Psalm 7:6-11

Common English Bible

⁶Get up, Lord; get angry!
    Stand up against the fury of my foes!
Wake up, my God;^[a]
    you command that justice be done!
⁷Let the assembled peoples surround you.
    Rule them from on high!^[b]
⁸The Lord will judge the peoples.
    Establish justice for me, Lord,
    according to my righteousness
    and according to my integrity.
⁹Please let the evil of the wicked be over,
    but set the righteous firmly in place
    because you, the righteous God,
    are the one who examines hearts and minds.

¹⁰God is my shield;
he saves those whose heart is right.
¹¹God is a righteous judge,
a God who is angry at evil^[c] every single day.

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Footnotes

Psalm 7:6 Or for my sake
Psalm 7:7 Correction; MT Come back to be exalted over them.
Psalm 7:11 Heb lacks at evil.

Jeremiah 11:18-20

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Jeremiah’s lament

¹⁸The Lord informed me and I knew.
    Then he helped me see what they were up to.
¹⁹I was like a young lamb led to the slaughter;
    I didn’t realize that they were planning
        their schemes against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
    let’s cut him off from the land of the living
    so that even any knowledge of him will be wiped out.”
²⁰Lord of heavenly forces, righteous judge,
    who tests the heart and mind,
        let me see your revenge upon them,
        because I have committed my case to you.

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John 7:37-52

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³⁷On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted,

“All who are thirsty should come to me!
³⁸    All who believe in me should drink!
    As the scriptures said concerning me,^[a]
        Rivers of living water will flow out from within him.”

³⁹Jesus said this concerning the Spirit. Those who believed in him would soon receive the Spirit, but they hadn’t experienced the Spirit yet since Jesus hadn’t yet been glorified.

⁴⁰When some in the crowd heard these words, they said, “This man is truly the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “He’s the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ can’t come from Galilee, can he? ⁴²Didn’t the scripture say that the Christ comes from David’s family and from Bethlehem, David’s village?” ⁴³So the crowd was divided over Jesus. ⁴⁴Some wanted to arrest him, but no one grabbed him.

⁴⁵The guards returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

⁴⁶The guards answered, “No one has ever spoken the way he does.”

⁴⁷The Pharisees replied, “Have you too been deceived? ⁴⁸Have any of the leaders believed in him? Has any Pharisee? ⁴⁹No, only this crowd, which doesn’t know the Law. And they are under God’s curse!”

⁵⁰Nicodemus, who was one of them and had come to Jesus earlier, said, ⁵¹“Our Law doesn’t judge someone without first hearing him and learning what he is doing, does it?”

⁵²They answered him, “You are not from Galilee too, are you? Look it up and you will see that the prophet doesn’t come from Galilee.”

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Footnotes

John 7:38 Or Whoever is thirsty should come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, just as the scriptures said, rivers of living water will flow out from within them.