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 <div class="label">68</div><div class="cl">Psalm 68#In Hebrew texts 68:1-35 is numbered 68:2-36.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song.</div><div class="q1"> 1May God arise, may his enemies be scattered;</div><div class="q2">may his foes flee before him.</div><div class="q1"> 2May you blow them away like smoke&#8212;</div><div class="q2">as wax melts before the fire,</div><div class="q2">may the wicked perish before God.</div><div class="q1"> 3But may the righteous be glad</div><div class="q2">and rejoice before God;</div><div class="q2">may they be happy and joyful.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,</div><div class="q2">extol him who rides on the clouds#68:4 Or name, / prepare the way for him who rides through the deserts;</div><div class="q2">rejoice before him&#8212;his name is the Lord.</div><div class="q1"> 5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,</div><div class="q2">is God in his holy dwelling.</div><div class="q1"> 6God sets the lonely in families,#68:6 Or the desolate in a homeland</div><div class="q2">he leads out the prisoners with singing;</div><div class="q2">but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7When you, God, went out before your people,</div><div class="q2">when you marched through the wilderness,#68:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 19 and 32.</div><div class="q1"> 8the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain,</div><div class="q2">before God, the One of Sinai,</div><div class="q2">before God, the God of Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 9You gave abundant showers, O God;</div><div class="q2">you refreshed your weary inheritance.</div><div class="q1"> 10Your people settled in it,</div><div class="q2">and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11The Lord announces the word,</div><div class="q2">and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:</div><div class="q1"> 12&#8220;Kings and armies flee in haste;</div><div class="q2">the women at home divide the plunder.</div><div class="q1"> 13Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,#68:13 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags</div><div class="q2">the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,</div><div class="q2">its feathers with shining gold.&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 14When the Almighty#68:14 Hebrew Shaddai scattered the kings in the land,</div><div class="q2">it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15Mount Bashan, majestic mountain,</div><div class="q2">Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,</div><div class="q1"> 16why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain,</div><div class="q2">at the mountain where God chooses to reign,</div><div class="q2">where the Lord himself will dwell forever?</div><div class="q1"> 17The chariots of God are tens of thousands</div><div class="q2">and thousands of thousands;</div><div class="q2">the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.#68:17 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text Lord is among them at Sinai in holiness</div><div class="q1"> 18When you ascended on high,</div><div class="q2">you took many captives;</div><div class="q2">you received gifts from people,</div><div class="q1">even from#68:18 Or gifts for people, / even the rebellious&#8212;</div><div class="q2">that you,#68:18 Or they Lord God, might dwell there.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 19Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,</div><div class="q2">who daily bears our burdens.</div><div class="q1"> 20Our God is a God who saves;</div><div class="q2">from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.</div><div class="q1"> 21Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies,</div><div class="q2">the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.</div><div class="q1"> 22The Lord says, &#8220;I will bring them from Bashan;</div><div class="q2">I will bring them from the depths of the sea,</div><div class="q1"> 23that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes,</div><div class="q2">while the tongues of your dogs have their share.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 24Your procession, God, has come into view,</div><div class="q2">the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.</div><div class="q1"> 25In front are the singers, after them the musicians;</div><div class="q2">with them are the young women playing the timbrels.</div><div class="q1"> 26Praise God in the great congregation;</div><div class="q2">praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 27There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them,</div><div class="q2">there the great throng of Judah&#8217;s princes,</div><div class="q2">and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 28Summon your power, God#68:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts Your God has summoned power for you;</div><div class="q2">show us your strength, our God, as you have done before.</div><div class="q1"> 29Because of your temple at Jerusalem</div><div class="q2">kings will bring you gifts.</div><div class="q1"> 30Rebuke the beast among the reeds,</div><div class="q2">the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations.</div><div class="q1">Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver.</div><div class="q2">Scatter the nations who delight in war.</div><div class="q1"> 31Envoys will come from Egypt;</div><div class="q2">Cush#68:31 That is, the upper Nile region will submit herself to God.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 32Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth,</div><div class="q2">sing praise to the Lord,</div><div class="q1"> 33to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,</div><div class="q2">who thunders with mighty voice.</div><div class="q1"> 34Proclaim the power of God,</div><div class="q2">whose majesty is over Israel,</div><div class="q2">whose power is in the heavens.</div><div class="q1"> 35You, God, are awesome in your sanctuary;</div><div class="q2">the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">Praise be to God!</div>
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 <div class="p">16The Lord said to Moses: &#8220;Bring me seventy of Israel&#8217;s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 17I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.</div><div class="p"> 18&#8220;Tell the people: &#8216;Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you wailed, &#8220;If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!&#8221; Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat it. 19You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, 20but for a whole month&#8212;until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it&#8212;because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, &#8220;Why did we ever leave Egypt?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21But Moses said, &#8220;Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, &#8216;I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!&#8217; 22Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 23The Lord answered Moses, &#8220;Is the Lord&#8217;s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 24So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. 25Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied&#8212;but did not do so again.</div><div class="p"> 26However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. 27A young man ran and told Moses, &#8220;Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 28Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses&#8217; aide since youth, spoke up and said, &#8220;Moses, my lord, stop them!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 29But Moses replied, &#8220;Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord&#8217;s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!&#8221; 30Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.</div><div class="p"> 31Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits#11:31 That is, about 3 feet or about 90 centimeters deep all around the camp, as far as a day&#8217;s walk in any direction. 32All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers.#11:32 That is, possibly about 1 3/4 tons or about 1.6 metric tons Then they spread them out all around the camp. 33But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. 34Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah,#11:34 Kibroth Hattaavah means graves of craving. because there they buried the people who had craved other food.</div><div class="p"> 35From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.</div>
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 <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1">Faith in Action</div><div class="p"> 1Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for.</div><div class="p"> 3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God&#8217;s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.</div><div class="p"> 4By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.</div><div class="p"> 5By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: &#8220;He could not be found, because God had taken him away.&#8221;#11:5 Gen. 5:24 For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.</div><div class="p"> 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.</div><div class="p"> 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she#11:11 Or By faith Abraham, even though he was too old to have children&#8212;and Sarah herself was not able to conceive&#8212;was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.</div><div class="p"> 13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country&#8212;a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.</div><div class="p"> 17By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18even though God had said to him, &#8220;It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.&#8221;#11:18 Gen. 21:12 19Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.</div><div class="p"> 20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.</div><div class="p"> 21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph&#8217;s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.</div><div class="p"> 22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.</div><div class="p"> 23By faith Moses&#8217; parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king&#8217;s edict.</div><div class="p"> 24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter. 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king&#8217;s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.</div><div class="p"> 29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.</div><div class="p"> 30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.</div><div class="p"> 31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.#11:31 Or unbelieving</div><div class="p"> 32And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, 33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37They were put to death by stoning;#11:37 Some early manuscripts stoning; they were put to the test; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated&#8212; 38the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.</div><div class="p"> 39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.</div>
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