| 35 |
Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and
let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! --
Genesis 22:
1 - 18
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| 1 |
After these things God tested Abraham, and
said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I." |
| 2 |
He said, "Take your son, your only son
Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a
burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
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| 3 |
So Abraham rose early in the morning,
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and
he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which
God had told him. |
| 4 |
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes
and saw the place afar off. |
| 5 |
Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay
here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to
you." |
| 6 |
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the
knife. So they went both of them together. |
| 7 |
And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My
father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the
wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" |
| 8 |
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the
lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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| 9 |
When they came to the place of which God had
told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. |
| 10 |
Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son. |
| 11 |
But the angel of the LORD called to him from
heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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| 12 |
He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or
do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not
withheld your son, your only son, from me." |
| 13 |
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked,
and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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| 14 |
So Abraham called the name of that place The
LORD will provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall
be provided." |
| 15 |
And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham
a second time from heaven, |
| 16 |
and said, "By myself I have sworn, says the
LORD, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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| 17 |
I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the
seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,
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| 18 |
and by your descendants shall all the
nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."
Psalms 16:
5, 8 - 11
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| 5 |
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
thou holdest my lot. |
| 8 |
I keep the LORD always before me; because he
is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. |
| 9 |
Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul
rejoices; my body also dwells secure. |
| 10 |
For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or
let thy godly one see the Pit. |
| 11 |
Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy
presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Exodus 14:
15 - 31
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| 15 |
The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to
me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. |
| 16 |
Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand
over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground
through the sea. |
| 17 |
And I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh
and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. |
| 18 |
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the
LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
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| 19 |
Then the angel of God who went before the
host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from
before them and stood behind them, |
| 20 |
coming between the host of Egypt and the
host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed
without one coming near the other all night. |
| 21 |
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made
the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. |
| 22 |
And the people of Israel went into the midst
of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand
and on their left. |
| 23 |
The Egyptians pursued, and went in after
them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen. |
| 24 |
And in the morning watch the LORD in the
pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and
discomfited the host of the Egyptians, |
| 25 |
clogging their chariot wheels so that they
drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the
LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." |
| 26 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out
your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon
their chariots, and upon their horsemen." |
| 27 |
So Moses stretched forth his hand over the
sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea. |
| 28 |
The waters returned and covered the chariots
and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the
sea; not so much as one of them remained. |
| 29 |
But the people of Israel walked on dry
ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and
on their left. |
| 30 |
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the
hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
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| 31 |
And Israel saw the great work which the LORD
did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in
the LORD and in his servant Moses.
Exodus 15:
1 - 6, 17 - 18
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| 1 |
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang
this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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| 2 |
The LORD is my strength and my song, and he
has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God,
and I will exalt him. |
| 3 |
The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his
name. |
| 4 |
"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast
into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea. |
| 5 |
The floods cover them; they went down into
the depths like a stone. |
| 6 |
Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power,
thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. |
| 17 |
Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on
thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the
sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established. |
| 18 |
The LORD will reign for ever and
ever."
Isaiah 54:
5 - 14
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| 5 |
For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of
hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the
whole earth he is called. |
| 6 |
For the LORD has called you like a wife
forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says
your God. |
| 7 |
For a brief moment I forsook you, but with
great compassion I will gather you. |
| 8 |
In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my
face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the
LORD, your Redeemer. |
| 9 |
"For this is like the days of Noah to me: as
I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have
sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you.
|
| 10 |
For the mountains may depart and the hills
be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of
peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
|
| 11 |
"O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not
comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations
with sapphires. |
| 12 |
I will make your pinnacles of agate, your
gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. |
| 13 |
All your sons shall be taught by the LORD,
and great shall be the prosperity of your sons. |
| 14 |
In righteousness you shall be established;
you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for
it shall not come near you. |
Psalms 30:
2, 4 - 6, 11 - 13
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| 2 |
O LORD my God, I cried to thee for help, and
thou hast healed me. |
| 4 |
Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name. |
| 5 |
For his anger is but for a moment, and his
favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the
morning. |
| 6 |
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall
never be moved." |
| 11 |
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into
dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
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| 12 |
that my soul may praise thee and not be
silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever. - |
Isaiah 55:
1 - 11
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| 1 |
"Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the
waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. |
| 2 |
Why do you spend your money for that which
is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently
to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.
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| 3 |
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that
your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my
steadfast, sure love for David. |
| 4 |
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples. |
| 5 |
Behold, you shall call nations that you know
not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the LORD your
God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. |
| 6 |
"Seek the LORD while he may be found, call
upon him while he is near; |
| 7 |
let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have mercy
on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. |
| 8 |
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. |
| 9 |
For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
|
| 10 |
"For as the rain and the snow come down from
heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and
sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, |
| 11 |
so shall my word be that goes forth from my
mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I
purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it. |
Isaiah 12:
2 - 6
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| 2 |
"Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust,
and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has
become my salvation." |
| 3 |
With joy you will draw water from the wells
of salvation. |
| 4 |
And you will say in that day: "Give thanks
to the LORD, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations,
proclaim that his name is exalted. |
| 5 |
"Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done
gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. |
| 6 |
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of
Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel." |
Baruch 3: 9
- 15, 32 - 38
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| 9 |
Hear the commandments of life, O Israel;
give ear, and learn wisdom! |
| 10 |
Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are
in the land of your enemies, that you are growing old in a foreign country, that
you are defiled with the dead, |
| 11 |
that you are counted among those in Hades?
|
| 12 |
You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
|
| 13 |
If you had walked in the way of God, you
would be dwelling in peace for ever. |
| 14 |
Learn where there is wisdom, where there is
strength, where there is understanding, that you may at the same time discern
where there is length of days, and life, where there is light for the eyes, and
peace. |
| 15 |
Who has found her place? And who has entered
her storehouses? |
| 32 |
But he who knows all things knows her, he
found her by his understanding. He who prepared the earth for all time filled it
with four-footed creatures; |
| 33 |
he who sends forth the light, and it goes,
called it, and it obeyed him in fear; |
| 34 |
the stars shone in their watches, and were
glad; he called them, and they said, "Here we are!" They shone with gladness for
him who made them. |
| 35 |
This is our God; no other can be compared to
him! |
| 36 |
He found the whole way to knowledge, and
gave her to Jacob his servant and to Israel whom he loved. |
| 37 |
Afterward she appeared upon earth and lived
among men. |
Baruch 4: 1
- 4
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| 1 |
She is the book of the commandments of God,
and the law that endures for ever. All who hold her fast will live, and those
who forsake her will die. |
| 2 |
Turn, O Jacob, and take her; walk toward the
shining of her light. |
| 3 |
Do not give your glory to another, or your
advantages to an alien people. |
| 4 |
Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is
pleasing to God. |
Psalms 19:
8 - 11
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| 8 |
the precepts of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
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| 9 |
the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for
ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
|
| 10 |
More to be desired are they than gold, even
much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
|
| 11 |
Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in
keeping them there is great reward. |
Ezekiel 36:
16 - 28
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| 16 |
The word of the LORD came to me:
|
| 17 |
"Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct
before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. |
| 18 |
So I poured out my wrath upon them for the
blood which they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled
it. |
| 19 |
I scattered them among the nations, and they
were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their
deeds I judged them. |
| 20 |
But when they came to the nations, wherever
they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, `These are the
people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.' |
| 21 |
But I had concern for my holy name, which
the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.
|
| 22 |
"Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus
says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about
to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the
nations to which you came. |
| 23 |
And I will vindicate the holiness of my
great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have
profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord
GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
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| 24 |
For I will take you from the nations, and
gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.
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| 25 |
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and
you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will
cleanse you. |
| 26 |
A new heart I will give you, and a new
spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of
stone and give you a heart of flesh. |
| 27 |
And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.
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| 28 |
You shall dwell in the land which I gave to
your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. |
Psalms 51:
12 - 15, 18 - 19
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| 12 |
Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and
uphold me with a willing spirit. |
| 13 |
Then I will teach transgressors thy ways,
and sinners will return to thee. |
| 14 |
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou
God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.
|
| 15 |
O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth
shall show forth thy praise. |
| 18 |
Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, |
| 19 |
then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy
altar. |
Romans 6: 3
- 11
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| 3 |
Do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| 4 |
We were buried therefore with him by baptism
into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, we too might walk in newness of life. |
| 5 |
For if we have been united with him in a
death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like
his. |
| 6 |
We know that our old self was crucified with
him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be
enslaved to sin. |
| 7 |
For he who has died is freed from sin.
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| 8 |
But if we have died with Christ, we believe
that we shall also live with him. |
| 9 |
For we know that Christ being raised from
the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
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| 10 |
The death he died he died to sin, once for
all, but the life he lives he lives to God. |
| 11 |
So you also must consider yourselves dead to
sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. |
Psalms 118:
1 - 2, 16 - 17, 22 - 23
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| 1 |
O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his steadfast love endures for ever! |
| 2 |
Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures
for ever." |
| 16 |
the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the
right hand of the LORD does valiantly!" |
| 17 |
I shall not die, but I shall live, and
recount the deeds of the LORD. |
| 22 |
The stone which the builders rejected has
become the head of the corner. |
| 23 |
This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in
our eyes. |
Mark 16: 1
- 7
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| 1 |
And when the sabbath was past, Mary
Mag'dalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salo'me, bought spices, so that
they might go and anoint him. |
| 2 |
And very early on the first day of the week
they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. |
| 3 |
And they were saying to one another, "Who
will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" |
| 4 |
And looking up, they saw that the stone was
rolled back; -- it was very large. |
| 5 |
And entering the tomb, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed.
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| 6 |
And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you
seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the
place where they laid him. |
| 7 |
But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he
is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you." |
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