1 Hear my just cause, O Lord; consider my complaint; ♦︎
listen to my prayer, which comes not from lying lips.
2 Let my vindication come forth from your presence; ♦︎
let your eyes behold what is right.
3 Weigh my heart, examine me by night, ♦︎
refine me, and you will find no impurity in me.
4 My mouth does not trespass for earthly rewards; ♦︎
I have heeded the words of your lips.
5 My footsteps hold fast in the ways of your commandments; ♦︎
my feet have not stumbled in your paths.
6 I call upon you, O God, for you will answer me; ♦︎
incline your ear to me, and listen to my words.
7 Show me your marvellous loving-kindness, ♦︎
O Saviour of those who take refuge at your right hand
from those who rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; ♦︎
hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 From the wicked who assault me, ♦︎
from my enemies who surround me to take away my life.
10 They have closed their heart to pity ♦︎
and their mouth speaks proud things.
11 They press me hard, they surround me on every side, ♦︎
watching how they may cast me to the ground,
12 Like a lion that is greedy for its prey, ♦︎
like a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, Lord; confront them and cast them down; ♦︎
deliver me from the wicked by your sword.
14 Deliver me, O Lord, by your hand ♦︎
from those whose portion in life is unending,
15 Whose bellies you fill with your treasure, ♦︎
who are well supplied with children
and leave their wealth to their little ones.
16 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; ♦︎
when I awake and behold your likeness, I shall be satisfied.
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2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the kings house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. 3David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. 4So David sent messengers to fetch her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. 5The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, I am pregnant.
6 So David sent word to Joab, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. 8Then David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. Uriah went out of the kings house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9But Uriah slept at the entrance of the kings house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10When they told David, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house? 11Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths;* and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing. 12Then David said to Uriah, Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, 13David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15In the letter he wrote, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die. 16As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors. 17The men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting; 19and he instructed the messenger, When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting, 20then, if the kings anger rises, and if he says to you, Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal?* Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall? then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead too.
22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23The messenger said to David, The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the kings servants are dead; and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 25David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab, Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; press your attack on the city, and overthrow it. And encourage him.
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him.
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3And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars:
I know your works; you have a name for being alive, but you are dead.
2Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is at the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
3Remember then what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
4Yet you have still a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes; they will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
5If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not blot your name out of the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels.
6Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
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