Who Is Jesus?

Forgive Them Too??

Not Giving Into Fear and Peer Pressure: Devotions for Girls (I Am Fearless)

Jesus Never Said ‘Hustle’: Finding True Rest in a Burnout World

Be Ye Holy: The Holy Spirit's Role in Our Lives

Creating to Heal: 7 Days of Healing Through Art & Prayer

When God Is Silent: Finding Faith in the Waiting

Adventure in Evangelism

Cornerstone: Rebuild, Renew, Restore

Ways to Overcome Your Fears: Devotions for Girls (I Am Fearless)

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk1SA">
      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="1SA.5">
         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ark in Ashdod and Ekron</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then they carried the ark into Dagon&#8217;s temple and set it beside Dagon. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon&#8217;s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation on them and afflicted them with tumors.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, &#8220;The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked them, &#8220;What shall we do with the ark of the god of Israel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.5.8"><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;Have the ark of the god of Israel moved to Gath.&#8221; So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But after they had moved it, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with tumors in the groin </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.5.10"><span class="content">As the ark of God was entering Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, &#8220;They have brought the ark of the god of Israel around to us to kill us and our people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, &#8220;Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> will kill us and our people.&#8221; For death had filled the city with panic; God&#8217;s hand was very heavy on it. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk1SA">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="1SA.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ark Returned to Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had been in Philistine territory seven months, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, &#8220;What shall we do with the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Philistines asked, &#8220;What guilt offering should we send to him?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.6.4"><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel&#8217;s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel&#8217;s god dealt harshly with them, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Take the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They placed the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Levites took down the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. On that day the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;one each for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers&#8212;the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:19 </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">50,070</span></span></span><span class="content"> of them to death because they looked into the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had dealt them. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, &#8220;Who can stand in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim, saying, &#8220;The Philistines have returned the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Come down and take it up to your town.&#8221;</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch85" data-usfm="PSA.85">
         <div class="label">85</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 85</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 85:1-13 is numbered 85:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.85.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, showed favor to your land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.85.1"><span class="content">you restored the fortunes of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.85.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.85.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You forgave the iniquity of your people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.85.2"><span class="content">and covered all their sins.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">85:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.85.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.85.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You set aside all your wrath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.85.3"><span class="content">and turned from your fierce anger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.85.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.85.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Restore us again, God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.85.4"><span class="content">and put away your displeasure toward us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.85.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.85.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Will you be angry with us forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.85.5"><span class="content">Will you prolong your anger through all generations?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.85.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.85.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will you not revive us again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.85.6"><span class="content">that your people may rejoice in you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.85.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.85.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show us your unfailing love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.85.7"><span class="content">and grant us your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.85.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.85.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will listen to what God the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.85.8"><span class="content">he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.85.8"><span class="content">but let them not turn to folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.85.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.85.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.85.9"><span class="content">that his glory may dwell in our land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.85.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.85.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love and faithfulness meet together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.85.10"><span class="content">righteousness and peace kiss each other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.85.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.85.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.85.11"><span class="content">and righteousness looks down from heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.85.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.85.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will indeed give what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.85.12"><span class="content">and our land will yield its harvest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.85.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.85.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Righteousness goes before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.85.13"><span class="content">and prepares the way for his steps.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch86" data-usfm="PSA.86">
         <div class="label">86</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 86</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="content">for I am poor and needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">save your servant who trusts in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">You are my God; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">have mercy on me, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="content">for I call to you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Bring joy to your servant, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="content">for I put my trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, Lord, are forgiving and good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="content">abounding in love to all who call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="content">listen to my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I am in distress, I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="content">because you answer me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="content">no deeds can compare with yours.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations you have made</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">will come and worship before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">they will bring glory to your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For you are great and do marvelous deeds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="content">you alone are God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me your way, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">that I may rely on your faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">give me an undivided heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">that I may fear your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="content">I will glorify your name forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For great is your love toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">you have delivered me from the depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">from the realm of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">they have no regard for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="content">slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Turn to me and have mercy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">show your strength in behalf of your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">save me, because I serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">just as my mother did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Give me a sign of your goodness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have helped me and comforted me.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

New International Version

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMAT">
      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="MAT.12.1+MAT.12.2+MAT.12.3+MAT.12.4+MAT.12.5+MAT.12.6+MAT.12.7+MAT.12.8+MAT.12.9+MAT.12.10+MAT.12.11+MAT.12.12+MAT.12.13+MAT.12.14+MAT.12.15+MAT.12.16+MAT.12.17+MAT.12.18+MAT.12.19+MAT.12.20+MAT.12.21">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, &#8220;Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread&#8212;which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or haven&#8217;t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you had known what these words mean, &#8216;I desire mercy, not sacrifice,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 6:6</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">you would not have condemned the innocent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, &#8220;Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Chosen Servant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He warned them not to tell others about him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is my servant whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">the one I love, in whom I delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">I will put my Spirit on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">and he will proclaim justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He will not quarrel or cry out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"><span class="content">no one will hear his voice in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">A bruised reed he will not break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="content">and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="content">till he has brought justice through to victory.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In his name the nations will put their hope.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:21 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 42:1-4</span></span></span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkROM">
      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ROM.9.19+ROM.9.20+ROM.9.21+ROM.9.22+ROM.9.23+ROM.9.24+ROM.9.25+ROM.9.26+ROM.9.27+ROM.9.28+ROM.9.29+ROM.9.30+ROM.9.31+ROM.9.32+ROM.9.33">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">One of you will say to me: &#8220;Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? &#8220;Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, &#8216;Why did you make me like this?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 29:16; 45:9</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath&#8212;prepared for destruction? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As he says in Hosea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;I will call them &#8216;my people&#8217; who are not my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">and I will call her &#8216;my loved one&#8217; who is not my loved one,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 2:23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;In the very place where it was said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8216;You are not my people,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">there they will be called &#8216;children of the living God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 1:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">only the remnant will be saved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the Lord will carry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="content">his sentence on earth with speed and finality.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:28 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">It is just as Isaiah said previously:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless the Lord Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">had left us descendants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have become like Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have been like Gomorrah.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 1:9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:33 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:14; 28:16</span></span></span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

IHCC Daily Bible Reading Plan - JulySample

Scripture

About this Plan

Related Plans