1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evildoers ♦︎
and protect me from the violent,
2 Who devise evil in their hearts ♦︎
and stir up strife all the day long.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; ♦︎
adders poison is under their lips.
4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; ♦︎
protect me from the violent
who seek to make me stumble.
5 The proud have laid a snare for me
and spread out a net of cords; ♦︎
they have set traps along my path.
6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God; ♦︎
listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication.
7 O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, ♦︎
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O Lord, ♦︎
do not prosper their wicked plans.
9 Let not those who surround me lift up their heads; ♦︎
let the evil of their own lips fall upon them.
10 Let hot burning coals rain upon them; ♦︎
let them be cast into the depths, that they rise not again.
11 No slanderer shall prosper on the earth, ♦︎
and evil shall hunt down the violent to overthrow them.
12 I know that the Lord will bring justice for the oppressed ♦︎
and maintain the cause of the needy.
13 Surely, the righteous will give thanks to your name, ♦︎
and the upright shall dwell in your presence.
1 I cry aloud to the Lord; ♦︎
to the Lord I make my supplication.
2 I pour out my complaint before him ♦︎
and tell him of my trouble.
3 When my spirit faints within me, you know my path; ♦︎
in the way wherein I walk have they laid a snare for me.
4 I look to my right hand, and find no one who knows me; ♦︎
I have no place to flee to, and no one cares for my soul.
5 I cry out to you, O Lord, and say: ♦︎
You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
6 Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low; ♦︎
save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
7 Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may give thanks to your name; ♦︎
when you have dealt bountifully with me,
then shall the righteous gather around me.
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8In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. 2I looked, and there was a figure that looked like a human being;* below what appeared to be its loins it was fire, and above the loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming amber. 3It stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, to the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 4And the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I had seen in the valley.
5 Then God* said to me, O mortal, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north. So I lifted up my eyes towards the north, and there, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy. 6He said to me, Mortal, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? Yet you will see still greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court; I looked, and there was a hole in the wall. 8Then he said to me, Mortal, dig through the wall; and when I dug through the wall, there was an entrance. 9He said to me, Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here. 10So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all round, were all kinds of creeping things, and loathsome animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11Before them stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the fragrant cloud of incense was ascending. 12Then he said to me, Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land. 13He said also to me, You will see still greater abominations that they are committing.
14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord; women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. 15Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O mortal? You will see still greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east, prostrating themselves to the sun towards the east. 17Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence, and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose! 18Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.
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26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up and go towards the south* to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. (This is a wilderness road.)
27So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
28and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go over to this chariot and join it.
30So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, Do you understand what you are reading?
31He replied, How can I, unless someone guides me? And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.
32Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.
34The eunuch asked Philip, About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?
35Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.
36As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?*
38He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip* baptized him.
39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
40But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
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