Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
He Makes Wars Cease
Psalm 46
1 For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.
2 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
3 Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth change,
though the mountains topple into the heart of the seas,
4 though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains quake at their swelling. Selah
5 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God—
the holy dwelling place of Elyon.[a]
6 God is in the midst of her, she will not be shaken.
God will help her when morning dawns.
7 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms totter,
He utters His voice, the earth melts!
8 Adonai-Tzva’ot is with us.
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah
9 Come, see the works of Adonai,
who brings devastations on the earth.
10 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear.
He burns chariots with fire.
11 “Be still, and know that I am God.
I am exalted among the nations.
I am exalted in the earth.”
12 Adonai-Tzva’ot is with us.
The God of Jacob is our strong tower. Selah
18 Therefore thus says Adonai about Jehoiakim son of King Josiah of Judah:
“They will not lament for him,
‘Oy, my brother!’ or ‘Oy, sister!’
They will not lament for him,
‘Oy, master!’ or ‘Oy, his majesty!’
19 With a donkey’s burial will he be buried,
dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
and lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim—
for all your lovers are broken.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I won’t listen!’
This has been your way since your youth—
for you never listened to My voice.
22 The wind will shepherd away all of your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into exile.
Surely then you will be ashamed
and humbled by all your wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
nestled in the cedars,
how you will groan when pangs come on you,
pain like a woman in travail!
24 “As I live,” declares Adonai, “even if Coniah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off, 25 and give you over into the hand of those seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 So I will cast you out, with your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born—and there will you die. 27 But as for the land where they long to return, they will never return there.”
28 Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot—
a jar with no delight in it?
Why are he and his seed cast out
into the land they do not know?
29 O land, land, land,
hear the word of Adonai!
30 Thus says Adonai:
“Write this man childless,
a man who will not prosper in his days.
For no man of his seed will prosper,
sitting on the throne of David
and ruling again in Judah.”
15 Now they were bringing even their babies to Yeshua, so He might touch them. But when the disciples saw this, they began rebuking them. 16 But Yeshua called for them, saying, “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 17 Amen, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.