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2 Samuel 22
Chapter 22
David's Psalm of Deliverance
1 (C1)Now David spoke (C2)the words of this song to the LORD on the day that the LORD had saved him from the (F1)hand of all his enemies and from the (F1)hand of Saul.2 He said, "(C1)The LORD is my (F1)rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
3 (F1)(C1)My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
My (C2)shield and (C3)the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and (C4)my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence.
4 "I call upon the LORD, (C1)who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies.
5 "For (C1)the waves of death encompassed me;
(C2)The floods of (F1)destruction terrified me;
6 (C1)The ropes of (F1)Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
7 "(C1)In my distress I called upon the LORD,
Yes, I called out to my God;
And from His temple He heard my voice,
And my cry for help came into His ears.
8 "Then (C1)the earth shook and quaked,
(C2)The foundations of heaven were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.
9 "Smoke went up (F1)out of His nostrils,
(C1)And fire from His mouth was devouring;
(C2)Coals were kindled by it.
10 "He also bowed the heavens down low, and came down
With (C1)thick darkness under His feet.
11 "(C1)He rode on a cherub and flew;
He (F1)appeared on (C2)the wings of the wind.
12 "(C1)He made darkness canopies around Him,
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
13 "From the brightness before Him
(C1)Coals of fire were kindled.
14 "(C1)The LORD thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice.
15 "(C1)And He shot arrows and scattered them,
Lightning, and (F1)routed them.
16 "Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were exposed
By the rebuke of the LORD,
(C1)From the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
17 "(C1)He sent from on high, He took me;
(C2)He drew me out of many waters.
18 "He rescued me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
19 "They confronted me on the day of my disaster,
(C1)But the LORD was my support.
20 "(C1)He also brought me out into an open place;
He rescued me, (C2)because He delighted in me.
21 "(C1)The LORD has treated me in accordance with my righteousness;
(C2)In accordance with the cleanliness of my hands He has repaid me.
22 "(C1)For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
And have not acted wickedly against my God.
23 "(C1)For all His ordinances were before me,
And as for His statutes, I did not deviate from (F1)them.
24 "(C1)I was also (F1)blameless toward Him,
And I have kept myself from my wrongdoing.
25 "(C1)So the LORD has repaid me in accordance with my righteousness,
In accordance with my cleanliness before His eyes.
26 "(C1)With the one who is faithful You show Yourself faithful,
With the (F1)blameless one You prove Yourself (F1)blameless;
27 (C1)With the one who is pure You show Yourself pure,
(C2)But with the perverted You (F1)show Yourself astute.
28 "(C1)And You save an afflicted people;
(C2)But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You humiliate.
29 "(C1)For You are my lamp, LORD;
And the LORD illuminates my darkness.
30 "(C1)For by You I can run at a (F1)troop of warriors;
By my God I can leap over a wall.
31 "(C1)As for God, His way is (F1)blameless;
(C2)The word of the LORD is refined;
(C3)He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
32 "(C1)For who is God, except the LORD?
(C2)And who is a rock, except our God?
33 "(C1)God is my strong fortress;
And He (F1)sets the (F2)blameless on (F3)His way.
34 "(C1)He makes (F1)my feet like deer's feet,
(C2)And sets me on my high places.
35 "(C1)He trains my hands for battle,
(C2)So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
36 "You have also given me (C1)the shield of Your salvation,
And Your (F1)help makes me great.
37 "(C1)You enlarge my steps under me,
And my (F1)feet have not slipped.
38 "I pursued my enemies and (C1)eliminated them,
And I did not turn back until they were finished off.
39 "And I have devoured them and smashed them, so that they would not rise;
And (C1)they fell under my feet.
40 "For You have encircled me with strength for battle;
You have forced (C1)those who rose up against me to bow down under me.
41 "You have also (C1)made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I (F1)destroyed those who hated me.
42 "(C1)They looked, but there was no one to save them;
(C2)Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
43 "(C1)Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;
(C2)I crushed and trampled them like the mud of the streets.
44 "(C1)You have also saved me from the contentions of my people;
(C2)You have kept me as head of the nations;
(C3)A people I have not known serve me.
45 "(C1)Foreigners pretend to obey me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.
46 "Foreigners lose heart,
(C1)And (F1)come trembling out of their fortresses.
47 "The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock;
And exalted be (F1)(C1)my God, the rock of my salvation,
48 (C1)The God who executes vengeance for me,
(C2)And brings down peoples under me,
49 Who also brings me out from my enemies;
You also raise me above (C1)those who rise up against me;
(C2)You rescue me from the violent person.
50 "(C1)Therefore I will (F1)give thanks to You, LORD, among the nations,
And I will sing praises to Your name.
51 "(C1)He is a tower of (F1)salvation to His king,
And (C2)shows favor to His anointed,
(C3)To David and his (F2)descendants forever."
Hosea 2:2-23
Chapter 2
2 "Dispute with your mother, (C1)dispute,
Because she is (C2)not my wife, and I am not her husband;
But she must remove her (C3)infidelity from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,
3 Otherwise, I will strip her (C1)naked
And expose her as on the (C2)day she was born.
I will also (C3)make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land,
And put her to death with (C4)thirst.
4 "Also, I will take no pity on her children,
Because they are (C1)children of infidelity.
5 "For their mother has (C1)committed prostitution;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, '(C1)I will go after my lovers,
Who (C2)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my (C3)oil and my drink.'
6 "Therefore, behold, I will (C1)obstruct (F1)her way with (C2)thorns,
And I will build (F2)a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her (C3)paths.
7 "And she will (C1)pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, '(C2)I will go back to my (C3)first husband,
Because it was (C4)better for me then than now!'
8 "Yet she does (C1)not know that it was (C2)I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they (F1)used for Baal.
9 "Therefore, I will (F1)(C1)take back My grain at (F2)harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax
That I gave to cover her nakedness.
10 "So now I will (C1)uncover her (F1)lewdness
Before the eyes of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her from My hand.
11 "I will also (C1)put an end to all her joy,
Her (C2)feasts, her (C3)new moons, her Sabbaths,
And all her festivals.
12 "And I will (C1)destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, 'They are my wages for prostitution
Which my lovers have given me.'
And I will (C2)turn them into a forest,
And the (C3)animals of the field will devour them.
13 "I will punish her for the (C1)days of the Baals
When she used to (F1)(C2)offer sacrifices to them
And (C3)adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she (C4)forgot Me," declares the LORD.
Restoration of Israel
14 "Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her,
(C1)Bring her into the wilderness,
And speak (F1)kindly to her.
15 "Then I will give her her (C1)vineyards from there,
And (C2)the (F1)Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will (F2)(C3)respond there as in the days of her youth,
As in the (C4)day when she went up from the land of Egypt.
16 "And it will come about on that day," declares the LORD,
"That you will call Me (F1)(C1)my husband
And no longer call Me my (F2)Baal.
17 "For (C1)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will no longer be (F1)mentioned by their names.
18 "On that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the (C1)animals of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the crawling things of the ground.
And I will (F1)(C2)eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land,
And will let them (C3)lie down in safety.
19 "I will (C1)betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in (C2)righteousness and in justice,
In favor and in compassion,
20 And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will (C1)know the LORD.
21 "And it will come about on that day that (C1)I will respond," declares the LORD.
"I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,
22 And the (C1)earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil,
And they will respond to (F1)Jezreel.
23 "I will (C1)sow her for Myself in the land.
(C2)I will also have compassion on (F1)her who had not obtained compassion,
And (C3)I will say to (F2)those who were (C4)not My people,
'You are My people!'
And (F3)they will say, 'You are my God!'"
Mark 9:2-50
Chapter 9
2 (C1)And six days later Jesus (*)took with Him (C2)Peter, (F1)James, and John, and (*)brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was (F2)transfigured before them;3 and (C1)His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.4 And Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.5 Peter responded and (*)said to Jesus, "(C1)Rabbi, it is good that we are here; (C2)let's make three (F1)tabernacles, one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."6 For he did not know how to reply; for they became terrified.7 Then a cloud (F1)formed, overshadowing them, and (C1)a voice (F1)came out of the cloud: "(C2)This is My beloved Son; (F2)listen to Him!"8 And suddenly they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.
9 (C1)As they were coming down from the mountain, He (C2)gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, (F1)until the Son of Man rose from the dead.10 They (F1)seized upon (F2)that statement, discussing with one another (F3)what rising from the dead meant.11 And they asked Him, saying, "Why is it that the scribes say that (C1)Elijah must come first?"12 And He said to them, "Elijah does come first and he restores all things. And yet how is it written of (C1)the Son of Man that (C2)He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?13 "But I say to you that Elijah has (F1)indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written of him."
All Things Possible
14 (C1)And when they came back to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.15 Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were (C1)amazed and began running up to greet Him.16 And He asked them, "What are you disputing with them?"17 And one person from the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought You my son, because he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak;18 and (F1)whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes stiff. And I told Your disciples so that they would cast it out, but they could not do it."19 And He answered them and (*)said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!"20 And they brought (F1)the boy to Him. When he saw Him, the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.21 And He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.22 "It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to kill him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!"23 But Jesus said to him, "'If You can'? (C1)All things are possible for the one who believes."24 Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief!"25 When Jesus saw that (C1)a crowd was (F1)rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I (F2)command you, come out of him and do not enter him (F3)again!"26 And after crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him, and he got up.28 When He came (C1)into the house, His disciples began asking Him privately, "Why is it that we could not cast it out?"29 And He said to them, "This kind cannot come out by anything except prayer."
Death and Resurrection Foretold
30 (C1)And from there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.31 For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, "(C1)The Son of Man is to be (F1)handed over to men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later."32 But (C1)they (F1)did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.
33 (C1)They came to Capernaum; and when He was in (C2)the house, He began to question them: "What were you discussing on the way?"34 But they kept silent, for on the way (C1)they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.35 And sitting down, He called the twelve and (*)said to them, "(C1)If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."36 And He took a child and placed him among them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,37 "(C1)Whoever (F1)receives (F2)one child like this in My name (F1)receives Me; and whoever (F1)receives Me does not (F3)receive Me, but Him who sent Me."
Dire Warnings
38 (C1)John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and (C2)we tried to prevent him because he was not following us."39 But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.40 "(C1)For the one who is not against us is (F1)for us.41 "For (C1)whoever gives you a cup of water to drink (F1)because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.
42 "(C1)Whoever causes one of these (F1)little ones who believe in Me to (F2)sin, it is better for him if a heavy millstone is hung around his neck and he (F3)is thrown into the sea.43 "And (C1)if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed, than, having your two hands, to go into (F1)(C2)hell, into the (C3)unquenchable fire.(F2)45 "And if your foot is causing you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life without a foot, than, having your two feet, to be thrown into (F1)(C1)hell.(F2)47 "And (C1)if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into (F1)(C2)hell,48 (C1)where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND (C2)THE FIRE IS NOT EXTINGUISHED.49 "For everyone will be salted with fire.50 "Salt is good; but (C1)if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you (F1)make it salty again? (C2)Have salt in yourselves, and (C3)be at peace with one another."
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