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Psalm 119:97-120 (Listen)

• Psalm 118
• Psalm 119
• Psalm 120

97 Oh how xI love your law!

It is my ymeditation all the day.

98 Your commandment makes me zwiser than my enemies,

for it is ever with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,

for ayour testimonies are my meditation.

100 I understand more than bthe aged,1

for I ckeep your precepts.

101 I dhold back my feet from every evil way,

in order to keep your word.

102 I do not turn aside from your rules,

for you have taught me.

103 How esweet are your words to my taste,

sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104 Through your precepts I get understanding;

therefore fI hate every false way.

Nun

105 gYour word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

106 I have hsworn an oath and confirmed it,

to keep your irighteous rules.

107 I am severely jafflicted;

kgive me life, O Lord, according to your word!

108 Accept lmy freewill offerings of praise, O Lord,

and mteach me your rules.

109 I hold my life nin my hand continually,

but I do not oforget your law.

110 The wicked have laid pa snare for me,

but qI do not stray from your precepts.

111 Your testimonies are rmy heritage forever,

for they are sthe joy of my heart.

112 I tincline my heart to perform your statutes

forever, uto the end.2

Samekh

113 I hate vthe double-minded,

but I love wyour law.

114 You are my xhiding place and my yshield;

I zhope in your word.

115 aDepart from me, you evildoers,

that I may bkeep the commandments of my God.

116 Uphold me caccording to your promise, that I may live,

and let me not be dput to shame in my ehope!

117 fHold me up, that I may be safe

and have regard for your statutes continually!

118 You gspurn all who hgo astray from your statutes,

for their cunning is in vain.

119 All the wicked of the earth you discard like idross,

therefore jI love your testimonies.

120 My flesh ktrembles for fear of you,

and I am afraid of your judgments.

• Psalm 118
• Psalm 119
• Psalm 120

Psalm 81 (Listen)

• Psalm 80
• Psalm 81
• Psalm 82

Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me

To the choirmaster: according to fThe Gittith.1 Of gAsaph.

81 hSing aloud to God our strength;

ishout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2 Raise a song; sound jthe tambourine,

kthe sweet lyre with kthe harp.

3 Blow the trumpet at lthe new moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

4 For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule2 of the God of Jacob.

5 He made it ma decree in nJoseph

when he owent out over3 the land of Egypt.

pI hear a language qI had not known:

6 “I rrelieved your4 shoulder of sthe burden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7 In distress you tcalled, and I delivered you;

I uanswered you in the secret place of thunder;

I vtested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

8 wHear, O my people, while I admonish you!

O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9 There shall be no xstrange god among you;

you shall not bow down to a yforeign god.

10 zI am the Lord your God,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

aOpen your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel bwould not submit to me.

12 So I cgave them over to their dstubborn hearts,

to follow their own ecounsels.

13 fOh, that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would gwalk in my ways!

14 I would soon subdue their enemies

and hturn my hand against their foes.

15 Those who hate the Lord would icringe toward him,

and their fate would last forever.

16 But he would feed you5 with jthe finest of the wheat,

and with khoney from the rock I would satisfy you.”

• Psalm 80
• Psalm 81
• Psalm 82

Psalm 82 (Listen)

• Psalm 81
• Psalm 82
• Psalm 83

Rescue the Weak and Needy

A Psalm of lAsaph.

82 mGod nhas taken his place in the divine council;

in the midst of pthe gods he qholds judgment:

2 “How long will you judge unjustly

and rshow partiality to sthe wicked? Selah

3 tGive justice to uthe weak and the fatherless;

vmaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

4 wRescue the weak and the needy;

xdeliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

5 yThey have neither knowledge nor understanding,

zthey walk about in darkness;

aall the foundations of the earth are bshaken.

6 cI said, “You are gods,

sons of the Most High, all of you;

7 nevertheless, like men dyou shall die,

and fall like any prince.”1

8 eArise, O God, judge the earth;

for you shall finherit all the nations!

Leviticus 26:27-42 (Listen)

• Leviticus 25
• Leviticus 26
• Leviticus 27

27 “But lif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you min fury, and I myself will discipline you xsevenfold for your sins. 29 nYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And oI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and pcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will qlay your cities waste and will rmake your sanctuaries desolate, and sI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And tI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be uappalled at it. 33 And vI will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 w“Then the land shall enjoy1 its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, xI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ysound of a zdriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ayou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall brot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if cthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they dcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their euncircumcised heart is fhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will gremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will hremember the land.

• Leviticus 25
• Leviticus 26
• Leviticus 27

Ephesians 1:1-10 (Listen)

• Galatians 6
• Ephesians 1
• Ephesians 2

Greeting

1 Paul, aan apostle of Christ Jesus bby the will of God,

To the saints who are in Ephesus, and care faithful1 in Christ Jesus:

2 dGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3 eBlessed be fthe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing gin the heavenly places, 4 heven as he ichose us in him jbefore the foundation of the world, that we should be kholy and blameless before him. In love 5 lhe predestined us2 for madoption as sons through Jesus Christ, naccording to the purpose of his will, 6 oto the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in pthe Beloved. 7 qIn him we have rredemption sthrough his blood, tthe forgiveness of our trespasses, uaccording to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 vmaking known3 to us the mystery of his will, naccording to his purpose, which he wset forth in Christ 10 as a plan for xthe fullness of time, yto unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Matthew 22:41-46 (Listen)

• Matthew 21
• Matthew 22
• Matthew 23

Whose Son Is the Christ?

41 lNow while the Pharisees mwere gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think about nthe Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, n“The son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, oin the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

44 p“‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at my right hand,

until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

45 If then David calls him Lord, qhow is he his son?” 46 rAnd no one was able to answer him a word, snor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.