113 I hate those who are double-minded, ♦︎
but your law do I love.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield ♦︎
and my hope is in your word.
115 Away from me, you wicked! ♦︎
I will keep the commandments of my God.
116 Sustain me according to your promise, that I may live, ♦︎
and let me not be disappointed in my hope.
117 Hold me up and I shall be saved, ♦︎
and my delight shall be ever in your statutes.
118 You set at nought those who depart from your statutes, ♦︎
for their deceiving is in vain.
119 You consider all the wicked as dross; ♦︎
therefore I love your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you ♦︎
and I am afraid of your judgements.
121 I have done what is just and right; ♦︎
O give me not over to my oppressors.
122 Stand surety for your servants good; ♦︎
let not the proud oppress me.
123 My eyes fail with watching for your salvation ♦︎
and for your righteous promise.
124 O deal with your servant according to your faithful love ♦︎
and teach me your statutes.
125 I am your servant; O grant me understanding, ♦︎
that I may know your testimonies.
126 It is time for you to act, O Lord, ♦︎
for they frustrate your law.
127 Therefore I love your commandments ♦︎
above gold, even much fine gold.
128 Therefore I direct my steps by all your precepts, ♦︎
and all false ways I utterly abhor.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful; ♦︎
therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The opening of your word gives light; ♦︎
it gives understanding to the simple.
131 I open my mouth and draw in my breath, ♦︎
as I long for your commandments.
132 Turn to me and be gracious to me, ♦︎
as is your way with those who love your name.
133 Order my steps by your word, ♦︎
and let no wickedness have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from earthly oppressors ♦︎
so that I may keep your commandments.
135 Show the light of your countenance upon your servant ♦︎
and teach me your statutes.
136 My eyes run down with streams of water, ♦︎
because the wicked do not keep your law.
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121 I have done what is just and right;
do not leave me to my oppressors.
122 Guarantee your servants well-being;
do not let the godless oppress me.
123 My eyes fail from watching for your salvation,
and for the fulfilment of your righteous promise.
124 Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,
and teach me your statutes.
125 I am your servant; give me understanding,
so that I may know your decrees.
126 It is time for the Lord to act,
for your law has been broken.
127 Truly I love your commandments
more than gold, more than fine gold.
128 Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts;*
I hate every false way.
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23 The word of the Lord came to me:
30 As for you, mortal, your people who talk together about you by the walls, and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to a neighbour, Come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord. 31They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain. 32To them you are like a singer of love songs,* one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; they hear what you say, but they will not do it. 33When this comesand come it will!then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.
34The word of the Lord came to me: 2Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to themto the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Ah, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 3You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. 4You have not strengthened the weak, you have not healed the sick, you have not bound up the injured, you have not brought back the strayed, you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them. 5So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and scattered, they became food for all the wild animals. 6My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with no one to search or seek for them.
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8As I live, says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild animals, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep; 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10Thus says the Lord God, I am against the shepherds; and I will demand my sheep at their hand, and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, so that they may not be food for them.
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26Agrippa said to Paul, You have permission to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to defend himself:
9 Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.* 10And that is what I did in Jerusalem; with authority received from the chief priests, I not only locked up many of the saints in prison, but I also cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death. 11By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme; and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
12 With this in mind, I was travelling to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, 13when at midday along the road, your Excellency,* I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions. 14When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew* language, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It hurts you to kick against the goads. 15I asked, Who are you, Lord? The Lord answered, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me* and to those in which I will appear to you. 17I will rescue you from your people and from the Gentilesto whom I am sending you 18to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
19 After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance. 21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. 22To this day I have had help from God, and so I stand here, testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would take place: 23that the Messiah* must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
24 While he was making this defence, Festus exclaimed, You are out of your mind, Paul! Too much learning is driving you insane! 25But Paul said, I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking the sober truth.
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30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again. 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
33 Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, What were you arguing about on the way? 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all. 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.
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