Psalm 83:1-4

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O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of ^(A)Asaph.

83 O God, do not keep silence;
    ^(B)do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
²For behold, your enemies ^(C)make an uproar;
    those who hate you have ^(D)raised their heads.
³They lay ^(E)crafty plans against your people;
    they consult together against your ^(F)treasured ones.
⁴They say, “Come, ^(G)let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

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Psalm 83:9-10

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⁹Do to them as you did to ^(A)Midian,
as to ^(B)Sisera and Jabin at ^(C)the river Kishon,
¹⁰who were destroyed at ^(D)En-dor,
who became ^(E)dung for the ground.

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Psalm 83:17-18

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¹⁷Let them be ^(A)put to shame and dismayed forever;
    let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸that they may ^(B)know that you alone,
    ^(C)whose name is the Lord,
    are ^(D)the Most High over all the earth.

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Exodus 2:1-10

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The Birth of Moses

2 Now a ^(A)man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. ²The woman conceived and bore a son, and ^(B)when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. ³When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes^[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the ^(C)reeds by the river bank. ⁴And ^(D)his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. ⁵Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. ⁶When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.” ⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” ⁸And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child's mother. ⁹And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. ¹⁰When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became ^(E)her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I ^(F)drew him out of the water.”^[b]

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Footnotes

Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds
Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out

1 Thessalonians 5:12-18

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Final Instructions and Benediction

¹²We ask you, brothers, ^(A)to respect those who labor among you and ^(B)are over you in the Lord and admonish you, ¹³and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. ^(C)Be at peace among yourselves. ¹⁴And we urge you, brothers, admonish ^(D)the idle,^[a] ^(E)encourage the fainthearted, ^(F)help the weak, ^(G)be patient with them all. ¹⁵See that ^(H)no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always ^(I)seek to do good to one another and to everyone. ¹⁶^(J)Rejoice always, ¹⁷^(K)pray without ceasing, ¹⁸^(L)give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.