Thursday, May 5, 2011

Evening Meditations 5-5-2011


ESV

Psa 82:1  A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
Psa 82:2  "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Psa 82:3  Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psa 82:4  Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Psa 82:5  They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psa 82:6  I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
Psa 82:7  nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince."
Psa 82:8  Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! 




Pro 18:1  Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Pro 18:2  A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Pro 18:3  When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
Pro 18:4  The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Pro 18:5  It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Pro 18:6  A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
Pro 18:7  A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Pro 18:8  The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Pro 18:9  Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Pro 18:10  The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Pro 18:11  A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
Pro 18:12  Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Pro 18:13  If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
Pro 18:14  A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Pro 18:15  An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Pro 18:16  A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
Pro 18:17  The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
Pro 18:18  The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.
Pro 18:19  A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
Pro 18:20  From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.
Pro 18:21  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Pro 18:22  He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Pro 18:23  The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
Pro 18:24  A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.  




Son 5:1  I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!
Son 5:2  I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."
Son 5:3  I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them?
Son 5:4  My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
Son 5:5  I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
Son 5:6  I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
Son 5:7  The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.
Son 5:8  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
Son 5:9  What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
Son 5:10  My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
Son 5:11  His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
Son 5:12  His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.
Son 5:13  His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
Son 5:14  His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.
Son 5:15  His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
Son 5:16  His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.  




Zec 2:1  And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
Zec 2:2  Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length."
Zec 2:3  And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him
Zec 2:4  and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.

Zec 2:5  And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"
Zec 2:6  Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.
Zec 2:7  Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
Zec 2:8  For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Zec 2:9  "Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
Zec 2:10  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.
Zec 2:11  And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Zec 2:12  And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem."
Zec 2:13  Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.  




Gal 5:1  For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Gal 5:2  Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Gal 5:3  I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Gal 5:4  You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Gal 5:5  For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Gal 5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Gal 5:7  You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Gal 5:8  This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
Gal 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Gal 5:10  I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Gal 5:11  But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Gal 5:12  I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Gal 5:13  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 5:14  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Gal 5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Gal 5:16  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Gal 5:17  For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Gal 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Gal 5:20  idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Gal 5:21  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Gal 5:24  And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Gal 5:25  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Gal 5:26  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.  

 




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