Psalm 92:1-4

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Psalm 92

A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.

92 It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
    to sing praises to your name, Most High;
²    to proclaim your loyal love in the morning,
        your faithfulness at nighttime
³    with the ten-stringed harp,
        with the melody of the lyre
⁴    because you’ve made me happy, Lord,
    by your acts.
    I sing with joy because of your handiwork.

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Psalm 92:12-15

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¹²The righteous will spring up like a palm tree.
    They will grow strong like a cedar of Lebanon.
¹³Those who have been replanted in the Lord’s house
    will spring up in the courtyards of our God.
¹⁴They will bear fruit even when old and gray;
    they will remain lush and fresh ¹⁵in order to proclaim:
        “The Lord is righteous.
        He’s my rock.
        There’s nothing unrighteous in him.”

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Genesis 3:14-24

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¹⁴The Lord God said to the snake,

“Because you did this,
    you are the one cursed
        out of all the farm animals,
        out of all the wild animals.
    On your belly you will crawl,
        and dust you will eat
        every day of your life.

¹⁵I will put contempt

    between you and the woman,
    between your offspring and hers.
They will strike your head,
        but you will strike at their heels.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pregnancy very painful;
in pain you will bear children.
You will desire your husband,
but he will rule over you.”

¹⁷To the man he said, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and you ate from the tree that I commanded, ‘Don’t eat from it,’

cursed is the fertile land because of you;
        in pain you will eat from it
        every day of your life.
¹⁸Weeds and thistles will grow for you,
        even as you eat the field’s plants;
¹⁹    by the sweat of your face you will eat bread—
        until you return to the fertile land,
            since from it you were taken;
            you are soil,
                to the soil you will return.”

²⁰The man named his wife Eve^[a] because she is the mother of everyone who lives. ²¹The Lord God made the man and his wife leather clothes and dressed them. ²²The Lord God said, “The human being^[b] has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” Now, so he doesn’t stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever, ²³the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the human. To the east of the garden of Eden, he stationed winged creatures wielding flaming swords to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Footnotes

Genesis 3:20 Heb sounds like live.
Genesis 3:22 Or man (Heb adam)

Hebrews 2:5-9

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Jesus is the enthroned human being

⁵God didn’t put the world that is coming (the world we are talking about) under the angels’ control. ⁶Instead, someone declared somewhere,

What is humanity that you think about them?
        Or what are the human beings that you care about them?
⁷For a while you made them lower than angels.
        You crowned the human beings with glory and honor.
⁸        You put everything under their control.^[a]

When he puts everything under their control, he doesn’t leave anything out of control. But right now, we don’t see everything under their control yet. ⁹However, we do see the one who was made lower in order than the angels for a little while—it’s Jesus! He’s the one who is now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of his death. He suffered death so that he could taste death for everyone through God’s grace.

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