Psalm 84

New International Version

Psalm 84^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

¹How lovely is your dwelling place,^(A)
    Lord Almighty!
²My soul yearns,^(B) even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.^(C)
³Even the sparrow has found a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,^(D)
    Lord Almighty,^(E) my King^(F) and my God.^(G)
⁴Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
    they are ever praising you.^[c]

⁵Blessed are those whose strength^(H) is in you,
    whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.^(I)
⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
    they make it a place of springs;^(J)
    the autumn^(K) rains also cover it with pools.^[d]
⁷They go from strength to strength,^(L)
    till each appears^(M) before God in Zion.^(N)

⁸Hear my prayer,^(O) Lord God Almighty;
listen to me, God of Jacob.
⁹Look on our shield,^[e]^(P) O God;
look with favor on your anointed one.^(Q)

¹⁰Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper^(R) in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
¹¹For the Lord God is a sun^(S) and shield;^(T)
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold^(U)
    from those whose walk is blameless.

¹²Lord Almighty,
blessed^(V) is the one who trusts in you.

Footnotes

Psalm 84:1 In Hebrew texts 84:1-12 is numbered 84:2-13.
Psalm 84:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 84:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 8.
Psalm 84:6 Or blessings
Psalm 84:9 Or sovereign

Jeremiah 32

New International Version

Jeremiah Buys a Field

32 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth^(A) year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth^(B) year of Nebuchadnezzar. ²The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging^(C) Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined^(D) in the courtyard of the guard^(E) in the royal palace of Judah.

³Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy^(F) as you do? You say, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture^(G) it. ⁴Zedekiah^(H) king of Judah will not escape^(I) the Babylonians^[a]^(J) but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. ⁵He will take^(K) Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him,^(L) declares the Lord. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”^(M)

⁶Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth,^(N) because as nearest relative it is your right and duty^(O) to buy it.’

⁸“Then, just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field^(P) at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.’

“I knew that this was the word of the Lord; ⁹so I bought the field^(Q) at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels^[b] of silver.^(R) ¹⁰I signed and sealed the deed,^(S) had it witnessed,^(T) and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy— ¹²and I gave this deed to Baruch^(U) son of Neriah,^(V) the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

¹³“In their presence I gave Baruch these instructions: ¹⁴‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take these documents, both the sealed^(W) and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase, and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time. ¹⁵For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’^(X)

¹⁶“After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch^(Y) son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:

¹⁷“Ah, Sovereign Lord,^(Z) you have made the heavens and the earth^(AA) by your great power and outstretched arm.^(AB) Nothing is too hard^(AC) for you. ¹⁸You show love^(AD) to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps^(AE) of their children^(AF) after them. Great and mighty God,^(AG) whose name is the Lord Almighty,^(AH) ¹⁹great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds.^(AI) Your eyes are open to the ways of all mankind;^(AJ) you reward each person according to their conduct and as their deeds deserve.^(AK) ²⁰You performed signs and wonders^(AL) in Egypt^(AM) and have continued them to this day, in Israel and among all mankind, and have gained the renown^(AN) that is still yours. ²¹You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand^(AO) and an outstretched arm^(AP) and with great terror.^(AQ) ²²You gave them this land you had sworn to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.^(AR) ²³They came in and took possession^(AS) of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law;^(AT) they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster^(AU) on them.

²⁴“See how the siege ramps^(AV) are built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and plague,^(AW) the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you said^(AX) has happened,^(AY) as you now see. ²⁵And though the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians, you, Sovereign Lord, say to me, ‘Buy the field^(AZ) with silver and have the transaction witnessed.^(BA)’”

²⁶Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁷“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.^(BB) Is anything too hard for me?^(BC) ²⁸Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar^(BD) king of Babylon, who will capture it.^(BE) ²⁹The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down,^(BF) along with the houses^(BG) where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings^(BH) to other gods.^(BI)

³⁰“The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth;^(BJ) indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger^(BK) with what their hands have made,^(BL) declares the Lord. ³¹From the day it was built until now, this city^(BM) has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove^(BN) it from my sight. ³²The people of Israel and Judah have provoked^(BO) me by all the evil^(BP) they have done—they, their kings and officials,^(BQ) their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem. ³³They turned their backs^(BR) to me and not their faces; though I taught^(BS) them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.^(BT) ³⁴They set up their vile images^(BU) in the house that bears my Name^(BV) and defiled^(BW) it. ³⁵They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom^(BX) to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek,^(BY) though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind^(BZ)—that they should do such a detestable^(CA) thing and so make Judah sin.^(CB)

³⁶“You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague^(CC) it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ³⁷I will surely gather^(CD) them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger^(CE) and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.^(CF) ³⁸They will be my people,^(CG) and I will be their God. ³⁹I will give them singleness^(CH) of heart and action, so that they will always fear^(CI) me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. ⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant^(CJ) with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire^(CK) them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.^(CL) ⁴¹I will rejoice^(CM) in doing them good^(CN) and will assuredly plant^(CO) them in this land with all my heart and soul.^(CP)

⁴²“This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamity^(CQ) on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised^(CR) them. ⁴³Once more fields will be bought^(CS) in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate^(CT) waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ ⁴⁴Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds^(CU) will be signed, sealed and witnessed^(CV) in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev,^(CW) because I will restore^(CX) their fortunes,^[c] declares the Lord.”

Footnotes

Jeremiah 32:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 5, 24, 25, 28, 29 and 43
Jeremiah 32:9 That is, about 7 ounces or about 200 grams
Jeremiah 32:44 Or will bring them back from captivity

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

New International Version

The Resurrection Body

³⁵But someone will ask,^(A) “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”^(B) ³⁶How foolish!^(C) What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.^(D) ³⁷When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.^(E) ³⁹Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹The sun has one kind of splendor,^(F) the moon another and the stars another;^(G) and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴²So will it be^(H) with the resurrection of the dead.^(I) The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;^(J) ⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^(K) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^(L)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^[a];^(M) the last Adam,^(N) a life-giving spirit.^(O) ⁴⁶The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^(P) ⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth;^(Q) the second man is of heaven.^(R) ⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^(S) ⁴⁹And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^(T) so shall we^[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.^(U)

⁵⁰I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^(V) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^(W) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^(X) ⁵¹Listen, I tell you a mystery:^(Y) We will not all sleep,^(Z) but we will all be changed^(AA)— ⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^(AB) the dead^(AC) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishable^(AD) must clothe itself with the imperishable,^(AE) and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”^[c]^(AF)

⁵⁵“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”^[d]^(AG)

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin,^(AH) and the power of sin is the law.^(AI) ⁵⁷But thanks be to God!^(AJ) He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.^(AK)

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,^(AL) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.^(AM)

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