Old Testament
Psa 65:1~68:35
Ps 65
1 Praise befits You, O God, in Zion; / And to You is the vow paid.
2 O You who hear prayer, / To You all flesh comes.
3 Iniquities prevail against me; / As for our transgressions, You make propitiation for them.
4 Blessed is he whom You have chosen and bring near / To dwell in Your courts. / We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, / Of Your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, / O God of our salvation, / You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth / And of the remotest sea;
6 Who established the mountains in His strength, / Girded with might;
7 Who stilled the roaring of the seas, / The roaring of their billows, / And the tumult of the peoples.
8 And they who dwell in the uttermost parts / Are afraid of Your signs; / You make the exitways of the morning and the evening / Shout for joy.
9 You visit the earth and water it; / You enrich it greatly: / The river of God is full of water. / You provide men grain, for so You have prepared the earth.
10 Saturating its furrows, settling its ridges, / You soften it with showers; / You bless its sprouting forth.
11 You place a crown on a year with Your goodness, / And Your wagon tracks drop fatness;
12 The wilderness pastures overflow, / And the hills gird themselves with exultation.
13 The meadows are clothed with the flock, / And the valleys cover themselves in grain; / They shout for joy; indeed they sing.
Ps 66
1 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
2 Sing forth the glory of His name; / Make glorious His praise.
3 Say to God, How awesome are Your deeds! / Because of the greatness of Your strength, Your enemies come cringing to You.
4 All the earth will worship You / And sing psalms to You; / They will sing psalms to Your name. Selah
5 Come and see the works of God; / He is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land; / Through the river they crossed on foot. / There we rejoiced in Him.
7 He rules by His might forever; / His eyes observe the nations: / Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
8 Bless our God, O peoples; / And make the voice of His praise heard,
9 Who has kept our soul in life / And does not allow our feet to slip.
10 For You have tried us, O God; / You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You have brought us into the net; / You have put a heavy burden on our loins.
12 You have made men ride over our heads; / We have gone through fire and water; / But You have brought us forth into abundance.
13 I will come into Your house with burnt offerings; / I will pay my vows to You,
14 Which my lips uttered / And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.
15 I will offer to You burnt offerings of fatlings / With the smoke of rams; / I will offer cattle with goats. Selah
16 Come, hear, all you who fear God, / And I will recount what He has done for my soul.
17 To Him I called out with my mouth, / And He was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regarded iniquity in my heart, / The Lord did not hear.
19 But indeed God has heard; / He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, / Who has not turned my prayer away / Nor His lovingkindness from me.
Ps 67
1 God be gracious to us and bless us; / May He make His face shine upon us; Selah
2 That Your way may be known on earth, / And Your salvation among all the nations.
3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; / Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
4 Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy, / For You will judge the peoples equitably / And will guide the nations on the earth. Selah
5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; / Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
6 The earth has yielded its increase; / God, our God, blesses us.
7 God blesses us; / And all the ends of the earth will fear Him.
Ps 68
1 Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered; / And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
2 As smoke is driven away, You will drive them away; / As wax melts before fire, / The wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will rejoice; they will exult before God / And be glad with rejoicing.
4 Sing to God; sing psalms to His name; / Triumph in Him who rides through the deserts — / For Jah is His name — and exult before Him.
5 A Father to the orphans and a Judge for the widows / Is God in His holy habitation.
6 God causes the solitary to dwell in a household; / He brings the prisoners forth into prosperity; / But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You went forth before Your people, / When You marched through the desert, Selah
8 The earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, / At the presence of God; / Sinai there quaked / At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You shed forth bountiful rain, O God; / You confirmed Your inheritance when it languished.
10 Your living flock dwelt in the land; / In Your goodness You provided for the poor, O God.
11 The Lord gives the command; / The women who bear the glad tidings are a great host.
12 The kings of the armies flee. / They flee! / And she who abides at home / Divides the spoil.
13 Though you lie among the sheepfolds, / There are dove wings covered with silver, / And its pinions, with greenish-yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered / The kings in the land, / It snowed on Zalmon.
15 O mighty mountain, O mountain of Bashan, / O many-peaked mountain, O mountain of Bashan:
16 Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountains, / At the mountain on which God desires to dwell? / Indeed Jehovah will dwell there forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, / Thousands upon thousands; / The Lord is among them, / As at Sinai, in the sanctuary.
18 You have ascended on high; You have led captive those taken captive; / You have received gifts among men, / Even the rebellious ones also, / That Jehovah God may dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; / God is our salvation. Selah
20 God is to us / A God of deliverance, / And with Jehovah the Lord / Are the goings forth even from death.
21 Indeed God will smash / The head of His enemies, / The hairy crown / Of him who goes about in his guiltiness.
22 The Lord said, I will bring them again from Bashan; / I will bring them again from the depths of the sea,
23 That you may bathe your foot in blood, / That the tongue of your dogs may have their portion from the enemies.
24 They have seen Your goings, O God, / The goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary:
25 Singers go before; players after; / In the midst of virgins sounding the tambourines.
26 Bless God in the congregations, / Even Jehovah, O you who are of the fountain of Israel.
27 There are little Benjamin, who rules them, / And the princes of Judah in their company, / The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength; / Strengthen, O God, that which You have done for us.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, / Kings will bring a gift to You.
30 Rebuke the animals of the reeds, / The herd of the bulls among the calves of the peoples, / Trampling on those who lust after silver; / Scatter the peoples who take delight in war.
31 Nobles will come out of Egypt; / Cush will quickly stretch out its hands to God.
32 O kingdoms of the earth, / Sing to God, / Sing psalms to the Lord, Selah
33 To Him who rides upon the ancient heaven of heavens. / Behold, He utters His voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God; / His excellence is over Israel, / And His strength is in the skies.
35 You are awesome, O God, from Your sanctuaries. / The God of Israel, He gives strength and power to the people. / Blessed be God!
New Testament
Rom 15:14~16:27
Rom 15
14 But I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15 But I have written the more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you of them again because of the grace given to me by God
16 That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not accomplished through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and by work,
19 In the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ,
20 But have done so aspiring to announce the gospel not where Christ has been named, so that I would not build upon another’s foundation;
21 But as it is written, “ They will see, they to whom nothing concerning Him was announced; and those who have not heard will understand.”
22 For this reason also I have been hindered these many times from coming to you.
23 But now I no longer have place in these regions and have had a desire since many years ago to come to you
24 Whenever I may go to Spain, for I hope to see you in passing and be sent forward there by you, if first I am filled, at least in part, by your company.
25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
27 For they were pleased to do it, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to do service to them in material things.
28 When therefore I have finished this and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
29 And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
30 Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
31 That I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
32 So that coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may refresh myself and rest with you.
33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Rom 16
1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea,
2 That you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been the patroness of many, of myself as well.
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
4 Who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;
5 And greet the church, which is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Asia unto Christ.
6 Greet Mary, one who has labored much for you.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
10 Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those of the household of Aristobulus.
11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved sister, one who has labored much in the Lord.
13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother as well as mine.
14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.
15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.
16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17 Now I exhort you, brothers, to mark those who make divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and turn away from them.
18 For such men do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and through smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil.
20 Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as well as Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
22 I, Tertius, who write this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus the brother.
24 See note 24 .
25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, that is, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which has been kept in silence in the times of the ages
26 But has now been manifested, and through the prophetic writings, according to the command of the eternal God, has been made known to all the Gentiles for the obedience of faith;
27 To the only wise God through Jesus Christ, to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.