Zephaniah 1:7
English Standard Version
The Day of the Lord Is Near
7 (A)Be silent before the Lord God!
For (B)the day of the Lord is near;
(C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice
and (D)consecrated his guests.
Zephaniah 1:12-18
English Standard Version
12 At that time (A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the men
(B)who are complacent,[a]
(C)those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
nor will he do ill.’
13 Their goods shall be (D)plundered,
and their houses laid waste.
(E)Though they build houses,
they shall not inhabit them;
(F)though they plant vineyards,
they shall not drink wine from them.”
14 (G)The great day of the Lord is near,
near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
(H)the mighty man cries aloud there.
15 (I)A day of wrath is that day,
a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (J)ruin and devastation,
(K)a day of darkness and gloom,
(L)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 (M)a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
(N)against the fortified cities
and against the lofty battlements.
17 (O)I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk (P)like the blind,
because they have sinned against the Lord;
(Q)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh (R)like dung.
18 (S)Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them
on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(T)In the fire of his jealousy,
(U)all the earth shall be consumed;
(V)for a full and sudden end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:12 Hebrew are thickening on the dregs [of their wine]
Psalm 90:1-12
English Standard Version
Book Four
From Everlasting to Everlasting
A (A)Prayer of Moses, the (B)man of God.
90 Lord, you have been our (C)dwelling place[a]
in all generations.
2 (D)Before the (E)mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
(F)from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You return man to dust
and say, (G)“Return, (H)O children of man!”[b]
4 For (I)a thousand years in your sight
are but as (J)yesterday when it is past,
or as (K)a watch in the night.
5 You (L)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like (M)a dream,
like (N)grass that is renewed in the morning:
6 in (O)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it (P)fades and (Q)withers.
7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
8 You have (R)set our iniquities before you,
our (S)secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[c] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
11 Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?
12 (T)So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Footnotes
- Psalm 90:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Septuagint) our refuge
- Psalm 90:3 Or of Adam
- Psalm 90:10 Or pride
Psalm 90:13-17
English Standard Version
13 (A)Return, O Lord! (B)How long?
Have (C)pity on your servants!
14 Satisfy us in the (D)morning with your steadfast love,
that we may (E)rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have (F)afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let your (G)work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
17 Let the (H)favor[a] of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish (I)the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!
Footnotes
- Psalm 90:17 Or beauty
Psalm 90:1
English Standard Version
Book Four
From Everlasting to Everlasting
A (A)Prayer of Moses, the (B)man of God.
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- Psalm 90:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Septuagint) our refuge
Matthew 25:14-30
English Standard Version
The Parable of the Talents
14 (A)“For (B)it will be like a man (C)going on a journey, who called his servants[a] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five (D)talents,[b] to another two, to another one, (E)to each according to his ability. Then he (F)went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and (G)dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now (H)after a long time the master of those servants came and (I)settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and (J)faithful servant.[c] (K)You have been faithful over a little; (L)I will set you over much. Enter into (M)the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be (N)a hard man, reaping (O)where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, (P)you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You (Q)wicked and (R)slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 (S)For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And (T)cast (U)the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place (V)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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- Matthew 25:14 Or bondservants; also verse 19
- Matthew 25:15 A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer
- Matthew 25:21 Or bondservant; also verses 23, 26, 30
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