Month: October 2019

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10/01/2019 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 62:6-65:25, Philippians 2:19-3:3, Psalms 73:1-28, Proverbs 24:13-14

Today is the 1st day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you. It’s fun to step into a new month together and we’re stepping into the final quarter of the year. So, three months ago and in my experience, it’s crazy how fast these three months can get going, but it’s also profound what we’ll find in the Scriptures as we move through this three months. So, welcome to the final quarter of the year. I don’t know if I’d call this the home stretch because it’s a whole 25% of the year, but we’ll take it day by day, step-by-step together in community as we continue our journey. And our journey this week has us in the book of Isaiah. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. And today, Isaiah chapter 62 verse 6 through 65 verse 25.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as we were talking about when we began our time together today, this is…this is a new month and this is also the final quarter of the year, and this is actually kind of important because it’s gonna get busier. Like, this year’s only gonna get more busy from here and we’re out in front of it right now. But the truth is, three months from today is January 1, right? The years over and we’re in a new year. And what I have found about finishing…finishing anything…but finishing the Scriptures in year is to finish strong, or to finish at all we have to be committed to finishing. And, so, we’re entering this fourth quarter of the year and we’ve made it this far. And, so let’s commit together to finishing strong, which…which is pretty much the opposite of what Asaph was feeling as we read from the 73rd Psalm today. He wasn’t feeling strong at all. He was frustrated, he was angry, he was bewildered because of what he was seeing in the world. And we could just pause there and in some ways, we could just go, “yeah. get it. Feel the same way.” For Asaph, and we’re going back thousands of years here, about 3000 years here, it just seemed that everywhere he looked, the unrighteous were really the prosperous and blessed people and the people that were trying to be true, the people that were trying to live into their faith, they were the one struggling, they were languishing away. So, he’s like, “I almost lost my footing. My feet were slippering”…no…slipping…slipping…“my feet were slipping.” I don’t suppose he wouldn’t mind that he put slippers on his feet. His feet were slipping. “I was almost gone. I envied the proud when I saw them even in their wickedness be prosperous.” And, man again, we gotta go, “I kinda know what that feels like. Like that’s been me at one time or another in my life.” And that’s probably been all of us at one point or another in our lives because all of our efforts to live upright before God, you know, that’s…it’s a difficult path. It’s a narrow path. And then we look around and see everybody else who doesn’t even think about it, like isn’t even paying attention to their spirituality as a category in life and they just seem to be having easy. And, so, we get frustrated, we get to bewildered, right? Our hope takes a hit. So, let’s listen to Asaph’s words from several thousand years ago and see if they don’t describe this. He says, “did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing? For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning. If I had decided to say these things allowed, I would’ve betrayed your people. When I try to understand all this it seemed hopeless.” So, if you’ve ever felt like that and maybe…maybe you feel like that now, it’s important to know that this is a crossroads because…because when we find ourselves in that place where we are frustrated and angry and hopeless, the very next decision may very well dictate the direction of the rest of our lives. Like the next choices that we make are for sure going to dictate the short-term path ahead. And if the short-term path ahead is to descend deeper into anger and hopelessness, well I guess the Bible has already been clear about where that paths gonna lead. We can…we can throw our hands up in disgust. We can walk willingly into sin. But it’s not gonna work and we know it. And Asaph…Asaph contemplated the same thing, but he made a different decision. So, quoting…quoting Asaph, “when I try to understand all this, it seemed hopeless until I entered God’s sanctuary. Then I understood their destiny.” So, a lot of what Asaph had been saying in this Psalm was pretty passive-aggressive stuff and he’s contemplating where to go because it seems like a hopeless situation. So…and…and we…we can relate to all of this. So, rather than stepping into like passive-aggressive sin or wickedness, Asaph chose to go back into God’s presence. In God’s presence is where he realized there’s a lot more going on than we know and that’s something that the Bible has been showing us all along. Asaph realized that this foundation that was apparently there for the wicked wasn’t really there at all. It was nothing, when considered from an eternal perspective. Whatever security they may seem to have in this life will not protect them in the next where they will have no protection at all. So, what Asaph began to understand is that what was tormenting him really wasn't…wasn’t about whether the wicked prospered, it’s that they were prospering as compared to him in his own mind. So, it was his envy, it was bitterness that came from comparison and he confessed it to God. So, quoting Asaph again. “When I became embittered and my innermost being was wounded, I was stupid and didn’t understand. I was an unthinking animal toward you, yet I am always with you. You hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me up in glory.” So, this 73rd Psalm gives us incredibly powerful and usable counsel, but it also gives us a posture as we move into the final quarter of the year. Comparison and envy, they…they are all over this quarter of the year, this final quarter of the year as things get materialistic as we move toward the holidays. And so here we are. If you find yourself like battling that as we go into this season, as we go into this final quarter of the year, bookmark this, write it down. Psalm 73. Like, come back here and follow the path of Asaph again. Remembering that you’re comparing yourself to somebody else or how well somebody else may be doing as compared to you is not interesting and is not the point. God is the strength of your heart and that is very interesting and very much the point.

Prayer:

Father, we come into Your presence again because You’ve brought this up again and this is something that…that comes up is a recurring theme because it’s a part of our lives. We are continually trying to figure out how well we’re doing as compared to someone else and it's…it just…it doesn’t get us anywhere to compare our story to someone else’s story. Our story is ours and we’re living it and their story is theirs and usually what we know of each other’s stories is what we’ve curated to expose and reveal to other people. It’s not the whole story. And yet, You are here involved in the whole story of our lives, all of it, the highs and the lows, the clean and unfortunately the times when we step into the unclean. You are invested into this story fully. And, so, our question is, “Jesus, how do You see us” because we’ve been looking for those answers by trying to figure out what everybody else thinks and what we think of everybody else. But what do You think because that’s the only thing that matters? And Your word has shown is pretty clearly what You think, that we are Your beloved children. And, so, we’re sorry for the comparison, we’re sorry for the…the way that we’ve diminished ourselves and haven’t lived fully into all that You are leading us into because we’re too busy comparing. Forgive us Father we pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday October 1, 2019 (NIV)

Isaiah 62:6-65:25

6 Jerusalem,
I have appointed watchmen on your walls;(A)
they will never be silent, day or night.
There is no rest for you,
who remind the Lord.
7 Do not give him rest
until he establishes and makes Jerusalem
the praise of the earth.(B)

8 The Lord has sworn with his right hand
and his strong arm:
I will no longer give your grain
to your enemies for food,(C)
and foreigners will not drink the new wine
for which you have labored.
9 For those who gather grain will eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine
in my holy courts.
10 Go out, go out through the city gates;
prepare a way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;(D)
clear away the stones!
Raise a banner for the peoples.(E)
11 Look, the Lord has proclaimed
to the ends of the earth,
“Say to Daughter Zion:(F)
Look, your salvation is coming,
his wages are with him,(G)
and his reward accompanies him.”
12 And they will be called[a] the Holy People,(H)
the Lord’s Redeemed;
and you will be called Cared For,
A City Not Deserted.

The Lord’s Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this coming from Edom(I)
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this one who is splendid in his apparel,
striding in his formidable[b] might?
It is I, proclaiming vindication,[c]
powerful to save.
2 Why are your clothes red,
and your garments like one who treads a winepress?(J)
3 I trampled the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and ground them underfoot in my fury;
their blood spattered my garments,
and all my clothes were stained.
4 For I planned the day of vengeance,(K)
and the year of my redemption[d] came.

5 I looked, but there was no one to help,(L)
and I was amazed that no one assisted;
so my arm accomplished victory for me,
and my wrath assisted me.

6 I crushed nations in my anger;
I made them drunk with my wrath(M)
and poured out their blood on the ground.(N)

Remembrance of Grace

7 I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
he has done for the house of Israel,
which he did for them based on his compassion
and the abundance of his faithful love.
8 He said, “They are indeed my people,
children who will not be disloyal,”
and he became their Savior.
9 In all their suffering, he suffered,[e](O)
and the angel of his presence saved them.
He redeemed them
because of his love and compassion;(P)
he lifted them up and carried them
all the days of the past.(Q)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(R)
So he became their enemy
and fought against them.
11 Then he[f] remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is he who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds[g] of his flock?
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?
12 He made his glorious strength
available at the right hand of Moses,
divided the water before them(S)
to make an eternal name for himself,
13 and led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they did not stumble.

14 Like cattle that go down into the valley,
the Spirit of the Lord gave them[h] rest.
You led your people this way
to make a glorious name for yourself.

Israel’s Prayer

15 Look down from heaven and see(T)
from your lofty home—holy and beautiful.
Where is your zeal and your might?
Your yearning[i] and your compassion
are withheld from me.
16 Yet you are our Father,
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Lord, are our Father;
your name is Our Redeemer(U)
from Ancient Times.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear[j] you.(V)
Return, because of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
18 Your holy people had a possession[k]
for a little while,
but our enemies have trampled down
your sanctuary.(W)
19 We have become like those you never ruled,
like those who did not bear your name.(X)

64 If only you would tear the heavens open
and come down,(Y)
so that mountains would quake at your presence(Z)—
2 just as fire kindles brushwood,
and fire boils water—
to make your name known to your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome works(AA)
that we did not expect,
you came down,(AB)
and the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From ancient times no one has heard,
no one has listened to,
no eye has seen any God except you
who acts on behalf of the one who waits for him.(AC)
5 You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;
they remember you in your ways.
But we have sinned, and you were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?[l]
6 All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted[m] garment;(AD)
all of us wither like a leaf,(AE)
and our iniquities(AF) carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on your name,
striving to take hold of you.
For you have hidden your face from us(AG)
and made us melt because of[n][o] our iniquity.
8 Yet Lord, you are our Father;(AH)
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we all are the work of your hands.(AI)
9 Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.(AJ)
Please look—all of us are your people!
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(AK)
11 Our holy and beautiful[p] temple,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned down,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.(AL)
12 Lord, after all this, will you restrain yourself?
Will you keep silent and afflict us severely?(AM)

The Lord’s Response

65 “I was sought by those who did not ask;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
to a nation that did not call on[q] my name.(AN)
2 I spread out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people(AO)
who walk in the path that is not good,
following their own thoughts.
3 These people continually anger me
to my face,
sacrificing in gardens,(AP)
burning incense on bricks,
4 sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,(AQ)
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[r]
5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself,
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
6 Look, it is written in front of me:
I will not keep silent,(AR) but I will repay;(AS)
I will repay them fully[s]
7 for your iniquities and the iniquities(AT)
of your[t] fathers together,”
says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and reproached me on the hills,(AU)
I will reward them fully[u]
for their former deeds.”

8 The Lord says this:

“As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,
for there’s some good[v] in it,’
so I will act because of my servants
and not destroy them all.
9 I will produce descendants from Jacob,(AV)
and heirs to my mountains from Judah;
my chosen(AW) ones will possess it,
and my servants will dwell there.(AX)
10 Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,(AY)
and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,(AZ)
for my people who have sought me.(BA)
11 But you who abandon the Lord,
who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,[w]
12 I will destine you for the sword,
and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,
because I called and you did not answer,
I spoke and you did not hear;
you did what was evil in my sight
and chose what I did not delight in.”(BB)

13 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

“My servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
my servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty;
my servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.
14 My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,
but you will cry out from an anguished heart,
and you will lament out of a broken spirit.
15 You will leave your name behind
as a curse for my chosen ones,(BC)
and the Lord God will kill you;
but he will give his servants another name.(BD)
16 Whoever asks for a blessing in the land
will ask for a blessing by the God of truth,(BE)
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from my sight.

A New Creation

17 “For I will create a new heaven and a new earth;(BF)
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
18 Then be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people.
The sound of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.(BG)
20 In her, a nursing infant will no longer live
only a few days,[x]
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old
will be mourned as a young man,[y]
and the one who misses a hundred years
will be considered cursed.(BH)
21 People will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(BI)
22 They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For my people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.(BJ)
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor without success(BK)
or bear children destined for disaster,
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord
along with their descendants.(BL)
24 Even before they call, I will answer;(BM)
while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,[z]
and the lion will eat straw like cattle,(BN)
but the serpent’s food will be dust!(BO)
They will not do what is evil or destroy
on my entire holy mountain,”(BP)
says the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. 62:12 Lit will call them
  2. 63:1 Syr, Vg read apparel, striding forward in
  3. 63:1 Or righteousness
  4. 63:4 Or blood retribution
  5. 63:9 Alt Hb tradition reads did not suffer
  6. 63:11 Or they
  7. 63:11 LXX, Tg, Syr read shepherd
  8. 63:14 Lit him
  9. 63:15 Lit The agitation of your inward parts
  10. 63:17 Lit our heart from fearing
  11. 63:18 Or Your people possessed your holy place
  12. 64:5 Lit angry; in them continually and we will be saved; Hb obscure
  13. 64:6 Lit menstrual
  14. 64:7 LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read and delivered us into the hand of
  15. 64:7 Lit melt by the hand of
  16. 64:11 Or glorious; Is 60:7
  17. 65:1 Or that was not called by
  18. 65:3-4 These vv. describe pagan worship.
  19. 65:6 Lit repay into their lap
  20. 65:7 LXX, Syr read for their iniquities and the iniquities of their
  21. 65:7 Lit reward into their lap
  22. 65:8 Or there’s a blessing
  23. 65:11 Pagan gods
  24. 65:20 Lit her, no longer infant of days
  25. 65:20 Lit the youth of a hundred years will die
  26. 65:25 Lit as one

Cross references:

  1. 62:6 : Is 52:8; Jr 6:17; Ezk 3:17; 33:7
  2. 62:7 : Is 60:18; Jr 33:9; Zph 3:19-20
  3. 62:8 : Lv 26:16; Dt 28:31,33; Jdg 6:3-6; Is 1:7; Jr 5:17
  4. 62:10 : Is 11:16; 19:23; 35:8; 49:11; 57:14
  5. 62:10 : Is 11:10,12; 49:22
  6. 62:11 : Zch 9:9; Mt 21:5
  7. 62:11 : Is 40:10; Rv 22:12
  8. 62:12 : Dt 7:6; Is 4:3; 1Pt 2:9
  9. 63:1 : Ps 137:7; Is 34:5-6; Ezk 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Ob 1-14; Mal 1:2-5
  10. 63:2 : Rv 19:13-15
  11. 63:4 : Is 34:8; 61:2; Jr 46:10
  12. 63:5 : Is 59:16
  13. 63:6 : Is 29:9; 51:17; Jr 51:39
  14. 63:6 : Rv 14:20
  15. 63:9 : Jdg 10:16
  16. 63:9 : Dt 7:7-8
  17. 63:9 : Dt 1:31; 32:10-12; Is 46:3
  18. 63:10 : Ps 51:11; 78:40; 106:33; Is 48:16; Ac 7:51; Eph 4:30
  19. 63:12 : Ex 14:21; Ps 74:13
  20. 63:15 : Dt 26:15; Ps 80:14
  21. 63:16 : Is 41:14; 43:14
  22. 63:17 : Is 6:10
  23. 63:18 : Ps 74:3-7; Is 64:11
  24. 63:19 : Dt 28:10; Is 43:7; 65:1
  25. 64:1 : Ex 19:18; Ps 18:9; 144:5
  26. 64:1 : Jdg 5:5; Ps 68:8; Nah 1:5
  27. 64:3 : Dt 10:21; 2Sm 7:23; Ps 65:5
  28. 64:3 : Mc 1:3-4; Hab 3:13
  29. 64:4 : 1Co 2:9
  30. 64:6 : Is 61:10; Php 3:7-9
  31. 64:6 : Ps 90:5-6; Is 1:30
  32. 64:6 : Is 13:11
  33. 64:7 : Is 54:8
  34. 64:8 : Is 63:16
  35. 64:8 : Is 29:16; 45:9; Rm 9:20-21
  36. 64:9 : Is 43:25; 57:17; Mc 7:18
  37. 64:10 : Is 62:4
  38. 64:11 : 2Kg 25:9; Ps 74:5-7; Is 63:18; Mt 23:38
  39. 64:12 : Is 42:14
  40. 65:1 : Is 63:19; Hs 1:10; Rm 10:20; Jms 2:7
  41. 65:2 : Rm 10:21
  42. 65:3 : Is 1:29; 66:17
  43. 65:4 : Lv 11:7; Is 66:3,17
  44. 65:6 : Ps 50:3,21; Is 42:14; 64:12
  45. 65:6 : Jr 16:18
  46. 65:7 : Is 13:11
  47. 65:7 : Ezk 20:27-28; Hs 9:10; Zch 8:14; Mal 3:7
  48. 65:9 : Jr 31:36-37
  49. 65:9 : Is 41:8
  50. 65:9 : Is 49:8; 60:21; Am 9:11-15
  51. 65:10 : Is 33:9; 35:2
  52. 65:10 : Jos 7:26; Hs 2:15
  53. 65:10 : Is 51:1
  54. 65:12 : 2Ch 36:15-16; Pr 1:24; Is 41:28; 50:2; 66:4; Jr 7:13
  55. 65:15 : Jr 24:9; 25:18; Zch 8:13
  56. 65:15 : Is 62:2
  57. 65:16 : Ps 31:5; 2Co 1:20; Rv 3:7,14
  58. 65:17 : Is 66:22; 2Pt 3:13; Rv 21:1
  59. 65:19 : Is 25:8; 30:19; 35:10; 51:11; Rv 7:17; 21:4
  60. 65:20 : Ec 8:12-13; Is 3:11; 22:14
  61. 65:21 : Jos 24:13; Is 37:30; Jr 29:5,28; Ezk 28:26; Zph 1:13
  62. 65:22 : Ps 92:12-14
  63. 65:23 : Dt 28:3-12; Is 55:2
  64. 65:23 : Is 61:9
  65. 65:24 : Ps 91:15; Is 55:6; 58:9; Dn 9:20-23; 10:12
  66. 65:25 : Is 11:6-9
  67. 65:25 : Gn 3:14; Mc 7:17
  68. 65:25 : Is 11:9; 27:13; 56:7
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Philippians 2:19-3:3

Timothy and Epaphroditus

19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus(A) to send Timothy(B) to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. 20 For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; 21 all seek their own interests,(C) not those of Jesus Christ.(D) 22 But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father. 23 Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. 24 I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.(E)

25 But I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus(F)—my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need(G)— 26 since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick. 27 Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious. 29 Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with great joy and hold people like him in honor, 30 because he came close to death for the work(H) of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

Knowing Christ

3 In addition, my brothers and sisters, rejoice(I) in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a safeguard for you.

2 Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil(J) workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3 For we are the circumcision,(K) the ones who worship by the Spirit(L) of God, boast in Christ Jesus,(M) and do not put confidence in the flesh—

Cross references:

  1. 2:19 : Lk 24:3
  2. 2:19 : Ac 16:1; 1Tm 1:2
  3. 2:21 : Rm 15:1; 2Tm 3:2
  4. 2:21 : 1Co 10:24; Php 1:15
  5. 2:24 : Php 1:7
  6. 2:25 : Php 4:18
  7. 2:25 : Mt 6:8
  8. 2:30 : Mk 14:6; 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14-26
  9. 3:1 : Rm 12:12; 2Co 6:10; Php 1:18
  10. 3:2 : 2Co 13:7
  11. 3:3 : Gl 6:15
  12. 3:3 : Rm 8:4; Gl 5:25; 1Tm 3:16
  13. 3:3 : Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1,15; 1Pt 5:14
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Psalm 73

BOOK III

(Psalms 73—89)

Psalm 73

God’s Ways Vindicated

A psalm of Asaph.(A)

1 God is indeed good to Israel,
to the pure in heart.(B)
2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped;
my steps nearly went astray.(C)
3 For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.(D)

4 They have an easy time until they die,[a]
and their bodies are well fed.[b](E)
5 They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.(F)
6 Therefore, pride is their necklace,
and violence covers them like a garment.(G)
7 Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.(H)
8 They mock, and they speak maliciously;
they arrogantly threaten oppression.(I)
9 They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues strut across the earth.(J)
10 Therefore his people turn to them[c]
and drink in their overflowing words.[d](K)
11 The wicked say, “How can God know?
Does the Most High know everything?” (L)
12 Look at them—the wicked!
They are always at ease,
and they increase their wealth.(M)

13 Did I purify my heart
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?(N)
14 For I am afflicted all day long
and punished every morning.(O)
15 If I had decided to say these things aloud,
I would have betrayed your people.[e](P)
16 When I tried to understand all this,
it seemed hopeless[f](Q)
17 until I entered God’s sanctuary.
Then I understood their destiny.(R)
18 Indeed, you put them in slippery places;
you make them fall into ruin.(S)
19 How suddenly they become a desolation!
They come to an end, swept away by terrors.(T)
20 Like one waking from a dream,
Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.(U)

21 When I became embittered
and my innermost being[g] was wounded,(V)
22 I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward you.(W)
23 Yet I am always with you;
you hold my right hand.(X)
24 You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me up in glory.[h](Y)
25 Who do I have in heaven but you?
And I desire nothing on earth but you.(Z)
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength[i] of my heart,
my portion forever.(AA)
27 Those far from you will certainly perish;
you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.(AB)
28 But as for me, God’s presence is my good.
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
so I can tell about all you do.(AC)

Footnotes:

  1. 73:4 Lit For there are no pangs to their death
  2. 73:4 Lit fat
  3. 73:10 Lit turn here
  4. 73:10 Lit and waters of fullness are drained by them
  5. 73:15 Lit betrayed the generation of your sons
  6. 73:16 Lit it was trouble in my eyes
  7. 73:21 Lit my kidneys
  8. 73:24 Or will receive me with honor
  9. 73:26 Lit rock

Cross references:

  1. 73:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
  2. 73:1 : Ps 24:4; 51:10; Mt 5:8
  3. 73:2 : Ps 17:5; 66:9; 94:18
  4. 73:3 : Ps 37:1; Pr 23:17; 24:1
  5. 73:4 : Jb 21:23-24
  6. 73:5 : Jb 21:4
  7. 73:6 : Ps 37:35; Pr 16:29; 21:24
  8. 73:7 : Jb 15:27; Jr 5:28
  9. 73:8 : Ps 17:10; 2Pt 2:18; Jd 16
  10. 73:9 : Rv 13:6
  11. 73:10 : Jb 15:16
  12. 73:11 : Jb 22:13; Ps 10:4,11; Is 29:15
  13. 73:12 : Ps 49:6; 52:7; Jr 49:31
  14. 73:13 : Ps 26:6; Mt 27:24
  15. 73:14 : Jb 33:19; Ps 38:6; 118:18
  16. 73:15 : Ps 44:17; 89:33
  17. 73:16 : Ec 8:17
  18. 73:17 : Jb 8:13; Ps 37:38
  19. 73:18 : Ps 35:6,8
  20. 73:19 : Nm 16:21; Jb 18:11; Is 47:11
  21. 73:20 : Ps 35:23; 59:5; 78:65
  22. 73:21 : Ps 109:22
  23. 73:22 : Jb 11:12; Ps 92:6
  24. 73:23 : Ps 63:8
  25. 73:24 : Ps 49:15; Is 58:11
  26. 73:25 : Ps 16:2; Php 3:8
  27. 73:26 : Ps 16:5; 38:10; 84:2
  28. 73:27 : 1Ch 5:25; Ps 37:20
  29. 73:28 : Ps 40:5; 118:17
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Proverbs 24:13-14

13 Eat honey,(A) my son, for it is good,
and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;(B)
14 realize that wisdom is the same for you.(C)
If you find it, you will have a future,
and your hope will never fade.(D)

Cross references:

  1. 24:13 : Pr 25:16
  2. 24:13 : Sg 5:1
  3. 24:14 : Ps 19:10; 119:103
  4. 24:14 : Pr 10:28; 23:18; Jr 29:11
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