame,
    nor let my enemies triumph over me.
³No one who hopes in you
    will ever be put to shame,^(C)
but shame will come on those
    who are treacherous^(D) without cause.

⁴Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.^(E)
⁵Guide me in your truth^(F) and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,^(G)
    and my hope is in you^(H) all day long.
⁶Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,^(I)
    for they are from of old.
⁷Do not remember the sins of my youth^(J)
    and my rebellious ways;^(K)
according to your love^(L) remember me,
    for you, Lord, are good.^(M)

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Footnotes

Psalm 25:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Ruth 1:15-22

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¹⁵“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law^(A) is going back to her people and her gods.^(B) Go back with her.”

¹⁶But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you^(C) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,^(D) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people^(E) and your God my God.^(F) ¹⁷Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(G) if even death separates you and me.”^(H) ¹⁸When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.^(I)

¹⁹So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem.^(J) When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred^(K) because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

²⁰“Don’t call me Naomi,^[a]” she told them. “Call me Mara,^[b] because the Almighty^[c]^(L) has made my life very bitter.^(M) ²¹I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty.^(N) Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted^[d] me;^(O) the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

²²So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite,^(P) her daughter-in-law,^(Q) arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest^(R) was beginning.^(S)

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Footnotes

Ruth 1:20 Naomi means pleasant.
Ruth 1:20 Mara means bitter.
Ruth 1:20 Hebrew Shaddai; also in verse 21
Ruth 1:21 Or has testified against

Luke 10:1-2

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Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two^(A)^(B)^(C)

10 After this the Lord^(D) appointed seventy-two^[a] others^(E) and sent them two by two^(F) ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.^(G) ²He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.^(H)