M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
21 “If one is found killed in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field (it is not known who has killed him),
2 “then your elders and your judges shall come forth and measure to the cities that are around him who is killed.
3 “And let the elders of that city which is next to the killed man take a heifer that has not been put to labor or drawn the yoke.
4 “And let the elders of that city bring the heifer to a stony valley, which is neither plowed nor sown, and break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
5 “Also the priests, the sons of Levi (whom the LORD your God has chosen to minister, and to bless in the Name of the LORD) shall come forth. And by their word shall all strife and plague be settled.
6 “And all the elders of that city that came near the killed man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
7 “And they shall testify, and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
8 ‘O LORD, be merciful to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed. And lay no innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 “So shall you take away the cry of innocent blood from you when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
10 “When you shall go to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God shall deliver them into your hands, and you shall take them captives,
11 “and shall see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, and would take her for your wife,
12 “then you shall bring her home to your house. And she shall shave her head and trim her nails.
13 “And she shall change the garment that she was taken in. And she shall remain in your house and mourn her father and her mother for a month. And after that, you shall go in to her, and marry her. And she shall be your wife.
14 “And if you do not favor her, then you may let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her for money or make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.
15 “If a man has two wives—one loved and another hated—and they have born him children (both the loved and also the hated), if the firstborn is the son of the hated,
16 “then, when the time comes that he appoints his sons to be heirs of that which he has, he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn.
17 “But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the firstborn and give him double portion from all that he has. For he is the first of his strength, and to him belongs the right of firstborn.
18 “If any man has a son that is stubborn and disobedient, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother. And they have chastened him. And he would not obey them.
19 “Then his father and his mother shall take him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place where he dwells,
20 “and shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and disobedient. He will not obey our admonition. He is a rioter and a drunkard.’
21 “Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones until death. So you shall take away evil from among you, so that all Israel may hear it and fear.
22 “If a man also has committed a trespass worthy of death, and is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
23 “his body shall not remain upon the tree all night. But you shall bury him the same day. For the curse of God is on him who is hanged. Therefore, do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.”
108 O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing and give abundant praise!
2 Awake, viol and harp! I will awake early.
3 I will praise You, O LORD, among the people! And I will sing to You among the nations.
4 For Your mercy is great above the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.
5 Exalt Yourself, O God, above the heavens, and Your Glory upon all the Earth,
6 so that Your beloved may be delivered. Help with Your right hand and hear me.
7 God has spoken in His holiness, “I will rejoice. I shall divide Shechem and measure the valley of Succoth.
8 “Gilead shall be Mine. Manasseh shall be Mine. Ephraim, also, shall be the strength of My head. Judah is My lawgiver.
9 “Moab shall be My washpot. I will cast out My shoe over Edom. I will triumph over Palestine.”
10 Who will lead me into the strong city? Who will bring me to Edom?
11 Will not You, O God, Who had forsaken us? And will You not go forth, O God, with our armies?
12 Give us help against trouble, for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly; for He shall tread down our enemies. To him who excels: A Psalm of David
109 Do not hold Your tongue, O God of my praise.
2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of deceit, are opened upon me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3 They also surrounded me, with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my friendship they were my adversaries; but I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
6 Set the wicked over him; and let the adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
8 Let his days be few and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg and seek bread, coming out of their places destroyed.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, and let the strangers plunder his labor.
12 Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor let there be any to show mercy upon his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be destroyed. In the generation following, let their name be put out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be held in remembrance by the LORD. And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.
15 Let them always be before the LORD, so that He may cut off their memorial from the Earth.
16 Because he did not remember to show mercy (but persecuted the afflicted and poor man, and the sorrowful-hearted, to kill him),
17 as he loved cursing, so shall it come to him. And as he did not love blessing, so shall it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like a garment, so shall it come into his core like water and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as a garment to cover him, and for a girdle with which he shall always be girded.
20 Let this be the reward from the LORD to my adversary, and to those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O LORD my God, deal with me according to Your Name. Deliver me (for Your mercy is good).
22 Because I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I depart like the shadow that declines and am shaken off as the grasshopper.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh has lost fatness.
25 I also became a rebuke to them. Those who looked upon me shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to Your mercy.
27 And they shall know that this is Your hand and that You, LORD, have done it.
28 They curse. Yet You will bless. They shall arise and be confounded; but Your servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their confusion, as with a cloak.
30 I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth and praise Him among the multitude.
31 For He will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who would condemn his soul. A Psalm of David
48 “Hear this, O House of Jacob, which is called by the name of Israel and has come out of the waters of Judah, who swears by the Name of the LORD and makes mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness.
2 “For they are called ‘of the holy city’, and lean upon the God of Israel, whose Name is the LORD of Hosts.
3 “I declared the former things long ago. And they went out of My Mouth, and I showed them. I did them suddenly and they came to pass.
4 “Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze.
5 “Therefore, I have declared it to you from the beginning. Before it came to pass, I showed it to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. And my carved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
6 “You have seen and heard all this, and will you not declare it? I have shown you new things, even now, and hidden things which you did not know.
7 “They are created now, and not from the beginning. And even before this, you did not hear them, lest you should say, ‘See, I knew them.’
8 “Yet, you did not hear them or know them, nor was your ear even opened long ago. For I knew that you would grievously transgress. Therefore I have called you a transgressor from the womb.
9 “For My Name’s sake, will I defer My wrath. And for My praise, I will restrain it from you, so that I do not cut you off.
10 “Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 “For My own sake, for My own sake I will do it. For how can My Name be polluted? Surely I will not give My Glory to another.
12 “Hear me, O Jacob and Israel, My called. I Am, I Am the First, and I Am the Last.
13 “Surely My Hand has laid the foundation of the Earth. And My right Hand has spanned the heavens. When I call them, they stand up together.
14 “All you, assemble yourselves and hear. Who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him. He will do His will in Babel, and His Arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 “I, even I, have spoken it. And I have called him. I have brought him. And his way shall prosper.
16 “Come near to Me. Hear this! I have not spoken it in secret from the beginning. From the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me!”
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, and leads you by the way that you should go.
18 “Oh, that you had listened to My Commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 “Also, your seed would have been as the sand, and the fruit of your body like its gravel. His name would not have been cut off or destroyed before Me.
20 “Go out from Babel. Flee from the Chaldeans with a voice of joy! Tell and declare this. Show it forth to the end of the Earth. Say, ‘The LORD has redeemed His servant, Jacob!
21 ‘And they were not thirsty! He led them through the wilderness! He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them! For He split the rock and the water gushed out!’
22 “There is no peace for the wicked,” says the LORD.
18 And after these things, I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great power, so that the Earth was lightened with his glory,
2 And he cried out mightily with a loud voice, saying, “It is fallen! It is fallen! Babylon, that great city, has become the habitation of demons, and the prison of all foul spirits, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird!
3 “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the Earth have grown rich on the abundance of her pleasures!”
4 And I heard another voice from Heaven say, “Come out of her, my people, so that you are not partakers of her sins, and that you do not receive her plagues.
5 “For her sins have come up into Heaven. And God has remembered her iniquities.
6 “Reward her, even as she has rewarded you. And give her double according to her works. And in the cup that she has filled to you, fill her double.
7 “Inasmuch as she glorified herself, and lived in pleasure, give her the same in torment and sorrow. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit, being a queen, and am no widow. And I shall see no mourning.’
8 “Therefore, her plagues shall come in one day: death and sorrow and famine. And she shall be burnt with fire. For God, who condemns her, is a strong Lord.
9 And the kings of the Earth who have committed fornication, and lived in pleasure with her, shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning.
10 And they shall stand at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, “Alas, alas, that great city Babylon; that mighty city! For in one hour has your judgment come!”
11 And the merchants of the Earth shall weep and wail over her. For no one buys their wares anymore.
12 The wares of gold and silver and of precious stone and of pearls and of fine linen and of purple and of silk and of scarlet and of all manner of citron wood and of all vessels of ivory and of all vessels of most precious wood and of brass and of iron and of marble
13 and of cinnamon and odors and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots and servants and souls of man.
14 “And the ripe fruits that your soul lusted after, have departed from you. And all things which were fat and excellent, have departed from you. And you shall find them no more.”
15 The merchants of these things (who had grown rich) shall stand at a distance from her for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing.
16 And saying, “Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls!
17 “In one hour so great riches have come to desolation!” And every shipmaster, and all the people who occupy ships, and shipmen, and whoever traffics on the sea, shall stand at a distance
18 and cry when they see the smoke of her burning, saying, “What city was like this great city!?”
19 And they shall cast dust on their heads and cry, weeping and wailing, and say, “Alas, alas, that great city wherein were made rich all who had ships on the sea by her coastlines! For in one hour she was made desolate!
20 “O Heaven, rejoice over her; and you, holy Apostles and Prophets! For God has punished her and judged against her for your sakes!”
21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone, like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, “With such violence shall that great city Babylon be cast, and shall be found no more!
22 “And the voice of harpers and musicians, and of pipers and trumpeters, shall be heard no more in you. And no craftsman, of whatever craft he is, shall be found anymore in you. And the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more in you.
23 “And the light of a candle shall shine no more in you. And the voice of the bridegroom, and of the bride, shall be heard no more in you. For your merchants were the great men of the Earth. And all nations were deceived with your enchantment.
24 “And in her was found the blood of the Prophets, and of the saints, and of all who were killed upon the Earth!”
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