Psalm 74

New King James Version

A Plea for Relief from Oppressors

A ^[a]Contemplation of Asaph.

74 O God, why have You cast us off forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
²Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
³Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
⁴^(A)Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
^(B)They set up their banners for signs.
⁵They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
⁶And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
⁷They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
⁸^(C)They said in their hearts,
“Let us ^[b]destroy them altogether.”
They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

⁹We do not see our signs;
^(D)There is no longer any prophet;
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
¹⁰O God, how long will the adversary ^[c]reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
¹¹^(E)Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
¹²For ^(F)God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³^(G)You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the ^[d]sea serpents in the waters.
¹⁴You broke the heads of ^[e]Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
¹⁵^(H)You broke open the fountain and the flood;
^(I)You dried up mighty rivers.
¹⁶The day is Yours, the night also is ^(J)Yours;
^(K)You have prepared the light and the sun.
¹⁷You have ^(L)set all the borders of the earth;
^(M)You have made summer and winter.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord,
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
¹⁹Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
²⁰^(N)Have respect to the covenant;
For the ^[f]dark places of the earth are full of the ^[g]haunts of ^[h]cruelty.
²¹Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.

²²Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man ^[i]reproaches You daily.
²³Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.

Notas al pie

Psalm 74:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 74:8 oppress
Psalm 74:10 revile
Psalm 74:13 sea monsters
Psalm 74:14 A large sea creature of unknown identity
Psalm 74:20 hiding places
Psalm 74:20 homes
Psalm 74:20 violence
Psalm 74:22 reviles or taunts

1 Timothy 1

New King James Version

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,

²To Timothy, a ^(A)true son in the faith:

^(B)Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

No Other Doctrine

³As I urged you ^(C)when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus that you may ^[a]charge some ^(D)that they teach no other doctrine, ⁴^(E)nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith. ⁵Now ^(F)the purpose of the commandment is love ^(G)from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from ^[b]sincere faith, ⁶from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to ^(H)idle talk, ⁷desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.

⁸But we know that the law is ^(I)good if one uses it lawfully, ⁹knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, ¹⁰for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is ^[c]contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹according to the glorious gospel of the ^(J)blessed God which was ^(K)committed to my trust.

Glory to God for His Grace^(L)

¹²And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has ^(M)enabled me, ^(N)because He counted me faithful, ^(O)putting me into the ministry, ¹³although ^(P)I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an ^[d]insolent man; but I obtained mercy because ^(Q)I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴^(R)And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, ^(S)with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵^(T)This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that ^(U)Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life. ¹⁷Now to ^(V)the King eternal, ^(W)immortal, ^(X)invisible, to ^[e]God ^(Y)who alone is wise, ^(Z)be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Fight the Good Fight

¹⁸This ^[f]charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, ¹⁹having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, ²⁰of whom are ^(AA)Hymenaeus and ^(AB)Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to ^(AC)blaspheme.