Psalm 6

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O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to ^(A)The Sheminith.^[a] A Psalm of David.

6 O Lord, ^(B)rebuke me not in your anger,
    nor ^(C)discipline me in your wrath.
²Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
    ^(D)heal me, O Lord, ^(E)for my bones are troubled.
³My ^(F)soul also is greatly troubled.
    But you, O Lord—^(G)how long?

⁴Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
⁵For in ^(H)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?

⁶I am ^(I)weary with my ^(J)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷My ^(K)eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸^(L)Depart from me, all you ^(M)workers of evil,
    for the Lord ^(N)has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹The Lord has heard my ^(O)plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
    they shall ^(P)turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

Footnotes

Psalm 6:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Psalm 12

English Standard Version

The Faithful Have Vanished

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.^[a] A Psalm of David.

12 Save, O Lord, for ^(A)the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
²Everyone ^(B)utters lies to his neighbor;
with ^(C)flattering lips and ^(D)a double heart they speak.

³May the Lord cut off all ^(E)flattering lips,
the tongue that makes ^(F)great boasts,
⁴those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

⁵“Because ^(G)the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
    ^(H)I will now arise,” says the Lord;
    “I will place him in the ^(I)safety for which he longs.”
⁶^(J)The words of the Lord are pure words,
    like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
    purified seven times.

⁷You, O Lord, will keep them;
you will guard us^[b] from this generation forever.
⁸On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Footnotes

Psalm 12:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 12:7 Or guard him

Lamentations 1:17-22

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¹⁷^(A)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but ^(B)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

¹⁸^(C)“The Lord is in the right,
    ^(D)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
^(E)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

¹⁹“I called to ^(F)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while ^(G)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

²⁰“Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    ^(H)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
^(I)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

²¹“They heard^[a] ^(J)my groaning,
    yet ^(K)there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
    ^(L)they are glad that you have done it.
You have brought^[b] the day you announced;
    ^(M)now let them be as I am.

²²^(N)“Let all their evildoing come before you,
    and deal with them
as ^(O)you have dealt with me
    because of all my transgressions;
for ^(P)my groans are many,
    and ^(Q)my heart is faint.”

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Footnotes

Lamentations 1:21 Septuagint, Syriac Hear
Lamentations 1:21 Syriac Bring

2 Corinthians 1:8-22

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⁸For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,^[a] of ^(A)the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. ⁹Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us ^(B)rely not on ourselves ^(C)but on God ^(D)who raises the dead. ¹⁰^(E)He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. ^(F)On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. ¹¹^(G)You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf ^(H)for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

Paul's Change of Plans

¹²For our boast is this, ^(I)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity^[b] and ^(J)godly sincerity, ^(K)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. ¹³For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand— ¹⁴just as you did ^(L)partially understand us—that ^(M)on the day of our Lord Jesus ^(N)you will boast of us as ^(O)we will boast of you.

¹⁵Because I was sure of this, ^(P)I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have ^(Q)a second ^(R)experience of grace. ¹⁶I wanted to visit you ^(S)on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. ¹⁷Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans ^(T)according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time? ¹⁸As surely as ^(U)God is faithful, ^(V)our word to you has not been Yes and No. ¹⁹For ^(W)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, ^(X)Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but ^(Y)in him it is always Yes. ²⁰For ^(Z)all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our ^(AA)Amen to God for his glory. ²¹And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and ^(AB)has anointed us, ²²and who has also ^(AC)put his seal on us and ^(AD)given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.^[c]

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Footnotes

2 Corinthians 1:8 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts holiness
2 Corinthians 1:22 Or down payment

Mark 11:27-33

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The Authority of Jesus Challenged

²⁷^(A)And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, ²⁸and they said to him, ^(B)“By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” ²⁹Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ³⁰Was the baptism of John ^(C)from heaven or from man? Answer me.” ³¹And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ^(D)‘Why then did you not believe him?’ ³²But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—^(E)they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was ^(F)a prophet. ³³So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”