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Daily Bible Reading
October 9 - Bible-in-a-Year
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Nehemiah 12
Chapter 12
Psalms 104:1-23
Chapter 104
Psalm 104
God the Creator
1 My soul, praise Yahweh!
Lord
my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with majesty and splendor.(a)
2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,(b)
3 laying the beams of His palace
on the waters above,(c)
making the clouds His chariot,(d)
walking on the wings of the wind,(e)
4 and making the winds His messengers,[a]
flames of fire His servants.(f)
5 He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.(g)
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(h)
7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away(i)—
8 mountains rose and valleys sank[b]—
to the place You established for them.(j)
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.(k)
10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.(l)
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.(m)
12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.(n)
13 He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.(o)
14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,(p)
15 wine that makes man's heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man's heart.(q)
16 The trees of the
Lord
flourish,[c]
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.(r)
17 There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.(s)
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.(t)
19 He made the moon to mark the[d] festivals;[e]
the sun knows when to set.(u)
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.(v)
21 The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.(w)
22 The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.(x)
23 Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.(y)
Revelation 9
Chapter 9
The Fifth Trumpet
1 The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth.(a) The key to the shaft of the abyss(b) was given to him. 2 He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great[a] furnace so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, and power[b] was given to them(c) like the power that scorpions have on the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only people who do not have God's seal on their foreheads. 5 They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle.(d) Something like gold crowns was on their heads; their faces were like men's faces; 8 they had hair like women's hair; their teeth were like lions' teeth;(e) 9 they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle; 10 and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power[c] to harm people for five months. 11 They had as their king[d] the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,[e] and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.[f] 12 The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.
The Sixth Trumpet
13 The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four[g] horns of the gold altar(f) that is before God, I heard a voice 14 say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates." 15 So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race. 16 The number of mounted troops was 200 million;[h] I heard their number. 17 This is how I saw the horses in my vision: The horsemen had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur. 18 A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.
20 The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons(g) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.(h) 21 And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries,[i] their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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