1 Hear my teaching, O my people; ♦︎
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; ♦︎
I will pour forth mysteries from of old,
3 Such as we have heard and known, ♦︎
which our forebears have told us.
4 We will not hide from their children,
but will recount to generations to come, ♦︎
the praises of the Lord and his power
and the wonderful works he has done.
52 But he led out his people like sheep ♦︎
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them to safety and they were not afraid, ♦︎
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 He brought them to his holy place, ♦︎
the mountain which his right hand took in possession.
55 He drove out the nations before them
and shared out to them their inheritance; ♦︎
he settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet still they tested God Most High
and rebelled against him, ♦︎
and would not keep his commandments.
57 They turned back and fell away like their forebears, ♦︎
starting aside like an unstrung bow.
58 They grieved him with their hill altars ♦︎
and provoked him to displeasure with their idols.
59 God heard and was greatly angered, ♦︎
and utterly rejected Israel.
60 He forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, ♦︎
the tent of his presence on earth.
61 He gave the ark of his strength into captivity, ♦︎
his splendour into the adversarys hand.
62 He delivered his people to the sword ♦︎
and raged against his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; ♦︎
there was no one to lament their maidens.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, ♦︎
and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord woke as out of sleep, ♦︎
like a warrior who had been overcome with wine.
66 He struck his enemies from behind ♦︎
and put them to perpetual shame.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph ♦︎
and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But he chose the tribe of Judah ♦︎
and the hill of Zion, which he loved.
69 And there he built his sanctuary like the heights of heaven, ♦︎
like the earth which he founded for ever.
70 He chose David also, his servant, ♦︎
and took him away from the sheepfolds.
71 From following the ewes with their lambs he took him, ♦︎
that he might shepherd Jacob his people
and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he shepherded them with a devoted heart ♦︎
and with skilful hands he guided them.
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5After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew* Beth-zatha,* which has five porticoes. 3In these lay many invalidsblind, lame, and paralysed.* 5One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, Do you want to be made well? 7The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me. 8Jesus said to him, Stand up, take your mat and walk. 9At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.
Now that day was a sabbath. 10So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat. 11But he answered them, The man who made me well said to me, Take up your mat and walk. 12They asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and walk? 13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in* the crowd that was there. 14Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you. 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. 17But Jesus answered them, My Father is still working, and I also am working. 18For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
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