M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel, on this side of Jordan, in the wilderness, on the plain, next to the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea, by way of Mount Seir.
3 And it happened that on the first day of the eleventh month, in the fortieth year, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in Commandment to them,
4 after he had killed Sihon, the king of the Amorites (who dwelt in Heshbon), and Og, king of Bashan (who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei).
5 On this side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this Law, saying,
6 “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.
7 ‘Turn and depart, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all places on the plain that are near it—on the mountain or in the valley, southward and to the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon—all the way to the great river, the river Perah.
8 ‘Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess that land which the LORD swore to your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and to their seed after them.’
9 “And I spoke to you at the same time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10 ‘The LORD your God has multiplied you. And behold, you are this day as the stars of Heaven in number.
11 ‘The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, as He has promised you.
12 ‘How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your strife?
13 ‘Bring men of wisdom and of understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14 ‘Then you answered me and said, “The thing that you have commanded to do is good.”
15 “So I took the chief of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them rulers over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among your tribes.
16 “And I charged your Judges at that same time, saying, ‘Hear the controversies between your brothers and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 ‘You shall have no respect of person in judgment, but shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not fear the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’
18 “Also I commanded you at the same time all the things which you should do.”
19 “Then we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness (as you have seen) by way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God Commanded us. And we came to Kadesh Barnea.
20 “And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives us.
21 ‘Behold, the LORD your God has laid the land before you. Go up, possess it, as the LORD the God of your fathers has said to you. Do not fear or be discouraged.’
22 “Then everyone came to me, and said, ‘We will send men before us, to search out the land, and to bring us word again, what way we must go, and to what cities we shall come.’
23 “So the saying pleased me well and I took twelve men from you, one from every tribe,
24 “who departed and went up into the mountain, and came to the river Eshcol, and searched out the land.
25 “And they took the fruit of the land in their hand and brought it to us, and brought us word again, and said, ‘It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.’
26 “Notwithstanding, you would not go up, but were disobedient to the Commandment of the LORD your God,
27 “and murmured in your tents, and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us, therefore He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy us.
28 ‘Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we, the cities great and walled up to heaven. And, moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.”’
29 “But I said to you, ‘Do not dread or be afraid of them.
30 ‘The LORD your God —Who goes before you —He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes
31 ‘and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God bore you, as a man bears his son, all the way in which you have gone until you came to this place.’
32 “Yet for all this you did not believe the LORD your God,
33 “Who went in the way before you, to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, in fire by night (so that you might see what way to go) and in a cloud by day.”
34 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
35 ‘Surely, not one of these men of this froward generation shall see that good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36 ‘except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he has walked upon, and to his children, because he has constantly followed the LORD.’
37 “Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, ‘You also shall not go in there,
38 ‘But Joshua, the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him. For he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 ‘Moreover, your children (whom you said would be a prey) and your sons (who, in those days, had no knowledge between good and evil), they shall go in there. And to them I will give it. And they shall possess it.
40 ‘But as for you, turn back and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.’
41 “Then you answered and said to Me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God has Commanded us.’ And you armed every man for war and were ready to go up into the mountain.
42 “But the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up and fight, for I am not among you, lest you fall before your enemies.’
43 “And when I told you, you would not hear, but rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the mountain.
44 “Then the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you and chased you (as bees used to do) and destroyed you from Seir to Hormah.
45 “And when you came back, you wept before the LORD. But the LORD would not hear your voice, nor incline His Ears to you.
46 “So you stayed in Kadesh a long time, for all the time that you were there.”
81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!
2 Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.
3 Blow the trumpet on the New Moon, in the time appointed at our Feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, a Law of the God of Jacob.
5 He set this in Joseph for a testimony. When He came out of the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not understand.
6 “I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden. His hands have left the pots.
7 “You called in affliction and I delivered you, answered you in the secret of the thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 “Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you will listen to me
9 “and will have no strange god in you or worship any strange god
10 “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!
11 “But My people would not hear My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.
12 “So, I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.
13 “Oh that My people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in My ways!
14 “I would soon have humbled their enemies and turned My hand against their adversaries.
15 “The haters of the LORD will feign subjection to Him, but their time would endure forever.
16 “And I would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed you.” A Psalm committed to Asaph
82 God stands in the assembly of gods. He judges among gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Do right to the poor and fatherless. Do justice to the poor and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy. Save them from the hand of the wicked.
5 They do not know, and understand nothing. They walk in darkness. All the foundations of the Earth are moved.
6 I have said, “You are gods. And you all are children of the Most High.
7 “But you shall die as a man. And you, Princes, shall fall like others.”
8 O God, arise! Judge the Earth! For You shall inherit all nations. A song, or Psalm, committed to Asaph
29 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city in which David dwelt! Add year to year. Let them kill lambs.
2 But I will bring Ariel into distress. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow. And it shall be to Me like Ariel.
3 And I will besiege you with a circle, and fight against you on a siege mount, and will cast up ramparts against you.
4 So shall you be humbled, and shall speak from the ground. And your speech shall be from the dust. Your voice, also, shall be from the ground, like one who has a spirit of divination. And your talking shall whisper from the dust.
5 Moreover, many of your strangers shall be like small dust. And the multitude of strong men shall be as chaff that passes away. And it shall be in a moment, suddenly.
6 You shall be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder, and shaking, and a great noise, a whirlwind, and a tempest, and a flame of a devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream, a vision by night, all those who make the war against it and strongholds against it and lay siege to it.
8 And it shall be like a hungry man dreams: And behold, he eats. And when he awakens, his soul is empty. Or like a thirsty man dreams: And lo, he is drinking. And when he awakens, behold, he faints. And his soul longs. So shall the multitude of all nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Wait and wonder. Blind yourself and be blinded. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not by strong drink.
10 For the LORD has covered you with a spirit of slumber and has shut your eyes. He has covered the Prophet and your chief Seers.
11 And all their visions have become to you as the words of a book that is sealed up, which they deliver to one who can read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 And the book is given to him who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot read.”
13 Therefore, the LORD said, “Because this people comes near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but has removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me was taught by the precept of men,
14 “therefore behold, I will again do a marvelous work in this people, a marvelous work and a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15 “Woe to those who seek deeply to hide counsel from the LORD. For their works are in darkness. And they say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’
16 “You pervert things. Shall the potter be thought the same as the clay? For shall the work say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me,’ or the thing formed say of him who fashioned it, ‘He has no understanding’?
17 “Is it not but a little while before Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel, and Carmel shall be counted as a forest?
18 “And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book. And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 “The meek in the LORD shall receive joy again. And the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 “For the cruel man shall cease and the scornful shall be consumed. And all who hurried to iniquity shall be cut off,
21 “who made a man sin with words and took him who reproved in the gate in a snare and made the just fall without cause.”
22 Therefore, thus says the LORD to the House of Jacob, He who redeemed Abraham: “Jacob shall not be confounded now, nor shall his face be pale now.
23 “But when he sees his children, the work of My Hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My Name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 “Then, those who erred in spirit shall have understanding. And those who murmured shall learn doctrine.”
1 The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:
2 Beloved, I wish chiefly that you prosper and fare well as your soul prospers.
3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified of the truth that is in you; how you walk in the truth.
4 I have no greater joy than these: to hear that my sons walk in truth.
5 Beloved, you faithfully do whatever you do for the brother and for strangers;
6 who bore witness of your love before the churches. If you bring them on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you shall do well.
7 Because, they went forth for His Name’s sake and took nothing from the Gentiles.
8 Therefore, we ought to receive such, so that we might be helpers to the Truth.
9 I wrote to the church. But Diotrephes (who loves to have the pre-eminence among them) will not receive us.
10 Therefore, if I come, I will remind you of his deeds which he does - prattling against us with malicious words - and not content with this, he not only does not receive the brothers himself, but forbids those who would and thrusts them out of the church.
11 Beloved, do not follow that which is evil, but that which is good. The one who does well is of God. But the one who does evil has not seen God.
12 Demetrius has good report of all, and of the truth itself. Indeed, and we ourselves bear witness. And you know that our witness is true.
13 I have many things to write. But I will not write to you with ink and pen.
14 For I trust I shall shortly see you. And we shall speak mouth to mouth. Peace be with you. The friends salute you. Greet your friends by name.
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