Bible Reading for August 30, 31
World English Bible
Aug.
30
Psalm
20-22
Psa
20:1 May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of
the God of Jacob set you up on high,
Psa
20:2 send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
Psa
20:3 remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice.
Selah.
Psa
20:4 May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your
counsel.
Psa
20:5 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we
will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
Psa
20:6 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him
from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
Psa
20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the
name of Yahweh our God.
Psa
20:8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand
upright.
Psa
20:9 Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!
Psa
21:1 The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he
rejoices in your salvation!
Psa
21:2 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld
the request of his lips. Selah.
Psa
21:3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a
crown of fine gold on his head.
Psa
21:4 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days
forever and ever.
Psa
21:5 His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty
on him.
Psa
21:6 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with
joy in your presence.
Psa
21:7 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of
the Most High, he shall not be moved.
Psa
21:8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand
will find out those who hate you.
Psa
21:9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your
anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall
devour them.
Psa
21:10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their
posterity from among the children of men.
Psa
21:11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against
you which cannot succeed.
Psa
21:12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn
bows at their face.
Psa
21:13 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and
praise your power.
Psa
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far
from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psa
22:2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the
night season, and am not silent.
Psa
22:3 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
Psa
22:4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered
them.
Psa
22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and
were not disappointed.
Psa
22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by
the people.
Psa
22:7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips.
They shake their heads, saying,
Psa
22:8 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue
him, since he delights in him."
Psa
22:9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my
mother's breasts.
Psa
22:10 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God
since my mother bore me.
Psa
22:11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none
to help.
Psa
22:12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have
encircled me.
Psa
22:13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and
roaring.
Psa
22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My
heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psa
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to
the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
Psa
22:16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have
enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Psa
22:17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
Psa
22:18 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my
clothing.
Psa
22:19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help
me.
Psa
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the
power of the dog.
Psa
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild
oxen, you have answered me.
Psa
22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the
assembly, I will praise you.
Psa
22:23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob,
glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
Psa
22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried
to him, he heard.
Psa
22:25 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my
vows before those who fear him.
Psa
22:26 The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise
Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Psa
22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
Psa
22:28 For the kingdom is Yahweh's. He is the ruler over the nations.
Psa
22:29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All
those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't
keep his soul alive.
Psa
22:30 Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told
about the Lord.
Psa
22:31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a
people that shall be born, for he has done it.
Aug.
31
Psalm
23-25
Psa
23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
Psa
23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside
still waters.
Psa
23:3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Psa
23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they
comfort me.
Psa
23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
Psa
23:6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the
days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
Psa
24:1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those
who dwell therein.
Psa
24:2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the
floods.
Psa
24:3 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy
place?
Psa
24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up
his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psa
24:5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the
God of his salvation.
Psa
24:6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your
face--even Jacob. Selah.
Psa
24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting
doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psa
24:8 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh
mighty in battle.
Psa
24:9 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you
everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psa
24:10 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King of
glory! Selah.
Psa
25:1 To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
Psa
25:2 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't
let my enemies triumph over me.
Psa
25:3 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be
shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Psa
25:4 Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Psa
25:5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my
salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Psa
25:6 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,
for they are from old times.
Psa
25:7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness'
sake, Yahweh.
Psa
25:8 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners
in the way.
Psa
25:9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble
his way.
Psa
25:10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psa
25:11 For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is
great.
Psa
25:12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the
way that he shall choose.
Psa
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
Psa
25:14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will
show them his covenant.
Psa
25:15 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of
the net.
Psa
25:16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and
afflicted.
Psa
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my
distresses.
Psa
25:18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
Psa
25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with
cruel hatred.
Psa
25:20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed,
for I take refuge in you.
Psa
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Psa
25:22 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
Aug. 30
Romans
11
Rom
11:1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I
also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
Rom
11:2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you
know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God
against Israel:
Rom
11:3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken
down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
Rom
11:4 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
Rom
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
Rom
11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace
is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace;
otherwise work is no longer work.
Rom
11:7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain,
but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Rom
11:8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of
stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not
hear, to this very day."
Rom
11:9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
Rom
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down
their back always."
Rom
11:11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it
never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to
provoke them to jealousy.
Rom
11:12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss
the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
Rom
11:13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an
apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
Rom
11:14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my
flesh, and may save some of them.
Rom
11:15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world,
what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
Rom
11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is
holy, so are the branches.
Rom
11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a
wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them
of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
Rom
11:18 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you
who support the root, but the root supports you.
Rom
11:19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I
might be grafted in."
Rom
11:20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by
your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
Rom
11:21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he
spare you.
Rom
11:22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who
fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his
goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
Rom
11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be
grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
Rom
11:24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild
olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be
grafted into their own olive tree?
Rom
11:25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this
mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a
partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in,
Rom
11:26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There
will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away
ungodliness from Jacob.
Rom
11:27 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their
sins."
Rom
11:28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But
concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
Rom
11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Rom
11:30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have
obtained mercy by their disobedience,
Rom
11:31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the
mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
Rom
11:32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have
mercy on all.
Rom
11:33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the
knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways
past tracing out!
Rom
11:34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been
his counselor?"
Rom
11:35 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to
him again?"
Rom
11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To
him be the glory for ever! Amen.
Aug. 31
Romans
12
Rom
12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual service.
Rom
12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good,
well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Rom
12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man
who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought
to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each
person a measure of faith.
Rom
12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the
members don't have the same function,
Rom
12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually
members one of another.
Rom
12:6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to
us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our
faith;
Rom
12:7 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who
teaches, to his teaching;
Rom
12:8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do
it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy,
with cheerfulness.
Rom
12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling
to that which is good.
Rom
12:10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to
another; in honor preferring one another;
Rom
12:11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rom
12:12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing
steadfastly in prayer;
Rom
12:13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
Rom
12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.
Rom
12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
Rom
12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on
high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own
conceits.
Rom
12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the
sight of all men.
Rom
12:18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace
with all men.
Rom
12:19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to
God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will
repay, says the Lord."
Rom
12:20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is
thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of
fire on his head."
Rom
12:21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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