1 I said, I will keep watch over my ways, ♦︎
so that I offend not with my tongue.
2 I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, ♦︎
while the wicked are in my sight.
3 So I held my tongue and said nothing; ♦︎
I kept silent but to no avail.
4 My distress increased, my heart grew hot within me; ♦︎
while I mused, the fire was kindled
and I spoke out with my tongue:
5 Lord, let me know my end and the number of my days, ♦︎
that I may know how short my time is.
6 You have made my days but a handsbreadth,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight; ♦︎
truly, even those who stand upright are but a breath.
7 We walk about like a shadow
and in vain we are in turmoil; ♦︎
we heap up riches and cannot tell who will gather them.
8 And now, what is my hope? ♦︎
Truly my hope is even in you.
9 Deliver me from all my transgressions ♦︎
and do not make me the taunt of the fool.
10 I fell silent and did not open my mouth, ♦︎
for surely it was your doing.
11 Take away your plague from me; ♦︎
I am consumed by the blows of your hand.
12 With rebukes for sin you punish us;
like a moth you consume our beauty; ♦︎
truly, everyone is but a breath.
13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; ♦︎
hold not your peace at my tears.
14 For I am but a stranger with you, ♦︎
a wayfarer, as all my forebears were.
15 Turn your gaze from me, that I may be glad again, ♦︎
before I go my way and am no more.
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4Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, I have produced* a man with the help of the Lord. 2Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. 3In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6The Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.
8 Cain said to his brother Abel, Let us go out to the field.* And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 9Then the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He said, I do not know; am I my brothers keeper? 10And the Lord said, What have you done? Listen; your brothers blood is crying out to me from the ground! 11And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brothers blood from your hand. 12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. 13Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear! 14Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me. 15Then the Lord said to him, Not so!* Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance. And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him. 16Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod,* east of Eden.
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7 Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him; 8hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon. 9He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him; 10for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. 11Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, You are the Son of God! 12But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
13 He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. 14And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles,* to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message, 15and to have authority to cast out demons. 16So he appointed the twelve:* Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, 19and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Then he went home;
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