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 <div class="label">9</div><div class="cl">Psalm 9#Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.#In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Death of the Son.&#8221; A psalm of David.</div><div class="q1">1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;</div><div class="q2">I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</div><div class="q1">2I will be glad and rejoice in you;</div><div class="q2">I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">3My enemies turn back;</div><div class="q2">they stumble and perish before you.</div><div class="q1">4For you have upheld my right and my cause,</div><div class="q2">sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.</div><div class="q1">5You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;</div><div class="q2">you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.</div><div class="q1">6Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,</div><div class="q2">you have uprooted their cities;</div><div class="q2">even the memory of them has perished.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">7The Lord reigns forever;</div><div class="q2">he has established his throne for judgment.</div><div class="q1">8He rules the world in righteousness</div><div class="q2">and judges the peoples with equity.</div><div class="q1">9The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed,</div><div class="q2">a stronghold in times of trouble.</div><div class="q1">10Those who know your name trust in you,</div><div class="q2">for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">11Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion;</div><div class="q2">proclaim among the nations what he has done.</div><div class="q1">12For he who avenges blood remembers;</div><div class="q2">he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">13 Lord, see how my enemies persecute me!</div><div class="q2">Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,</div><div class="q1">14that I may declare your praises</div><div class="q2">in the gates of Daughter Zion,</div><div class="q2">and there rejoice in your salvation.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">15The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;</div><div class="q2">their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.</div><div class="q1">16The Lord is known by his acts of justice;</div><div class="q2">the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.#9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.</div><div class="q1">17The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,</div><div class="q2">all the nations that forget God.</div><div class="q1">18But God will never forget the needy;</div><div class="q2">the hope of the afflicted will never perish.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">19Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph;</div><div class="q2">let the nations be judged in your presence.</div><div class="q1">20Strike them with terror, Lord;</div><div class="q2">let the nations know they are only mortal.</div>
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 <div class="p">14When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, &#8220;Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,&#8221; 15be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. 16The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, &#8220;You are not to go back that way again.&#8221; 17He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.</div><div class="p">18When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. 19It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees 20and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.</div>
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 <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1">Warnings From Israel&#8217;s History</div><div class="p">1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.</div><div class="p">6Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: &#8220;The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.&#8221;#10:7 Exodus 32:6 8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did&#8212;and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9We should not test Christ,#10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord as some of them did&#8212;and were killed by snakes. 10And do not grumble, as some of them did&#8212;and were killed by the destroying angel.</div><div class="p">11These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 12So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don&#8217;t fall! 13No temptation#10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested. has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted#10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested. beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,#10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested. he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.</div><div class="s1">Idol Feasts and the Lord&#8217;s Supper</div><div class="p">14Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.</div><div class="p">18Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 19Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord&#8217;s table and the table of demons. 22Are we trying to arouse the Lord&#8217;s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?</div><div class="s1">The Believer&#8217;s Freedom</div><div class="p">23&#8220;I have the right to do anything,&#8221; you say&#8212;but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;I have the right to do anything&#8221;&#8212;but not everything is constructive. 24No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.</div><div class="p">25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, &#8220;The earth is the Lord&#8217;s, and everything in it.&#8221;#10:26 Psalm 24:1</div><div class="p">27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28But if someone says to you, &#8220;This has been offered in sacrifice,&#8221; then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29I am referring to the other person&#8217;s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another&#8217;s conscience? 30If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?</div><div class="p">31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God&#8212; 33even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.</div>
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