M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

4 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

² You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

³ Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

⁴ But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.

⁵ You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

⁶ And you shall observe, and fulfill them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

⁷ Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

⁸ For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before your eyes?

⁹ Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

¹⁰ From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.

¹¹ And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

¹² And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.

¹³ And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.

¹⁴ And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall possess.

¹⁵ Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire:

¹⁶ Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

¹⁷ The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,

¹⁸ Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the waters under the earth:

¹⁹ Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

²⁰ But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.

²¹ And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land, which he will give you.

²² Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.

²³ Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

²⁴ Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵ If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:

²⁶ I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,

²⁷ And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

²⁸ And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

²⁹ And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.

³⁰ After all the things aforesaid shall and thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

³¹ Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers.

³² Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,

³³ That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:

³⁴ If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.

³⁵ That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

³⁶ From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,

³⁷ Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

³⁸ To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.

³⁹ Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

⁴⁰ Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side,

⁴² That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:

⁴³ Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.

⁴⁴ This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,

⁴⁵ And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,

⁴⁶ Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt,

⁴⁷ Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun:

⁴⁸ From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,

⁴⁹ All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the see of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.

86 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

³ Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

⁴ I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

⁵ Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

⁶ The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

⁷ The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

87 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.

² O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

³ Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

⁴ For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

⁵ I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

⁶ Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.

⁷ They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

⁸ Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

⁹ Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

¹⁰ My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

¹¹ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

¹² Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

¹³ Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁴ But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

¹⁵ Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

¹⁶ I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

¹⁷ Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

¹⁸ They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

¹⁹ Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

32 Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.

² And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

³ The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken diligently.

⁴ And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.

⁵ The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:

⁶ For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.

⁷ The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

⁸ But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

⁹ Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.

¹⁰ For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

¹¹ Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip yen, and be confounded, gird your loins.

¹² Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.

¹³ Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

¹⁴ For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks,

¹⁵ Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.

¹⁶ And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel.

¹⁷ And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

¹⁸ And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.

¹⁹ But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.

²⁰ Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

2 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he, who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

² I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them that are evil, and thou hast tried them, who say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

³ And thou hast patience, and hast endured for my name, and hast not fainted.

⁴ But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.

⁵ Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance, and do the first works. Or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.

⁷ He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him, that overcometh, I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.

⁸ And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

⁹ I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹¹ He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: He that shall overcome, shall not be hurt by the second death.

¹² And to the angel of the church of Pergamus write: These things, saith he, that hath the sharp two edged sword:

¹³ I know where thou dwellest, where the seat of Satan is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith. Even in those days when Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

¹⁴ But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat, and to commit fornication:

¹⁵ So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites.

¹⁶ In like manner do penance: if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁷ He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh, I will give the hidden manna, and will give him a white counter, and in the counter, a new name written, which no man knoweth, but he that receiveth it.

¹⁸ And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass.

¹⁹ I know thy works, and thy faith, and thy charity, and thy ministry, and thy patience, and thy last works which are more than the former.

²⁰ But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach, and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

²¹ And I gave her a time that she might do penance, and she will not repent of her fornication.

²² Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they that commit adultery with her shall be in very great tribulation, except they do penance from their deeds.

²³ And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say,

²⁴ And to the rest who are at Thyatira: Whosoever have not this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will not put upon you any other burthen.

²⁵ Yet that, which you have, hold fast till I come.

²⁶ And he that shall overcome, and keep my works unto the end, I will give him power over the nations.

²⁷ And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and as the vessel of a potter they shall be broken,

²⁸ As I also have received of my Father: and I will give him the morning star.

²⁹ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.