Psalm 120-122

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120 ⁽⁰⁾A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾I called to Adonai in my distress,
and he answered me.
²Rescue me, Adonai, from lips that tell lies,
from a tongue full of deceit.

³What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue?
What more will he do to you?
⁴A warrior’s sharp arrows,
with red-hot coals from a broom tree.

⁵How wretched I am, that I’m an alien in Meshekh,
that I must live among the tents of Keidar!
⁶I have had to live far too long
with those who hate peace.
⁷I am all for peace;
but when I speak, they are for war.

121 ⁽⁰⁾A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾If I raise my eyes to the hills,
from where will my help come?
²My help comes from Adonai,
the maker of heaven and earth.
³He will not let your foot slip —
your guardian is not asleep.
⁴No, the guardian of Isra’el
never slumbers or sleeps.

⁵Adonai is your guardian; at your right hand
Adonai provides you with shade —
⁶the sun can’t strike you during the day
or even the moon at night.

⁷Adonai will guard you against all harm;
he will guard your life.
⁸Adonai will guard your coming and going
from now on and forever.

122 ⁽⁰⁾A song of ascents. By David:

⁽¹⁾I was glad when they said to me,
“The house of Adonai! Let’s go!”
²Our feet were already standing
at your gates, Yerushalayim.

³Yerushalayim, built as a city
fostering friendship and unity.

⁴The tribes have gone up there, the tribes of Adonai,
as a witness to Isra’el,
to give thanks to the name of Adonai.
⁵For there the thrones of justice were set up,
the thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for shalom in Yerushalayim;
may those who love you prosper.
⁷May shalom be within your ramparts,
prosperity in your palaces.

⁸For the sake of my family and friends, I say,
“Shalom be within you!”
⁹For the sake of the house of Adonai our God,
I will seek your well-being.

2 Thessalonians 2

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2 But in connection with the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our gathering together to meet him, we ask you, brothers, ²not to be easily shaken in your thinking or anxious because of a spirit or a spoken message or a letter supposedly from us claiming that the Day of the Lord has already come. ³Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way.

For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come and the man who separates himself from Torah has been revealed, the one destined for doom. ⁴He will oppose himself to everything that people call a god or make an object of worship; he will put himself above them all, so that he will sit in the Temple of God and proclaim that he himself is God.^[a]

⁵Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things? ⁶And now you know what is restraining, so that he may be revealed in his own time. ⁷For already this separating from Torah is at work secretly, but it will be secretly only until he who is restraining is out of the way. ⁸Then the one who embodies separation from Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yeshua will slay with the breath of his mouth^[b] and destroy by the glory of his coming.

⁹When this man who avoids Torah comes, the Adversary will give him the power to work all kinds of false miracles, signs and wonders. ¹⁰He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them. ¹¹This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie. ¹²The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.

¹³But we have to keep thanking God for you always, brothers whom the Lord loves, because God chose you as firstfruits for deliverance by giving you the holiness that has its origin in the Spirit and the faithfulness that has its origin in the truth. ¹⁴He called you to this through our Good News, so that you could have the glory of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

¹⁵Therefore, brothers, stand firm; and hold to the traditions you were taught by us, whether we spoke them or wrote them in a letter. ¹⁶And may our Lord Yeshua the Messiah himself and God our Father, who has loved us and by his grace given us eternal comfort and a good hope, ¹⁷comfort your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.