M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
18 ¶ And it came to pass when he had finished speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.
4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his garments, even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle.
5 And David went out wherever Saul sent him and behaved himself prudently, and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s slaves.
6 ¶ And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
7 And the women sang as they played and said, Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands.
8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and what can he have more but the kingdom?
9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10 And it came to pass on the next day that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house, and David played with his hand as at other times, and there was a spear in Saul’s hand.
11 And Saul cast the spear, saying, I will smite David to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
12 ¶ But Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him and had departed from Saul.
13 Therefore, Saul removed him from him and made him captain over a thousand, and he went out and came in before the people.
14 And David behaved himself prudently in all his ways, and the LORD was with him.
15 Therefore, when Saul saw that he behaved himself very prudently, he was afraid of him.
16 But all Israel and Judah loved David because he went out and came in before them.
17 And Saul said to David, Behold I will give thee my elder daughter Merab to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said to himself, My hand shall not be against him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be against him.
18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel that I should be son-in-law to the king?
19 And it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David that she was given unto Adriel, the Meholathite, to wife.
20 But Michal, Saul’s other daughter, loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21 And Saul said, I will give her to him that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore, Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law with the other one.
22 And Saul commanded his slaves, saying, Speak with David secretly and say, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his slaves love thee; now, therefore, be the king’s son-in-law.
23 And Saul’s slaves spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?
24 And the slaves of Saul told him, saying, David spoke these words.
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The desire of the king is not in any dowry, but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. For Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26 And when his slaves told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law, and the days were not expired.
27 Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them all to the king that he might be the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal, his daughter, to wife.
28 But Saul, seeing and knowing that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved him,
29 was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth, and it came to pass after they went forth that David behaved himself more prudently than all the slaves of Saul so that his name was much set by.
16 ¶ I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which is at Cenchrea,
2 that ye receive her in the Lord as a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus
4 (who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of the Gentiles);
5 likewise greet the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia in Christ.
6 Greet Mary, who has laboured much with us.
7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
10 Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of Aristobulus’ household.
11 Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those that are of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who laboured much in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.
15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Christ salute you.
17 ¶ And I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause dissensions and offences outside of the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.
18 For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all places. I am glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and innocent concerning evil.
20 And let the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21 ¶ Timothy my fellow worker and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
22 I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
23 Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} salutes you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, salutes you, and Quartus, a brother.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with you all. Amen.
25 ¶ Now to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed from times eternal
26 but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment of God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might hear and obey by faith,
27 to God, only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
Aleph
3 ¶ I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.
Aleph
2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Aleph
3 Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Beth
4 My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
Beth
5 He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.
Beth
6 He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
Gimel
7 He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.
Gimel
8 Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.
Gimel
9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Daleth
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.
Daleth
11 He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Daleth
12 He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
He
14 I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.
He
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
Vau
16 He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Vau
17 My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.
Vau
18 And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.
Zain
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Zain
20 My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
Zain
21 ¶ This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
Cheth
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
Cheth
23 They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
Cheth
24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.
Teth
25 The LORD is good unto those that wait in him, to the soul that seeks him.
Teth
26 It is good to wait quietly in the salvation of the LORD.
Teth
27 It is good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.
Jod
28 He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne it upon him.
Jod
29 He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Jod
30 He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.
Caph
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Caph
32 But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Caph
33 For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.
Lamed
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamed
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamed
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
37 ¶ Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?
Mem
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Mem
39 Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?
Nun
40 Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.
Nun
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Nun
42 ¶ We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.
Samech
43 Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.
Samech
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.
Samech
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and abomination in the midst of the peoples.
Pe
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.
Pe
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Pe
48 My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ain
49 My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,
Ain
50 Until the LORD looks down, and beholds from the heavens.
Ain
51 My eyes make my soul sad because of all the daughters of my city.
Tzaddi
52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.
Tzaddi
53 They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Tzaddi
54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am dead.
Koph
55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Koph
56 Thou hast heard my voice; do not hide thine ear at my cry that I might breath.
Koph
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.
Resh
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Resh
59 O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.
Resh
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Schin
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Schin
62 The words of those that rose up against me, and their design against me all the day.
Schin
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Tau
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Tau
65 Give them sorrow of heart; thy curse unto them.
Tau
66 Persecute them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.
A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.
Aleph
1 ¶ I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Beth
2 My soul shall glory in the LORD; the meek shall hear of this, and be glad.
Gimel
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Daleth
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
He
5 They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed.
Vau
6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
Zain
7 The angel of the LORD encamps round about those that fear him and delivers them.
Cheth
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man that shall trust in him.
Teth
9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints; for those that fear him lack nothing.
Jod
10 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
Caph
11 ¶ Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Lamed
12 Who is the man that desires life and loves many days that he may see good?
Mem
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Nun
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Samech
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Ain
16 The anger of the LORD is against those that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Pe
17 The righteous cried out, and the LORD heard and delivered them out of all their troubles.
Tzaddi
18 The LORD is near unto those that are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.
Koph
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD shall deliver him out of them all,
Resh
20 keeping all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.
Schin
21 Evil shall slay the wicked; and those that hate the righteous shall be declared guilty.
Tau
22 The LORD ransoms the soul of his slaves, and none of those that trust in him shall be declared guilty.
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