M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

7 And then men of Cariathiarim came and fetched up the ark of the Lord and carried it into the house of Abinadab in Gabaa: and they sanctified Eleazar his son, to keep the ark of the Lord.

² And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the Lord abode in Cariathiarim days were multiplied, (for it was now the twentieth year,) and all the house of Israel rested following the Lord.

³ And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁴ Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.

⁵ And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

⁶ And they gathered together to Masphath: and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.

⁷ And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Masphath, and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

⁸ And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁹ And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.

¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the Philistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified them, and they were overthrown before the face of Israel.

¹¹ And the men of Israel going out of Masphath pursued after the Philistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.

¹² And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place, the Stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

¹³ And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines, all the days of Samuel.

¹⁴ And the cities, which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were restored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he delivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amorrhites.

¹⁵ And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:

¹⁶ And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the aforesaid places.

¹⁷ And he returned to Ramatha, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

8 And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.

² Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.

³ And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

⁴ Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to Samuel to Ramatha.

⁵ And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

⁶ And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king, to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

⁸ According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

⁹ Now therefore hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.

¹⁰ Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,

¹¹ And said: This will be the right of the king, that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen to run before his chariots,

¹² And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.

¹³ Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

¹⁴ And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.

¹⁵ Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.

¹⁶ Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

¹⁷ Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

¹⁸ And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

¹⁹ But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay: but there shall be a king over us.

²⁰ And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

²¹ And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

²² And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.

6 What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

² God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

³ Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

⁴ For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

⁶ Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

⁷ For he that is dead is justified from sin.

⁸ Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:

⁹ Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.

¹⁰ For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

¹¹ So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

¹³ Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

¹⁶ Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.

¹⁸ Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

¹⁹ I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

²¹ What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

44 The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

² Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Juda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an inhabitant in them:

³ Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.

⁴ And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

⁵ But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.

⁶ Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.

⁷ And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you:

⁸ In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth?

⁹ Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁰ They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set before you and your fathers.

¹¹ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.

¹² And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there: and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach.

¹³ And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.

¹⁴ And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and that shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: there shall none return but they that shall flee.

¹⁵ Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:

¹⁶ As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:

¹⁷ But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

¹⁸ But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine.

¹⁹ And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

²⁰ And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:

²¹ Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and Sour fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?

²² So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

²³ Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.

²⁴ And Jeremias said to all the people, and to all the women: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:

²⁵ Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.

²⁶ Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.

²⁷ Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed, by the sword, and by famine, till there be an end of them.

²⁸ And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

²⁹ And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be accomplished indeed against you for evil.

³⁰ Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Ephree king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.

20 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

² In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.

³ Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.

⁴ For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

⁵ He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

⁶ His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.

⁷ For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

⁸ For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁹ Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.

¹⁰ Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

¹¹ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

¹² For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

¹³ For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

¹⁴ Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and praise thy power.

21 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.

² O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

³ O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

⁴ But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.

⁵ In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

⁶ They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

⁷ But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

⁸ All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

⁹ He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

¹⁰ For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.

¹¹ I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God,

¹² Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.

¹³ Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

¹⁴ They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

¹⁵ I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

¹⁶ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

¹⁷ For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

¹⁸ They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.

¹⁹ They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.

²⁰ But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.

²¹ Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.

²² Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

²³ I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

²⁴ Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

²⁵ Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

²⁶ With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

²⁷ The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

²⁸ All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

²⁹ For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over the nations.

³⁰ All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

³¹ And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

³² There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.