Psalm 33

New King James Version

The Sovereignty of the Lord in Creation and History

33 Rejoice ^(A)in the Lord, O you righteous!
For praise from the upright is beautiful.
²Praise the Lord with the harp;
^[a]Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings.
³Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

⁴For the word of the Lord is right,
And all His work is done in truth.
⁵He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

⁶^(B)By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And all the ^(C)host of them ^(D)by the breath of His mouth.
⁷^(E)He gathers the waters of the sea together ^[b]as a heap;
He lays up the deep in storehouses.

⁸Let all the earth fear the Lord;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
⁹For ^(F)He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.

¹⁰^(G)The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
¹¹^(H)The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.
¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has ^(I)chosen as His own inheritance.

¹³^(J)The Lord looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men.
¹⁴From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants of the earth;
¹⁵He fashions their hearts individually;
^(K)He ^[c]considers all their works.

¹⁶^(L)No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
¹⁷^(M)A horse is a ^[d]vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.

¹⁸^(N)Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy,
¹⁹To deliver their soul from death,
And ^(O)to keep them alive in famine.

²⁰Our soul waits for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.
²¹For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His holy name.
²²Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.

Footnotes

Psalm 33:2 Lit. Sing to Him
Psalm 33:7 LXX, Tg., Vg. in a vessel
Psalm 33:15 understands
Psalm 33:17 false

Psalm 36

New King James Version

Man’s Wickedness and God’s Perfections

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.

36 An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked:
^(A)There is no fear of God before his eyes.
²For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.
³The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
^(B)He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
⁴^(C)He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself ^(D)in a way that is not good;
He does not ^[a]abhor ^(E)evil.

⁵Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens;
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
⁶Your righteousness is like the ^[b]great mountains;
^(F)Your judgments are a great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

⁷How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men ^(G)put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
⁸^(H)They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from ^(I)the river of Your pleasures.
⁹^(J)For with You is the fountain of life;
^(K)In Your light we see light.

¹⁰Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
¹¹Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
¹²There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and are not able to rise.

Footnotes

Psalm 36:4 reject, loathe
Psalm 36:6 Lit. mountains of God

Judges 2:6-23

New King James Version

⁶And when ^(A)Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.

Death of Joshua^(B)

⁷^(C)So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel. ⁸Now ^(D)Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died when he was one hundred and ten years old. ⁹^(E)And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at ^(F)Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰When all that generation had ^[a]been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who ^(G)did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

¹¹Then the children of Israel did ^(H)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; ¹²and they ^(I)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed ^(J)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they ^(K)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. ¹³They forsook the Lord ^(L)and served ^[b]Baal and the ^[c]Ashtoreths. ¹⁴^(M)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He ^(N)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and ^(O)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they ^(P)could no longer stand before their enemies. ¹⁵Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had ^(Q)sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.

¹⁶Nevertheless, ^(R)the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. ¹⁷Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they ^(S)played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. ¹⁸And when the Lord raised up judges for them, ^(T)the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; ^(U)for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them. ¹⁹And it came to pass, ^(V)when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

²⁰Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has ^(W)transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice, ²¹I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua ^(X)left when he died, ²²so ^(Y)that through them I may ^(Z)test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.” ²³Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

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Footnotes

Judges 2:10 Died and joined their ancestors
Judges 2:13 A Canaanite god
Judges 2:13 Canaanite goddesses

Luke 10:17-24

New King James Version

The Seventy Return with Joy

¹⁷Then ^(A)the ^[a]seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”

¹⁸And He said to them, ^(B)“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹Behold, ^(C)I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. ²⁰Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but ^[b]rather rejoice because ^(D)your names are written in heaven.”

Jesus Rejoices in the Spirit^(E)

²¹^(F)In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. ²²^(G)All^[c] things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and ^(H)no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

²³Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, ^(I)“Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; ²⁴for I tell you ^(J)that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”