Psalm 9

English Standard Version

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

^[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.^[b] A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your ^(A)wonderful deeds.
²I will be glad and ^(B)exult in you;
I will ^(C)sing praise to your name, ^(D)O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before^[c] your presence.
⁴For you have ^(E)maintained my just cause;
you have ^(F)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have ^(G)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have ^(H)blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
⁸and he ^(I)judges the world with righteousness;
he ^(J)judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹The Lord is ^(K)a stronghold for ^(L)the oppressed,
a stronghold in ^(M)times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who ^(N)know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who ^(O)sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his ^(P)deeds!
¹²For he who ^(Q)avenges blood is mindful of them;
he ^(R)does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³^(S)Be gracious to me, O Lord!
    See my affliction from those who hate me,
    O you who lift me up from ^(T)the gates of death,
¹⁴that I may recount all your praises,
    that in the gates of ^(U)the daughter of Zion
    I may ^(V)rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in ^(W)the pit that they made;
in ^(X)the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
¹⁶The Lord has made himself ^(Y)known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.^[d] Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall ^(Z)return to Sheol,
all the nations that ^(AA)forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and ^(AB)the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹^(AC)Arise, O Lord! Let not ^(AD)man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but ^(AE)men! Selah

Footnotes

Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm
Psalm 9:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 9:3 Or because of
Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Deuteronomy 6

English Standard Version

The Greatest Commandment

6 “Now this is ^(A)the commandment—the statutes and the rules^[a]—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, ²that ^(B)you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and ^(C)that your days may be long. ³Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, ^(D)as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴“Hear, O Israel: ^(E)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[b] ⁵You ^(F)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶And ^(G)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ⁷^(H)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ⁸^(I)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹^(J)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities ^(K)that you did not build, ¹¹and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, ¹²^(L)then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ¹³It is ^(M)the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and ^(N)by his name you shall swear. ¹⁴You shall not ^(O)go after other gods, ^(P)the gods of the peoples who are around you— ¹⁵for ^(Q)the Lord your God in your midst ^(R)is a jealous God—^(S)lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

¹⁶^(T)“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, ^(U)as you tested him at Massah. ¹⁷You shall ^(V)diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. ¹⁸^(W)And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers ¹⁹^(X)by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.

²⁰^(Y)“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ ²¹then you shall say to your son, ^(Z)‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²²And ^(AA)the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. ²³And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. ²⁴And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, ^(AB)to fear the Lord our God, ^(AC)for our good always, that ^(AD)he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. ²⁵And ^(AE)it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 6:1 Or just decrees; also verse 20
Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone

Luke 4:31-44

English Standard Version

Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Demon

³¹^(A)And he ^(B)went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And ^(C)he was teaching them ^(D)on the Sabbath, ³²and ^(E)they were astonished at his teaching, ^(F)for his word possessed authority. ³³And ^(G)in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ³⁴“Ha!^[a] ^(H)What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? ^(I)I know who you are—^(J)the Holy One of God.” ³⁵But Jesus ^(K)rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. ³⁶And ^(L)they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? ^(M)For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” ³⁷And ^(N)reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region.

Jesus Heals Many

³⁸^(O)And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon's house. Now ^(P)Simon's mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. ³⁹And he stood over her and ^(Q)rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.

⁴⁰Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and ^(R)he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. ⁴¹^(S)And demons also came out of many, ^(T)crying, “You are ^(U)the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and ^(V)would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was ^(W)the Christ.

Jesus Preaches in Synagogues

⁴²^(X)And when it was day, he departed and went ^(Y)into a desolate place. And ^(Z)the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, ⁴³but he said to them, ^(AA)“I must ^(AB)preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.” ⁴⁴And he was preaching ^(AC)in the synagogues of Judea.^[b]