Saturday, 13 July

1.   Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying: 2.   "When leaders lead in Israel, When the people willingly offer themselves, Bless the LORD! 3.   "Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. 4.   "LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth trembled and the heavens poured, The clouds also poured water; 5.   The mountains gushed before the LORD, This Sinai, before the LORD God of Israel. 6.   "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways. 7.   Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel. 8.   They chose new gods; Then there was war in the gates; Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel. 9.   My heart is with the rulers of Israel Who offered themselves willingly with the people. Bless the LORD! 10.   "Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, Who sit in judges’ attire, And who walk along the road. 11.   Far from the noise of the archers, among the watering places, There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, The righteous acts for His villagers in Israel; Then the people of the LORD shall go down to the gates. 12.   "Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away, O son of Abinoam! 13.   "Then the survivors came down, the people against the nobles; The LORD came down for me against the mighty. 14.   From Ephraim were those whose roots were in Amalek. After you, Benjamin, with your peoples, From Machir rulers came down, And from Zebulun those who bear the recruiter’s staff. 15.   And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As Issachar, so was Barak Sent into the valley under his command; Among the divisions of Reuben There were great resolves of heart. 16.   Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? The divisions of Reuben have great searchings of heart. 17.   Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan, And why did Dan remain on ships? Asher continued at the seashore, And stayed by his inlets. 18.   Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to the point of death, Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield. 19.   "The kings came and fought, Then the kings of Canaan fought In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; They took no spoils of silver. 20.   They fought from the heavens; The stars from their courses fought against Sisera. 21.   The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent of Kishon. O my soul, march on in strength! 22.   Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds. 23.   ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD, ‘Curse its inhabitants bitterly, Because they did not come to the help of the LORD, To the help of the LORD against the mighty.’ 24.   "Most blessed among women is Jael, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed is she among women in tents. 25.   He asked for water, she gave milk; She brought out cream in a lordly bowl. 26.   She stretched her hand to the tent peg, Her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; She pounded Sisera, she pierced his head, She split and struck through his temple. 27.   At her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; At her feet he sank, he fell; Where he sank, there he fell dead. 28.   "The mother of Sisera looked through the window, And cried out through the lattice, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarries the clatter of his chariots?’ 29.   Her wisest ladies answered her, Yes, she answered herself, 30.   ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil: To every man a girl or two; For Sisera, plunder of dyed garments, Plunder of garments embroidered and dyed, Two pieces of dyed embroidery for the neck of the looter?’ 31.   "Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But let those who love Him be like the sun When it comes out in full strength." So the land had rest for forty years.

1.   "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tender and delicate. 2.   Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers. 3.   Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man." 4.   As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel. 5.   "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms. 6.   I was angry with My people; I have profaned My inheritance, And given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily. 7.   And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever,’ So that you did not take these things to heart, Nor remember the latter end of them. 8.   "Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, ‘I am , and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children’; 9.   But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments. 10.   "For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, ‘No one sees me’; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, ‘I am , and there is no one else besides me.’ 11.   Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know. 12.   "Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth––Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you will prevail. 13.   You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you. 14.   Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before! 15.   Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.

1.   Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe. 2.   Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3.   For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4.   though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5.   circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6.   concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7.   But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8.   Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9.   and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10.   that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11.   if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12.   Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13.   Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14.   I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15.   Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16.   Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. 17.   Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18.   For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19.   whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame––who set their mind on earthly things. 20.   For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21.   who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.