1 Rebuke me not, O Lord, in your anger, ♦︎
neither chasten me in your heavy displeasure.
2 For your arrows have stuck fast in me ♦︎
and your hand presses hard upon me.
3 There is no health in my flesh
because of your indignation; ♦︎
there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; ♦︎
their weight is a burden too heavy to bear.
5 My wounds stink and fester ♦︎
because of my foolishness.
6 I am utterly bowed down and brought very low; ♦︎
I go about mourning all the day long.
7 My loins are filled with searing pain; ♦︎
there is no health in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; ♦︎
I roar aloud because of the disquiet of my heart.
9 O Lord, you know all my desires ♦︎
and my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart is pounding, my strength has failed me; ♦︎
the light of my eyes is gone from me.
11 My friends and companions stand apart from my affliction; ♦︎
my neighbours stand afar off.
12 Those who seek after my life lay snares for me; ♦︎
and those who would harm me whisper evil
and mutter slander all the day long.
13 But I am like one who is deaf and hears not, ♦︎
like one that is dumb, who does not open his mouth.
14 I have become like one who does not hear ♦︎
and from whose mouth comes no retort.
15 For in you, Lord, have I put my trust; ♦︎
you will answer me, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Let them not triumph over me, ♦︎
those who exult over me when my foot slips.
17 Truly, I am on the verge of falling ♦︎
and my pain is ever with me.
18 I will confess my iniquity ♦︎
and be sorry for my sin.
19 Those that are my enemies without any cause are mighty, ♦︎
and those who hate me wrongfully are many in number.
20 Those who repay evil for good are against me, ♦︎
because the good is what I seek.
21 Forsake me not, O Lord; ♦︎
be not far from me, O my God.
22 Make haste to help me, ♦︎
O Lord of my salvation.
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2Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. 2The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. 3When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. 4His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. 6When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. This must be one of the Hebrews children, she said. 7Then his sister said to Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you? 8Pharaohs daughter said to her, Yes. So the girl went and called the childs mother. 9Pharaohs daughter said to her, Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed it. 10When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaohs daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses,* because, she said, I drew him out* of the water.
11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. 12He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13When he went out the next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting; and he said to the one who was in the wrong, Why do you strike your fellow Hebrew? 14He answered, Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid and thought, Surely the thing is known. 15When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses.
But Moses fled from Pharaoh. He settled in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well. 16The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water, and filled the troughs to water their fathers flock. 17But some shepherds came and drove them away. Moses got up and came to their defence and watered their flock. 18When they returned to their father Reuel, he said, How is it that you have come back so soon today? 19They said, An Egyptian helped us against the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock. 20He said to his daughters, Where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to break bread. 21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage. 22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien* residing in a foreign land.
23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. 24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them.
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27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
13If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,* but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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