M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
David’s Song of Deliverance(A)
22 Now on the day the Lord delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul, David spoke to the Lord the words of this song. 2 He said:
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
3 the God of my strength, in whom I will trust;
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my fortress and my sanctuary;
my Savior, You save me from violence.
4 I call upon the Lord, who is praiseworthy,
and I am saved from my enemies.
5 When the waves of death encompassed me,
the currents of destruction made me afraid.
6 The ropes of Sheol were wrapped around me;
the snares of death were opposite me.
7 In my distress I called on the Lord,
and cried out to my God;
from His temple He heard my voice.
My cry reached His ears.
8 Then the earth quaked and trembled;
the foundations of the heavens rumbled and shook,
because He was angry.
9 Smoke rose from His nostrils,
devouring fire from His mouth;
coals blazed forth from Him.
10 He bowed the heaven as He came down,
with thick darkness under His feet.
11 He rode upon a cherub as He flew,
and appeared upon the wings of the wind.
12 He made darkness canopies around Him,
dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
13 From the brightness before Him
embers of fire are kindled.
14 The Lord thundered from heaven,
and the Most High uttered His voice.
15 He sent out arrows and dispersed them;
with lightning He sent them into confusion.
16 The channels of the sea appeared,
the foundations of the world were exposed
with the rebuke of the Lord,
from the blast of breath from His nostrils.
17 He reached from on high and took me;
He drew me out of mighty waters.
18 He rescued me from my strong enemy,
from those who hate me;
for they were stronger than I.
19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support.
20 He brought me to the open expanse;
He rescued me, for He delighted in me.
21 The Lord did for me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
and I have not become guilty against my God.
23 For all His judgments are before me,
and I have not abandoned His statutes.
24 I am blameless toward Him,
and I have kept myself from guilt.
25 The Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to my cleanness in His sight.
26 With the faithful You prove Yourself faithful;
with the blameless You prove Yourself blameless;
27 with the pure You show Yourself pure;
but with the perverse You show Yourself shrewd.
28 You deliver a humble people;
but Your eyes are upon the exalted to bring them down.
29 For You are my lamp, O Lord;
the Lord illuminates my darkness.
30 For by You I can run over a channel;
by my God I can leap over a wall.
31 As for God, His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is proven;
He is a shield
for all who take refuge in Him.
32 For who is God except the Lord?
And who is a rock except our God?
33 God is my strong fortress,
and He sets the blameless on His way.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet;
He sets me on my high places.
35 He trains my hand for battle,
so that my arm may bend a bow of bronze.
36 You have given me a shield of Your salvation,
and Your humility has made me great.
37 You widen my stride under me,
and my feet do stagger.
38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them;
I did not turn back until they were consumed.
39 I consumed them and shattered them so that they did not rise;
they fell under my feet.
40 You girded me with strength for the battle;
You subjugated under me those who rose up against me.
41 You caused my enemies to retreat from me;
I destroyed those who hated me.
42 They looked, but there was no one to save them,
to the Lord, but He did not respond.
43 I crushed them like the dust of the land,
like the mud of the streets, I ground them and stamped them down.
44 You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people;
You have kept me as the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
45 Foreigners submit to me, cringing;
as soon as they hear, they obey me.
46 Foreigners lose heart;
they gird themselves as they leave their fortresses.
47 The Lord lives; blessed be my rock.
May the God of the rock of my salvation be exalted,
48 the God who gave me retribution
and brought down peoples under me,
49 who brought me out from my enemies.
You exalted me above those who rose up against me;
You delivered me from violent ones.
50 Therefore, I praise You, O Lord, among the nations;
I sing praises to Your name.
51 He is a tower of salvation for His king,
and He acts faithfully toward His anointed,
toward David and his descendants forever.
Paul Accepted by the Other Apostles
2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and also took Titus with me. 2 I went up in response to a revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles. But privately I communicated to those who were of reputation, in case I might be running, or had run, in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised. 4 This happened because false brothers were secretly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. 5 We did not yield to subjection to them, not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
6 But of these who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality to anyone—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as the gospel to the circumcised was to Peter. 8 For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles. 9 When James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 Only they requested that we should remember the poor, which I also was eager to do.
Paul Rebukes Peter in Antioch
11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him face to face, because he stood condemned. 12 Before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews, likewise, joined together in hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”[a]
Jews, Like Gentiles, Are Saved by Faith
15 We are Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, rather than by the works of the law. For by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
17 If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? God forbid! 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God,[b] who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.
A Prophecy Against Egypt
29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God:
I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers,
which has said, “My Nile is my own,
and I myself have made it.”
4 But I will put hooks in your jaws,
and will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales,
and will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.
5 I will abandon you to the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your rivers;
you shall fall upon the open field;
you shall not be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food
to the beasts of the field and to the fowl of the heavens.
6 All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their hands. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their legs shake.
8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast out of you. 9 The land of Egypt shall become a desolation and waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
Because you said, “The Nile is mine, and I have made it,” 10 therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited for forty years. 12 Thus I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them among the countries.
13 For thus says the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples wherever they were scattered. 14 And I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin, and there they shall be a debased kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, and it shall exalt itself no more above the nations. For I will diminish them so that they shall rule over the nations no more. 16 It shall be the confidence of the house of Israel no more, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. But they shall know that I am the Lord God.
Babylonia to Plunder Egypt
17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled. Yet he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had done against it. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he shall carry off her wealth and take her spoil and take her prey. And it shall be wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he labored against it, because they acted for Me, says the Lord God.
21 On that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will open your mouth in their midst. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
Psalm 78
A Contemplative Maskil of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter insightful sayings of old,
3 which we have heard and known,
what our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
but will tell the coming generation
the praises of the Lord,
and His strength, and the wonderful works that He has done.
5 For He established a rule in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
that they should make them known to their children,
6 that the generation to come might know them,
even the children who are not yet born,
who will arise and declare them to their children:
7 that they might set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep His commandments,
8 and they might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that did not set their heart steadfast,
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The people of Ephraim, being armed with bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God
and refused to walk in His law;
11 and they forgot His works
and the wonders that He had shown them.
12 In the sight of their ancestors He did marvelous wonders
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
and He made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 In the daytime He led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them abundance to drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams out of the rock
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 They sinned yet more against Him
by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food that they craved.
19 They spoke against God by saying,
“Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out
and the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread
or provide meat for His people?”
21 Therefore the Lord heard this and was full of wrath;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and anger also came up against Israel,
22 because they did not believe in God
nor trust in His deliverance.
23 Yet He had commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven,
24 and He rained down manna upon them to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Man ate the food of mighty angels;
He sent them bread in abundance.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by His power He brought out a south wind.
27 He rained meat on them as dust,
and winged birds as the sand of the sea;
28 and He let them fall in the midst of their camp
all around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were satisfied,
for He gave them their own desire;
30 while they were not yet filled up,
and while the meat was still in their mouths,
31 the wrath of God came upon them,
and He killed the strongest of them
and struck down the young men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still,
and did not believe despite His wondrous works.
33 Therefore He made their days vanish like a breath,
and their years in trouble.
34 When He killed them, then they sought Him;
they turned back and longed for God.
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
and the Most High God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
and they lied to Him with their tongues;
37 for their heart was not devoted to Him,
neither were they committed to His covenant.
The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.