1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame; ♦︎
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Incline your ear to me; ♦︎
make haste to deliver me.
3 Be my strong rock, a fortress to save me,
for you are my rock and my stronghold; ♦︎
guide me, and lead me for your names sake.
4 Take me out of the net
that they have laid secretly for me, ♦︎
for you are my strength.
5 Into your hands I commend my spirit, ♦︎
for you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols; ♦︎
I put my trust in the Lord.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy, ♦︎
for you have seen my affliction
and known my soul in adversity.
8 You have not shut me up in the hand of the enemy; ♦︎
you have set my feet in an open place.
9 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in trouble; ♦︎
my eye is consumed with sorrow,
my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is wasted with grief,
and my years with sighing; ♦︎
my strength fails me because of my affliction,
and my bones are consumed.
11 I have become a reproach to all my enemies
and even to my neighbours,
an object of dread to my acquaintances; ♦︎
when they see me in the street they flee from me.
12 I am forgotten like one that is dead, out of mind; ♦︎
I have become like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the whispering of the crowd;
fear is on every side; ♦︎
they scheme together against me,
and plot to take my life.
14 But my trust is in you, O Lord. ♦︎
I have said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand; ♦︎
deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
and from those who persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your servant, ♦︎
and save me for your mercys sake.
17 Lord, let me not be confounded
for I have called upon you; ♦︎
but let the wicked be put to shame;
let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence ♦︎
that speak against the righteous
with arrogance, disdain and contempt.
19 How abundant is your goodness, O Lord,
which you have laid up for those who fear you; ♦︎
which you have prepared in the sight of all
for those who put their trust in you.
20 You hide them in the shelter of your presence
from those who slander them; ♦︎
you keep them safe in your refuge from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the Lord! ♦︎
For he has shown me his steadfast love
when I was as a city besieged.
22 I had said in my alarm,
I have been cut off from the sight of your eyes. ♦︎
Nevertheless, you heard the voice of my prayer
when I cried out to you.
23 Love the Lord, all you his servants; ♦︎
for the Lord protects the faithful,
but repays to the full the proud.
24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, ♦︎
all you who wait in hope for the Lord.
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15 Realizing that their father was dead, Josephs brothers said, What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him? 16So they approached* Joseph, saying, Your father gave this instruction before he died, 17Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you. Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father. Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18Then his brothers also wept,* fell down before him, and said, We are here as your slaves. 19But Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? 20Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. 21So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones. In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
22 So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his fathers household; and Joseph lived for one hundred and ten years. 23Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Josephs knees.
24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here. 26And Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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12Now concerning spiritual gifts,* brothers and sisters,* I do not want you to be uninformed. 2You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says Let Jesus be cursed! and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
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