Bible Reading for September 16 and 17
World English Bible
Sept.
16
Psalms
74-76
Psa
74:1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger
smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psa
74:2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which
you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in
which you have lived.
Psa
74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the
enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psa
74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
Psa
74:5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket
of trees.
Psa
74:6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and
hammers.
Psa
74:7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have
profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psa
74:8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."
They have burned up all the places in the land where God was
worshiped.
Psa
74:9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psa
74:10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
blaspheme your name forever?
Psa
74:11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it
out of your pocket and consume them!
Psa
74:12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth.
Psa
74:13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of
the sea monsters in the waters.
Psa
74:14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as
food to people and desert creatures.
Psa
74:15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Psa
74:16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared
the light and the sun.
Psa
74:17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made
summer and winter.
Psa
74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish
people have blasphemed your name.
Psa
74:19 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't
forget the life of your poor forever.
Psa
74:20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
places of the earth.
Psa
74:21 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy
praise your name.
Psa
74:22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man
mocks you all day.
Psa
74:23 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of
those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psa
75:1 We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is
near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
Psa
75:2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Psa
75:3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its
pillars. Selah.
Psa
75:4 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the
wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
Psa
75:5 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff
neck."
Psa
75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the
south, comes exaltation.
Psa
75:7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
Psa
75:8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine
mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth
drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Psa
75:9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God
of Jacob.
Psa
75:10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of
the righteous shall be lifted up.
Psa
76:1 In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Psa
76:2 His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
Psa
76:3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and
the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Psa
76:4 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
Psa
76:5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Psa
76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
Psa
76:7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight
when you are angry?
Psa
76:8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was
silent,
Psa
76:9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of
the earth. Selah.
Psa
76:10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your
wrath are restrained.
Psa
76:11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his
neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
Psa
76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the
kings of the earth.
Sept.
17
Psalms
77-79
Psa
77:1 My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him
to listen to me.
Psa
77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was
stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to
be comforted.
Psa
77:3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is
overwhelmed. Selah.
Psa
77:4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
Psa
77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Psa
77:6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my
spirit diligently inquires:
Psa
77:7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no
more?
Psa
77:8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail
for generations?
Psa
77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld
his compassion?" Selah.
Psa
77:10 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the
right hand of the Most High."
Psa
77:11 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your wonders
of old.
Psa
77:12 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your
doings.
Psa
77:13 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like
God?
Psa
77:14 You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength
known among the peoples.
Psa
77:15 You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob
and Joseph. Selah.
Psa
77:16 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
Psa
77:17 The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
Psa
77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings
lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Psa
77:19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great
waters. Your footsteps were not known.
Psa
77:20 You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.
Psa
78:1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my
mouth.
Psa
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of
old,
Psa
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psa
78:4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the
generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his
wondrous works that he has done.
Psa
78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a
teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should
make them known to their children;
Psa
78:6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who
should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
Psa
78:7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
of God, but keep his commandments,
Psa
78:8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose
spirit was not steadfast with God.
Psa
78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned
back in the day of battle.
Psa
78:10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his
law.
Psa
78:11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown
them.
Psa
78:12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the
land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psa
78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the
waters stand as a heap.
Psa
78:14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night
with a light of fire.
Psa
78:15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink
abundantly as out of the depths.
Psa
78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
run down like rivers.
Psa
78:17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against
the Most High in the desert.
Psa
78:18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to
their desire.
Psa
78:19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare
a table in the wilderness?
Psa
78:20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and
streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for
his people?"
Psa
78:21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled
against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
Psa
78:22 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his
salvation.
Psa
78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of
heaven.
Psa
78:24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from
the sky.
Psa
78:25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
Psa
78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he
guided the south wind.
Psa
78:27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the
sand of the seas.
Psa
78:28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their
habitations.
Psa
78:29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own
desire.
Psa
78:30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in
their mouths,
Psa
78:31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the
fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
Psa
78:32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his
wondrous works.
Psa
78:33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in
terror.
Psa
78:34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They
returned and sought God earnestly.
Psa
78:35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God,
their redeemer.
Psa
78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with
their tongue.
Psa
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
faithful in his covenant.
Psa
78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy
them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up
all his wrath.
Psa
78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes
away, and doesn't come again.
Psa
78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and
grieved him in the desert!
Psa
78:41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One
of Israel.
Psa
78:42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed
them from the adversary;
Psa
78:43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of
Zoan,
Psa
78:44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that
they could not drink.
Psa
78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and
frogs, which destroyed them.
Psa
78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their
labor to the locust.
Psa
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees
with frost.
Psa
78:48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their
flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psa
78:49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath,
indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
Psa
78:50 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from
death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
Psa
78:51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their
strength in the tents of Ham.
Psa
78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in
the wilderness like a flock.
Psa
78:53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
Psa
78:54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this
mountain, which his right hand had taken.
Psa
78:55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for
an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
their tents.
Psa
78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and
didn't keep his testimonies;
Psa
78:57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psa
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
Psa
78:59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred
Israel;
Psa
78:60 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he
placed among men;
Psa
78:61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the
adversary's hand.
Psa
78:62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with
his inheritance.
Psa
78:63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding
song.
Psa
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't
weep.
Psa
78:65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man
who shouts by reason of wine.
Psa
78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual
reproach.
Psa
78:67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the
tribe of Ephraim,
Psa
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
Psa
78:69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which
he has established forever.
Psa
78:70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the
sheepfolds;
Psa
78:71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him
to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
Psa
78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his
heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Psa
79:1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have
defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Psa
79:2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for
the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the
earth.
Psa
79:3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There
was no one to bury them.
Psa
79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and
derision to those who are around us.
Psa
79:5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy
burn like fire?
Psa
79:6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the
kingdoms that don't call on your name;
Psa
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
Psa
79:8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let
your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Psa
79:9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
Psa
79:10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance
for your servants' blood is being poured out.
Psa
79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to
the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to
death.
Psa
79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their
reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Psa
79:13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you
thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
Sept.
16
1
Corinthians 12
1Co
12:1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to
be ignorant.
1Co
12:2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those
mute idols, however you might be led.
1Co
12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's
Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus
is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
1Co
12:4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co
12:5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
1Co
12:6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who
works all things in all.
1Co
12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for
the profit of all.
1Co
12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and
to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
1Co
12:9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of
healings, by the same Spirit;
1Co
12:10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy;
and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of
languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
1Co
12:11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these,
distributing to each one separately as he desires.
1Co
12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the
members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
1Co
12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether
Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink
into one Spirit.
1Co
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co
12:15 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not
part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.
1Co
12:16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not
part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
1Co
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If
the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
1Co
12:18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the
body, just as he desired.
1Co
12:19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
1Co
12:20 But now they are many members, but one body.
1Co
12:21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you,"
or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."
1Co
12:22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be
weaker are necessary.
1Co
12:23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable,
on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts
have more abundant propriety;
1Co
12:24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God
composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the
inferior part,
1Co
12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the
members should have the same care for one another.
1Co
12:26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or
when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co
12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
1Co
12:28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of
healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
1Co
12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all
miracle workers?
1Co
12:30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various
languages? Do all interpret?
1Co
12:31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most
excellent way to you.
Sept.
17
1
Corinthians 13
1Co
13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't
have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1Co
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but
don't have love, I am nothing.
1Co
13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my
body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
1Co
13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't
brag, is not proud,
1Co
13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own
way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
1Co
13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the
truth;
1Co
13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
1Co
13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be
done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease.
Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
1Co
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
1Co
13:10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is
partial will be done away with.
1Co
13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I
thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away
childish things.
1Co
13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now
I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully
known.
1Co
13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The
greatest of these is love.
