Jumat, 16 Agustus

1.   O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs––O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth! 2.   Rise up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud. 3.   LORD, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph? 4.   They utter speech, and speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves. 5.   They break in pieces Your people, O LORD, And afflict Your heritage. 6.   They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. 7.   Yet they say, "The LORD does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob understand." 8.   Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise? 9.   He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? 10.   He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? 11.   The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile. 12.   Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD, And teach out of Your law, 13.   That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked. 14.   For the LORD will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance. 15.   But judgment will return to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it. 16.   Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? 17.   Unless the LORD had been my help, My soul would soon have settled in silence. 18.   If I say, "My foot slips," Your mercy, O LORD, will hold me up. 19.   In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul. 20.   Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, Have fellowship with You? 21.   They gather together against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood. 22.   But the LORD has been my defense, And my God the rock of my refuge. 23.   He has brought on them their own iniquity, And shall cut them off in their own wickedness; The LORD our God shall cut them off.

1.   Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2.   Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3.   For the LORD is the great God, And the great King above all gods. 4.   In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. 5.   The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land . 6.   Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. 7.   For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8.   "Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9.   When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10.   For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ 11.   So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’"

1.   Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth. 2.   Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. 3.   Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. 4.   For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. 5.   For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. 6.   Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. 7.   Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples, Give to the LORD glory and strength. 8.   Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts. 9.   Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. 10.   Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously." 11.   Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; 12.   Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice 13.   before the LORD. (96:13) For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

17.   Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18.   Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. 19.   And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus. 20.   When He saw their faith, He said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." 21.   And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 22.   But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23.   "Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? 24.   "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins" ––He said to the man who was paralyzed, "I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." 25.   Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 26.   And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today!" 27.   After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." 28.   So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. 29.   Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. 30.   And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" 31.   Jesus answered and said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32.   "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." 33.   Then they said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?" 34.   And He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35.   "But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days." 36.   Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37.   "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38.   "But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39.   "And no one, having drunk old wine , immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’"