Month: November 2022

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11/20/2022 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 40:28-41:26, James 4:1-17, Psalms 118:19-29, Proverbs 28:3-5

Today is the 20th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we greet a brand-new shiny sparkly week. And I mean this is Thanksgiving week here in the United States, typically travel, typically new…not new people, but like family that maybe we don’t get to see all the time. And then by the time the week is over its Black Friday and all the sudden we are in the thick of the Christmas season. And, so, here we are. This is the week. And as we’ve talked about before things get more and more busy, things speed up. This is a very different time of year than any other time of year, and it kinda…it changes, and it doesn’t really let up until we’re kind of in that week before the new year, like between Christmas and New Year’s and then we launch into a brand-new year. So, let’s remember we started this journey, and we will finish this journey and we will finish this journey strong and well. And if there is a time to stay rooted in the Scriptures it is this time of the year as we push toward the end of the year. And that’s not to say that every day isn’t a day to stay rooted in the Scriptures. Like if we’ve traveled this far then we know that the Bible makes a profound difference in many of our days and is there to speak truth when we need it. But we definitely need it at this time of the year because all of our rhythms start to shift a little bit and our interactions are with maybe people that are…like I said…family or friends or just different people that we’re not used to associating with all during the year that become part of the Christmas season and we start to feel the good will toward men and we start paying attention to each other in different ways. So, let’s just invite God into all of that as we continue forward and allow His word to continue to speak into our lives. And, so, let’s dive in. We will read from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we are moving back out into the book of Ezekiel, and we’ll actually be finishing Ezekiel by the end of this week. We are in the letter to James in the New Testament. We will be moving into new territory in the New Testament this week as well. So, let’s dive in. Ezekiel chapter 40 verse 28 through 41 verse 26.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for this brand-new week and we invite your Holy Spirit into all the festivities of a week like this and the transition into the holiday season. And here we go once again. It’s a beautiful beautiful time of year, the most wonderful time of the year, and yet it can get very very discombobulated very very quickly and we can find ourselves kind of all over the map emotionally and just feel like we’re kinda getting pulled in a lot of different directions. So, we want to ask for your peace and your truth to hover and permeate this season. We learned from the book of James today that we don’t have because we don’t ask and then we do ask it’s…it’s with selfish motivations, it’s with the wrong motives so that it can kind of enhance our own pleasure. But we’re not asking for that purpose. We’re asking because we need you. We won’t navigate this well this this holiday season or any of the rest of our lives. We won’t navigate well on our own. We have already very well proven that to ourselves, and you know very well that we are not capable on our own, of navigating much of anything. And what we want to navigate is your will and your ways in revealing…the revealing of your kingdom in this world, the good news that all are welcome. And as we are learning very clearly from the book of James, we can say those words all we want but if that’s not how we live, if that’s not what our lives look like then then there is no authority behind our words. We need you. We humble ourselves before you. We submit ourselves to you and resist the evil one. This is what James is telling us to do. We need your help with both of these things. Even our own submission requires our attentiveness and our alertness and this season that we’re in can pull us in all kinds of directions so that we’re not paying attention until there’s a crisis. Help us. We submit ourselves to you. You will help us to navigate appropriately. Come Holy Spirit into this season, into this week, we pray in the precious powerful mighty beautiful name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello good morning I’m a listener in Washington and I’ve been listening for probably 10 to 12 years. I would love to have prayer for my husband who has for about 10 years struggled with addiction. And the latest is that he ran away to Las Vegas and he’s staying in our condo, and he is on drugs and they are convincing him to take his life. And I…he’s a Christian and he…he says he’s waiting for the Lord to talk to him. And I know that there are so many people that will pray for him. And everything inside of me wants to go and get him and run to him but I feel the Lord telling me to wait like in Hosea. And then I…I just pray that he gets healed from the drugs and that he gets on a program that a doctor can oversee him and start there. And I just pray that he is healed from this drug addiction forever for his whole life. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. And I listen to your prayers every single day and I love them. And I…I’d like to pray for somebody, her name was Taylor. It was just very sad, and I wrote it down. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And I love you.

Good morning my DAB Family this is Judy from Georgia. To Laura Lee who spun out on I-95, praise the Lord you and no one else was harmed in this incident. Although you were shaken up, all praise and glory to the Lord for your safety. Prayers to Susie from Colorado in her mission to assist others in need in Haiti, that they were pre protected as they bring provisions to the ones in need. May God shield all of you in this mission so that those in need will be provided for and protected. To the woman feeling sad. I pray for you my dear sister. May the Lord comfort you and bring you out of this feeling of sadness. Please Lord give all of us Your strength, guidance, and wisdom and keep our faith strong as we go through our earthly life and help us see, here, and know all that You need us to see, here, and know. Keep us on the narrow path that leads us to You. Have a great God blessed day my DAB family. I pray for them love you all. Bye.

Good morning my DAB family today is November 16th. I’m calling regarding all of the calls at the end of today’s broadcast. So, for the young lady who called in who said she was tired of being sad. Oh my God sister I am praying for you. I know so many people who battle with depression and don’t know where to go. Please know that there’s a whole family here praying for you. Susie from Colorado, your entire story just broke my heart. The reality of the gangs or just knowing that there are people that are starving and hungry and as you said just 90 minutes away, you know, there’s a whole part of Florida, Miami, that’s just thriving. The world seems so imbalanced at times but please know that I am along with a whole DAB family of praying for you and your safety of your staff and that these children are getting this food and the help that they need, and that the UN would actually do something about these gangs. Lori from Boynton Beach what a praise report. Thank God that you are here and what a powerful statement that you made when you said I’m ready to meet Jesus. You know, that’s a question that we all can ask ourselves on a daily basis. Are we ready to see the Lord. But I’m so glad that you’re here to give that testimony. And my brother Sean Rogers, you know, in the Bible people that walk with Jesus didn’t know Jesus. You know who knew Jesus? The devil. The demons knew Jesus. And you have to understand that the word is in you. You’re reciting the word. You’re a powerhouse, my brother. And because of the God that lives you and you the enemies gonna always try you. Please know that I am praying for you and I’m praying that your mission is so great because the world needs you. The world needs people who are not perfect. And because of that God is using you and I need you to know that. I love you, brother. Stay in there. We’re praying.

Hey everybody, it’s Tony the Narrator here. Father God Lord, we pray for everybody who’s working in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Lord we…we pray that the food will be able to get through. We pray for your miraculous protection. Be a shield to all of the people doing the work over there. But Lord, also I wanna pray for the hearts of people in this world. We’re a people who are already bored of looking at Ukraine and we’re sick of hearing about Zelinsky and Vladimir Putin’s the evil one that we can all hate. And nobody has a heart left for suffering and for the pain and for the struggle that goes through. So Lord, I pray that you will soften the hearts of everyone so that stories like the…the deaths and the pain that’s going that’s happening due to gangs in Haiti can actually get recognition, can be seen and understood. But Lord we live in a world that seems to be governed by misdirection. So, Lord we just pray that Your sanity will come upon this world and soon because we can’t do this Lord. It's…it’s coming to a close and we need You back soon. And it’s in Jesus’ precious name we pray, and we praise you. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday November 20, 2022 (NIV)

Ezekiel 40:28-41:26

The Inner Gates

28 Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate. When he measured the south gate, it had the same measurements as the others. 29 Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide. 30 (There were porticoes all around, 43¾ feet long and 8¾ feet wide.[a]) 31 Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees. Its stairway had eight steps.

32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. When he measured the gate, it had the same measurements as the others. 33 Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide. 34 Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

35 Then he brought me to the north gate.(A) When he measured it, it had the same measurements as the others, 36 as did its recesses, jambs, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide. 37 Its portico[b] faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38 There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico.[c] The burnt offering was to be washed there.(B) 39 Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering,(C) and guilt offering.(D) 40 Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico. 41 So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done. 42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering,(E) each 31½ inches[d] long, 31½ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them. 43 There were three-inch[e] hooks[f] fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

Rooms for Singers and Priests

44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:[g](F) one[h] beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south[i] gate, facing north. 45 Then the man said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.(G) 46 The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok,(H) the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve him.”(I) 47 Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar(J) was in front of the temple.

48 Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were 8¾ feet thick on each side. The width of the gate was 24½ feet,[j] and the side walls of the gate were[k] 5¼ feet[l] wide on each side. 49 The portico was 35 feet[m] across and 21[n] feet[o] deep, and 10 steps led[p] up to it.(K) There were pillars by the jambs, one on each side.(L)

Inside the Temple

41 Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs;(M) on each side the width of the jamb was 10½ feet.[q][r] 2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,[s] and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet[t] wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet,[u] and the width, 35 feet.[v](N) 3 He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance;(O) they were 3½ feet[w] wide. The entrance was 10½ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side[x] was 12¼ feet.[y] 4 He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet.(P) And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”(Q)

Outside the Temple

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet.[z](R) 6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each.[aa] There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.(S) 7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.[ab](T)

8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.[ac](U) 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8¾ feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the outer chambers was 35 feet wide all around the temple.(V) 11 The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8¾ feet wide all around.

12 Now the building that faced the temple yard toward the west was 122½ feet[ad] wide. The wall of the building was 8¾ feet thick on all sides, and the building’s length was 157½ feet.[ae]

13 Then the man measured the temple; it was 175 feet[af] long.(W) In addition, the temple yard and the building, including its walls, were 175 feet long. 14 The width of the front of the temple along with the temple yard to the east was 175 feet. 15 Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries[ag] on each side;(X) it was 175 feet.

Interior Wooden Structures

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court— 16 the thresholds, the beveled windows,(Y) and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold—were overlaid with wood on all sides.(Z) They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17 reaching to the top of the entrance, and as far as the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern 18 carved with cherubim and palm trees.(AA) There was a palm tree between each pair of cherubim.(AB) Each cherub had two faces: 19 a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side,(AC) and a lion’s face turned toward it on the other. They were carved throughout the temple on all sides. 20 Cherubim and palm trees were carved from the ground to the top of the entrance and on the wall of the great hall.

21 The doorposts of the great hall were square,(AD) and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance. 22 The altar was[ah] made of wood, 5¼ feet[ai] high and 3½ feet long.[aj] It had corners, and its length[ak] and sides were of wood.(AE) The man told me, “This is the table that stands before the Lord.”(AF)

23 The great hall and the sanctuary each had a double door,(AG) 24 and each of the doors had two swinging panels.(AH) There were two panels for one door and two for the other. 25 Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the great hall like those carved on the walls. There was a wooden canopy[al](AI) outside, in front of the portico. 26 There were beveled windows and palm trees on both sides,(AJ) on the side walls of the portico, the side rooms of the temple, and the canopies.[am]

Footnotes:

  1. 40:30 Some Hb mss, LXX omit v. 30
  2. 40:37 LXX; MT reads jambs
  3. 40:38 Text emended; MT reads door was by the jambs, at the gates
  4. 40:42 Lit one and a half cubits
  5. 40:43 Lit one handbreadth
  6. 40:43 Or ledges
  7. 40:44 LXX reads were two chambers
  8. 40:44 LXX; MT reads singers, which was
  9. 40:44 LXX; MT reads east
  10. 40:48 Lit 14 cubits
  11. 40:48 LXX; MT omits 24½ feet, and the side walls of the gate were
  12. 40:48 Lit three cubits
  13. 40:49 Lit 20 cubits
  14. 40:49 LXX; MT reads 19¼
  15. 40:49 Lit 12 cubits
  16. 40:49 MT reads and it was on steps that they would go
  17. 41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 10½ feet wide on each side—the width of the tabernacle
  18. 41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5
  19. 41:2 Lit 10 cubits
  20. 41:2 Lit five cubits, also in vv. 9,11,12
  21. 41:2 Lit 40 cubits
  22. 41:2 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4,10
  23. 41:3 Lit two cubits, also in v. 22
  24. 41:3 LXX; MT reads width of the entrance
  25. 41:3 Lit seven cubits
  26. 41:5 Lit four cubits
  27. 41:6 Lit another three and thirty times
  28. 41:7 Hb obscure
  29. 41:8 Lit a full rod of six cubits of a joint; Hb obscure
  30. 41:12 Lit 70 cubits
  31. 41:12 Lit 90 cubits
  32. 41:13 Lit 100 cubits
  33. 41:15 Or ledges
  34. 41:21–22 Or and in front of the sanctuary was something that looked like 22 an altar
  35. 41:22 Lit three cubits
  36. 41:22 LXX reads long and 3½ feet wide
  37. 41:22 LXX reads base
  38. 41:25 Hb obscure
  39. 41:26 Hb obscure

Cross references:

  1. 40:35 : Ezk 47:2
  2. 40:38 : 2Ch 4:6
  3. 40:39 : Lv 1:3–4; 4:2–3
  4. 40:39 : Lv 5:1–6
  5. 40:42 : Ex 20:25
  6. 40:44 : 1Ch 6:31–32; 16:41–43; 25:1–7
  7. 40:45 : 1Ch 9:23; Ps 134:1
  8. 40:46 : 1Kg 2:35
  9. 40:46 : Lv 6:12–13; Ezk 43:19; 44:15
  10. 40:47 : Ezk 43:13–17
  11. 40:49 : 1Kg 6:3
  12. 40:49 : 1Kg 7:15–22; 2Ch 3:17; Jr 52:17–23; Rv 3:12
  13. 41:1 : Ezk 40:2–3,17
  14. 41:2 : 1Kg 6:2,17
  15. 41:3 : Ezk 40:16
  16. 41:4 : 1Kg 6:20
  17. 41:4 : 1Kg 6:16
  18. 41:5 : 1Kg 6:5–10
  19. 41:6 : 1Kg 6:6
  20. 41:7 : 1Kg 6:8
  21. 41:8 : Ezk 40:5
  22. 41:10 : Ezk 40:17
  23. 41:13 : Ezk 40:47
  24. 41:15 : Ezk 42:3,5
  25. 41:16 : 1Kg 6:4; Ezk 40:16,25
  26. 41:16 : 1Kg 6:15
  27. 41:18 : 1Kg 6:29
  28. 41:18 : 2Ch 3:5; Ezk 40:16
  29. 41:19 : Ezk 1:10; 10:14
  30. 41:21 : 1Kg 6:33; Ezk 40:9,14,16; 41:1
  31. 41:22 : Ex 30:1–3; 1Kg 6:20; Rv 8:3
  32. 41:22 : Ex 25:23,30; Lv 24:6; Ezk 23:41; 44:16; Mal 1:7,12
  33. 41:23 : 1Kg 6:31–35
  34. 41:24 : 1Kg 6:34
  35. 41:25 : 1Kg 7:6
  36. 41:26 : Ezk 40:16
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James 4

Proud or Humble

4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions(A) that wage war within you?[a] 2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war.[b] You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.(B)

4 You adulterous people![c] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.(C) 5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?[d](D)

6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.[e](E)

7 Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.(F) 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.(G) 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.(H) 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Don’t criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer[f] defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.(I) 12 There is one lawgiver and judge[g] who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?(J)

Our Will and God’s Will

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”(K) 14 Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.(L)

15 Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.(M) 17 So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.(N)

Footnotes:

  1. 4:1 Or war in your members
  2. 4:2 Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.
  3. 4:4 Lit Adulteresses
  4. 4:5 Or Scripture says: He jealously yearns for the spirit he made to live in us?, or Scripture says: The Spirit he made to dwell in us longs jealously?
  5. 4:6 Pr 3:34
  6. 4:11 Or his brother or sister
  7. 4:12 Other mss omit and judge

Cross references:

  1. 4:1 : Rm 7:23; Ti 3:9
  2. 4:3 : Ps 18:41; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14
  3. 4:4 : Jn 15:19; Jms 1:27; 1Jn 2:15
  4. 4:5 : 1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16
  5. 4:6 : Ps 138:6; Pr 3:34; Mt 23:12
  6. 4:7 : Eph 4:27; 6:11; 1Pt 5:8–9
  7. 4:8 : 2Ch 15:2; Is 1:16; Jms 1:8
  8. 4:9 : Mt 5:4; Lk 6:25
  9. 4:11 : Mt 7:1; Jms 1:22; 1Pt 2:1
  10. 4:12 : Mt 10:28; Rm 14:4
  11. 4:13 : Pr 27:1; Lk 12:18–20
  12. 4:14 : Jb 7:7; Ps 102:3
  13. 4:15–16 : Ac 18:21; 1Co 5:6
  14. 4:17 : Lk 12:47–48; Jn 9:41; 2Pt 2:21
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Psalm 118:19-29

19 Open the gates of righteousness for me;
I will enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.(A)
20 This is the Lord’s gate;
the righteous will enter through it.(B)
21 I will give thanks to you
because you have answered me
and have become my salvation.(C)
22 The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.(D)
23 This came from the Lord;
it is wondrous in our sight.(E)
24 This is the day the Lord has made;
let’s rejoice and be glad in it.(F)

25 Lord, save us!
Lord, please grant us success!(G)
26 He who comes in the name
of the Lord is blessed.(H)
From the house of the Lord we bless you.(I)
27 The Lord is God and has given us light.
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords
to the horns of the altar.(J)
28 You are my God, and I will give you thanks.
You are my God; I will exalt you.(K)
29 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his faithful love endures forever.(L)

Cross references:

  1. 118:19 : Is 26:2
  2. 118:20 : Ps 24:3–6; Rv 22:14
  3. 118:21 : Ps 116:1
  4. 118:22 : Lk 20:17; Ac 4:11; 1Pt 2:4,7
  5. 118:23 : Mt 21:42; Mk 12:11
  6. 118:24 : Ps 31:7
  7. 118:25 : Neh 2:20; Ps 122:6–7
  8. 118:25–26 : Mt 21:9; Mk 11:9–10; Lk 13:35; Jn 12:13
  9. 118:26 : Ps 129:8
  10. 118:27 : Ex 27:2; Ps 18:28; 1Pt 2:9
  11. 118:28 : Is 25:1
  12. 118:29 : 2Ch 5:13; Ezr 3:11; Ps 100:5
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Proverbs 28:3-5

3 A destitute leader[a] who oppresses the poor
is like a driving rain that leaves no food.(A)

4 Those who reject the law praise the wicked,(B)
but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.(C)

5 The evil do not understand justice,(D)
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.(E)

Footnotes:

  1. 28:3 LXX reads A wicked man

Cross references:

  1. 28:3 : Ex 9:25
  2. 28:4 : Rm 1:32
  3. 28:4 : 1Kg 18:18; Neh 13:11,15; Mt 3:7; 14:4; Eph 5:11
  4. 28:5 : Ps 92:6
  5. 28:5 : Ps 119:100; Jn 7:17; 1Co 2:15; Jms 1:5; 1Jn 2:20,27
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11/19/2022 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 39:1-40:27, James 2:18-3:18, Psalm 118:1-18, Proverbs 28:2

Today is the 19th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you today, as we bring to a close another one of the well, actually dwindling weeks now. Not too many more of these left before we reach the end of the year. But even recognizing that, we want to get ahead of ourselves, we are here, and we are here today, and we are around the Global Campfire together and we’re here for the next step forward. And so, we don’t take steps a week at a time, we take them a day at a time. And so, here we go. We’ve been reading from the New International Version this week; we will continue to do that today and move back into the book of Ezekiel. Today, chapter 39 verse 1 through 40 verse 27.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for the beautiful Scriptures and how they speak into every part of our lives. We thank You for another week to spend together in Your word and we thank You for almost a capstone here, at the end of the week from the letter of James, speaking frankly to us, that we can burn our entire lifetime with our mouth. And…and any of us who have been around much, know that this is true. We can find ourselves in situations where we are saying things that can’t be unsaid and shouldn’t be said and aren’t what we mean, which simply reinforces what James is saying. Lots of things can be tamed, but the tongue, we struggle there. And yet, there, is one of the ways that we are created in Your image. You speak and things get created, we speak and although we create…can’t create something out of nothing, matter out of nothing, our words create things inside of each other and we can set things on fire, and they burn a long time. So, we have been told this throughout the year, that what we say matters. So very poignantly laid out for us today as we bring this week to a close, what we say matters and it matters on a number of levels, because our faith, whatever we claim with our mouths to be our faith, is reinforced by what we do. And so, Holy Spirit, come, may our words and our deeds be in sync with each other and may both of those, our words and our deeds, bring glory to You. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Hey, DAB, and specifically Brian, this is Joyfully Jo. And I just wanted to say, thank you, for your message on Hebrews 12:18-29 today on the 15th. I listened to it last night in the middle of the night and it riveted me in my night watches. And when I woke up, I listened to it again because it was just so good and so apropos to my life. My life has been shaking. God has been shaking me for, since 19…2016 when my dad passed away. And the buffer between my dad and my mom and I was gone. And…and I became her caregiver. And it has been the hardest thing I’ve done, and I’ve done a lot of hard things. Anyway, I loved what you said about when you come out of the other side of the shaking, all that will be left in you, will be that which is unshakable. And I see God doing that in my life. Cause I haven’t turned back. Although, I do want the shaking to stop. It’s not time. So, I am going to stand firm in my resolve to keep my eyes on Jesus. Thank you, Brian, so much.

Hello, this is Prodigal Princess from Massachusetts. Going something right now involving someone from my past. It’s a restraining order. And I’ve been in fear, I’m still in fear. I can use prayer. Trying to walk in faith. Feeling very alone. Thank you.

Good morning, everybody. It’s God’s Smile here. I serve a risen savior, his in the world today. I know that He is living, whatever man may say. I see His hand of mercy; I hear His voice of cheer. And just the time I need Him, His always near. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me, and talks with me, along life’s narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives, He lives, within my heart. Oh, I’m so thankful that each day, He walks with me, and He talks with me and His voice I hear each day. He leads me and teaches me and guides me. I cry and I smile at His goodness and mercy. His word, sometimes, it brings me to tears and sometimes to laughter. And sometimes causes a pause and a thought. His word is active, His word is life, it’s nourishment to our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our very being. He’s our life, He’s our living, risen savior. Oh, hahahaha, what a joy it is to be called a child of God. Kiss kiss, everybody.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday November 19, 2022 (NIV)

Ezekiel 39:1-40:27

39 “Son of man, prophesy against Gog(A) and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[a] Meshek(B) and Tubal.(C) 2 I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north(D) and send you against the mountains of Israel.(E) 3 Then I will strike your bow(F) from your left hand and make your arrows(G) drop from your right hand. 4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds(H) and to the wild animals.(I) 5 You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.(J) 6 I will send fire(K) on Magog(L) and on those who live in safety in the coastlands,(M) and they will know(N) that I am the Lord.

7 “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned,(O) and the nations will know(P) that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.(Q) 8 It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day(R) I have spoken of.

9 “‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows,(S) the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.(T) 10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder(U) those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.(V)

11 “‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried(W) there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.[b](X)

12 “‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.(Y) 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory(Z) will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord. 14 People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.

“‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. 15 As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, 16 near a town called Hamonah.[c] And so they will cleanse the land.’

17 “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird(AA) and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.(AB) 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.(AC) 19 At the sacrifice(AD) I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.(AE)

21 “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them.(AF) 22 From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. 23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.(AG) 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.(AH)

25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob[d](AI) and will have compassion(AJ) on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.(AK) 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety(AL) in their land with no one to make them afraid.(AM) 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations.(AN) 28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them(AO) to their own land, not leaving any behind.(AP) 29 I will no longer hide my face(AQ) from them, for I will pour out my Spirit(AR) on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.(AS)”

The Temple Area Restored

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city(AT)—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me(AU) and he took me there. 2 In visions(AV) of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain,(AW) on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city. 3 He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze;(AX) he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod(AY) in his hand. 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you,(AZ) for that is why you have been brought here. Tell(BA) the people of Israel everything you see.(BB)”

The East Gate to the Outer Court

5 I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits,[e] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured(BC) the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.

6 Then he went to the east gate.(BD) He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. 7 The alcoves(BE) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[f] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; 9 it[g] was eight cubits[h] deep and its jambs were two cubits[i] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.

10 Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements. 11 Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.[j] 12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[k] from one parapet opening to the opposite one. 14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits.[l] The measurement was up to the portico[m] facing the courtyard.[n](BF) 15 The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.[o] 16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.(BG)

The Outer Court

17 Then he brought me into the outer court.(BH) There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms(BI) along the pavement.(BJ) 18 It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court;(BK) it was a hundred cubits[p](BL) on the east side as well as on the north.

The North Gate

20 Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court. 21 Its alcoves(BM)—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico(BN) had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 22 Its openings, its portico(BO) and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.(BP) 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.(BQ)

The South Gate

24 Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements(BR) as the others. 25 The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.(BS) 26 Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.(BT) 27 The inner court(BU) also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.(BV)

Footnotes:

  1. Ezekiel 39:1 Or Gog, prince of Rosh,
  2. Ezekiel 39:11 Hamon Gog means hordes of Gog.
  3. Ezekiel 39:16 Hamonah means horde.
  4. Ezekiel 39:25 Or now bring Jacob back from captivity
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters; also in verse 12. The long cubit of about 21 inches or about 53 centimeters is the basic unit of measurement of length throughout chapters 40–48.
  6. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verse 48
  7. Ezekiel 40:9 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts gateway facing the temple; it was one rod deep. 9 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; it
  8. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 14 feet or about 4.2 meters
  9. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 3 1/2 feet or about 1 meter
  10. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, about 18 feet wide and 23 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 6.9 meters long
  11. Ezekiel 40:13 That is, about 44 feet or about 13 meters; also in verses 21, 25, 29, 30, 33 and 36
  12. Ezekiel 40:14 That is, about 105 feet or about 32 meters
  13. Ezekiel 40:14 Septuagint; Hebrew projecting wall
  14. Ezekiel 40:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
  15. Ezekiel 40:15 That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters; also in verses 21, 25, 29, 33 and 36
  16. Ezekiel 40:19 That is, about 175 feet or about 53 meters; also in verses 23, 27 and 47

Cross references:

  1. Ezekiel 39:1 : Rev 20:8
  2. Ezekiel 39:1 : S Ge 10:2
  3. Ezekiel 39:1 : S Eze 27:13; S 38:2, 3
  4. Ezekiel 39:2 : S Eze 32:30
  5. Ezekiel 39:2 : S Eze 38:4, 15
  6. Ezekiel 39:3 : Hos 1:5; Am 2:15
  7. Ezekiel 39:3 : Ps 76:3
  8. Ezekiel 39:4 : S Ge 40:19
  9. Ezekiel 39:4 : ver 17-20; S Jer 25:33; S Eze 29:5; S 33:27
  10. Ezekiel 39:5 : S Eze 32:4
  11. Ezekiel 39:6 : S Eze 30:8; Rev 20:9
  12. Ezekiel 39:6 : S Ge 10:2
  13. Ezekiel 39:6 : S Jer 25:22
  14. Ezekiel 39:6 : S Ex 6:7
  15. Ezekiel 39:7 : S Ex 20:7; S Eze 13:19
  16. Ezekiel 39:7 : S Isa 49:26
  17. Ezekiel 39:7 : S Isa 12:6; S 54:5; S Eze 20:9; S 36:16, 23
  18. Ezekiel 39:8 : Eze 7:6
  19. Ezekiel 39:9 : Ps 76:3
  20. Ezekiel 39:9 : S Ps 46:9
  21. Ezekiel 39:10 : S Ex 3:22
  22. Ezekiel 39:10 : S Isa 14:2; S 33:1; Hab 2:8
  23. Ezekiel 39:11 : S Isa 34:3
  24. Ezekiel 39:11 : S Eze 38:2
  25. Ezekiel 39:12 : Dt 21:23
  26. Ezekiel 39:13 : Eze 28:22
  27. Ezekiel 39:17 : S Job 15:23
  28. Ezekiel 39:17 : S Eze 32:4
  29. Ezekiel 39:18 : S Ps 22:12; Jer 51:40
  30. Ezekiel 39:19 : S Lev 3:9
  31. Ezekiel 39:20 : S Isa 56:9; S Jer 12:9; Rev 19:17-18
  32. Ezekiel 39:21 : Ex 9:16; Isa 37:20; S Eze 38:16
  33. Ezekiel 39:23 : Isa 1:15; 59:2; S Jer 22:8-9; S 44:23
  34. Ezekiel 39:24 : 2Ki 17:23; Jer 2:17, 19; 4:18; S Eze 7:22; Da 9:7
  35. Ezekiel 39:25 : S Jer 33:7
  36. Ezekiel 39:25 : S Jer 30:18
  37. Ezekiel 39:25 : Isa 27:12-13; S Eze 16:53
  38. Ezekiel 39:26 : S 1Ki 4:25; S Jer 32:37; S Eze 38:8
  39. Ezekiel 39:26 : Isa 17:2; Eze 34:28; Mic 4:4
  40. Ezekiel 39:27 : S Eze 37:21
  41. Ezekiel 39:28 : Ps 147:2
  42. Ezekiel 39:28 : S Eze 36:23, 36
  43. Ezekiel 39:29 : S Dt 31:17
  44. Ezekiel 39:29 : S Isa 11:2; S Eze 37:9; S Ac 2:17
  45. Ezekiel 39:29 : S Eze 16:42
  46. Ezekiel 40:1 : S 2Ki 25:7; Jer 39:1-10; 52:4-11
  47. Ezekiel 40:1 : S Eze 1:3; S 29:17
  48. Ezekiel 40:2 : S Ex 24:10; Da 7:1, 7
  49. Ezekiel 40:2 : S Jer 31:12; S Eze 17:22; Rev 21:10
  50. Ezekiel 40:3 : S Eze 1:7; Rev 1:15
  51. Ezekiel 40:3 : Eze 47:3; Zec 2:1-2; Rev 11:1; 21:15
  52. Ezekiel 40:4 : S Dt 6:6
  53. Ezekiel 40:4 : Jer 26:2
  54. Ezekiel 40:4 : Eze 44:5
  55. Ezekiel 40:5 : Eze 42:20
  56. Ezekiel 40:6 : S Eze 8:16
  57. Ezekiel 40:7 : ver 36
  58. Ezekiel 40:14 : S Ex 27:9
  59. Ezekiel 40:16 : ver 21-22; 2Ch 3:5; Eze 41:26
  60. Ezekiel 40:17 : Rev 11:2
  61. Ezekiel 40:17 : Eze 41:6
  62. Ezekiel 40:17 : Eze 42:1
  63. Ezekiel 40:19 : Eze 46:1
  64. Ezekiel 40:19 : ver 23, 27
  65. Ezekiel 40:21 : ver 7
  66. Ezekiel 40:21 : ver 30
  67. Ezekiel 40:22 : ver 49
  68. Ezekiel 40:22 : S ver 16, 26
  69. Ezekiel 40:23 : S ver 19
  70. Ezekiel 40:24 : ver 32, 35
  71. Ezekiel 40:25 : ver 33
  72. Ezekiel 40:26 : S ver 22
  73. Ezekiel 40:27 : ver 32
  74. Ezekiel 40:27 : S ver 19
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James 2:18-3

18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

Show me your faith without deeds,(A) and I will show you my faith(B) by my deeds.(C) 19 You believe that there is one God.(D) Good! Even the demons believe that(E)—and shudder.

20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]?(F) 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?(G) 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together,(H) and his faith was made complete by what he did.(I) 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b](J) and he was called God’s friend.(K) 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?(L) 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.(M)

Taming the Tongue

3 Not many of you should become teachers,(N) my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged(O) more strictly.(P) 2 We all stumble(Q) in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say(R) is perfect,(S) able to keep their whole body in check.(T)

3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.(U) 4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. 5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.(V) Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire,(W) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(X) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(Y)

7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(Z)

9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.(AA) 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?(AB) Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

Two Kinds of Wisdom

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it(AC) by their good life, by deeds(AD) done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition(AE) in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.(AF) 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven(AG) but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.(AH) 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition,(AI) there you find disorder and every evil practice.

17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven(AJ) is first of all pure; then peace-loving,(AK) considerate, submissive, full of mercy(AL) and good fruit, impartial and sincere.(AM) 18 Peacemakers(AN) who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.(AO)

Footnotes:

  1. James 2:20 Some early manuscripts dead
  2. James 2:23 Gen. 15:6

Cross references:

  1. James 2:18 : Ro 3:28
  2. James 2:18 : Heb 11
  3. James 2:18 : Mt 7:16, 17; Jas 3:13
  4. James 2:19 : Dt 6:4; Mk 12:29; 1Co 8:4-6
  5. James 2:19 : Mt 8:29; Lk 4:34
  6. James 2:20 : ver 17, 26
  7. James 2:21 : Ge 22:9, 12
  8. James 2:22 : Heb 11:17
  9. James 2:22 : 1Th 1:3
  10. James 2:23 : Ge 15:6; S Ro 4:3
  11. James 2:23 : 2Ch 20:7; Isa 41:8
  12. James 2:25 : S Heb 11:31
  13. James 2:26 : ver 17, 20
  14. James 3:1 : S Eph 4:11
  15. James 3:1 : S Mt 7:1
  16. James 3:1 : Ro 2:21
  17. James 3:2 : 1Ki 8:46; Ro 3:9-20; Jas 2:10; 1Jn 1:8
  18. James 3:2 : Ps 39:1; Pr 10:19; 1Pe 3:10
  19. James 3:2 : S Mt 12:37
  20. James 3:2 : Jas 1:26
  21. James 3:3 : Ps 32:9
  22. James 3:5 : Ps 12:3, 4; 73:8, 9
  23. James 3:6 : Pr 16:27
  24. James 3:6 : Mt 15:11, 18, 19
  25. James 3:6 : S Mt 5:22
  26. James 3:8 : Ps 140:3; Ro 3:13
  27. James 3:9 : Ge 1:26, 27; 1Co 11:7
  28. James 3:12 : Mt 7:16
  29. James 3:13 : Jas 2:18
  30. James 3:13 : S 1Pe 2:12
  31. James 3:14 : ver 16; 2Co 12:20
  32. James 3:14 : Jas 5:19
  33. James 3:15 : ver 17; Jas 1:17
  34. James 3:15 : 1Ti 4:1
  35. James 3:16 : ver 14; Gal 5:20, 21
  36. James 3:17 : 1Co 2:6; Jas 1:17
  37. James 3:17 : Heb 12:11
  38. James 3:17 : Lk 6:36
  39. James 3:17 : Ro 12:9
  40. James 3:18 : Mt 5:9; S Ro 14:19
  41. James 3:18 : Pr 11:18; Isa 32:17; Hos 10:12; Php 1:11
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Psalm 118:1-18

Psalm 118

1 Give thanks to the Lord,(A) for he is good;(B)
his love endures forever.(C)

2 Let Israel say:(D)
“His love endures forever.”(E)
3 Let the house of Aaron say:(F)
“His love endures forever.”
4 Let those who fear the Lord(G) say:
“His love endures forever.”

5 When hard pressed,(H) I cried to the Lord;
he brought me into a spacious place.(I)
6 The Lord is with me;(J) I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?(K)
7 The Lord is with me; he is my helper.(L)
I look in triumph on my enemies.(M)

8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord(N)
than to trust in humans.(O)
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in princes.(P)
10 All the nations surrounded me,
but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.(Q)
11 They surrounded me(R) on every side,(S)
but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
12 They swarmed around me like bees,(T)
but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;(U)
in the name of the Lord I cut them down.(V)
13 I was pushed back and about to fall,
but the Lord helped me.(W)
14 The Lord is my strength(X) and my defense[a];
he has become my salvation.(Y)

15 Shouts of joy(Z) and victory
resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand(AA) has done mighty things!(AB)
16 The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”
17 I will not die(AC) but live,
and will proclaim(AD) what the Lord has done.
18 The Lord has chastened(AE) me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.(AF)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 118:14 Or song

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 118:1 : S 1Ch 16:8
  2. Psalm 118:1 : S 2Ch 5:13; S 7:3
  3. Psalm 118:1 : S Ezr 3:11
  4. Psalm 118:2 : Ps 115:9
  5. Psalm 118:2 : Ps 106:1; 136:1-26
  6. Psalm 118:3 : Ex 30:30; Ps 115:10
  7. Psalm 118:4 : S Ps 115:11
  8. Psalm 118:5 : Ps 18:6; 31:7; 77:2; 120:1
  9. Psalm 118:5 : ver 21; Ps 34:4; 86:7; 116:1; 138:3
  10. Psalm 118:6 : S Dt 31:6; Heb 13:6*
  11. Psalm 118:6 : S Ps 56:4
  12. Psalm 118:7 : S Dt 33:29
  13. Psalm 118:7 : S Ps 54:7
  14. Psalm 118:8 : Ps 2:12; 5:11; 9:9; 37:3; 40:4; Isa 25:4; 57:13
  15. Psalm 118:8 : 2Ch 32:7-8; S Ps 108:12; S Isa 2:22
  16. Psalm 118:9 : Ps 146:3
  17. Psalm 118:10 : S Ps 37:9
  18. Psalm 118:11 : Ps 88:17
  19. Psalm 118:11 : Ps 3:6
  20. Psalm 118:12 : Dt 1:44
  21. Psalm 118:12 : S Ps 58:9
  22. Psalm 118:12 : Ps 37:9
  23. Psalm 118:13 : ver 7; 2Ch 18:31; Ps 86:17
  24. Psalm 118:14 : S Ex 15:2
  25. Psalm 118:14 : S Ps 62:2
  26. Psalm 118:15 : S Job 8:21; S Ps 106:5
  27. Psalm 118:15 : S Ex 15:6; Ps 89:13; 108:6
  28. Psalm 118:15 : Lk 1:51
  29. Psalm 118:17 : Hab 1:12
  30. Psalm 118:17 : S Dt 32:3; Ps 64:9; 71:16; 73:28
  31. Psalm 118:18 : Jer 31:18; 1Co 11:32; Heb 12:5
  32. Psalm 118:18 : Ps 86:13
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Proverbs 28:2

2 When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers,
but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.

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11/18/2022 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 37:1-38:23, James 1:19-2:17, Psalms 117:1-2, Proverbs 28:1

Today is the 18th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am it’s great to be here with you today as we move forward together one step at a time, day by day. And, so, our next step forward, the one we’re taking today leads us back into the book of Ezekiel. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Ezekiel chapters 37 and 38 today.

Commentary:

Okay, a couple of things today. We read Ezekiel chapter 37 today and that is the story of The Valley of the dry bones and it’s like a visionary experience that the prophet Ezekiel has. And it’s just…it’s been a poignant passage of Scripture in my life for so very long now. Like, one of the earliest things that really stuck out to me in the early years of Daily Audio Bible, I would look forward to getting to Ezekiel 37 because there’s this valley of dry bones. And yes, this valley of dry bones represents Israel, but just look out across the world today, right? And it feels like we’re…we’re just so beaten down in different areas of our lives. It’s like it’s strewn all across a valley. It’s just these bones. And it’s a visionary experience, but for a valley to be full of dry bones meant probably a battle happened there and, you know, the bones are the people who were the casualties and it’s been a long time because their skeletons now. And, so, they’ve decomposed, and they’ve baked out in the sun, and now their skeletons of dry bones. So, like, that’s as dead as dead gets, right? I think that’s what the imagery is supposed to be telling us. Like this is as dead as dead gets. And the Lord comes to the prophet and says, can these bones live? It’s almost like it’s a trick question. But Ezekiel answers like really well, I think you’re the only one that could possibly know that Lord. And the Lord tells him to prophesy and ultimately tells him to call to the four winds, the breath of life. And that which was as dead as dead gets was restored to life again. That imagery, that hope, that no matter how dry, how we may get in our lives there is always hope to be restored. That has really stuck with me and hopefully it sticks with you. There is always hope. Actually, this is kind of where our coffee brand, Windfarm. I know that’s like such a weird transition, but that term, Windfarm is really inspired by Ezekiel chapter 37 and the prophet calling to the four winds, the breath of life. And I just thought, what if that were happening all of the time. What if it was like a Windfarm calling to the four winds, the breath of life all the time because I was seeing these wind farms all over…well…actually all over the world, but definitely all over the country that I live in here the United States. Gigantic windmills, like so big, and just valleys of them I’ve seen in different places in this country. Hundreds and hundreds of them harvesting from the wind and that’s just always stuck with me. What if we knew that this was available, that we could call to the four winds and ask God to send the breath of life into a world that needs the breath of life’s so badly. And, so, I love when we come to Ezekiel 37 each and every year

We’re also reading other books though. We’re reading through the letter of James and we talked about that yesterday. And James is a butt kicker. If there is a butt kicker in the Bible, James at least to me, is that…well…at least me…my butt gets kicked every year. He’s unflinching. He’s not mean, he’s not arrogant, he’s not abusive, he’s just unflinching. So, today we read from that letter, and I quote, “do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they will be blessed in what they do.” I’m pretty sure we get the point. Feasting on the Scriptures and then not incorporating them in any way in life, what good is that? Like, that doesn’t change anything. So, that should allow us to take a step back and pause and reflect upon our lives. Like, are we hearing and not in any way doing? Are we hearing so that we can have knowledge, but it doesn’t actually do anything within us, our lives are not transformed in any way? What good is that? What is the point of accumulating biblical knowledge if it’s not going to be used in any way? James is leading to a point and his point is direct. And I quote, “what good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds. Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them go in peace, keep warm, be well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way”…in this same way, James says, “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead, dead faith.” So, do we have this weird letter in the New Testament that is not in sync with everything else in the New Testament? Are we needing to work for our salvation all of the sudden now that we’ve gotten to the book of James? No. You can’t save yourself. Nothing you could possibly do could save you. Only God’s mercy upon you, saves you. But if that happens to you, you have one the…the cosmic victory of victories. You got what everyone is searching for. If that doesn’t change how you live, what is that saying? Because Christ inside of us transforming us through faith should change everything about everything, because we have been made new. Like we are no longer who we were. That person died and was resurrected in Christ, a new creation. Everything should actually be different. Our faith should be borne out by the very actions of our lives. That’s not working to achieve something that is the overflow of a transformed person. If your life completely changes then your lifestyle completely changes as well, which gives us plenty. Like James has looked us in the eyes through this letter and challenged us to reflect upon ourselves very carefully. And maybe not make claims that are not borne out in our lives at all. Can’t get much more direct than that.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit come into that, come into that, come into the places where we are hearers, but not doers and come into the places that are just valleys of dry bones within us. You have promised that You are making all things new, which means You are putting things back together again, and that includes us. May we not interfere and may the very gratefulness of our hearts be borne out in the way that we care for one another, in the way that we treat each other, in the way that we treat our world, and in the way that we treat ourselves. Come Holy Spirit we pray into all of this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey…sorry…hey DAB family. So, I have been struggling with losing my two aunts from a year ago. I can’t get over the fact that they both died around the same time. One was closer but I had a strong connection with both. And I want you to pray for me to help me overcome the fear of them dying and me losing other people. Thank you so much. You are amazing and I love listening to you guys. So, love you.

Hi, this is Sunshine and I’m just calling. I just got through doing all of my listening and I’ve been listening probably for two years now. I’ve called in a couple of times. I’m Sunshine. I’m just going through a really hard time in my life. I have been for the last, gosh, five years. My husband has…has left and been living in the wilderness for years now and I’ve been raising our children. They’re adult children. There’s five of them. But it’s been very difficult. They’ve been so full of pain, and they don’t understand their dad and why he’s doing what he’s doing and living a very sinful lifestyle with another. And I’m just standing and asking the Lord to just intervene. And I feel like I’m in the middle trying to pray for his heart to love the Lord as well as pray for my children and to pray for my stand and justice, to love him and forgive him and to forgive others. And also just trying to find joy in…regardless of my circumstances, trying to teach my children conservative morals and first of all faith and to love the Lord because He’s victorious and faith is…is #1 as well as love. So, if I could just ask for you guys to for your prayers for restoration…

Hey guys this is Brooke from Texas. I was just calling in to ask for prayer. I’ve been just kind of in a rut with a Lord for about the past five years, which was kind of spurred on from just a really bad and confusing breakup that just led to a lot of questioning. And I’ve always been someone that has struggled with anxiety and fear and it just feels like in these past few years any fears and anxieties I’ve felt like I’ve conquered in the past have just kind of come back in different ways and a little bit stronger. And it’s just been really hard to…to trust in the Lord. And I don’t know, I just feel like I’m getting everything wrong or I don’t even know but just being riddled with…with fear and anxiety. And the other night I actually woke up after a horrible nightmare and having a bit of a panic attack and I put on the Sleep resource from Brian and I just remember hearing Psalm 34 four through five which says I pray to the Lord and He answered me. He freed me from all my fears. Those who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy. No shadow or shame will darken their faces, which was actually the verse of the day that I saw the next morning. And that’s just my prayer right now. And if you guys could just join me in praying that over me that I would be freed from all of these fears and just be able to live in freedom and in joy with the Lord. Thanks.

Good morning DABC family, this is Rodney from Atlanta. Blessings to all of you. And I want to pray for the lady that called in about the little baby that was sick. She’s very sick apparently. The baby’s name is Storm. I want to pray for that little child. Jesus really concerned about children. He told the disciples, let the children come to me. Forbid them not. Because He is concerned about children. He loves children. I wanna encourage the young lady that called in, maybe talk to the parents and ask them to consider not calling her Storm. The Bible says we have what we say. Maybe consider changing the name or calling her by another name and maybe the deliverance will come. But I want to pray. Father, I thank the Lord right now for touching this baby. Lord lay your nail scarred hands on that baby now. They put 39 stripes on your back. You were wounded for our transgression, You were bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon You and with Your stripes you are healed. Heal that baby now from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. I curse the spirit of cancer to die in her body. And God raise this baby up for your glory for a great testimony that she will have in the name of the Lord Jesus. Touch the parents. Give them wisdom Father in how to minister this baby. And Lord we praise you in advance for what you’re going to do. We know you are concerned about children. You love children. So, God heal this little baby. Touch her, heal her. Raise her up for your glory. And God we will praise you in advance. It’s in the matchless, the mighty, the marvelous, and majestic name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

Hello, this is iris from Sun City AZ and I’m calling on behalf of John from Florida who has lost everything in the terrible hurricane. Lord God, I pray that You would come through for John and You would send him help in Jesus’ wholly powerful and precious name. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday November 18, 2022 (NIV)

Ezekiel 37-38

The Valley of Dry Bones

37 The hand of the Lord was on me,(A) and he brought me out by the Spirit(B) of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley;(C) it was full of bones.(D) 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.(E)”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!(F) 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life.(G) 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(H)’”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath;(I) prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds(J) and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded(K) me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.(L)

11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’(M) 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.(N) 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord,(O) when I open your graves and bring you up from them.(P) 14 I will put my Spirit(Q) in you and you will live, and I will settle(R) you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.(S)’”

One Nation Under One King

15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites(T) associated with him.(U)’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him.’ 17 Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.(V)

18 “When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’(W) 19 say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’(X) 20 Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.(Y) 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.(Z) There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.(AA) 23 They will no longer defile(AB) themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,[b](AC) and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.(AD)

24 “‘My servant David(AE) will be king(AF) over them, and they will all have one shepherd.(AG) They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.(AH) 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived.(AI) They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever,(AJ) and David my servant will be their prince forever.(AK) 26 I will make a covenant of peace(AL) with them; it will be an everlasting covenant.(AM) I will establish them and increase their numbers,(AN) and I will put my sanctuary among them(AO) forever.(AP) 27 My dwelling place(AQ) will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.(AR) 28 Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy,(AS) when my sanctuary is among them forever.(AT)’”

The Lord’s Great Victory Over the Nations

38 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog,(AU) of the land of Magog,(AV) the chief prince of[c] Meshek and Tubal;(AW) prophesy against him 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[d] Meshek and Tubal.(AX) 4 I will turn you around, put hooks(AY) in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.(AZ) 5 Persia, Cush[e](BA) and Put(BB) will be with them, all with shields and helmets, 6 also Gomer(BC) with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah(BD) from the far north(BE) with all its troops—the many nations with you.

7 “‘Get ready; be prepared,(BF) you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days(BG) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations(BH) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.(BI) 9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm;(BJ) you will be like a cloud(BK) covering the land.(BL)

10 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind(BM) and you will devise an evil scheme.(BN) 11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people(BO)—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.(BP) 12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[f]” 13 Sheba(BQ) and Dedan(BR) and the merchants of Tarshish(BS) and all her villages[g] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?(BT)”’

14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety,(BU) will you not take notice of it? 15 You will come from your place in the far north,(BV) you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.(BW) 16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud(BX) that covers the land.(BY) In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy(BZ) through you before their eyes.(CA)

17 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. 19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake(CB) in the land of Israel.(CC) 20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble(CD) at my presence. The mountains will be overturned,(CE) the cliffs will crumble(CF) and every wall will fall to the ground.(CG) 21 I will summon a sword(CH) against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.(CI) 22 I will execute judgment(CJ) on him with plague and bloodshed;(CK) I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones(CL) and burning sulfur(CM) on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.(CN) 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.(CO)’

Footnotes:

  1. Ezekiel 37:5 The Hebrew for this word can also mean wind or spirit (see verses 6-14).
  2. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts all their dwelling places where they sinned
  3. Ezekiel 38:2 Or the prince of Rosh,
  4. Ezekiel 38:3 Or Gog, prince of Rosh,
  5. Ezekiel 38:5 That is, the upper Nile region
  6. Ezekiel 38:12 The Hebrew for this phrase means the navel of the earth.
  7. Ezekiel 38:13 Or her strong lions

Cross references:

  1. Ezekiel 37:1 : S Eze 1:3
  2. Ezekiel 37:1 : S Eze 11:24; Lk 4:1; Ac 8:39
  3. Ezekiel 37:1 : Jer 7:32
  4. Ezekiel 37:1 : S Jer 8:2; Eze 40:1
  5. Ezekiel 37:3 : Dt 32:39; S 1Sa 2:6; Isa 26:19; 1Co 15:35
  6. Ezekiel 37:4 : Jer 22:29
  7. Ezekiel 37:5 : S Ge 2:7; Ps 104:29-30; Rev 11:11
  8. Ezekiel 37:6 : S Ex 6:2; Eze 38:23
  9. Ezekiel 37:9 : ver 14; Ps 104:30; Isa 32:15; Eze 39:29; Zec 12:10
  10. Ezekiel 37:9 : Jer 49:36; Da 7:2; 8:8; 11:4; Zec 2:6; 6:5; Rev 7:1
  11. Ezekiel 37:10 : S Eze 12:7
  12. Ezekiel 37:10 : Rev 11:11
  13. Ezekiel 37:11 : S Job 17:15; S La 3:54
  14. Ezekiel 37:12 : ver 21; Dt 32:39; 1Sa 2:6; Isa 26:19; Jer 29:14; Hos 13:14; Am 9:14-15; Zep 3:20; Zec 8:8
  15. Ezekiel 37:13 : S Ex 6:2
  16. Ezekiel 37:13 : S Eze 17:24; Hos 13:14
  17. Ezekiel 37:14 : S ver 9; S Isa 11:2; Joel 2:28-29
  18. Ezekiel 37:14 : S Jer 43:2
  19. Ezekiel 37:14 : Eze 36:27-28, 36; Rev 11:11
  20. Ezekiel 37:16 : S 1Ki 12:20; 2Ch 10:17-19
  21. Ezekiel 37:16 : Nu 17:2-3; 2Ch 15:9
  22. Ezekiel 37:17 : ver 24; Isa 11:13; S Jer 50:4; Hos 1:11
  23. Ezekiel 37:18 : S Eze 24:19
  24. Ezekiel 37:19 : Zec 10:6
  25. Ezekiel 37:21 : S ver 12; S Isa 43:5-6; S Eze 20:42; 39:27; Mic 4:6
  26. Ezekiel 37:22 : S Eze 17:22; S 34:13-14
  27. Ezekiel 37:22 : Isa 11:13; Jer 33:24; S 50:4; Hos 1:11
  28. Ezekiel 37:23 : Eze 43:7
  29. Ezekiel 37:23 : S Jer 7:24
  30. Ezekiel 37:23 : Eze 11:18; S 36:28; Na 2:2
  31. Ezekiel 37:24 : Isa 55:4; Hos 3:5
  32. Ezekiel 37:24 : S 1Sa 13:14; S Isa 32:1
  33. Ezekiel 37:24 : Zec 13:7
  34. Ezekiel 37:24 : Ps 78:70-71; S Jer 30:21; S Eze 21:27
  35. Ezekiel 37:25 : S Eze 28:25
  36. Ezekiel 37:25 : S Ezr 9:12; Am 9:15
  37. Ezekiel 37:25 : S Ps 89:3-4; Isa 11:1; S Eze 34:23-24
  38. Ezekiel 37:26 : S Nu 25:12
  39. Ezekiel 37:26 : S Ge 9:16; S Dt 29:14; S Heb 13:20
  40. Ezekiel 37:26 : S Jer 30:19
  41. Ezekiel 37:26 : Lev 26:11
  42. Ezekiel 37:26 : S Eze 16:62
  43. Ezekiel 37:27 : S Lev 26:11
  44. Ezekiel 37:27 : S Eze 34:30; S 36:28; S 2Co 6:16*
  45. Ezekiel 37:28 : S Ex 31:13
  46. Ezekiel 37:28 : Eze 43:9; Hos 1:10-11; Zep 3:15
  47. Ezekiel 38:2 : ver 14; Eze 39:11
  48. Ezekiel 38:2 : S Ge 10:2
  49. Ezekiel 38:2 : S Eze 27:13
  50. Ezekiel 38:3 : Eze 39:1
  51. Ezekiel 38:4 : S 2Ki 19:28
  52. Ezekiel 38:4 : S Isa 43:17; Eze 29:4; 39:2; Da 11:40
  53. Ezekiel 38:5 : S Ge 10:6
  54. Ezekiel 38:5 : S Ge 10:6; S Eze 27:10
  55. Ezekiel 38:6 : S Ge 10:2
  56. Ezekiel 38:6 : S Ge 10:3
  57. Ezekiel 38:6 : S Eze 32:30
  58. Ezekiel 38:7 : S Isa 8:9
  59. Ezekiel 38:8 : Isa 24:22
  60. Ezekiel 38:8 : S Isa 11:11
  61. Ezekiel 38:8 : ver 14; Jer 23:6; S Eze 28:26; Joel 3:1
  62. Ezekiel 38:9 : Isa 25:4; 28:2
  63. Ezekiel 38:9 : ver 16; Jer 4:13; Joel 2:2
  64. Ezekiel 38:9 : Rev 20:8
  65. Ezekiel 38:10 : S Jer 17:10
  66. Ezekiel 38:10 : Ps 36:4; Mic 2:1
  67. Ezekiel 38:11 : S Ge 34:25
  68. Ezekiel 38:11 : Jer 49:31; Zec 2:4
  69. Ezekiel 38:13 : S Ge 10:7
  70. Ezekiel 38:13 : S Ge 25:3
  71. Ezekiel 38:13 : S Ge 10:4
  72. Ezekiel 38:13 : Isa 10:6; 33:23; S Jer 15:13
  73. Ezekiel 38:14 : S ver 8; S Lev 25:18; S Jer 16:15; Zec 2:5
  74. Ezekiel 38:15 : Eze 32:30
  75. Ezekiel 38:15 : Eze 39:2; Rev 20:8
  76. Ezekiel 38:16 : S ver 9
  77. Ezekiel 38:16 : Joel 3:11
  78. Ezekiel 38:16 : S Lev 10:3
  79. Ezekiel 38:16 : Isa 29:23; Eze 39:21
  80. Ezekiel 38:19 : Isa 24:18; Joel 2:10; 3:16; S Rev 6:12
  81. Ezekiel 38:19 : Ps 18:7; S Eze 5:13; Hag 2:6, 21
  82. Ezekiel 38:20 : S Ex 15:14
  83. Ezekiel 38:20 : Isa 42:15
  84. Ezekiel 38:20 : Job 14:18
  85. Ezekiel 38:20 : S Ps 76:8; Hos 4:3; Na 1:5
  86. Ezekiel 38:21 : Isa 66:16; Jer 25:29
  87. Ezekiel 38:21 : S 1Sa 14:20; S 2Ch 20:23; Hag 2:22
  88. Ezekiel 38:22 : Isa 66:16; Jer 25:31; S Eze 36:5
  89. Ezekiel 38:22 : S Eze 14:19; S 28:23
  90. Ezekiel 38:22 : S Ex 9:18; Ps 18:12; Rev 16:21
  91. Ezekiel 38:22 : S Ge 19:24; S Rev 9:17
  92. Ezekiel 38:22 : S Eze 13:11
  93. Ezekiel 38:23 : Eze 20:42; S 36:23; S 37:6
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James 1:19-2:17

Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger(C) does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of(D) all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,(E) which can save you.

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.(F) 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,(G) and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.(H)

26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues(I) deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(J) orphans and widows(K) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(L)

Favoritism Forbidden

2 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious(M) Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.(N) 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges(O) with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters:(P) Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world(Q) to be rich in faith(R) and to inherit the kingdom(S) he promised those who love him?(T) 6 But you have dishonored the poor.(U) Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?(V) 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?

8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](W) you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism,(X) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.(Y) 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles(Z) at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.(AA) 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”[b](AB) also said, “You shall not murder.”[c](AC) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged(AD) by the law that gives freedom,(AE) 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.(AF) Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Faith and Deeds

14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?(AG) Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.(AH) 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?(AI) 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.(AJ)

Footnotes:

  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18
  2. James 2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18
  3. James 2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17

Cross references:

  1. James 1:19 : ver 16; Jas 2:5
  2. James 1:19 : Pr 10:19; Jas 3:3-12
  3. James 1:20 : S Mt 5:22
  4. James 1:21 : S Eph 4:22
  5. James 1:21 : Eph 1:13
  6. James 1:22 : S Mt 7:21; Jas 2:14-20
  7. James 1:25 : Ps 19:7; Jn 8:32; Gal 2:4; Jas 2:12
  8. James 1:25 : S Jn 13:17
  9. James 1:26 : Ps 34:13; 39:1; 141:3; Jas 3:2-12; 1Pe 3:10
  10. James 1:27 : Mt 25:36
  11. James 1:27 : Dt 14:29; Job 31:16, 17, 21; Ps 146:9; Isa 1:17, 23
  12. James 1:27 : Ro 12:2; Jas 4:4; 2Pe 1:4; 2:20
  13. James 2:1 : Ac 7:2; 1Co 2:8
  14. James 2:1 : ver 9; Dt 1:17; Lev 19:15; Pr 24:23; S Ac 10:34
  15. James 2:4 : S Jn 7:24
  16. James 2:5 : Jas 1:16, 19
  17. James 2:5 : Job 34:19; 1Co 1:26-28
  18. James 2:5 : Lk 12:21; Rev 2:9
  19. James 2:5 : S Mt 25:34
  20. James 2:5 : S Jas 1:12
  21. James 2:6 : 1Co 11:22
  22. James 2:6 : Ac 8:3; 16:19
  23. James 2:8 : Lev 19:18; S Mt 5:43
  24. James 2:9 : ver 1
  25. James 2:9 : Dt 1:17
  26. James 2:10 : Jas 3:2
  27. James 2:10 : Mt 5:19; Gal 3:10; 5:3
  28. James 2:11 : Ex 20:14; Dt 5:18
  29. James 2:11 : Ex 20:13; Dt 5:17
  30. James 2:12 : S Mt 16:27
  31. James 2:12 : S Jas 1:25
  32. James 2:13 : Mt 5:7; 9:13; 12:7; 18:32-35; Lk 6:37
  33. James 2:14 : Mt 7:26; Jas 1:22-25
  34. James 2:15 : Mt 25:35, 36
  35. James 2:16 : Lk 3:11; 1Jn 3:17, 18
  36. James 2:17 : ver 20, 26; Gal 5:6
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Psalm 117

Psalm 117

1 Praise the Lord,(A) all you nations;(B)
extol him, all you peoples.
2 For great is his love(C) toward us,
and the faithfulness of the Lord(D) endures forever.

Praise the Lord.[a]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 117:2 Hebrew Hallelu Yah

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 117:1 : S Ps 22:23; S 103:2
  2. Psalm 117:1 : Ro 15:11*
  3. Psalm 117:2 : S Ps 17:7; S 103:11
  4. Psalm 117:2 : Ps 119:90; 146:6
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Proverbs 28:1

28 The wicked flee(A) though no one pursues,(B)
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.(C)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 28:1 : S 2Ki 7:7
  2. Proverbs 28:1 : S Lev 26:17
  3. Proverbs 28:1 : S Ps 138:3
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11/17/2022 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 35:1-36:38, James 1:1-18, Psalm 116:1-19, Proverbs 27:23-27

Today is the 17th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is great to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and move forward together. And moving forward, will lead us back into the book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament and then we completed Hebrews yesterday in the New Testament, which brings us to some brand-new territory. The book of James, and we’ll talk about James when we get there. But first, Ezekiel chapter 35 and 36.

Introduction to the Book of James:

Okay, so like we talked about at the beginning, we have new territory that we have come upon the epistle of James, the letter of James. We’ve heard of James before, but we’ve never really heard from James, like in James’s voice. So, this is a new voice for us, brand-new territory for us. Although this letter, the letter of James has had its share of scrutiny over the millennia since it was written. So, like one of the problems is who, which James, like what James wrote this letter, who wrote this named James, so that makes dating James difficult. But there is kind of a scenario that has stood the test of time and that is that this letter probably was written by James, who was the half-brother of Jesus, who did not believe in Jesus during his earthly ministry, but after Jesus resurrection. Then James became a pillar of the early church in the church of Jerusalem, the mother church. And so, it’s James presiding over, like world changing fundamental choices, like the one that was held at the Jerusalem Council, when it was decided that Gentiles could be accepted into the faith, and we’ve talked about this many times and we’ll probably to talk about it many more times before the years over. That was a controversy, and it was a big controversy. So, James is a candidate for writing this letter, that’s pretty solid, if he’s leading the Jerusalem church and he is related to Jesus the Savior, then yeah, something that he wrote would probably be preserved and treated accordingly. Now we just finished Hebrews and we talked about Hebrews being written to Hebrews, so Hebrews being very rooted in a Hebrew context, James is very much written from a Hebrew perspective. Like when we start this letter, we’ll see that it’s addressed to the 12 tribes, to the Jewish believers in the Diaspora: people who have been spread and scattered all around, which gives us at least a clue about who this was sent to, and it may have been addressed this way because of the persecution that was beginning to arise, causing people to move away to look for safe places to practice their faith. Maybe the stoning of Stephen, that we read about in the Book of Acts was a catalyst for this. And if these things are true then…then this letter was written to believers who had fled in all directions to find peace, but who felt connected, not only to Jesus, but felt connected to their faith community, the Jerusalem church. So, a letter that was passed around and arrived from the Jerusalem church, this would’ve been a treasure, especially if James, the half-brother of Jesus, wrote it. And that being the case, James preserves for us some of the earliest traditions and thought in the faith in Jesus, in what we now know as Christianity. And it preserves in ways that no other letter or book in the New Testament does, some of the postures of the Hebrew, the earliest Hebrew believers. So, James teaches that how we actually live, says the most about our faith. In fact, people can say anything but how they live, this is more true to who they are. And so, James tells us that faith without works is dead and that idea…that idea is at its detractors and has been fought about for a very, very long time. Even though those in the Protestant persuasion who look back to people like Martin Luther as kind of a leader in the Protestant Reformation, should understand that Martin Luther did not like the letter to James because sola fide right, by faith alone. And here we have James saying, yeah but faith without works is dead. The funny thing, like when we read James and we start to understand the personality of the writing here, we would realize that James couldn’t care less who was his detractor in the future, like he didn’t care that someday some Protestant reformer would not like his letter. His letter was written because it’s what he wanted to say, it’s what he was convicted to say and it needed to be said and it needs, it needs to be said today, because in our world today, anybody can say anything about anything and do. How we actually live is telling more truth about us than anything we say. And so, I come to the book of James every year and I come here for the purpose of getting my butt kicked and I’ve mentioned many times this is the butt kicker. It’s not the only one, we have some more territory that will be forthright and direct and look us right in the eyes and confront us. But James definitely does that. It is bold, it is direct, it can be confrontational, it does have a tendency to kick our butts, and make us question our motives for why we do what we do. But James wasn’t mad and just needed to be forthright and direct and wanted to write something mean. Like, that’s not the point, it’s really underneath all of it is a plea, a plea begging followers of Jesus to live by faith and to live out our faith through what we do. So, it’s interesting that this is a couple thousand years old and that this was going on in the early church and so much so, that this letter needed to be written and that this needed to be said. Because James could have been written, really at any point in church history, but it could have been written last week and still hold its power for who we are today. So, here we go, James chapter 1 verses 1 to 18.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we love You, Lord, we thank You for bringing us this far into the year. We are definitely in a place where we’re about to hit warp speed on this year and so, we look back with gratitude for all that You have brought us through, all that You have spoken to us. We thank You for this new territory that we’ve entered into today and that we’ll spend the next few days in, this letter of James. We open ourselves to your correction, Holy Spirit, and we invite You to speak to us very clearly about…about our actions and our words being in alignment. That our thoughts, words and deeds are saying the same thing, and that they are speaking the truth about You. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that’s it for today, I’m Brian, I love you and I will be waiting for you here, tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragement:

Hey DAB Family, this is Michael from ___ Texas. I haven’t called in a quite a long time, but I do listen everyday with you guys. I just heard a guy call in, Vincent. Very distraught. I guess he was talking about love, and he was questioning the Lord, our God. Didn’t know why the Lord would take something away but Vincent, just wanted to tell you sir, it’s not the Lord. That’s Satan talking to you, tell you that. God is only good, and He can only do good. But the world we live in is full of sin because of the fall out in the garden. So, God is good and always good. So, don’t blame God for love that has been lost.

Hi this is Audrie from Reno Valley, California. Want to thank you first Brian, for this platform. And thank you fellow DABers who have continued to pray for myself and my son Christian. We appreciate your prayers greatly. Hey DABers, this is Christian Smith. And I was fighting with addiction and just to give you guys an update, I’m 142 days clean today. So, your prayers worked. Continue to pray for me and my mother and our journey of getting to love each other more and getting to know each other better. And just to give you guys an update it is amazing being home, clean and sober. And spending this time with my mom watching tv shows, football games, watching her yell at the tv. And thank you guys. And we just wanna let you know that we’re praying for those of you, who have lost loved ones, those of you who are struggling, yourself in addiction, those of you who love those who struggle with addiction. And we just pray for all of them, as I listen, I pray. And I want you to know that I do, even though I may not shout you out by name. Thank you for your prayers, we covet them. Continue to pray for us, we continue to pray for you. God is good, He’s faithful, He’s true to His word and His promises. His timing may not be our timing, but it is perfect timing. And so, DAB on DABers. Have a blessed evening everyone. Thank you and we love you.

Hi, this is Right Ellen in New Jersey, and I would like to pray for Kathy in Kentucky. She called; I heard her prayer today. And she’s, she, she works, and she lives alone. And she’s getting her house ready for wintertime. And you know, she seems to be older cause it’s tough for her to be working at her age. And she’s, she lost a lot of family members. So, I would like to pray for her. Dear Lord, I lift Kathy from Kentucky. Lord, I just pray that You bless her efforts and working that you know, that’s she’s able to keep up with inflation. And bless her health, Lord. And she often says that’s she’s lonely Lord, and in Your wisdom, I pray, and I may not be right but maybe she needs to take steps of faith to be more socialful with other people. And so, Lord, just, I just praise her that she seems to really have the will to live, it’s just you know, in her, you know, give her the encouragement that she needs to put out the effort that cause, you know, we have to seek You every day. Okay. I thank you, bye.

Hi, this is Carlo from the Philippines. Yeah, I liked to pray for Kathy from Kentucky. First of all, I’d like to say that you are not alone. The DAB family is with you, they always pray with you, they always pray for you. And that, you are with us spiritual. But nonetheless, I pray that you…you are able to find friends, you’re able to find a community in the place where you live. I pray that God blesses you financially, that you are able to do your work well, without any injuries and yeah. And that you find comfort and peace and joy in the daily trials that you face. Thank you, thank you family. Thank you, bye.

Hi, this is Anita, praising God. I’m calling in to asking you all for, for prayer for me for. I call in before about my grandson, that they found him dead at the lake. Love will, and detective called last that he committed suicide. So, I’m asking you to please lift us up again, we need your prayers. Today, is November 14 or 15. And I called in before, I called in before and I left a message about prayer for my daughter and me for strength. I want to thank you for all the prayer warriors that lift us before. And now, I thank you for you Brian Hardin and your family and this broadcast system that is lifting us up. I’ve been on this broadcast system for a long time. And I really enjoy it and I thank you that we can come into this broadcast and lay out our burdens and ask all you people for to pray for us. And I ask God forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Thank you very much for your love and support in this time of sorrow. Thank you, I love you all.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday November 17, 2022 (NIV)

Ezekiel 35-36

A Prophecy Against Edom

35 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir;(A) prophesy against it 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand(B) against you and make you a desolate waste.(C) 4 I will turn your towns into ruins(D) and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(E)

5 “‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword(F) at the time of their calamity,(G) the time their punishment reached its climax,(H) 6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed(I) and it will pursue you.(J) Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste(K) and cut off from it all who come and go.(L) 8 I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.(M) 9 I will make you desolate forever;(N) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(O)

10 “‘Because you have said, “These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession(P) of them,” even though I the Lord was there, 11 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will treat you in accordance with the anger(Q) and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.(R) 12 Then you will know that I the Lord have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, “They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour.(S)” 13 You boasted(T) against me and spoke against me without restraint, and I heard it.(U) 14 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.(V) 15 Because you rejoiced(W) when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir,(X) you and all of Edom.(Y) Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Hope for the Mountains of Israel

36 “Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel(Z) and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. 2 This is what the Sovereign Lord says:(AA) The enemy said of you, “Aha!(AB) The ancient heights(AC) have become our possession.(AD)”’ 3 Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged(AE) and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,(AF) 4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys,(AG) to the desolate ruins(AH) and the deserted(AI) towns that have been plundered and ridiculed(AJ) by the rest of the nations around you(AK)— 5 this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning(AL) zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’(AM) 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.(AN) 7 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand(AO) that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.(AP)

8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit(AQ) for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 9 I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,(AR) 10 and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins(AS) rebuilt.(AT) 11 I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful(AU) and become numerous. I will settle people(AV) on you as in the past(AW) and will make you prosper more than before.(AX) Then you will know that I am the Lord. 12 I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance;(AY) you will never again deprive them of their children.

13 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people(AZ) and deprive your nation of its children,” 14 therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord. 15 No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign Lord.(BA)’”

Israel’s Restoration Assured

16 Again the word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness(BB) in my sight.(BC) 18 So I poured out(BD) my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols. 19 I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered(BE) through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.(BF) 20 And wherever they went among the nations they profaned(BG) my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’(BH) 21 I had concern for my holy name, which the people of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.(BI)

22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name,(BJ) which you have profaned(BK) among the nations where you have gone.(BL) 23 I will show the holiness of my great name,(BM) which has been profaned(BN) among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,(BO) declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy(BP) through you before their eyes.(BQ)

24 “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.(BR) 25 I will sprinkle(BS) clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse(BT) you from all your impurities(BU) and from all your idols.(BV) 26 I will give you a new heart(BW) and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone(BX) and give you a heart of flesh.(BY) 27 And I will put my Spirit(BZ) in you and move you to follow my decrees(CA) and be careful to keep my laws.(CB) 28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people,(CC) and I will be your God.(CD) 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine(CE) upon you. 30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.(CF) 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.(CG) 32 I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed(CH) and disgraced for your conduct, people of Israel!(CI)

33 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I cleanse(CJ) you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins(CK) will be rebuilt.(CL) 34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. 35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden;(CM) the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.(CN)” 36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’(CO)

37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea(CP) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,(CQ) 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings(CR) at Jerusalem during her appointed festivals. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.(CS)”

Cross references:

  1. Ezekiel 35:2 : S Ge 14:6
  2. Ezekiel 35:3 : S Jer 6:12
  3. Ezekiel 35:3 : S Isa 34:10; Eze 25:12-14
  4. Ezekiel 35:4 : Jer 44:2
  5. Ezekiel 35:4 : ver 9; S Jer 49:10
  6. Ezekiel 35:5 : S Ps 63:10
  7. Ezekiel 35:5 : Ob 1:13
  8. Ezekiel 35:5 : Ps 137:7; S Eze 21:29
  9. Ezekiel 35:6 : S Isa 34:3
  10. Ezekiel 35:6 : Isa 63:2-6
  11. Ezekiel 35:7 : S Jer 46:19
  12. Ezekiel 35:7 : S Jer 49:17
  13. Ezekiel 35:8 : S Eze 31:12
  14. Ezekiel 35:9 : Ob 1:10
  15. Ezekiel 35:9 : S Isa 34:5-6; S Jer 49:13
  16. Ezekiel 35:10 : S Ps 83:12; Eze 36:2, 5
  17. Ezekiel 35:11 : Eze 25:14
  18. Ezekiel 35:11 : S Ps 9:16; Ob 1:15; S Mt 7:2
  19. Ezekiel 35:12 : S Jer 50:7
  20. Ezekiel 35:13 : S Jer 49:16
  21. Ezekiel 35:13 : Da 11:36
  22. Ezekiel 35:14 : Jer 51:48
  23. Ezekiel 35:15 : Eze 36:5; Ob 1:12
  24. Ezekiel 35:15 : ver 3
  25. Ezekiel 35:15 : S Isa 34:5-6, 11; Jer 50:11-13; S La 4:21; S Eze 32:29
  26. Ezekiel 36:1 : S Eze 17:22
  27. Ezekiel 36:2 : Eze 6:2-3
  28. Ezekiel 36:2 : S Eze 25:3
  29. Ezekiel 36:2 : S Dt 32:13
  30. Ezekiel 36:2 : S Eze 35:10
  31. Ezekiel 36:3 : Ob 1:13
  32. Ezekiel 36:3 : Ps 44:13-14; S La 2:16; 3:62
  33. Ezekiel 36:4 : Eze 6:3
  34. Ezekiel 36:4 : Eze 33:24
  35. Ezekiel 36:4 : S Lev 26:43
  36. Ezekiel 36:4 : S Jer 2:26
  37. Ezekiel 36:4 : Dt 11:11; S Ps 79:4; S Eze 33:28-29
  38. Ezekiel 36:5 : S Dt 29:20
  39. Ezekiel 36:5 : Isa 66:16; Jer 25:31; 50:11; Eze 25:12-14; S 35:10, 15; 38:22; Joel 3:2, 14
  40. Ezekiel 36:6 : Ps 123:3-4; Eze 34:29
  41. Ezekiel 36:7 : S Nu 14:30
  42. Ezekiel 36:7 : S Jer 25:9
  43. Ezekiel 36:8 : S Isa 4:2; S 27:6; Eze 47:12
  44. Ezekiel 36:9 : ver 34-36; Jer 31:27
  45. Ezekiel 36:10 : S Isa 49:8
  46. Ezekiel 36:10 : Isa 49:17-23; S Jer 30:18
  47. Ezekiel 36:11 : S Ge 1:22
  48. Ezekiel 36:11 : S Isa 49:19
  49. Ezekiel 36:11 : Mic 7:14
  50. Ezekiel 36:11 : Lev 26:9; Job 42:13; S Jer 31:28; S Eze 16:55; Zec 10:8
  51. Ezekiel 36:12 : Eze 47:14, 22
  52. Ezekiel 36:13 : S Nu 13:32
  53. Ezekiel 36:15 : Ps 89:50-51; Isa 54:4; S Eze 34:29
  54. Ezekiel 36:17 : S Lev 5:2; S 12:2
  55. Ezekiel 36:17 : Ps 106:37-38; S Jer 2:7
  56. Ezekiel 36:18 : S 2Ch 34:21
  57. Ezekiel 36:19 : Dt 28:64
  58. Ezekiel 36:19 : Lev 18:24-28; S Eze 7:8; S 24:14; 39:24
  59. Ezekiel 36:20 : S Lev 18:21; S Eze 13:19; Ro 2:24
  60. Ezekiel 36:20 : Isa 52:5; S Jer 33:24; S Eze 12:16
  61. Ezekiel 36:21 : Ps 74:18; Isa 48:9
  62. Ezekiel 36:22 : S Isa 37:35; S Eze 20:44
  63. Ezekiel 36:22 : Ro 2:24*
  64. Ezekiel 36:22 : Dt 9:5-6; Ps 106:8; S Eze 20:9
  65. Ezekiel 36:23 : S Nu 6:27
  66. Ezekiel 36:23 : S Isa 37:23
  67. Ezekiel 36:23 : S Ps 46:10
  68. Ezekiel 36:23 : S Eze 20:41
  69. Ezekiel 36:23 : Ps 126:2; S Isa 5:16; Eze 20:14; 38:23; 39:7, 27-28
  70. Ezekiel 36:24 : S Isa 43:5-6; S Eze 34:13; 37:21
  71. Ezekiel 36:25 : S Lev 14:7; S 16:14-15; Heb 9:13
  72. Ezekiel 36:25 : S Ps 51:2, 7
  73. Ezekiel 36:25 : S Ezr 6:21
  74. Ezekiel 36:25 : Isa 2:18; Joel 3:21; Zec 3:4; 13:2; S Ac 22:16
  75. Ezekiel 36:26 : Jer 24:7
  76. Ezekiel 36:26 : S Jer 5:3
  77. Ezekiel 36:26 : S Ps 51:10; S Eze 18:31; S 2Co 3:3
  78. Ezekiel 36:27 : S Isa 44:3; Joel 2:29; Jn 3:5
  79. Ezekiel 36:27 : S Eze 18:21
  80. Ezekiel 36:27 : Jer 50:20; 1Th 4:8
  81. Ezekiel 36:28 : Jer 30:22; 31:33
  82. Ezekiel 36:28 : S Eze 11:17; S 14:11; 34:24; 37:14, 27; Zec 8:8
  83. Ezekiel 36:29 : Eze 34:29
  84. Ezekiel 36:30 : Lev 26:4-5; S Eze 34:13-14; Hos 2:21-22
  85. Ezekiel 36:31 : Isa 6:5; S Jer 31:19; S Eze 6:9
  86. Ezekiel 36:32 : Eze 16:63
  87. Ezekiel 36:32 : Dt 9:5
  88. Ezekiel 36:33 : S Lev 16:30
  89. Ezekiel 36:33 : S Lev 26:31
  90. Ezekiel 36:33 : S Isa 49:8
  91. Ezekiel 36:35 : S Ge 2:8
  92. Ezekiel 36:35 : Am 9:14
  93. Ezekiel 36:36 : S Jer 42:10; S Eze 17:22; 37:14; 39:27-28
  94. Ezekiel 36:37 : Zec 10:6; 13:9
  95. Ezekiel 36:37 : Ps 102:17; Jer 29:12-14
  96. Ezekiel 36:38 : 1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 35:7-9
  97. Ezekiel 36:38 : S Ex 6:2
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James 1:1-18

1 James,(A) a servant of God(B) and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes(C) scattered(D) among the nations:

Greetings.(E)

Trials and Temptations

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds,(F) 3 because you know that the testing of your faith(G) produces perseverance.(H) 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature(I) and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,(J) who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.(K) 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt,(L) because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded(M) and unstable(N) in all they do.

9 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.(O) 10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.(P) 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat(Q) and withers(R) the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed.(S) In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial(T) because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life(U) that the Lord has promised to those who love him.(V)

13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(W) evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(X) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(Y)

16 Don’t be deceived,(Z) my dear brothers and sisters.(AA) 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,(AB) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,(AC) who does not change(AD) like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth(AE) through the word of truth,(AF) that we might be a kind of firstfruits(AG) of all he created.

Footnotes:

  1. James 1:2 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verses 16 and 19; and in 2:1, 5, 14; 3:10, 12; 4:11; 5:7, 9, 10, 12, 19.

Cross references:

  1. James 1:1 : S Ac 15:13
  2. James 1:1 : Ro 1:1; Tit 1:1
  3. James 1:1 : Ac 26:7
  4. James 1:1 : Dt 32:26; Jn 7:35; 1Pe 1:1
  5. James 1:1 : Ac 15:23
  6. James 1:2 : ver 12; S Mt 5:12; Heb 10:34; 12:11
  7. James 1:3 : 1Pe 1:7
  8. James 1:3 : S Heb 10:36
  9. James 1:4 : S 1Co 2:6
  10. James 1:5 : 1Ki 3:9, 10; Pr 2:3-6
  11. James 1:5 : Ps 51:6; Da 1:17; 2:21; S Mt 7:7
  12. James 1:6 : S Mt 21:21; Mk 11:24
  13. James 1:8 : Ps 119:113; Jas 4:8
  14. James 1:8 : 2Pe 2:14; 3:16
  15. James 1:9 : S Mt 23:12
  16. James 1:10 : Job 14:2; Ps 103:15, 16; Isa 40:6, 7; 1Co 7:31; 1Pe 1:24
  17. James 1:11 : Mt 20:12
  18. James 1:11 : Ps 102:4, 11
  19. James 1:11 : Isa 40:6-8
  20. James 1:12 : ver 2; Ge 22:1; Jas 5:11; 1Pe 3:14
  21. James 1:12 : S 1Co 9:25
  22. James 1:12 : Ex 20:6; 1Co 2:9; 8:3; Jas 2:5
  23. James 1:14 : Pr 19:3
  24. James 1:15 : Ge 3:6; Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 59:4
  25. James 1:15 : S Ro 6:23
  26. James 1:16 : S 1Co 6:9
  27. James 1:16 : ver 19; Jas 2:5
  28. James 1:17 : Ps 85:12; Jn 3:27; Jas 3:15, 17
  29. James 1:17 : Ge 1:16; Ps 136:7; Da 2:22; 1Jn 1:5
  30. James 1:17 : Nu 23:19; Ps 102:27; Mal 3:6
  31. James 1:18 : S Jn 1:13
  32. James 1:18 : S 2Ti 2:15
  33. James 1:18 : Jer 2:3; Rev 14:4
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Psalm 116

Psalm 116

1 I love the Lord,(A) for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry(B) for mercy.(C)
2 Because he turned his ear(D) to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.

3 The cords of death(E) entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
4 Then I called on the name(F) of the Lord:
“Lord, save me!(G)”

5 The Lord is gracious and righteous;(H)
our God is full of compassion.(I)
6 The Lord protects the unwary;
when I was brought low,(J) he saved me.(K)

7 Return to your rest,(L) my soul,
for the Lord has been good(M) to you.

8 For you, Lord, have delivered me(N) from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
9 that I may walk before the Lord(O)
in the land of the living.(P)

10 I trusted(Q) in the Lord when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted”;(R)
11 in my alarm I said,
“Everyone is a liar.”(S)

12 What shall I return to the Lord
for all his goodness(T) to me?

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name(U) of the Lord.
14 I will fulfill my vows(V) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.

15 Precious in the sight(W) of the Lord
is the death of his faithful servants.(X)
16 Truly I am your servant, Lord;(Y)
I serve you just as my mother did;(Z)
you have freed me from my chains.(AA)

17 I will sacrifice a thank offering(AB) to you
and call on the name of the Lord.
18 I will fulfill my vows(AC) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts(AD) of the house of the Lord—
in your midst, Jerusalem.(AE)

Praise the Lord.[a]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 116:19 Hebrew Hallelu Yah

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 116:1 : Ps 18:1
  2. Psalm 116:1 : S Ps 31:22; S 40:1
  3. Psalm 116:1 : S Ps 6:9; S 28:2
  4. Psalm 116:2 : S Ps 5:1
  5. Psalm 116:3 : S 2Sa 22:6; Ps 18:4-5
  6. Psalm 116:4 : Ps 80:18; 118:5
  7. Psalm 116:4 : S Ps 80:2
  8. Psalm 116:5 : S Ex 9:27; S 2Ch 12:6; S Ezr 9:15
  9. Psalm 116:5 : S Ex 22:27; S Ps 86:15
  10. Psalm 116:6 : S Ps 79:8
  11. Psalm 116:6 : Ps 18:3; 22:5; 107:13
  12. Psalm 116:7 : Ps 46:10; 62:1; 131:2; Mt 11:29
  13. Psalm 116:7 : Ps 13:6; 106:1; 142:7
  14. Psalm 116:8 : S Ps 86:13
  15. Psalm 116:9 : S Ge 5:22; Ps 56:13; 89:15
  16. Psalm 116:9 : S Job 28:13; Ps 27:13; Isa 38:11; Jer 11:19
  17. Psalm 116:10 : 2Co 4:13*
  18. Psalm 116:10 : Ps 9:18; 72:2; S 107:17; 119:67, 71, 75
  19. Psalm 116:11 : Jer 9:3-5; Hos 7:13; Mic 6:12; Ro 3:4
  20. Psalm 116:12 : Ps 103:2; 106:1
  21. Psalm 116:13 : S Ps 105:1
  22. Psalm 116:14 : S Nu 30:2; S Ps 66:13
  23. Psalm 116:15 : Ps 72:14
  24. Psalm 116:15 : S Nu 23:10
  25. Psalm 116:16 : Ps 119:125; 143:12
  26. Psalm 116:16 : S Ps 86:16
  27. Psalm 116:16 : S Job 12:18
  28. Psalm 116:17 : S Lev 7:12; S Ezr 1:4
  29. Psalm 116:18 : ver 14; S Lev 22:18
  30. Psalm 116:19 : Ps 92:13; 96:8; 100:4; 135:2
  31. Psalm 116:19 : Ps 102:21
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Proverbs 27:23-27

23 Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,(A)
give careful attention to your herds;
24 for riches do not endure forever,(B)
and a crown is not secure for all generations.
25 When the hay is removed and new growth appears
and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
26 the lambs will provide you with clothing,
and the goats with the price of a field.
27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family
and to nourish your female servants.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 27:23 : Pr 12:10
  2. Proverbs 27:24 : Pr 23:5
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11/16/2022 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 33:1-34:31, Hebrews 13:1-25, Psalms 115:1-18, Proverbs 27:21-22

Today is the 16th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and move forward by one step. One step forward each and every day leads us through the Bible in a year. So, it is wonderful to be here with you today around the Global Campfire taking the next step forward. This week we’re reading from the New International Version and our next step forward will lead us back into the book of Ezekiel. And the journey continues with chapters 33 and 34 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we concluded the letter to the Hebrews today and along the way we…we noticed many times that Hebrews is written to Hebrews and presents the gospel of Jesus in a Hebrews centric…from a Hebrew centric perspective, which is a very important for we who are Gentiles who never grew up in Judaism to have because it’s the context Jesus did His ministry in. And, so, we watched as the writer of Hebrews laid out the argument that all that is happening was expected to happen, was foretold in Hebrew prophecy, that all that is surrounding Jesus was foretold. And among other things we walked down the hall of faith, realizing that in the Hebrew story, because the hall of faith is all references to the Hebrew Scriptures and people in the Hebrew Scriptures. So, it's…it wasn’t just like random people around the world who were famous for their faith. This is all part of the Hebrew story. We walked down the hall of faith, recognizing that it’s faith that changes the story, it’s faith that changes our story. And we also learned about endurance, which is something we will continue to learn about all the way through to the end of the year, but we learned even while walking down the hall of faith in all of those examples that endurance was a part of the story too. The people in the hall of faith had a promise and in faith they marched toward that promise whether they experienced it in life or not paving the way for we continue with that mission. So, the letter to the Hebrews provides us tremendous context for what makes the good news the good news. And, so, we’ve completed that letter and it ends with the benediction and it’s in a very Hebrews centric context that this benediction is pronounced. Everything in the benediction is referring back to what we understand about the work of Christ from a Hebrew perspective. “Now may the God of peace through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus the great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for allowing us again to move through the letter to the Hebrews, to move through the story again reminding ourselves that faith is the activator of the story. Without faith it is impossible to please. So, Holy Spirit come. Plant the words from Hebrews into the soil of our hearts. May it yield fruit in our lives, the fruit of Your Spirit. May it enrich and educate us and transform our hearts, we pray. In the precious and mighty name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, DAB I’m feeling sad and I don’t want to be sad and I’m missing out on a lot of good things. I’m so tired of being sad. I would like your prayers please. Thank you.

High DAB family this is Susie from Colorado I am calling begging for you please every single person that hears this please pray for us. We have lost almost all ability to transport food from the port in Port-au-Prince to our orphanages and schools. We are getting daily requests for food from people in four different villages and people are literally dying of starvation right now. And we just…we are…every time we try to bring the food we incur heavy gunfire, threats of kidnapping, and we just are really worried. So, I beg for your prayer and especially for our staff, our orphans who are no longer orphans because they have us. And we just pray for safety and for help to come to Haiti soon. We need help. Please pray pray that the UN will intervene and that they will come with boots on the ground and annihilate these gangs. They are killing people. I get videos of mass slaughter that I’m not seeing on the news, and I don’t know why the world isn’t seeing this. It's…it’s literally less than 90 minutes from Miami that this is all happening. Thank you. God bless. Bye.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible it’s Laura Lee in Boynton Beach. It’s Saturday the 12th of November. It’s seven in the morning. I really thought about an hour ago I was about to see Jesus, face to face. It was foggy and I just dropped my cousin off at the airport early in the morning and I was on I-95…I-95 on the way home to Boynton Beach from Fort Lauderdale. I spun out on 95, did two 360s and landed in a lot of water on the…in the culvert. I’m just praising God that I did not hurt anyone else or that anyone else was involved that might not have been ready to see the Lord. Me, I’m ready. But I saw that…I saw that post coming at me as I was turning, called out His name. So, it’s not today. I was able to drive out and drive home. Transmissions not too good on the car but who cares. I love you all I. just wanted you to know that. And I thought, my goodness I haven’t told you recently, so I thought I’d call you. I love you all. Praying for you all. God bless you all.

Vincent Walking in Love this is God’s Life Speaker I had to sit a little bit and just ponder and pray about just your heaviness and your question. And I mean, you know, Deuteronomy 29:29, some things we would just never know and maybe we’ll know them when we get to heaven but for here on earth. I have my Hungarian grandmother’s Bible. It’s in Hungarian or it was actually a Czechoslovakian and she only had one verse underlined and the entire Bible. I never really knew her. I was 11 the last time I saw her and she was this small, looked like so meek kind of woman but I bet she was a powerhouse. It would have been nice to get some lessons from her. But the one verse she has underlined is Ephesians 1:12 and it’s all glory to God. And that is His purpose, for us to bring him glory. Though, we suffer here as people with all these things that we just don’t understand that happen to us, around us. And these circumstances are never really that great, but God is. God is good regardless of all the suffering. And we need to believe that He is who He says He is, and He will do what He says He will do and that is give us salvation and eternal life. So, through these hard parts Vincent who walks with love, eyes on God, all of us we need it and we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hello, my DAB family it’s Sean Rogers here from London England UK. I phoned in a couple of times regarding my alcohol and substance misuse issues. I’m very sad to say it’s been a terrible terrible day. I…I thought to myself last night I’ll have a couple of beers which is always a mistake because then two could always turn it to 10 beers and on this occasion unfortunately it did. I’m fooling myself to just think I can have just one I control it. And I’ve been praying today on my knees. I’ve just got back from a massive crack and heroin and all sorts of like anti-anxiety medications. Just abusing everything I get my hands on and I’m disgusted with myself because I’m defiling the God has given me, a temple of God. This is God’s temple. He built us and He created us and I’m abusing it and throwing it in His face, and I’m absolutely disgusted. Now I feel out of despair, I feel so disappointed to myself. Like, I can manage to go for a few days here and there and then I always go back to it, and I hate it. I hate it so much. Like, I don’t know what it is. I would never do drugs without alcohol. So, I need to knock alcohol on the head. And alcohol just destroys me. I don’t know what it is. Why am I escaping reality? Why do I want to feel different to what I’m feeling naturally? Why do I have to take that drink to try and take my mind…why am I not happy? Because I think it’s fine. Like, I’m so involved in the word and God and…oh…I don’t know what is going on. Like, it has a massive hold of me. So, I ask family please pray…pray for me. I know you’ve prayed for me before and I’ve made some progress but family please pray for me to abstain from alcohol because one day I’m gonna drop dead. And the Lord has kept me alive for so long because He must have a plan for me that I don’t know about. But He knows and I have been yet to fulfill it. But please pray for me people. Please pray for me to get away from this alcohol and get away from the devil, be sober, be vigilant, for the devil seeks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. I need your help guys. I love you all. Sean from England London.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday November 16, 2022 (NIV)

Ezekiel 33-34

Renewal of Ezekiel’s Call as Watchman

33 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword(A) against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman,(B) 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet(C) to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning(D) and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head.(E) 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head.(F) If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves.(G) 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’(H)

7 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman(I) for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.(J) 8 When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,(K)’ and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for[a] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.(L) 9 But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so,(M) they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.(N)

10 “Son of man, say to the Israelites, ‘This is what you are saying: “Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away(O) because of[b] them. How then can we live?(P)”’ 11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.(Q) Turn!(R) Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’(S)

12 “Therefore, son of man, say to your people,(T) ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’(U) 13 If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done.(V) 14 And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just(W) and right— 15 if they give back what they took in pledge(X) for a loan, return what they have stolen,(Y) follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.(Z) 16 None of the sins(AA) that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.(AB)

17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. 18 If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil,(AC) they will die for it.(AD) 19 And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.(AE) 20 Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”(AF)

Jerusalem’s Fall Explained

21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped(AG) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!(AH)” 22 Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me,(AI) and he opened my mouth(AJ) before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.(AK)

23 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 24 “Son of man, the people living in those ruins(AL) in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many;(AM) surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’(AN) 25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat(AO) meat with the blood(AP) still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?(AQ) 26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,(AR) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.(AS) Should you then possess the land?’

27 “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.(AT) 28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains(AU) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.(AV) 29 Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolate(AW) waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’(AX)

30 “As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’ 31 My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before(AY) you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy(AZ) for unjust gain.(BA) 32 Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs(BB) with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.(BC)

33 “When all this comes true—and it surely will—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.(BD)”

The Lord Will Be Israel’s Shepherd

34 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?(BE) 3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.(BF) 4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed(BG) the sick or bound up(BH) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(BI) 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(BJ) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(BK) 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill.(BL) They were scattered(BM) over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.(BN)

7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(BO) and has become food for all the wild animals,(BP) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(BQ) 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against(BR) the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue(BS) my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.(BT)

11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep(BU) and look after them. 12 As a shepherd(BV) looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.(BW) 13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather(BX) them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.(BY) I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.(BZ) 14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel(CA) will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture(CB) on the mountains of Israel.(CC) 15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down,(CD) declares the Sovereign Lord.(CE) 16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up(CF) the injured and strengthen the weak,(CG) but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.(CH) I will shepherd the flock with justice.(CI)

17 “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.(CJ) 18 Is it not enough(CK) for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet?(CL) Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.(CM) 21 Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns(CN) until you have driven them away, 22 I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.(CO) 23 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend(CP) them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.(CQ) 24 I the Lord will be their God,(CR) and my servant David(CS) will be prince among them.(CT) I the Lord have spoken.(CU)

25 “‘I will make a covenant(CV) of peace(CW) with them and rid the land of savage beasts(CX) so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.(CY) 26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[c](CZ) I will send down showers in season;(DA) there will be showers of blessing.(DB) 27 The trees will yield their fruit(DC) and the ground will yield its crops;(DD) the people will be secure(DE) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke(DF) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.(DG) 28 They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety,(DH) and no one will make them afraid.(DI) 29 I will provide for them a land renowned(DJ) for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine(DK) in the land or bear the scorn(DL) of the nations.(DM) 30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the Israelites, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.(DN) 31 You are my sheep,(DO) the sheep of my pasture,(DP) and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

Footnotes:

  1. Ezekiel 33:8 Or in; also in verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 33:10 Or away in
  3. Ezekiel 34:26 Or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be named in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be seen as blessed

Cross references:

  1. Ezekiel 33:2 : S Lev 26:25; S Jer 12:12
  2. Ezekiel 33:2 : S 1Sa 14:16; Isa 21:6-9; S Jer 51:12
  3. Ezekiel 33:3 : S Ex 20:18; S Nu 10:7; Hos 5:8; 8:1
  4. Ezekiel 33:4 : 2Ch 25:16
  5. Ezekiel 33:4 : S Lev 20:9; S Jer 6:17; Zec 1:4; Ac 18:6
  6. Ezekiel 33:5 : S Lev 20:9
  7. Ezekiel 33:5 : S Ex 9:21
  8. Ezekiel 33:6 : Isa 56:10-11; S Eze 3:18
  9. Ezekiel 33:7 : S Isa 52:8
  10. Ezekiel 33:7 : Jer 1:17; 26:2
  11. Ezekiel 33:8 : ver 14
  12. Ezekiel 33:8 : S Isa 3:11; S Eze 18:4
  13. Ezekiel 33:9 : S Ps 7:12
  14. Ezekiel 33:9 : Eze 3:17-19
  15. Ezekiel 33:10 : S Lev 26:16
  16. Ezekiel 33:10 : S Lev 26:39; S Eze 4:17
  17. Ezekiel 33:11 : S La 3:33
  18. Ezekiel 33:11 : S 2Ch 30:9; S Isa 19:22; S Jer 3:12
  19. Ezekiel 33:11 : Jer 44:7-8; S Eze 18:23; Hos 11:8; Joel 2:12; S 1Ti 2:4
  20. Ezekiel 33:12 : ver 2
  21. Ezekiel 33:12 : 2Ch 7:14; S Eze 3:20; S 18:21
  22. Ezekiel 33:13 : Heb 10:38; 2Pe 2:20-21
  23. Ezekiel 33:14 : S Jer 22:3
  24. Ezekiel 33:15 : S Ex 22:26
  25. Ezekiel 33:15 : Ex 22:1-4; S Lev 6:2-5
  26. Ezekiel 33:15 : Isa 55:7; Jer 18:7-8; S Lk 19:8
  27. Ezekiel 33:16 : S Jer 50:20
  28. Ezekiel 33:16 : S Isa 43:25
  29. Ezekiel 33:18 : Jer 18:10
  30. Ezekiel 33:18 : S Eze 3:20
  31. Ezekiel 33:19 : S ver 14-15
  32. Ezekiel 33:20 : S Job 34:11
  33. Ezekiel 33:21 : Eze 24:26
  34. Ezekiel 33:21 : S 2Ki 25:4, 10; Jer 39:1-2; 52:4-7; S Eze 32:1
  35. Ezekiel 33:22 : S Eze 1:3
  36. Ezekiel 33:22 : Eze 29:21; Lk 1:64
  37. Ezekiel 33:22 : Eze 3:26-27; S 24:27
  38. Ezekiel 33:24 : Eze 36:4
  39. Ezekiel 33:24 : S Dt 1:10
  40. Ezekiel 33:24 : Isa 51:2; Jer 40:7; Eze 11:15; Lk 3:8; Ac 7:5
  41. Ezekiel 33:25 : Jer 7:21
  42. Ezekiel 33:25 : S Ge 9:4
  43. Ezekiel 33:25 : Jer 7:9-10; S Eze 22:6, 27
  44. Ezekiel 33:26 : Jer 41:7
  45. Ezekiel 33:26 : Eze 22:11
  46. Ezekiel 33:27 : 1Sa 13:6; Isa 2:19; S Jer 42:22; S Eze 7:15; S 14:21; 39:4
  47. Ezekiel 33:28 : S Isa 41:15
  48. Ezekiel 33:28 : S Ge 6:7; Jer 9:10
  49. Ezekiel 33:29 : S Lev 26:34
  50. Ezekiel 33:29 : S Jer 18:16; S 44:22; Eze 36:4; Mic 7:13
  51. Ezekiel 33:31 : S Eze 8:1
  52. Ezekiel 33:31 : Ps 119:36
  53. Ezekiel 33:31 : Ps 78:36-37; S Isa 29:13; S 33:15; S Jer 3:10; S 6:17; S Eze 22:27; Mt 13:22; 1Jn 3:18
  54. Ezekiel 33:32 : S 1Ki 4:32
  55. Ezekiel 33:32 : Mk 6:20
  56. Ezekiel 33:33 : S 1Sa 3:20; S Jer 28:9; S Eze 2:5
  57. Ezekiel 34:2 : Ps 78:70-72; Isa 40:11; Jer 3:15; S 23:1; Mic 3:11; Jn 10:11; 21:15-17; Jude 1:12
  58. Ezekiel 34:3 : Isa 56:11; S Eze 22:27; Am 6:4; Zec 11:5
  59. Ezekiel 34:4 : S Isa 3:7
  60. Ezekiel 34:4 : S Isa 1:6
  61. Ezekiel 34:4 : ver 16; S Lev 25:43; Mic 3:3; Zec 11:15-17
  62. Ezekiel 34:5 : S Nu 27:17
  63. Ezekiel 34:5 : ver 28; S Isa 56:9; Ac 20:29
  64. Ezekiel 34:6 : S Jer 50:6
  65. Ezekiel 34:6 : S Lev 26:33; S Ps 95:10; S Jer 10:21
  66. Ezekiel 34:6 : 2Ch 18:16; Ps 142:4; Hos 7:13; S Mt 9:36; 18:12-13; Lk 15:5; 1Pe 2:25
  67. Ezekiel 34:8 : S Jdg 2:14
  68. Ezekiel 34:8 : S Isa 56:9
  69. Ezekiel 34:8 : Jude 1:12
  70. Ezekiel 34:10 : S Jer 21:13
  71. Ezekiel 34:10 : S Ps 72:14
  72. Ezekiel 34:10 : 1Sa 2:29-30; S Jer 23:2; Zec 10:3
  73. Ezekiel 34:11 : S Ps 119:176
  74. Ezekiel 34:12 : Isa 40:11; S Jer 31:10; Zec 10:3; Lk 19:10
  75. Ezekiel 34:12 : S Eze 32:7
  76. Ezekiel 34:13 : S Ge 48:21; S Dt 30:4
  77. Ezekiel 34:13 : S Isa 66:20; S Jer 23:8; S Eze 11:17; Mic 4:6
  78. Ezekiel 34:13 : Jer 23:3; S Jer 50:19; S Eze 28:25; 36:24
  79. Ezekiel 34:14 : S Eze 20:40
  80. Ezekiel 34:14 : Ps 23:2; S 37:3
  81. Ezekiel 34:14 : S Isa 65:10; Eze 36:29-30; 37:22; Am 9:14; Mic 7:14
  82. Ezekiel 34:15 : Zep 3:13
  83. Ezekiel 34:15 : Ps 23:1-2; S Jer 33:12; Mic 5:4
  84. Ezekiel 34:16 : S Ps 147:3
  85. Ezekiel 34:16 : Mic 4:6; Zep 3:19
  86. Ezekiel 34:16 : Lk 19:10
  87. Ezekiel 34:16 : Isa 10:16; S Jer 31:8; Lk 5:32
  88. Ezekiel 34:17 : Mt 25:32-33
  89. Ezekiel 34:18 : S Ge 30:15
  90. Ezekiel 34:18 : S Eze 32:2
  91. Ezekiel 34:20 : Mt 25:32
  92. Ezekiel 34:21 : S Dt 33:17
  93. Ezekiel 34:22 : Ps 72:12-14; Jer 23:2-3; Eze 20:37-38
  94. Ezekiel 34:23 : Isa 40:11
  95. Ezekiel 34:23 : S Isa 31:4; Mic 5:4
  96. Ezekiel 34:24 : Eze 36:28
  97. Ezekiel 34:24 : Ps 89:49
  98. Ezekiel 34:24 : S Isa 53:4; Zec 13:7
  99. Ezekiel 34:24 : Jer 23:4-5; S 30:9; S 33:14; Jn 10:16; Rev 7:17
  100. Ezekiel 34:25 : S Eze 16:62
  101. Ezekiel 34:25 : S Nu 25:12
  102. Ezekiel 34:25 : Lev 26:6
  103. Ezekiel 34:25 : S Lev 25:18; Isa 11:6-9; Hos 2:18
  104. Ezekiel 34:26 : S Ge 12:2
  105. Ezekiel 34:26 : Ps 68:9; Joel 2:23
  106. Ezekiel 34:26 : Dt 11:13-15; S 28:12; Isa 44:3
  107. Ezekiel 34:27 : S Ps 72:16
  108. Ezekiel 34:27 : S Job 14:9; S Ps 67:6
  109. Ezekiel 34:27 : S Nu 24:21
  110. Ezekiel 34:27 : S Lev 26:13
  111. Ezekiel 34:27 : S Jer 30:8; S Eze 20:42; S 28:25
  112. Ezekiel 34:28 : S Jer 32:37
  113. Ezekiel 34:28 : S Jer 30:10; S Eze 28:26; 39:26; Hos 11:11; Am 9:15; Zep 3:13; Zec 14:11
  114. Ezekiel 34:29 : S Isa 4:2
  115. Ezekiel 34:29 : Eze 36:29
  116. Ezekiel 34:29 : S Ps 137:3; Eze 36:6; Joel 2:19
  117. Ezekiel 34:29 : Eze 36:15
  118. Ezekiel 34:30 : S Eze 14:11; 37:27
  119. Ezekiel 34:31 : S Ps 28:9
  120. Ezekiel 34:31 : S Jer 23:1
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Hebrews 13

Concluding Exhortations

13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.(A) 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,(B) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.(C) 3 Continue to remember those in prison(D) as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.

4 Marriage should be honored by all,(E) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(F) 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money(G) and be content with what you have,(H) because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”[a](I)

6 So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?”[b](J)

7 Remember your leaders,(K) who spoke the word of God(L) to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate(M) their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.(N)

9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.(O) It is good for our hearts to be strengthened(P) by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods,(Q) which is of no benefit to those who do so.(R) 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle(S) have no right to eat.(T)

11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering,(U) but the bodies are burned outside the camp.(V) 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate(W) to make the people holy(X) through his own blood.(Y) 13 Let us, then, go to him(Z) outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.(AA) 14 For here we do not have an enduring city,(AB) but we are looking for the city that is to come.(AC)

15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice(AD) of praise—the fruit of lips(AE) that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others,(AF) for with such sacrifices(AG) God is pleased.

17 Have confidence in your leaders(AH) and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you(AI) as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

18 Pray for us.(AJ) We are sure that we have a clear conscience(AK) and desire to live honorably in every way. 19 I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon.(AL)

Benediction and Final Greetings

20 Now may the God of peace,(AM) who through the blood of the eternal covenant(AN) brought back from the dead(AO) our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,(AP) 21 equip you with everything good for doing his will,(AQ) and may he work in us(AR) what is pleasing to him,(AS) through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.(AT)

22 Brothers and sisters, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you quite briefly.(AU)

23 I want you to know that our brother Timothy(AV) has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.

24 Greet all your leaders(AW) and all the Lord’s people. Those from Italy(AX) send you their greetings.

25 Grace be with you all.(AY)

Footnotes:

  1. Hebrews 13:5 Deut. 31:6
  2. Hebrews 13:6 Psalm 118:6,7

Cross references:

  1. Hebrews 13:1 : S Ro 12:10
  2. Hebrews 13:2 : Job 31:32; Mt 25:35; S Ro 12:13
  3. Hebrews 13:2 : Ge 18:1-33; 19:1-3
  4. Hebrews 13:3 : Mt 25:36; Col 4:18; Heb 10:34
  5. Hebrews 13:4 : Mal 2:15; 1Co 7:38; 1Ti 4:3
  6. Hebrews 13:4 : Dt 22:22; 1Co 6:9; Rev 22:15
  7. Hebrews 13:5 : S 1Ti 3:3
  8. Hebrews 13:5 : Php 4:11; 1Ti 6:6, 8
  9. Hebrews 13:5 : Dt 31:6, 8; Jos 1:5
  10. Hebrews 13:6 : Ps 118:6, 7
  11. Hebrews 13:7 : ver 17, 24; 1Co 16:16
  12. Hebrews 13:7 : S Heb 4:12
  13. Hebrews 13:7 : Heb 6:12
  14. Hebrews 13:8 : Ps 102:27; Heb 1:12
  15. Hebrews 13:9 : Eph 4:14
  16. Hebrews 13:9 : Col 2:7
  17. Hebrews 13:9 : Col 2:16
  18. Hebrews 13:9 : Heb 9:10
  19. Hebrews 13:10 : Heb 8:5
  20. Hebrews 13:10 : 1Co 9:13; 10:18
  21. Hebrews 13:11 : Lev 16:15
  22. Hebrews 13:11 : Ex 29:14; Lev 4:12, 21; 9:11; 16:27
  23. Hebrews 13:12 : Jn 19:17
  24. Hebrews 13:12 : S Eph 5:26
  25. Hebrews 13:12 : S Ro 3:25
  26. Hebrews 13:13 : Lk 9:23
  27. Hebrews 13:13 : Heb 11:26
  28. Hebrews 13:14 : Heb 12:27
  29. Hebrews 13:14 : Php 3:20; Heb 11:10, 27; 12:22
  30. Hebrews 13:15 : 1Pe 2:5
  31. Hebrews 13:15 : Isa 57:19; Hos 14:2
  32. Hebrews 13:16 : Ro 12:13
  33. Hebrews 13:16 : Php 4:18
  34. Hebrews 13:17 : ver 7, 24
  35. Hebrews 13:17 : Isa 62:6; Ac 20:28
  36. Hebrews 13:18 : S 1Th 5:25
  37. Hebrews 13:18 : S Ac 23:1
  38. Hebrews 13:19 : Phm 22
  39. Hebrews 13:20 : S Ro 15:33
  40. Hebrews 13:20 : Ge 9:16; 17:7, 13, 19; Isa 55:3; 61:8; Eze 37:26; S Mt 26:28
  41. Hebrews 13:20 : S Ac 2:24
  42. Hebrews 13:20 : S Jn 10:11
  43. Hebrews 13:21 : 2Co 9:8
  44. Hebrews 13:21 : S Php 2:13
  45. Hebrews 13:21 : 1Jn 3:22
  46. Hebrews 13:21 : S Ro 11:36
  47. Hebrews 13:22 : 1Pe 5:12
  48. Hebrews 13:23 : S Ac 16:1
  49. Hebrews 13:24 : ver 7, 17
  50. Hebrews 13:24 : Ac 18:2
  51. Hebrews 13:25 : S Col 4:18
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Psalm 115

Psalm 115(A)

1 Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,(B)
because of your love and faithfulness.(C)

2 Why do the nations say,
“Where is their God?”(D)
3 Our God is in heaven;(E)
he does whatever pleases him.(F)
4 But their idols are silver and gold,(G)
made by human hands.(H)
5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,(I)
eyes, but cannot see.
6 They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
7 They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk,
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
8 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.

9 All you Israelites, trust(J) in the Lord—
he is their help and shield.
10 House of Aaron,(K) trust in the Lord—
he is their help and shield.
11 You who fear him,(L) trust in the Lord—
he is their help and shield.

12 The Lord remembers(M) us and will bless us:(N)
He will bless his people Israel,
he will bless the house of Aaron,
13 he will bless those who fear(O) the Lord—
small and great alike.

14 May the Lord cause you to flourish,(P)
both you and your children.
15 May you be blessed by the Lord,
the Maker of heaven(Q) and earth.

16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord,(R)
but the earth he has given(S) to mankind.
17 It is not the dead(T) who praise the Lord,
those who go down to the place of silence;
18 it is we who extol the Lord,(U)
both now and forevermore.(V)

Praise the Lord.[a](W)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 115:18 Hebrew Hallelu Yah

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 115:1 : 115:4-11pp — Ps 135:15-20
  2. Psalm 115:1 : Ps 29:2; 66:2; 96:8
  3. Psalm 115:1 : S Ex 34:6
  4. Psalm 115:2 : S Ps 42:3
  5. Psalm 115:3 : Ezr 5:11; Ne 1:4; Ps 103:19; 136:26; Mt 6:9
  6. Psalm 115:3 : Ps 135:6
  7. Psalm 115:4 : Rev 9:20
  8. Psalm 115:4 : S 2Ki 19:18; S 2Ch 32:19; Jer 10:3-5; Ac 19:26
  9. Psalm 115:5 : Jer 10:5
  10. Psalm 115:9 : Ps 37:3; 62:8
  11. Psalm 115:10 : Ex 30:30; Ps 118:3
  12. Psalm 115:11 : Ps 22:23; 103:11; 118:4
  13. Psalm 115:12 : S 1Ch 16:15
  14. Psalm 115:12 : S Ge 12:2
  15. Psalm 115:13 : S Ps 112:1
  16. Psalm 115:14 : Dt 1:11
  17. Psalm 115:15 : S Ge 1:1; Ac 14:15; S Rev 10:6
  18. Psalm 115:16 : S Ps 89:11
  19. Psalm 115:16 : S Ge 1:28; Ps 8:6-8
  20. Psalm 115:17 : Ps 88:10-12
  21. Psalm 115:18 : S Ps 111:1
  22. Psalm 115:18 : S Ps 113:2
  23. Psalm 115:18 : Ps 28:6; 33:2; 103:1
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Proverbs 27:21-22

21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,(A)
but people are tested by their praise.

22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
grinding them like grain with a pestle,
you will not remove their folly from them.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 27:21 : S Pr 17:3
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