1 Lord, how many are my adversaries; ♦︎
many are they who rise up against me.
2 Many are they who say to my soul, ♦︎
There is no help for you in your God.
3 But you, Lord, are a shield about me; ♦︎
you are my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
4 When I cry aloud to the Lord, ♦︎
he will answer me from his holy hill;
5 I lie down and sleep and rise again, ♦︎
because the Lord sustains me.
6 I will not be afraid of hordes of the peoples ♦︎
that have set themselves against me all around.
7 Rise up, O Lord, and deliver me, O my God, ♦︎
for you strike all my enemies on the cheek
and break the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to the Lord: ♦︎
may your blessing be upon your people.
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath; ♦︎
neither chasten me in your fierce anger.
2 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; ♦︎
Lord, heal me, for my bones are racked.
3 My soul also shakes with terror; ♦︎
how long, O Lord, how long?
4 Turn again, O Lord, and deliver my soul; ♦︎
save me for your loving mercys sake.
5 For in death no one remembers you; ♦︎
and who can give you thanks in the grave?
6 I am weary with my groaning; ♦︎
every night I drench my pillow
and flood my bed with my tears.
7 My eyes are wasted with grief ♦︎
and worn away because of all my enemies.
8 Depart from me, all you that do evil, ♦︎
for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my supplication; ♦︎
the Lord will receive my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be put to shame and confusion; ♦︎
they shall suddenly turn back in their shame.
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13Furthermore, the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people. 14Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.
15 So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God, by casting for yourselves an image of a calf; you had been quick to turn from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes. 18Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight. 19For I was afraid that the anger that the Lord bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also. 20The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time. 21Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust; and I threw the dust of it into the stream that runs down the mountain.
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23 When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. 24But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.
3Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus* by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God. 3Jesus answered him, Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.* 4Nicodemus said to him, How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mothers womb and be born? 5Jesus answered, Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.* 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, You* must be born from above.* 8The wind* blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. 9Nicodemus said to him, How can these things be? 10Jesus answered him, Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
11 Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you* do not receive our testimony. 12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.* 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.*
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