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OCTOBER 30

PSALMS: 30, 60, 90, 120, 150

PROVERBS: 30

OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 39:1 – 41:16

NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 12:46 – 13:23

PSALMS: 30

1 I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up,
And have not made my foes to rejoice over me. 
2 LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. 
3 LORD, you have brought up my soul from She’ol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 
4 Sing praise to the LORD, you holy ones of his.
Give thanks to his holy name. 
5 For his anger is but for a moment;
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
But joy comes in the morning. 
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” 
7 You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong.
But when you hid your face, I was troubled. 
8 I cried to you, LORD.
To the LORD I made supplication: 
9 “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise you?
Shall it declare your truth? 
10 Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper.” 
11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, 
12 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

PSALMS: 60

1 God, you have rejected us.
You have broken us down.
You have been angry.
Restore us to you, again. 
2 You have made the land tremble.
You have torn it.
Mend its fractures,
For it quakes. 
3 You have shown your people hard things.
You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. 
4 You have given a banner to those who fear you,
That it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah.
5 So that your beloved may be delivered,
Save with your right hand, and answer us. 
6 God has spoken from his sanctuary:
“I will triumph.
I will divide Shekhem,
And measure out the valley of Sukkot.
7 Gil`ad is mine, and Menashsheh is mine.
Efrayim also is the defense of my head.
Yehudah is my scepter. 
8 Mo’av is my wash basin.
I will throw my shoe on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Peleshet.” 
9 Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who has led me to Edom? 
10 Haven’t you, God, rejected us?
You don’t go out with our armies, God. 
11 Give us help against the adversary,
For the help of man is vain. 
12 Through God we shall do valiantly,
For it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

PSALMS: 90

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place In all generations. 
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever you had formed the eretz and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 
3 You turn man to destruction, saying,
“Return, you children of men.” 
4 For a thousand years in your sight
Are but as yesterday when it is past,
As a watch in the night. 
5 You sweep them away as they sleep.
In the morning they sprout like new grass. 
6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.
7 For we are consumed in your anger.
We are troubled in your wrath. 
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
Our secret sins in the light of your presence. 
9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 
10 The days of our years are seventy,
Or even by reason of strength eighty years;
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
For it passes quickly, and we fly away. 
11 Who knows the power of your anger,
Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? 
12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom. 
13 Relent, LORD! How long?
Have compassion on your servants. 
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
For as many years as we have seen evil. 
16 Let your work appear to your servants;
Your glory to their children. 
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
Establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

PSALMS: 120

1 The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.” 
2 The LORD will send forth the rod of your strength out of Tziyon.
Rule in the midst of your enemies. 
3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power,
In holy array.
Out of the womb of the morning,
you have the dew of your youth. 
4 The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind:
“You are a Kohen forever in the order of Malki-Tzedek.” 
5 The Lord is at your right hand.
He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge among the nations.
He will heap up dead bodies.
He will crush the ruler of the whole eretz. 
7 He will drink of the brook in the way;
Therefore will he lift up his head.

PSALMS: 150

1 Deliver me, LORD, from the evil man.
Preserve me from the violent man; 
2 Those who devise mischief in their hearts.
They continually gather themselves together for war. 
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah. 
4 LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked.
Preserve me from the violent men:
Who have determined to trip my feet. 
5 The proud have hidden a snare for me,
They have spread the cords of a net by the path.
They have set traps for me. Selah. 
6 I said to the LORD, “You are my God.”
Listen to the cry of my petitions, LORD. 
7 LORD, the Lord, the strength of my yeshu`ah,
You have covered my head in the day of battle. 
8 LORD, don’t grant the desires of the wicked.
Don’t let their evil plans succeed,
or they will become proud.
Selah. 
9 As for the head of those who surround me,
Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 
10 Let burning coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
Into miry pits, from where they never rise. 
11 An evil speaker won’t be established in the eretz.
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him. 
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
And justice for the needy. 
13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.
The upright will dwell in your presence.

PROVERBS: 30

1 The words of Agur the son of Yakeh, the oracle:
The man says to ‘Iti’el, To ‘Iti’el and Ucal: 
2 “Surely I am the most ignorant man,
And don’t have a man’s understanding. 
3 I have not learned wisdom,
Neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. 
4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has bound the waters in his garment?
Who has established all the ends of the eretz? ‘
What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know? 
5 “Every word of God is flawless.
He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 
6 Don’t you add to his words,
Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. 
7 “Two things I have asked of you;
Don’t deny me before I die: 
8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed me with the food that is needful for me; 
9 Lest I be full, deny you, and say,
‘Who is the LORD?’
Or lest I be poor, and steal,
And so dishonor the name of my God. 
10 “Don’t slander a servant to his master,
Lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. 
11 There is a generation that curses their father,
And doesn’t bless their mother. 
12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
Yet are not washed from their filthiness. 
13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
Their eyelids are lifted up. 
14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And their jaws like knives,
To devour the poor from the eretz,
and the needy from among men. 
15 “The leach has two daughters:
‘Give, give.’
“There are three things that are never satisfied;
Four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ 
16 She’ol, the barren womb;
The eretz that is not satisfied with water;
The fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough;’ 
17 And the eye that mocks at his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother:
The ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
The young eagles shall eat it. 
18 “There are three things which are too amazing for me,
Four which I don’t understand: 
19 The way of an eagle in the air;
The way of a serpent on a rock;
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea;
And the way of a man with a maiden. 
20 So is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ 
21 “For three things the eretz tremble,
And under four, it can’t bear up: 
22 For a servant when he is king;
A fool when he is filled with food; 
23 For an unloved woman when she is married;
And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
24 “There are four things which are little on the eretz,
But they are exceeding wise: 
25 The ants are not a strong people,
Yet they provide their food in the summer; 
26 The conies are but a feeble folk,
Yet make they their houses in the rocks; 
27 The locusts have no king,
Yet they advance in ranks; 
28 You can catch a lizard with your hands,
Yet she is in kings’ palaces. 
29 “There are three things which are stately in their march,
Four which are stately in going: 
30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals,
And doesn’t turn away for any; 
31 The greyhound, the male goat also;
And the king against whom there is no rising up. 
32 “If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself,
Or if you have thought evil,
Put your hand over your mouth. 
33 For as the churning of milk brings forth butter,
And the wringing of the nose brings forth blood;
So the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.”

OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 39:1 – 41:16

39:1 Yosef was brought down to Mitzrayim. Potifar, an officer of Paroh's, the captain of the guard, a Mitzrian, bought him from the hand of the Yishmeelim that had brought him down there. 2 The LORD was with Yosef, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Mitzrian. 3 His master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand. 4 Yosef found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Mitzrian’s house for Yosef’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. 6 He left all that he had in Yosef’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Yosef was well-built and handsome. 7 It happened after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes on Yosef; and she said, “Lie with me.” 8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. 9 He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” 10 It happened that as she spoke to Yosef day by day, that he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 11 It happened about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. 13 It happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, 14 that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.” 16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. 17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, 18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.” 19 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” that his wrath was kindled. 20 Yosef’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in the custody. 21 But the LORD was with Yosef, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22 The keeper of the prison committed to Yosef’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.

40:1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Mitzrayim and his baker offended their lord, the king of Mitzrayim. 2 Paroh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yosef was bound.

4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Yosef, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Mitzrayim, who were bound in the prison.

6 Yosef came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and, saw that they were sad.

7 He asked Paroh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?” 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Yosef said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”9 The chief butler told his dream to Yosef, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes. 11 Paroh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Paroh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Paroh's hand."

12 Yosef said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days

13 Within three more days, Paroh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Paroh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his butler.

14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Paroh, and bring me out of this house. 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.” 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Yosef, “I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. 17 In the uppermost basket there was of all kinds of baked food for Paroh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."18 Yosef answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three more days, Paroh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.” 20 It happened the third day, which was Paroh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

21 He restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he gave the cup into Paroh’s hand; 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosef had interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief butler didn’t remember Yosef, but forgot him.

41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Paroh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.

3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

4 The ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle. So Paroh awoke. 5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up on one stalk, rank and good. 6 Behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 7 The thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. Paroh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Mitzrayim, and all the wise men of it. Paroh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Paroh.

9 hen the chief butler spoke to Paroh, saying, “I remember my faults today. 10 Paroh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he did interpret.

13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: me he restored to my office, and him he hanged."

14 Then Paroh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Paroh.

15 Paroh said to Yosef, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16 Yosef answered Paroh, saying, "It isn't in me: God will give Paroh an answer of shalom.”

NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 12:46 – 13:23

12:46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. 47 One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.” 48 But he answered him who told him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” 49 He stretched forth his hand towards his talmidim, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

13:1 On that day Yeshua went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. 2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. 3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went forth to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of eretz. 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. 
7  Others fell on thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them: 8 and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times, some sixty, and some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 10 The talmidim came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Yesha`yahu is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: 15 For this people’s heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes they have closed; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.’ 16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. 17 For most assuredly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them. 18 “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. 20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times, some sixty, some thirty.”

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Shabbat Shalom!

July 14

THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION

Psalms: 14, 44, 74, 104, 134

Proverbs: 14

Old Testament: Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:30

New Testament: Philippians 4:1 – 23

I am a Jewish Believer, a believer in

Father G-D (Abba Father), Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Christ),

and Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit)!

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JUNE 21

PSALMS:   21, 51, 81, 111, 141

PROVERBS:  21

OLD TESTAMENT:  ISAIAH 6:1 – 7:25

NEW TESTAMENT:  2 CORINTHIANS 11:16 – 33

PSALMS:  21

1 The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! 

How greatly he rejoices in your yeshu`ah! 

2 You have given him his heart’s desire, 

And have not withheld the request of his lips. 

Selah. 

3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness; 

You set a crown of fine gold on his head. 

4 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, 

Even length of days forever and ever. 

5 His glory is great in your salvation. 

You lay honor and majesty on him. 

6 For you make him most blessed forever. 

You make him glad with joy in your presence. 

7 For the king trusts in the LORD. 

Through the loving kindness of Ha`Elyon, 

he shall not be moved. 

8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. 

Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 

9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. 

The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. 

The fire shall devour them. 

10 You will destroy their descendants from the eretz, 

Their posterity from among the children of men. 

11 For they intended evil against you. 

They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed. 

12 For you will make them turn their back, 

When you aim drawn bows at their face. 

13 Be exalted, LORD, in your strength, 

So we will sing and praise your power.

PSALMS:  51

1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. 

According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. 

Cleanse me from my sin. 

3 For I know my transgressions. 

My sin is constantly before me. 

4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, 

And done that which is evil in your sight; 

That you may be proved right when you speak, 

And justified when you judge. 

5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. 

In sin did my mother conceive me. 

6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. 

You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. 

Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 

8 Let me hear joy and gladness, 

That the bones which you have broken may rejoice. 

9 Hide your face from my sins, 

And blot out all of my iniquities. 

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. 

Renew a right spirit within me. 

11 Don’t throw me from your presence, 

And don’t take your holy Spirit from me. 

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. 

Uphold me with a willing spirit. 

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. 

Sinners shall be converted to you.

14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, 

O God, the God of my salvation. 

My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 

15 Lord, open my lips. 

My mouth shall declare your praise. 

16 For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. 

You have no pleasure in burnt offering. 

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. 

A broken and contrite heart, 

O God, you will not despise. 

18 Do well in your good pleasure to Tziyon. 

Build the walls of Yerushalayim. 

19 Then will you delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, 

In burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. 

Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

PSALMS:  81

1 Sing aloud to God, our strength! 

Make a joyful noise to the God of Ya`akov! 

2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, 

The pleasant lyre with the harp. 

3 Blow the shofar at the New Moon, 

At the full moon, on our feast day. 

4 For it is a statute for Yisra’el, 

An ordinance of the God of Ya`akov. 

5 He appointed it in Yosef for a testimony, 

When he went out over the land of Mitzrayim, 

I heard a language that I didn’t know. 

6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden. 

His hands were freed from the basket. 

7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. 

I answered you in the secret place of thunder. 

I tested you at the waters of Merivah.” 

Selah. 

8 “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. 

Yisra’el, if you would listen to me! 

9 There shall be no strange god in you, 

Neither shall you worship any foreign god. 

10 I am the LORD, your God, 

Who brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim. 

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 

11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice. 

Yisra’el desired none of me.

12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, 

That they might walk in their own counsels. 

13 Oh that my people would listen to me, 

That Yisra’el would walk in my ways! 

14 I would soon subdue their enemies,

 And turn my hand against their adversaries. 

15 The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, 

And their punishment would last forever. 

16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. 

I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

PSALMS:  111

1 Praise the LORD! 

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, 

In the council of the upright, and in the congregation. 

2 The works of the LORD are great, 

Pondered by all those who delight in them. 

3 His work is honor and majesty. 

His righteousness endures forever. 

4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. 

The LORD is gracious and merciful. 

5 He has given food to those who fear him. 

He always remembers his covenant. 

6 He has shown his people the power of his works, 

In giving them the heritage of the nations. 

7 The works of his hands are truth and justice. 

All his precepts are sure. 

8 They are established forever and ever. 

They are done in truth and uprightness. 

9 He has sent redemption to his people. 

He has ordained his covenant forever. 

His name is holy and awesome! 

10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. 

All those who do his work have a good understanding. 

His praise endures forever!

PSALMS:  141

1 LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! 

Listen to my voice when I call to you. 

2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; ‘

The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice. 

3 Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. 

Keep the door of my lips. 

4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, ‘

To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. 

Don’t let me eat of their delicacies. 

5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; 

Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; 

Don’t let my head refuse it; 

Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds. 

6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. 

They will hear my words, for they are well spoken. 

7 “As when one plows and breaks up the eretz, 

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She’ol.” 

8 For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. 

In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute. 

9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, 

From the traps of the workers of iniquity. 

10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, 

While I pass by.

PROVERBS:  21

1 The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. 

He turns it wherever he desires. 

2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, 

But the LORD weighs the hearts. 

3 To do righteousness and justice 

Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 

4 A high look, and a proud heart, 

The lamp of the wicked, is sin. 

5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; 

And everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty. 

6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue 

Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death. 

7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, 

Because they refuse to do what is right. 

8 The way of the guilty is devious, 

But the conduct of the innocent is upright. 

9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, 

Than to share a house with a contentious woman. 

10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; 

His neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. 

11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; 

When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. 

12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, 

And brings the wicked to ruin. 

13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, 

He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

14 A gift in secret pacifies anger; 

And a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath. 

15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; 

But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. 

16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding 

Shall rest in the assembly of the dead. 

17  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man: 

He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich. 

18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; 

The treacherous for the upright. 

19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, 

Than with a contentious and fretful woman. 

20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; 

But a foolish man swallows it up. 

21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness 

Finds life, righteousness, and honor. 

22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, 

And brings down the strength of its confidence. 

23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue 

Keeps his soul from troubles. 

24 The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; 

He works in the arrogance of pride. 

25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, 

For his hands refuse to labor. 

26 There are those who covet greedily all the day long; 

But the righteous gives and doesn’t withhold.

27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: 

How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind! 

28 A false witness will perish, 

And a man who listens speaks to eternity. 

29 A wicked man hardens his face; 

But as for the upright, he establishes his ways. 

30 There is no wisdom nor understanding 

Nor counsel against the LORD. 

31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle; 

But victory is with the LORD.

OLD TESTAMENT:  ISAIAH 6:1 – 7:25

6-1 In the year that king `Uzziyah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the serafim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. 3 One cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts: the whole eretz is full of his glory. 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts. 6 Then flew one of the serafim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven. 8 I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me. 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.” 11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste, 12 and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. 13 If there are yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock of it.” 

7:1 It happened in the days of Achaz the son of Yotam, the son of `Uzziyah, king of Yehudah, that Retzin the king of Aram, and Pekach the son of Remalyahu, king of Yisra’el, went up to Yerushalayim to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 It was told the house of David, saying, “Aram is allied with Efrayim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. 3 Then the LORD said to Yesha`yahu, “Go forth now to meet Achaz, you, and She’ar-Yashuv your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field; 4 and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be quiet; don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Retzin and Aram, and of the son of Remalyahu. 5 Because Aram, Efrayim, and the son of Remalyahu, have purposed evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Yehudah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tav’el;” 7 thus says the Lord GOD, “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” 8 For the head of Aram is Dammesek, and the head of Dammesek is Retzin; and within sixty-five years shall Efrayim be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people: 9 and the head of Efrayim is Shomron, and the head of Shomron is Remalyahu’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'” 10 The LORD spoke again to Achaz, saying, 11 Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, an almah shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu’el. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. 17 The LORD will bring on you, and on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Efrayim departed from Yehudah [even] the king of Ashshur. 18 It shall happen in that day, that the LORD will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Mitzrayim, and for the bee that is in the land of Ashshur. 19 They shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures. 20 In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Ashshur, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 21 It shall happen in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23 It shall happen in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25 All the hills that were dug with the mattock, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.” 

NEW TESTAMENT:  2 CORINTHIANS 11:16 – 33

11:16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 

17 That which I speak, I don’t speak after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 

18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 

20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 

22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Yisra’elites? So am I. Are they the seed of Avraham? So am I. 

23 Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 

24 Five times from the Yehudim I received forty stripes minus one. 

25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 

26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Goyim, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 

27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 

28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn? 

30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 

31 The God and Father of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don’t lie. 

32 In Dammesek the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. 

33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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FEBRUARY 22

PSALMS: 22, 52, 82, 112, 142

PROVERBS: 22

OLD TESTAMENT: 1 SAMUEL 15:1 – 16:23

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 8:1 – 20

PSALMS: 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? 

2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;

In the night season, and am not silent. 

3 But you are holy,

You who inhabit the praises of Yisra’el.

4 Our fathers trusted in you.

They trusted, and you delivered them.

5 They cried to you, and were delivered.

They trusted in you, and were not put to shame. 

6 But I am a worm, and no man;

A reproach of men, and despised by the people. 

7 All those who see me mock me.

They insult me with their lips.

They shake their heads, saying, 

8 “He trusts in the LORD; Let him deliver him;

Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.” 

9 But you brought me out of the womb.

You made me trust at my mother’s breasts. 

10 I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.

You are my God since my mother bore me. 

11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.

For there is none to help.

12 Many bulls have surrounded me.

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 

13 They open their mouths wide against me,

Lions tearing prey and roaring. 

14 I am poured out like water.

All my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like wax;

It is melted within me. 

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. 

16 For dogs have surrounded me.

A company of evil-doers have enclosed me.

They pierced my hands and my feet. 

17 I can count all of my bones.

They look and stare at me. 

18 They divide my garments among them.

They cast lots for my clothing. 

19 But don’t be far off, LORD.

You are my help: hurry to help me. 

20 Deliver my soul from the sword,

My precious life from the power of the dog. 

21 Save me from the lion’s mouth;

Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me. 

22 I will declare your name to my brothers.

In the midst of the assembly, will I praise you. 

23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!

All you descendants of Ya`akov, glorify him!

Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Yisra’el! 

24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,

Neither has he hid his face from him;

But when he cried to him, he heard. 

25 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly.

I will pay my vows before those who fear him. 

26 The humble shall eat and be satisfied.

They shall praise the LORD who seek after him.

Let your hearts live forever. 

27 All the ends of the eretz shall remember and turn to the LORD.

All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. 

28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s.

He is the ruler over the nations. 

29 All the rich ones of the eretz 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.

30 Posterity shall serve him.

Future generations shall be told about the Lord. 

31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, For he has done it.

PSALMS: 52

1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?

God’s loving kindness endures continually. 

2 Your tongue plots destruction,

Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 

3 You love evil more than good,

Lying rather than speaking the truth.

Selah. 

4 You love all devouring words,

You deceitful tongue. 

5 God will likewise destroy you forever.

He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,

And root you out of the land of the living.

Selah. 

6 The righteous also will see it, and fear,

And laugh at him, saying, 

7 “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength,

But trusted in the abundance of his riches,

And strengthened himself in his wickedness.” 

8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house.

I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever. 

9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it.

I will hope in your name, for it is good,

In the presence of your holy ones.

PSALMS: 82

1 God presides in the great assembly.

He judges among the gods. 

2 “How long will you judge unjustly,

And show partiality to the wicked?”

Selah. 

3 “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.

Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 

4 Rescue the weak and needy.

Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.” 

5 They don’t know, neither do they understand.

They walk back and forth in darkness.

All the foundations of the eretz are shaken. 

6 I said, “You are gods,

All of you are sons of Ha`Elyon. 

7 Nevertheless you shall die like men,

And fall like one of the rulers.” 

8 Arise, God, judge the eretz,

For you inherit all of the nations.

PSALMS: 112

1 Praise the LORD!

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,

Who delights greatly in his mitzvot. 

2 His seed will be mighty on eretz.

The generation of the upright will be blessed. 

3 Wealth and riches are in his house.

His righteousness endures forever. 

4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,

Gracious, merciful, and righteous. 

5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.

He will maintain his cause in judgment. 

6 For he will never be shaken.

The righteous will be remembered forever. 

7 He will not be afraid of evil news.

His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. 

8 His heart is established.

He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries. 

9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.

His righteousness endures forever.

His horn will be exalted with honor.

10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved.

He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.

The desire of the wicked will perish.

PSALMS: 142

1 I cry with my voice to the LORD.

With my voice, I ask the LORD for mercy. 

2 I pour out my complaint before him.

I tell him my troubles. 

3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,

You knew my path.

In the way in which I walk,

They have hidden a snare for me.

4 Look on my right, and see;

For there is no one who is concerned for me.

Refuge has fled from me.

No one cares for my soul. 

5 I cried to you, the LORD.

I said, “You are my refuge,

My portion in the land of the living.” 

6 Listen to my cry,

For I am in desperate need.

Deliver me from my persecutors,

For they are stronger than me. 

7 Bring my soul out of prison,

That I may give thanks to your name.

The righteous will surround me,

For you will be good to me.

PROVERBS: 22

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches;

Loving favor rather than silver and gold. 

2 The rich and the poor have this in common:

The LORD is the maker of them all. 

3 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself;

But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

4 The result of humility and the fear of the LORD

Is wealth, honor, and life. 

5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked:

Whoever guards his soul stays from them. 

6 Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it. 

7 The rich rules over the poor.

The borrower is servant to the lender. 

8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,

And the rod of his fury will be destroyed. 

9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed;

For he shares his food with the poor. 

10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;

Yes, quarrels and insults will stop. 

11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully Is the king’s friend. 

12 The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge;

But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. 

13 The sluggard says,

“There is a lion outside!

I will be killed in the streets!” 

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit:

He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it. 

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:

The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,

Both come to poverty. 

17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.

Apply your heart to my teaching. 

18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you,

If all of them are ready on your lips. 

19 That your trust may be in the LORD,

I teach you today, even you. 

20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things

Of counsel and knowledge, 

21 To teach you truth, reliable words,

To give sound answers to the ones who sent you? 

22 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor;

And don’t crush the needy in court; 

23 For the LORD will plead their case,

And plunder the life of those who plunder them. 

24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,

And don’t associate with one who harbors anger: 

25 Lest you learn his ways,

And ensnare your soul. 

26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,

Of those who are collateral for debts. 

27 If you don’t have means to pay,

Why should he take away your bed from under you?

28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone,

Which your fathers have set up. 

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?

He will serve kings;

He won’t serve obscure men.

OLD TESTAMENT: 1 SAMUEL 15:1 – 16:23

15:1 Shemu’el said to Sha’ul, the LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Yisra’el: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of the LORD. 2 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, I have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra’el, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Mitzrayim. 3 Now go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. 4 Sha’ul summoned the people, and numbered them in Tela’im, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Yehudah. 5 Sha’ul came to the city of `Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6 Sha’ul said to the Kinim, Go, depart, get you down from among the `Amaleki, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Yisra’el, when they came up out of Mitzrayim. So the Kinim departed from among the `Amaleki. 7 Sha’ul struck the `Amaleki, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Mitzrayim. 8 He took Agag the king of the `Amaleki alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Sha’ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn’t utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 10 Then came the word of the LORD to Shemu’el, saying, 11 It repents me that I have set up Sha’ul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my mitzvot. Shemu’el was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night. 12 Shemu’el rose early to meet Sha’ul in the morning; and it was told Shemu’el, saying, Sha’ul came to Karmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal. 13 Shemu’el came to Sha’ul; and Sha’ul said to him, Blessed are you by the LORD: I have performed the mitzvah of the LORD. 14 Shemu’el said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15  Sha’ul said, They have brought them from the `Amaleki: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. 16 Then Shemu’el said to Sha’ul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on. 17  Shemu’el said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Yisra’el? the LORD anointed you king over Yisra’el; 18 and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the `Amaleki, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then didn’t you obey the voice of the LORD, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?” 20 Sha’ul said to Shemu’el, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of `Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the `Amaleki. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal. 22 Shemu’el said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and terafim. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king. 24 Sha’ul said to Shemu’el, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the mitzvah of the LORD, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. 26 Shemu’el said to Sha’ul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Yisra’el. 27 As Shemu’el turned about to go away, [Sha’ul] laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28 Shemu’el said to him, the LORD has torn the kingdom of Yisra’el from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. 29 Also the Strength of Yisra’el will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. 30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the Zakenim of my people, and before Yisra’el, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD your God. 31 So Shemu’el turned again after Sha’ul; and Sha’ul worshiped the LORD. 32 Then said Shemu’el, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the `Amaleki. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. 33 Shemu’el said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Shemu’el hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 34 Then Shemu’el went to Ramah; and Sha’ul went up to his house to Gevah of Sha’ul. 35 Shemu’el came no more to see Sha’ul until the day of his death; for Shemu’el mourned for Sha’ul: and the LORD repented that he had made Sha’ul king over Yisra’el.

16:1 The LORD said to Shemu’el, How long will you mourn for Sha’ul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Yisra’el? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Yishai the Beit-Hallachmite; for I have provided me a king among his sons. 

2 Shemu’el said, How can I go? if Sha’ul hear it, he will kill me. The LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD. 3 Call Yishai to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you. 4 Shemu’el did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beit-Lechem. The Zakenim of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably? 5 He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified Yishai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eli’av, and said, Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him. 7  But the LORD said to Shemu’el, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [the LORD sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” 8 Then Yishai called Avinadav, and made him pass before Shemu’el. He said, Neither has the LORD chosen this. 9 Then Yishai made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has the LORD chosen this. 10 Yishai made seven of his sons to pass before Shemu’el. Shemu’el said to Yishai, the LORD has not chosen these. 11 Shemu’el said to Yishai, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Shemu’el said to Yishai, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here. 12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. The LORD said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he. 13 Then Shemu’el took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on David from that day forward. So Shemu’el rose up, and went to Ramah. 14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Sha’ul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 15 Sha’ul’s servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you. 16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well. 17  Sha’ul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me. 18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Yishai the Beit-Hallachmite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and the LORD is with him. 19 Therefore Sha’ul sent messengers to Yishai, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep. 20 Yishai took a donkey [laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Sha’ul. 21 David came to Sha’ul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer. 22 Sha’ul sent to Yishai, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight. 23 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Sha’ul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Sha’ul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 8:1 – 20

8:1 but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. 

2 At early dawn, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. 

3 The Sofrim and the Perushim brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 

4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 

5 Now in our law, Moshe commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?” 

6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Yeshua stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 

7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” 

8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 

9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. 

10 Yeshua, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” 

11 She said, “No one, Lord.” Yeshua said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.” 

12 Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” 

13 The Perushim therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.” 

14 Yeshua answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. 

15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 

16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 

17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid. 

18 I am he who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.” 

19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 

20 Yeshua spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. No one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

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FEBRUARY 18

PSALMS: 18, 48, 78, 108, 138

PROVERBS: 18

OLD TESTAMENT: 1 SAMUEL 8:1 – 9:27

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 6:22 – 42

PSALMS: 18

1 I love you, LORD, my strength. 

2 The LORD is my rock,

and my fortress, and my deliverer;

My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge;

My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 

3 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;

So shall I be saved from my enemies. 

4 The cords of death surrounded me.

The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 

5 The cords of She’ol were round about me;

The snares of death came on me. 

6 In my distress I called on the LORD,

And cried to my God.

He heard my voice out of his temple,

My cry before him came into his ears. 

7 Then the eretz shook and trembled.

The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,

Because he was angry. 

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

Fire out of his mouth devoured;

Coals were kindled by it. 

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.

Thick darkness was under his feet. 

10 He rode on a Keruv, and flew.

Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. 

11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 

12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,

Hailstones and coals of fire. 

13 The LORD also thundered in the sky,

The Elyon uttered his voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;

Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them. 

15 Then the channels of waters appeared,

The foundations of the world were laid bare,

At your rebuke, LORD,

At the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 

16 He sent from on high.

He took me.

He drew me out of many waters. 

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,

From those who hated me;

for they were too mighty for me. 

18 They came on me in the day of my calamity,

But the LORD was my support. 

19 He brought me forth also into a large place.

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness.

According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,

And have not wickedly departed from my God. 

22 For all his ordinances were before me.

I didn’t put away his statutes from me. 

23 I was also blameless with him.

I kept myself from my iniquity. 

24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 

25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.

With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. 

26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure.

With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. 

27 For you will save the afflicted people,

But the haughty eyes you will bring down. 

28 For you will light my lamp.

The LORD, my God, will light up my darkness.

29 For by you, I advance through a troop.

By my God, I leap over a wall. 

30 As for God, his way is perfect.

The word of the LORD is tried.

He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. 

31 For who is God, except the LORD?

Who is a rock, besides our God, 

32 The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? 

33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,

And sets me on my high places. 

34 He teaches my hands to war;

So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.

Your right hand sustains me.

Your gentleness has made me great. 

36 You have enlarged my steps under me,

My feet have not slipped. 

37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.

Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. 

38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.

They shall fall under my feet. 

39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle.

You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 

40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,

That I might cut off those who hate me. 

41 They cried, but there was none to save;

Even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them. 

42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.

I cast them out as the mire of the streets. 

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.

You have made me the head of the nations.

A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 

44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.

The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. 

45 The foreigners shall fade away,

And shall come trembling out of their close places. 

46 The LORD lives;

and blessed be my rock.

Exalted be the God of my salvation, 

47 Even the God who executes vengeance for me,

And subdues peoples under me. 

48 He rescues me from my enemies.

Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.

You deliver me from the violent man. 

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations,

And will sing praises to your name. 

50 He gives great deliverance to his king,

And shows loving kindness to his anointed,

To David and to his seed, forevermore.

PSALMS: 48

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,

In the city of our God, in his holy mountain. 

2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole eretz,

Is Mount Tziyon, on the north sides,

The city of the great King. 

3 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. 

4 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,

They passed by together.

5 They saw it, then were they amazed.

They were dismayed,

They hurried away. 

6 Trembling took hold of them there,

Pain, as of a woman in travail. 

7  With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. 

8 As we have heard, so have we seen,

In the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God.

God will establish it forever.

Selah. 

9 We have thought about your loving kindness,

God, In the midst of your temple. 

10 As is your name, God,

So is your praise to the ends of the eretz.

Your right hand is full of righteousness. 

11 Let Mount Tziyon be glad!

Let the daughters of Yehudah rejoice,

Because of your judgments. 

12 Walk about Tziyon, and go around her.

Number the towers of it; 

13 Mark well her bulwarks.

Consider her palaces, ‘

That you may tell it to the next generation. 

14 For this God is our God forever and ever.

He will be our guide even to death.

PSALMS: 78

1 Hear my law, my people.

Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. 

2 I will open my mouth in a parable.

I will utter dark sayings of old, 

3 Which we have heard and known,

Our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children,

Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,

His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. 

5 For he established a testimony in Ya`akov,

And appointed a law in Yisra’el,

Which he commanded our fathers,

That they should make them known to their children; 

6 That the generation to come might know,

even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell their children, 

7 That they might set their hope in God,

And not forget the works of God,

But keep his mitzvot, 

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. 

9 The children of Efrayim, being armed and carrying bows,

Turned back in the day of battle. 

10 They didn’t keep the covenant of God,

And refused to walk in his law.

11 They forgot his doings,

His wondrous works that he had shown them. 

12 Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Mitzrayim, in the field of Tzo`an. 

13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through;

He made the waters stand as a heap.

14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,

All the night with a light of fire. 

15 He split rocks in the wilderness,

And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 

16 He brought streams also out of the rock,

And caused waters to run down like rivers. 

17 Yet they still went on to sin against him,

To rebel against Ha`Elyon in the desert.

18 They tempted God in their heart

By asking food according to their desire. 

19 Yes, they spoke against God.

They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 

20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,

Streams overflowed.

Can he give bread also?

Will he provide flesh for his people?” 

21 Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.

A fire was kindled against Ya`akov,

Anger also went up against Yisra’el, 

22 Because they didn’t believe in God,

And didn’t trust in his yeshu`ah. 

23 Yet he commanded the skies above,

And opened the doors of heaven. 

24 He rained down manna on them to eat,

And gave them food from the sky. 

25 Man ate the bread of angels.

He sent them food to the full. 

26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.

By his power he guided the south wind.

27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust;

Winged birds as the sand of the seas. 

28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp,

Around their habitations. 

29 So they ate, and were well filled.

He gave them their own desire. 

30 They didn’t turn from their cravings.

Their food was yet in their mouths, 

31 When the anger of God went up against them,

And killed some of the fattest of them,

And struck down the young men of Yisra’el. 

32 For all this they still sinned,

And didn’t believe in his wondrous works. 

33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,

And their years in terror. 

34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.

They returned and sought God earnestly. 

35 They remembered that God was their rock, ‘

The El `Elyon their redeemer. 

36 But they flattered him with their mouth,

And lied to him with their tongue. 

37  For their heart was not right with him,

Neither were they faithful in his covenant. 

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. 

39 He remembered that they were but flesh,

A wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. 

40 How often did they rebel against him in the wilderness,

And grieve him in the desert! 

41 They turned again and tempted God,

And provoked the Holy One of Yisra’el. 

42 They didn’t remember his hand,

Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 

43 How he set his signs in Mitzrayim,

His wonders in the field of Tzo`an, 

44 Turned their rivers into blood,

Their streams, so that they could not drink. 

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;

Frogs, which destroyed them. 

46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
Their labor to the arbeh. 

47 He destroyed their vines with hail,

Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.

48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail,

And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 

49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,

Wrath, indignation, and trouble,

And a band of angels of evil. 

50 He made a path for his anger.

He didn’t spare their soul from death,

But gave their life over to the pestilence, 

51 And struck all the firstborn in Mitzrayim,

The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 

52 But he led forth his own people like sheep,

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 

53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,

But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 

54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,

To this mountain, which his right hand had taken. 

55 He also drove out the nations before them,

Allotted them for an inheritance by line,

And made the tribes of Yisra’el to dwell in their tents. 

56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against

Ha`Elyon God, And didn’t keep his testimonies; 

57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.

They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,

And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. 

59 When God heard this, he was angry,

And greatly abhorred Yisra’el;

60 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh,

The tent which he placed among men; 

61 And delivered his strength into captivity,

His glory into the adversary’s hand. 

62 He also gave his people over to the sword,

And was angry with his inheritance. 

63 Fire devoured their young men;

Their virgins had no wedding song. 

64 Their Kohanim fell by the sword;

Their widows made no lamentation. 

65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,

Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. 

66 He struck his adversaries backward.

He put them to a perpetual reproach. 

67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Yosef,

And didn’t choose the tribe of Efrayim, 

68 But chose the tribe of Yehudah,

Mount Tziyon which he loved. 

69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,

Like the eretz which he has established forever. 

70 He also chose David his servant,

And took him from the sheepfolds;

71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him

To be the shepherd of Ya`akov, his people, and Yisra’el, his inheritance.

72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,

And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

PSALMS: 108

1 My heart is steadfast, God.

I will sing and I will make music with my soul. 

2 Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn. 

3 I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations.

I will sing praises to you among the peoples. 

4 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.

Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 

5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens,

Let your glory be over all the eretz. 

6 That your beloved may be delivered,

Save with your right hand, and answer us. 

7 God has spoken from his sanctuary:

“In triumph, I will divide Shekhem, and measure out the valley of Sukkot. 

8 Gil`ad is mine.

Menashsheh is mine.

Efrayim also is my helmet.

Yehudah is my scepter. 

9 Mo’av is my wash pot.

I will toss my sandal on Edom.

I will shout over Peleshet.” 

10 Who will bring me into the fortified city?

Who has led me to Edom? 

11 Haven’t you rejected us, God?

‘You don’t go forth, God, with our armies. 

12 Give us help against the enemy,

For the help of man is vain. 

13 Through God, we will do valiantly.

For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

PROVERBS: 18

1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness,

And defies all sound judgment. 

2 A fool has no delight in understanding,

But only in broadcasting his own opinion. 

3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes,

And with shame comes disgrace. 

4 The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters.

The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. 

5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good,

Nor to deprive the innocent of justice. 

6 A fool’s lips come into strife,

And his mouth invites beatings. 

7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction,

And his lips are a snare to his soul. 

8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:

They go down into a person’s innermost parts. 

9 One who is slack in his work

Is brother to him who is a master of destruction. 

10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower:

The righteous run to him, and are safe. 

11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,

Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. 

12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud,

But before honor is humility. 

13 He who gives answer before he hears,

That is folly and shame to him. 

14 A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness,

But a crushed spirit who can bear? 

15 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge.

The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

16 A man’s gift makes room for him,

And brings him before great men. 

17  He who pleads his cause first seems right;

Until another comes and questions him. 

18 The lot settles disputes,

And keeps strong ones apart. 

19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city;

And disputes are like the bars of a castle. 

20 A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth.

With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. 

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue;

Those who love it will eat its fruit. 

22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,

And obtains favor of the LORD. 

23 The poor pleads for mercy,

But the rich answers harshly. 

24 A man of many companions may be ruined,

But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

OLD TESTAMENT: 1 SAMUEL 8:1 – 9:27

8:1 It happened, when Shemu’el was old, that he made his sons judges over Yisra’el. 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Yo’el; and the name of his second, Aviyah: they were judges in Be’er-Sheva. 3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.  4Then all the Zakenim of Yisra’el gathered themselves together, and came to Shemu’el to Ramah; 5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased Shemu’el, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Shemu’el prayed to the LORD. 7  The LORD said to Shemu’el, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Mitzrayim even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you. 9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them. 10 Shemu’el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king. 11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots; 12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants. 18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day. 19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu’el; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us, 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. 21 Shemu’el heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. 22 The LORD said to Shemu’el, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Shemu’el said to the men of Yisra’el, Go you every man to his city.

9:1 Now there was a man of Binyamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Aviel, the son of Tzeror, the son of Bekhorat, the son of Afiach, the son of a Binyamini, a mighty man of valor. 2 He had a son, whose name was Sha’ul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Yisra’el a better person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. 3 The donkeys of Kish, Sha’ul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Sha’ul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys. 4 He passed through the hill-country of Efrayim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them: then they passed through the land of Sha`alim, and there they weren’t there: and he passed through the land of the Binyamini, but they didn’t find them. 5 When they had come to the land of Tzuf, Sha’ul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us. 6 He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go. 7 Then said Sha’ul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we? 8 The servant answered Sha’ul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (In earlier times in Yisra’el, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.) 10 Then said Sha’ul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was. 11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? 12 They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place: 13 as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him. 14 They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Shemu’el came out toward them, to go up to the high place. 15 Now the LORD had revealed to Shemu’el a day before Sha’ul came, saying, 16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Binyamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Yisra’el; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Pelishtim: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me. 17  When Shemu’el saw Sha’ul, the LORD said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people. 18 Then Sha’ul drew near to Shemu’el in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer’s house is. 19 Shemu’el answered Sha’ul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart. 20 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Yisra’el? Is it not for you, and for all your father’s house? 21 Sha’ul answered, Am I not a Binyamini, of the smallest of the tribes of Yisra’el? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Binyamin? why then speak you to me after this manner? 22 Shemu’el took Sha’ul and his servant, and brought them into the guest-chamber, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. 23 Shemu’el said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you. 24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Sha’ul. [Shemu’el] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Sha’ul ate with Shemu’el that day. 25 When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Sha’ul on the housetop. 26 They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Shemu’el called to Sha’ul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Sha’ul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Shemu’el, abroad. 27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Shemu’el said to Sha’ul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 6:22 – 42

6:22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his talmidim had embarked, and that Yeshua hadn’t entered with his talmidim into the boat, but his talmidim went away alone. 

23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 

24 When the multitude therefore saw that Yeshua wasn’t there, nor his talmidim, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Kafar-Nachum, seeking Yeshua. 

25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 

26 Yeshua answered them, “Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 

27 Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.” 

28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” 

29 Yeshua answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 

31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'” 

32 Yeshua therefore said to them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moshe who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 

33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.” 

34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” 

35 Yeshua said to them. “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 

36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet don’t believe. 

37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 

39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 

40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” 

41 The Yehudim therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.” 

42 They said, “Isn’t this Yeshua, the son of Yosef, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?'”

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OCTOBER 5

PSALMS: 5

PROVERBS: 5, 35, 65, 95, 125

OLD TESTAMENT: ZECHARIAH 8:1 – 23

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATIONS 16:1 – 21

PSALMS: 5

1 For the leader.

On wind instruments.

A psalm of David:

Give ear to my words,

ADONAI, consider my inmost thoughts. 

2 Listen to my cry for help,

my king and my God, for I pray to you. 

3 ADONAI, in the morning you will hear my voice;

in the morning I lay my needs before you and wait expectantly. 

4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;

evil cannot remain with you. 

5 Those who brag cannot stand before your eyes,

you hate all who do evil, 

6 you destroy those who tell lies,

ADONAI detests men of blood and deceivers. 

7 But I can enter your house because of your great grace and love;

I will bow down toward your holy temple in reverence for you. 

8 Lead me, ADONAI, in your righteousness

because of those lying in wait for me;

make your way straight before me. 

9 For in their mouths there is nothing sincere,

within them are calamities, their throats are open tombs,

they flatter with their tongues. 

10 God, declare them guilty!

Let them fall through their own intrigues,

For their many crimes, throw them down;

since they have rebelled against you.

11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice,

let them forever shout for joy!

Shelter them;

and they will be glad,

those who love your name.

12 For you, ADONAI, bless the righteous;

you surround them with favor like a shield.

PSALMS: 35

1 By David: ADONAI, oppose those who oppose me;

fight against those who fight against me. 

2 Grasp your shield and protective gear,

and rise to my defense. 

3 Brandish spear and battle-axe against my pursuers;

let me hear you say, “I am your salvation.” 

4 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to confusion;

may those who are plotting harm for me be repulsed and put to shame. 

5 May they be like chaff before the wind,

with the angel of ADONAI to drive them on. 

6 May their way be dark and slippery,

with the angel of ADONAI to pursue them. 

7 For unprovoked, they hid their net over a pit;

unprovoked, they dug it for me. 

8 May destruction come over him unawares.

May the net he concealed catch himself;

may he fall into it and be destroyed. 

9 Then I will be joyful in ADONAI,

I will rejoice in his salvation. 

10 All my bones will say, “Who is like you?

Who can rescue the weak from those stronger than they,

the poor and needy from those who exploit them?” 

11 Malicious witnesses come forward,

asking me things about which I know nothing. 

12 They repay me evil for good;

it makes me feel desolate as a parent bereaved. 

13 But I, when they were ill, wore sackcloth;

I put myself out and fasted;

I can pray that what I prayed for them might also happen to me. 

14 I behaved as I would for my friend or my brother;

I bent down in sorrow as if mourning my mother. 

15 But when I stumble, they gather in glee;

they gather against me and strike me unawares;

they tear me apart unceasingly. 

16 With ungodly mocking and grimacing,

they grind their teeth at me. 

17 Adonai, how much longer will you look on?

Rescue me from their assaults, save the one life I have from the lions! 

18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly,

I will give you praise among huge crowds of people.

19 Don’t let those who are wrongfully my enemies gloat over me;

and those who hate me unprovoked -don’t let them smirk at me. 

20 For they don’t speak words of peace but devise ways

to deceive the peaceful of the land. 

21 They shout to accuse me,

“Aha! Aha! we saw you with our own eyes!” 

22 You saw them, ADONAI;

don’t stay silent.

Adonai, don’t stay far away from me. 

23 Wake up! Get up, my God, my Lord!

Defend me and my cause! 

24 Give judgment for me, ADONAI, my God,

as your righteousness demands.

Don’t let them gloat over me. 

25 Don’t let them say to themselves,

“Aha! We got what we wanted!”

or say, “We swallowed them up!” 

26 May those who gloat over my distress be disgraced and humiliated.

May those who aggrandize themselves at my expense be covered

with shame and confusion. 

27  But may those who delight in my righteousness

shout for joy and be glad!

Let them say always, “How great is ADONAI,

who delights in the peace of his servant!

“Then my tongue will tell of your righteousness

and praise you all day long.

PSALMS: 65

1 For the leader. A psalm of David.

A song: To you, God, in Tziyon, silence is praise;

and vows to you are to be fulfilled. 

2 You who listen to prayer,

to you all living creatures come. 

3 When deeds of wickedness overwhelm me,

you will atone for our crimes. 

4 How blessed are those you choose and bring near,

so that they can remain in your courtyards!

We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,

the Holy Place of your temple. 

5 It is just that you answer us with awesome deeds,

God of our salvation, you in whom all put their trust,

to the ends of the earth and on distant seas. 

6 By your strength you set up the mountains.

You are clothed with power. 

7 You still the roaring of the seas,

their crashing waves, and the peoples’ turmoil. 

8 This is why those living at the ends of the earth stand in awe of your signs.

The places where the sun rises and sets you cause to sing for joy. 

9 You care for the earth and water it, you enrich it greatly;

with the river of God, full of water,

you provide them grain and prepare the ground. 

10 Soaking its furrows and settling its soil,

you soften it with showers and bless its growth. 

11 You crown the year with your goodness,

your tracks overflow with richness. 

12The desert pastures drip water,

the hills are wrapped with joy, 

13 the meadows are clothed with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain,

so they shout for joy and break into song.

PSALMS: 95

1 Come, let’s sing to ADONAI!

Let’s shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation! 

2 Let’s come into his presence with thanksgiving;

let’s shout for joy to him with songs of praise. 

3 For ADONAI is a great God,

a great king greater than all gods. 

4 He holds the depths of the earth in his hands;

the mountain peaks too belong to him. 

5 The sea is his – he made it -and

his hands shaped the dry land. 

6 Come, let’s bow down and worship;

let’s kneel before ADONAI who made us. 

7 For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care.

If only today you would listen to his voice: 

8 “Don’t harden your hearts, as you did at M’rivah,

as you did on that day at Massah in the desert, 

9 when your fathers put me to the test;

they challenged me, even though they saw my work. 

10 For forty years I loathed that generation;

I said, ‘This is a people whose hearts go astray,

they don’t understand how I do things.’ 

11 Therefore I swore in my anger

that they would not enter my rest.”

PSALMS: 125

1 A song of ascents:

Those who trust in ADONAI are like Mount Tziyon,

which cannot be moved but remains forever. 

2 Yerushalayim!

Mountains all around it!

Thus ADONAI is around his people henceforth and forever. 

3 For the scepter of wickedness will not rule the inheritance of the righteous,

so that the righteous will not themselves turn their hands to evil. 

4 Do good, ADONAI, to the good, to those upright in their hearts. 

5 But as for those who turn aside to their own crooked ways,

may ADONAI turn them away, along with those who do evil.

Shalom on Isra’el!

PROVERBS: 5

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;

incline your ear to my understanding; 

2 so that you will preserve discretion

and your lips keep watch over knowledge. 

3 For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey,

her mouth is smoother than oil; 

4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,

sharp as a double-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh’ol; 

6she doesn’t walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over,

but she doesn’t know it. 

7 So now, children, listen to me;

don’t turn away from what I am saying: 

8 distance your way from her,

stay far from the door of her house; 

9 so that you won’t give your vigor to others

and your years to someone who is cruel, 

10 so strangers won’t be filled with your strength

and what you worked for go to a foreign house. 

11 Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk,

at the end of your life, you would moan, 

12 “How I hated discipline!

My whole being despised reproof, 

13 I ignored what my teachers said,

I didn’t listen to my instructors. 

14 I took part in almost every kind of evil,

and the whole community knew it.” 

15 Drink the water from your own cistern,

fresh water from your own well. 

16 Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside,

streams of water flowing in the streets; 

17 but let them be for you alone

and not for strangers with you. 

18 Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed;

find joy in her 

19 a lovely deer, a graceful fawn;

let her breasts satisfy you at all times,

always be infatuated with her love. 

20 My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman?

Why embrace the body of a loose woman? 

21 For ADONAI is watching a man’s ways;

he surveys all his paths. 

22 A wicked person’s own crimes will trap him,

he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin. 

23 He will die from lack of discipline;

the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.

OLD TESTAMENT: ZECHARIAH 8:1 – 23

8:1 The word of the LORD of Hosts came to me. 

2 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “I am jealous for Tziyon with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.” 

3 Thus says the LORD: “I have returned to Tziyon, and will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts, ‘The Holy Mountain.'” 

4 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Yerushalayim, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 

5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.” 

6 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of Hosts. 

7  Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; 

8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.” 

9 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. 

10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any shalom to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor. 

11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says the LORD of Hosts. 

12 “For the seed of shalom and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. 

13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Yehudah and house of Yisra’el, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.” 

14 For thus says the LORD of hosts: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I didn’t repent; 

15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehudah. Don’t be afraid. 

16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates, 

17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD. 

18 The word of the LORD of Hosts came to me. 

19 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Yehudah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and shalom.” 

20 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; 

21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I will go also.’ 

22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Yerushalayim, and to entreat the favor of the LORD.” 

23 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Yehudi, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'”

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATIONS 16:1 – 21

16:1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the eretz!”

2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the eretz, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the men who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image. 

3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. 

4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and it became blood. 

5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you judged this way. 

6 For they poured out the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.” 

7  I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, Shaddai, true and righteous are your judgments.” 

8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. 

9 Men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory. 

10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, 

11and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works. 

12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Perat. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise. 

13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; 

14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, Shaddai. 

15 “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.” 

16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, “Har-Megiddo.” 

17  The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 

18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the eretz, so great an earthquake, so mighty. 

19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Bavel the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 

20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 

21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on men. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague of it is exceeding great.

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Yom Kippur!

October 5

THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION

Psalms: 5, 35, 65, 95, 125

Proverbs: 5

Old Testament: Zechariah 8:1 – 23

New Testament: Revelation 16:1 – 21

I am a Jewish Believer, a believer in

Father G-D (Abba Father), Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Christ),

and Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit)!

We offer various ways for you to study the Holy Bible:

through my blogs and site @

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At any of the blogs or site, please pick the current date or any day

you want to study and enjoy growing with the living word of G-D.

You never know when the LORD will call you home – for judgment!

Yours in Yeshua!

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OCTOBER 4

PSALMS:  4, 34, 64, 94, 124

PROVERBS:  4

OLD TESTAMENT:  ZECHARIAH 6:1 – 7:14

NEW TESTAMENT:  REVELATIONS 15:1 – 8

PSALMS: 4

1 For the leader.

With stringed instruments.

A psalm of David:

O God, my vindicator!

Answer me when I call!

When I was distressed, you set me free;

now have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. 

2 Men of rank, how long will you shame my honor,

love what is vain, chase after lies?

(Selah) 

3 Understand that ADONAI sets apart the godly person for himself;

ADONAI will hear when I call to him. 

4 You can be angry, but do not sin!

Think about this as you lie in bed, and calm down.

(Selah) 

5 Offer sacrifices rightly,

and put your trust in ADONAI. 

6 Many ask, “Who can show us some good?”

ADONAI, lift the light of your face over us! 

7 You have filled my heart with more joy

than all their grain and new wine. 

8 I will lie down and sleep in peace;

for, ADONAI, you alone make me live securely.

PSALMS: 34

1 By David,

when he pretended to be insane before Avimelekh,

who then drove him away;

so he left:

I will bless ADONAI at all times;

his praise will always be in my mouth. 

2 When I boast, it will be about ADONAI;

the humble will hear of it and be glad. 

3 Proclaim with me the greatness of ADONAI;

let us exalt his name together. 

4 I sought ADONAI, and he answered me;

he rescued me from everything I feared. 

5 They looked to him and grew radiant;

their faces will never blush for shame. 

6 This poor man cried;

ADONAI heard and saved him from all his troubles. 

7 The angel of ADONAI,

who encamps around those who fear him, delivers them. 

8 Taste, and see that ADONAI is good.

How blessed are those who take refuge in him! 

9 Fear ADONAI, you holy ones of his,

for those who fear him lack nothing. 

10 Young lions can be needy, they can go hungry,

but those who seek ADONAI lack nothing good. 

11 Come, children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of ADONAI. 

12 Which of you takes pleasure in living?

Who wants a long life to see good things?

13 [If you do,] keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from deceiving talk; 

14 turn from evil, and do good;

seek peace, go after it! 

15 The eyes of ADONAI watch over the righteous,

and his ears are open to their cry. 

16 But the face of ADONAI opposes those who do evil,

to cut off all memory of them from the earth. 

17 [The righteous] cried out, and ADONAI heard,

and he saved them from all their troubles. 

18 ADONAI is near those with broken hearts;

he saves those whose spirit is crushed. 

19 The righteous person suffers many evils,

but ADONAI rescues him out of them all. 

20 He protects all his bones;

not one of them gets broken. 

21 Evil will kill the wicked, and those who

hate the righteous will be condemned.

22 But ADONAI redeems his servants;

no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.

PSALMS: 64

1 For the leader.

A psalm of David:

Hear my voice, God, as I plead:

preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 

2 Hide me from the secret intrigues of the wicked

and the open insurrection of evildoers. 

3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword;

they aim their arrows, poisoned words, 

4 in order to shoot from cover at the innocent,

shooting suddenly and fearing nothing. 

5 They support each other’s evil plans;

they talk of hiding snares and ask, “Who would see them?”

6 They search for ways to commit crimes,

bringing their diligent search to completion when each

of them has thought it through in the depth of his heart. 

7  Suddenly God shoots them down with an arrow,

leaving them with wounds; 

8 their own tongues make them stumble.

All who see them shake their heads. 

9 Everyone is awestruck they acknowledge that it is God at work,

they understand what he has done. 

10 The righteous will rejoice in ADONAI;

they will take refuge in him;

all the upright in heart will exult.

PSALMS: 94

1 God of vengeance, ADONAI!

God of vengeance, appear! 

2 Assert yourself as judge of the earth!

Pay back the proud as they deserve! 

3 How long are the wicked, ADONAI,

how long are the wicked to triumph? 

4 They pour out insolent words,

they go on bragging, all these evildoers. 

5 They crush your people, ADONAI,

they oppress your heritage. 

6 They kill widows and strangers

and murder the fatherless. 

7 They say, “Yah isn’t looking;

the God of Ya’akov won’t notice.” 

8 Take notice, yourselves, you boors among the people!

You fools, when will you understand? 

9 Will the one who planted the ear not hear?

Will the one who formed the eye not see?

10 Will the one who disciplines nations not correct them?

Will the teacher of humanity not know? 

11 ADONAI understands that people’s thoughts

are merely a puff of wind. 

12 How happy the man whom you correct, Yah,

whom you teach from your Torah, 

13 giving him respite from days of trouble,

till a pit is dug for the wicked! 

14 For ADONAI will not desert his people,

he will not abandon his heritage. 

15 Justice will once again become righteous,

and all the upright in heart will follow it. 

16 Who will champion my cause against the wicked?

Who will stand up for me against evildoers? 

17 If ADONAI hadn’t helped me,

I would soon have dwelt in the land of silence. 

18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!”

your grace, ADONAI, supported me. 

19 When my cares within me are many,

your comforts cheer me up. 

20 Can unjust judges be allied with you,

those producing wrong in the name of law? 

21 They band together against the righteous

and condemn the innocent to death. 

22 But ADONAI has become my stronghold,

my God is my rock of refuge.

23 But he repays them as their guilt deserves;

he will cut them off with their own evil;

ADONAI our God will cut them off.

PSALMS: 124

1 A song of ascents.

By David:

If ADONAI hadn’t been for us -let Isra’el repeat it – 

2 If ADONAI hadn’t been for us

when people rose to attack us, 

3 then, when their anger blazed against us,

they would have swallowed us alive! 

4 Then the water would have engulfed us,

the torrent would have swept over us. 

5 Yes, the raging water would have swept right over us. 

6 Blessed be ADONAI,

who did not leave us to be a prey for their teeth! 

7 We escaped like a bird from the hunter’s trap;

the trap is broken, and we have escaped. 

8 Our help is in the name of ADONAI,

the maker of heaven and earth.

PROVERBS: 4

1 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction;

pay attention, in order to gain insight; 

2 for I am giving you good advice;

so don’t abandon my teaching. 

3 For I too was once a child to my father;

and my mother, too, thought of me as her special darling. 

4 He too taught me; he said to me,

“Let your heart treasure my words;

keep my commands, and live; 

5 gain wisdom, gain insight;

don’t forget or turn from the words I am saying. 

6 Don’t abandon [wisdom];

then she will preserve you;

love her, and she will protect you. 

7 The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom!

And along with all your getting, get insight! 

8 Cherish her, and she will exalt you;

embrace her, and she will bring you honor; 

9 she will give your head a garland of grace,

bestow on you a crown of glory.” 

10 Listen, my son, receive what I say,

and the years of your life will be many. 

11 I’m directing you on the way of wisdom,

guiding you in paths of uprightness; 

12 when you walk, your step won’t be hindered;

and if you run, you won’t stumble. 

13 Hold fast to discipline, don’t let it go;

guard it, for it is your life. 

14 Don’t follow the path of the wicked

or walk on the way of evildoers.

15 Avoid it, don’t go on it,

turn away from it, and pass on. 

16 For they can’t sleep if they haven’t done evil,

they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall. 

17  For they eat the bread of wickedness

and drink the wine of violence. 

18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,

shining ever brighter until full daylight. 

19 The way of the wicked is like darkness;

they don’t even know what makes them stumble. 

20 My son, pay attention to what I am saying;

incline your ear to my words. 

21 Don’t let them out of your sight,

keep them deep in your heart; 

22 for they are life to those who find them

and health to their whole being. 

23 Above everything else, guard your heart;

for it is the source of life’s consequences. 

24 Keep crooked speech out of your mouth,

banish deceit from your lips. 

25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,

fix your gaze on what lies in front of you. 

26 Level the path for your feet,

let all your ways be properly prepared; 

27 then deviate neither right nor left;

and keep your foot far from evil.

OLD TESTAMENT:  ZECHARIAH 6:1 – 7:14

6:1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses; 3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. 4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”5 The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the eretz. 6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country.” 7  The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the eretz: and he said, “Go around and through the eretz!” So they walked back and forth through the eretz. 8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.” 9 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 10 “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Toviyah, and of Yedayah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Yoshiyahu the son of Tzefanyah, where they have come from Bavel. 11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Yehoshua the son of Yehotzadak, the Kohen Gadol; 12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of the LORD; 13 even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a Kohen on his throne; and the counsel of shalom shall be between them both. 14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Toviyah, and to Yedayah, and to Hen the son of Tzefanyah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD. 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”‘”

7:1 It happened in the fourth year of king Daryavesh that the word of the LORD came to Zekharyah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 The people of Beit-El sent Sar’etzer and Regem-Melekh, and their men, to entreat the LORD’s favor, 

3 and to speak to the Kohanim of the house of the LORD of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?” 4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the Kohanim, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? 6 When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7 Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'” 8 The word of the LORD came to Zekharyah, saying, 9 “Thus has the LORD of Hosts spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. 10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’ 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the LORD of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts. 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Hosts; 14 “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

NEW TESTAMENT:  REVELATIONS 15:1 – 8

15:1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. 

2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. 

3 They sang the song of Moshe, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, Shaddai; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. 

4 Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed. 

5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tent of the testimony in heaven was opened. 

6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts. 

7  One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. 

8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.

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THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION

Psalms: 4, 34, 64, 94, 124

Proverbs: 4

Old Testament: Zechariah 6:1 – 7:14

New Testament: Revelation 15:1- 8

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September 16

THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION

Psalms: 16, 46, 76, 106, 136

Proverbs: 16

Old Testament: Hosea 4:1 – 5:15

New Testament: 2 John 1 – 13

I am a Jewish Believer, a believer in

Father G-D (Abba Father), Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Christ),

and Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit)!

We offer various ways for you to study the Holy Bible:

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