M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

24 If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

² And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,

³ And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:

⁴ The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.

⁵ When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.

⁶ Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

⁷ If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

⁸ Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfill thou it carefully.

⁹ Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.

¹⁰ When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:

¹¹ But then shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what he hath.

¹² But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

¹³ But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

¹⁵ But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

¹⁸ Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.

¹⁹ When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

²⁰ If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.

²¹ If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

²² Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I command thee to do this thing.

114 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.

² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.

³ The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

⁴ And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.

⁵ The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

⁶ The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.

⁷ Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.

⁸ For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

⁹ I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

115 ¹⁰ I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.

¹¹ I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

¹² What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered unto me?

¹³ I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

¹⁶ O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

¹⁷ I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:

¹⁹ In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

51 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

² Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

³ The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.

⁴ Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

⁵ My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

⁷ Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

⁸ For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation,

⁹ Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon?

¹⁰ Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over?

¹¹ And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

¹² I, I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

¹³ And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thee hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?

¹⁴ He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and he shall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall his bread fail.

¹⁵ But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.

¹⁶ I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.

¹⁷ Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.

¹⁸ There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.

¹⁹ There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, as the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.

²¹ Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art drunk but no with wine.

²² Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord and thy God, who will fight for his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead sleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it again any more.

²³ And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.

21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more.

² And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³ And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people; and God himself with them shall be their God.

⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.

⁵ And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write, for these words are most faithful and true.

⁶ And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

⁷ He that shall overcome shall possess these things, and I will be his God; and he shall be my son.

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

⁹ And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

¹⁰ And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

¹¹ Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal.

¹² And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

¹³ On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he that spoke with me, had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof, and the wall.

¹⁶ And the city lieth in a foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs, and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.

¹⁸ And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold, like to clear glass.

¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third, a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:

²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

²² And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb.

²³ And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

²⁴ And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into it.

²⁵ And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

²⁷ There shall not enter into it any thing defiled, or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.