Old/New Testament
Psalm 103
The Forgiving God
Davidic.
1 My soul, praise Yahweh,
and all that is within me, praise His holy name.(A)
2 My soul, praise the Lord,
and do not forget all His benefits.(B)
3 He forgives all your sin;(C)
He heals all your diseases.(D)
4 He redeems your life from the Pit;(E)
He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.(F)
5 He satisfies you[a] with goodness;(G)
your youth is renewed like the eagle.(H)
6 The Lord executes acts of righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.(I)
7 He revealed His ways to Moses,(J)
His deeds to the people of Israel.(K)
8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.(L)
9 He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.(M)
10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our offenses.(N)
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His faithful love
toward those who fear Him.(O)
12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.(P)
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.(Q)
14 For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.(R)
15 As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;(S)
16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes,
and its place is no longer known.[b](T)
17 But from eternity to eternity
the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,
and His righteousness toward the grandchildren(U)
18 of those who keep His covenant,
who remember to observe His precepts.(V)
19 The Lord has established His throne in heaven,
and His kingdom rules over all.(W)
20 Praise the Lord,
all His angels of great strength,
who do His word,
obedient to His command.(X)
21 Praise the Lord, all His armies,
His servants who do His will.(Y)
22 Praise the Lord, all His works
in all the places where He rules.(Z)
My soul, praise Yahweh!
Psalm 104
God the Creator
1 My soul, praise Yahweh!
Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with majesty and splendor.(AA)
2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,(AB)
3 laying the beams of His palace
on the waters above,(AC)
making the clouds His chariot,(AD)
walking on the wings of the wind,(AE)
4 and making the winds His messengers,[c]
flames of fire His servants.(AF)
5 He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.(AG)
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(AH)
7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away(AI)—
8 mountains rose and valleys sank[d]—
to the place You established for them.(AJ)
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.(AK)
10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.(AL)
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.(AM)
12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.(AN)
13 He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.(AO)
14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,(AP)
15 wine that makes man’s heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.(AQ)
16 The trees of the Lord flourish,[e]
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.(AR)
17 There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.(AS)
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.(AT)
19 He made the moon to mark the[f] festivals;[g]
the sun knows when to set.(AU)
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.(AV)
21 The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.(AW)
22 The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.(AX)
23 Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.(AY)
24 How countless are Your works, Lord!
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.[h](AZ)
25 Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.(BA)
26 There the ships move about,
and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.(BB)
27 All of them wait for You
to give them their food at the right time.(BC)
28 When You give it to them,
they gather it;
when You open Your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.(BD)
29 When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.(BE)
30 When You send Your breath,[i]
they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.(BF)
31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in His works.(BG)
32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains,
and they pour out smoke.(BH)
33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.(BI)
34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him;
I will rejoice in the Lord.(BJ)
35 May sinners vanish from the earth
and wicked people be no more.(BK)
My soul, praise Yahweh!
Hallelujah!
Paul’s Proclamation
2 When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony[a] of God to you, I did not come with brilliance(A) of speech(B) or wisdom. 2 For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.(C) 3 I came to you in weakness,(D) in fear,(E) and in much trembling.(F) 4 My speech(G) and my proclamation were not with persuasive(H) words of wisdom[b] but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit, 5 so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.(I)
Spiritual Wisdom
6 However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature,(J) but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers(K) of this age, who are coming to nothing.(L) 7 On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined(M) before the ages for our glory.(N) 8 None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.(O) 9 But as it is written:
What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.(P)[c]
10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything,(Q) even the depths of God.(R) 11 For who among men knows the thoughts[d] of a man except the spirit(S) of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows(T) the thoughts[e] of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words(U) taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.[f] 14 But the unbeliever[g] does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated[h] spiritually. 15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate[i] everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated[j] by anyone. 16 For
But we have the mind of Christ.(W)
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