Old Testament
Psa 46:1~49:20
Ps 46
1 God is our refuge and strength; / A help in distress, He is most readily found.
2 Therefore we will not fear, / Though the earth change, / And the mountains slip into the heart of the seas;
3 Though the waters of the sea roar and foam; / Though the mountains shake at its swelling. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, / The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved; / God helps her at the dawn of the morning.
6 The nations rage; the kingdoms are moved. / He utters His voice; the earth melts.
7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; / The God of Jacob is our high retreat. Selah
8 Come, see the works of Jehovah, / How He has made desolations on earth.
9 He makes wars cease unto the end of the earth; / He breaks the bow and cuts the spear to pieces; / He burns the war wagons with fire.
10 Be still and know that I am God. / I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted on earth.
11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; / The God of Jacob is our high retreat. Selah
Ps 47
1 Clap your hands, all you peoples; / Shout to God with the voice of a triumphant sound.
2 For Jehovah Most High is awesome: / A great King over all the earth.
3 He subdues peoples under us, / And nations under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us, / The excellency of Jacob, whom He loved. Selah
5 God ascends amidst shouting; / Jehovah, at the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing psalms to God, sing psalms; / Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
7 For God is the King of all the earth; / Sing psalms with understanding.
8 God reigns over the nations; / God sits upon His holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples have been gathered / As the people of the God of Abraham; / For the shields of the earth belong to God; / He is greatly exalted.
Ps 48
1 Great is Jehovah, / And much to be praised / In the city of our God, / In His holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, / The joy of the whole earth, / Is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, / The city of the great King.
3 God has made Himself known / In her palaces as a high retreat.
4 For, behold, the kings have assembled themselves; / They passed by together.
5 They saw; therefore they were astounded. / They were dismayed; they hurried off in alarm.
6 Trembling seized them there; / Writhing, like that of a woman in labor;
7 With an east wind You shattered / The ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, / So we have seen / In the city of Jehovah of hosts, / In the city of our God. / God will establish her forever. Selah
9 We consider, O God, Your lovingkindness / In the midst of Your temple.
10 As Your name is, O God, / So is Your praise / Unto the ends of the earth; / Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice; / Let the daughters of Judah exult / Because of Your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go around her; / Count her towers.
13 Consider carefully her bulwarks; / Pass between her palaces; / That you may recount it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God forever and ever. / He will guide us even unto death.
Ps 49
1 Hear this, all you peoples; / Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
2 Both low and high, / Rich and poor together;
3 My mouth will speak wisdom, / And the meditation of my heart will be that of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable; / I will disclose my riddle upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, / When the iniquity of those who supplant me surrounds me,
6 Those who trust in their wealth / And boast in the multitude of their riches?
7 None can by any means redeem his brother / Or give to God a ransom for him
8 (For the redemption of their soul is costly / And must be given up forever),
9 That he would yet live always / And not see corruption.
10 For he will see that wise men die; / The foolish one and the senseless one perish alike / And leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is that their houses will remain forever, / That their habitations will remain from generation to generation; / They call lands after their own names.
12 But man in honor does not remain; / He is like the beasts that perish.
13 Such is the way of those who are self-confident, / And of those after them who approve of their sayings. Selah
14 Like a flock, they are appointed for Sheol; / Death will shepherd them. / And straight to the grave they will descend, / And their form will be for Sheol to consume / That there be no abode for them.
15 But God will redeem my soul / From the power of Sheol, / For He will receive me. Selah
16 Do not fear when a man becomes rich, / When the glory of his house increases.
17 For when he dies, he will take nothing; / His glory will not descend after him.
18 Though he blessed his soul while he lived — / And men praise you when you do good for yourself —
19 It will go to the generation of his fathers; / They will never see light.
20 A man in honor but without understanding / Is like the beasts that perish.
New Testament
Rom 11:11~36
Rom 11
11 I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! But by their misstep salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 But if their misstep has become riches for the world, and their loss, riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 But I am speaking to you, the Gentiles. Inasmuch therefore as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
14 If perhaps I may provoke those of my flesh to jealousy and save some of them.
15 For if their being cast aside is the reconciliation of the world, what will their being received back be, if not life from the dead?
16 Now if the dough offered as the firstfruits is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are also.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the olive tree,
18 Do not boast against the branches; but if you boast, remember that it is not you who bear the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
20 Rightly said: they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear;
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but on you, the kindness of God, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree!
25 For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest you be wise in yourselves), that hardness has come upon Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in;
26 And thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “ The Deliverer will come out of Zion; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And this is the covenant from Me with them, when I take away their sins.”
28 According to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but according to the selection they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
29 For the gracious gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
31 So these also now have disobeyed, so that because of the mercy shown to you they also now may be shown mercy.
32 For God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has become His counselor?
35 Or who has first given to Him, and it will be repaid to him?
36 Because out from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.