Bible Reading for September 14 and 15
World English Bible
Sept.
14
Psalms
68-70
Psa
68:1 Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate
him also flee before him.
Psa
68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts
before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Psa
68:3 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God.
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
Psa
68:4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on
the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
Psa
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is
God in his holy habitation.
Psa
68:6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners
with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psa
68:7 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched
through the wilderness... Selah.
Psa
68:8 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the
presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of
Israel.
Psa
68:9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your
inheritance, when it was weary.
Psa
68:10 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your
goodness for the poor.
Psa
68:11 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a
great company.
Psa
68:12 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at
home divides the spoil,
Psa
68:13 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove
sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
Psa
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
Psa
68:15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains
of Bashan are rugged.
Psa
68:16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain
where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
Psa
68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of
thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
Psa
68:18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You
have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that
Yah God might dwell there.
Psa
68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God
who is our salvation. Selah.
Psa
68:20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord,
belongs escape from death.
Psa
68:21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy
scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Psa
68:22 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I
will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
Psa
68:23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the
tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."
Psa
68:24 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of
my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Psa
68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the
midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
Psa
68:26 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the
assembly of Israel!"
Psa
68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah,
their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Psa
68:28 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that
which you have done for us.
Psa
68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring
presents to you.
Psa
68:30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the
bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring
bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
Psa
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to
stretch out her hands to God.
Psa
68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the
Lord! Selah.
Psa
68:33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Psa
68:34 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his
strength is in the skies.
Psa
68:35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel
gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
Psa
69:1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
Psa
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psa
69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail,
looking for my God.
Psa
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my
head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are
mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
Psa
69:5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
Psa
69:6 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord
Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor
through me, God of Israel.
Psa
69:7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered
my face.
Psa
69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my
mother's children.
Psa
69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those
who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psa
69:10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psa
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psa
69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the
drunkards.
Psa
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable
time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the
truth of your salvation.
Psa
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be
delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psa
69:15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep
swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psa
69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According
to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psa
69:17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress.
Answer me speedily!
Psa
69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my
enemies.
Psa
69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My
adversaries are all before you.
Psa
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I
looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but
I found none.
Psa
69:21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me
vinegar to drink.
Psa
69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a
retribution and a trap.
Psa
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their
backs be continually bent.
Psa
69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your
anger overtake them.
Psa
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their
tents.
Psa
69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the
sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
Psa
69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into
your righteousness.
Psa
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be
written with the righteous.
Psa
69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God,
protect me.
Psa
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
Psa
69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has
horns and hoofs.
Psa
69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God,
let your heart live.
Psa
69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive
people.
Psa
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that
moves therein!
Psa
69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They
shall settle there, and own it.
Psa
69:36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who
love his name shall dwell therein.
Psa
70:1 Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
Psa
70:2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let
those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
Psa
70:3 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha!
Aha!"
Psa
70:4 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let
those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be
exalted!"
Psa
70:5 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my
help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
Sept.
15
Psalms
71-73
Psa
71:1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Psa
71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear
to me, and save me.
Psa
71:3 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the
command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Psa
71:4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psa
71:5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
Psa
71:6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out
of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
Psa
71:7 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Psa
71:8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all
the day.
Psa
71:9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my
strength fails.
Psa
71:10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul
conspire together,
Psa
71:11 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for
no one will rescue him."
Psa
71:12 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
Psa
71:13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be
covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
Psa
71:14 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Psa
71:15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your
salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
Psa
71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will
make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Psa
71:17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have
declared your wondrous works.
Psa
71:18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake
me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your
might to everyone who is to come.
Psa
71:19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have
done great things. God, who is like you?
Psa
71:20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let
me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psa
71:21 Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
Psa
71:22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my
God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Psa
71:23 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed,
sings praises to you!
Psa
71:24 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day
long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to
harm me.
Psa
72:1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the
royal son.
Psa
72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor
with justice.
Psa
72:3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills
bring the fruit of righteousness.
Psa
72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children
of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psa
72:5 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the
moon, throughout all generations.
Psa
72:6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that
water the earth.
Psa
72:7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of
peace, until the moon is no more.
Psa
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to
the ends of the earth.
Psa
72:9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His
enemies shall lick the dust.
Psa
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Psa
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall
serve him.
Psa
72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has
no helper.
Psa
72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the
souls of the needy.
Psa
72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their
blood will be precious in his sight.
Psa
72:15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all
day long.
Psa
72:16 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its
fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of
the field.
Psa
72:17 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the
sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Psa
72:18 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does
marvelous deeds.
Psa
72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be
filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Psa
72:20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
Psa
73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psa
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly
slipped.
Psa
73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
Psa
73:4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength
is firm.
Psa
73:5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued
like other men.
Psa
73:6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence
covers them like a garment.
Psa
73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of
conceit.
Psa
73:8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten
oppression.
Psa
73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks
through the earth.
Psa
73:10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up
waters of abundance.
Psa
73:11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the
Most High?"
Psa
73:12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they
increase in riches.
Psa
73:13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands
in innocence,
Psa
73:14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every
morning.
Psa
73:15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would
have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psa
73:16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
Psa
73:17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter
end.
Psa
73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to
destruction.
Psa
73:19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept
away with terrors.
Psa
73:20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you
will despise their fantasies.
Psa
73:21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
Psa
73:22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before
you.
Psa
73:23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my
right hand.
Psa
73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me
to glory.
Psa
73:25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire
besides you.
Psa
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever.
Psa
73:27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have
destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Psa
73:28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the
Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Sept.
14
1
Corinthians 10
1Co
10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers
were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co
10:2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co
10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
1Co
10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a
spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
1Co
10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they
were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Co
10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not
lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Co
10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,
"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
1Co
10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them
committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
1Co
10:9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and
perished by the serpents.
1Co
10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished
by the destroyer.
1Co
10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and
they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages
have come.
1Co
10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he
doesn't fall.
1Co
10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God
is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are
able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that
you may be able to endure it.
1Co
10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1Co
10:15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
1Co
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the
blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the
body of Christ?
1Co
10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one
body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
1Co
10:18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat
the sacrifices participate in the altar?
1Co
10:19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is
anything, or that an idol is anything?
1Co
10:20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you
would have fellowship with demons.
1Co
10:21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of
demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the
table of demons.
1Co
10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than
he?
1Co
10:23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things
are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all
things build up.
1Co
10:24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.
1Co
10:25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question
for the sake of conscience,
1Co
10:26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."
1Co
10:27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal,
and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no
questions for the sake of conscience.
1Co
10:28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols,"
don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake
of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its
fullness."
1Co
10:29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience.
For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
1Co
10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that
for which I give thanks?
1Co
10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do
all to the glory of God.
1Co
10:32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks,
or to the assembly of God;
1Co
10:33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my
own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
Sept.
15
1
Corinthians 11
1Co
11:1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1Co
11:2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things,
and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
1Co
11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ,
and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
1Co
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
dishonors his head.
1Co
11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled
dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were
shaved.
1Co
11:6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it
is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
1Co
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he
is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
1Co
11:8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
1Co
11:9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the
man.
1Co
11:10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head,
because of the angels.
1Co
11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor
the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
1Co
11:12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a
woman; but all things are from God.
1Co
11:13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to
God unveiled?
1Co
11:14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long
hair, it is a dishonor to him?
1Co
11:15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her
hair is given to her for a covering.
1Co
11:16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such
custom, neither do God's assemblies.
1Co
11:17 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you
come together not for the better but for the worse.
1Co
11:18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I
hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
1Co
11:19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are
approved may be revealed among you.
1Co
11:20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the
Lord's supper that you eat.
1Co
11:21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is
hungry, and another is drunken.
1Co
11:22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you
despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What
shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
1Co
11:23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to
you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took
bread.
1Co
11:24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take,
eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of
me."
1Co
11:25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as
you drink, in memory of me."
1Co
11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
1Co
11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in
a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the
blood of the Lord.
1Co
11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread, and drink of the cup.
1Co
11:29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and
drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
1Co
11:30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a
few sleep.
1Co
11:31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
1Co
11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we
may not be condemned with the world.
1Co
11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait
one for another.
1Co
11:34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming
together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I
come.
