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Daily Bible Reading
May 22 - Old & New Testament
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Psalms 7,8
Psalm 7
Prayer for Justice
A Shiggaion[a] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush,[b] a Benjaminite.
1 Yahweh my God, I seek refuge in You;(a)
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me(b)
2 or they[c] will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.[d](c)
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,(d)
4 if I have done harm to one at peace with me(e)
or have plundered[e] my adversary without cause,(f)
5 may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground(g)
and leave my honor in the dust.(h)
6 Rise up,
Lord
, in Your anger;
lift Yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;(i)
awake for me;[f](j)
You have ordained[g] a judgment.(k)
7 Let the assembly of peoples gather around You;(l)
take Your seat[h] on high over it.(m)
8 The
Lord
judges the peoples;(n)
vindicate me,
Lord
,
according to my righteousness and my integrity.[i](o)
9 Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,(p)
but establish the righteous.(q)
The One who examines the thoughts and emotions[j]
is a righteous God.(r)
10 My shield is with[k] God,(s)
who saves the upright in heart.(t)
11 God is a righteous judge
and a God who shows His wrath every day.(u)
12 If anyone does not repent,
God[l] will sharpen His sword;(v)
He has strung[m] His bow and made it ready.(w)
13 He has prepared His deadly weapons;
He tips His arrows with fire.(x)
14 See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,
conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.(y)
15 He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.(z)
16 His trouble comes back on his own head,
and his violence falls on the top of his head.(aa)
17 I will thank the
Lord
for His righteousness;
I will sing about the name of Yahweh the Most High.(ab)
Psalm 8
God's Glory, Man's Dignity
For the choir director: on the Gittith.(a) A Davidic psalm.
1 Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!(b)
You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.[a](c)
2 Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold[b]
from the mouths of children and nursing infants(d)
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,(e)
4 what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him?(f)
5 You made him little less than God[c][d]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him lord over the works of Your hands;
You put everything under his feet:[e](g)
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
8 the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.(h)
9 Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!
John 7:28-53
Chapter 7
28 As He was teaching in the temple complex,(ag) Jesus cried out, "You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me(ah) is true. You don't know Him;(ai) 29 I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me." (aj)
30 Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour[d] had not yet come. 31 However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, "When the Messiah comes, He won't perform more signs than this man has done,(ak) will He?"
32 The Pharisees(al) heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests(am) and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.
33 Then Jesus said, "I am only with you for a short time.(an) Then I'm going to the One who sent Me.(ao) 34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come." (ap)
35 Then the Jews(aq) said to one another, "Where does He intend to go so we won't find Him? He doesn't intend to go to the Dispersion[e](ar) among the Greeks(as) and teach the Greeks, does He? 36 What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'(at) ?"
The Promise of the Spirit
37 On the last and most important day of the festival,(au) Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me [f](av) and drink!(aw) 38 The one who believes in Me,(ax) as the Scripture(ay) has said,[g] will have streams of living water(az) flow(ba) from deep within him." 39 He said this about the Spirit.(bb) Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,(bc) for the Spirit[h] had not yet been received[i][j] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The People Are Divided over Jesus
40 When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, "This really is the Prophet!"[k](bd) 41 Others said, "This is the Messiah!" But some said, "Surely the Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does He? 42 Doesn't the Scripture(be) say that the Messiah comes from David's(bf) offspring[l] and from the town of Bethlehem,(bg) where David once lived?" 43 So a division(bh) occurred among the crowd because of Him. 44 Some of them wanted to seize Him,(bi) but no one laid hands on Him.
Debate over Jesus' Claims
45 Then the temple police(bj) came to the chief priests(bk) and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why haven't you brought Him?"
46 The police answered, "No man ever spoke like this!"[m](bl)
47 Then the Pharisees responded to them: "Are you fooled(bm) too? 48 Have any of the rulers(bn) or Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd, which doesn't know the law, is accursed!"
50 Nicodemus(bo)—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them, 51 "Our law doesn't judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he's doing, does it?"(bp)
52 "You aren't from Galilee(bq) too, are you?" they replied. "Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee."[n](br)
[53 So each one went to his house.
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