1   Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised            in the city of our God.       His holy mountain, 2beautiful in elevation,            is the joy of all the earth,       Mount Zion, in the far north,            the city of the great King.  3   Within its citadels God            has shown himself a sure defense. 4   Then the kings assembled,            they came…

29After Jesus had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat down. 30Great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them, 31so that the crowd was…

21Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,       “With such violence Babylon the great city            will be thrown down,            and will be found no more;  22  and the sound of harpists and minstrels and of flutists and trumpeters            will be heard in you no more; …

7:73bWhen the seventh month came — the people of Israel being settled in their towns — 8:1all the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had given to Israel. 2Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before…

“It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.”

To you I lift up my eyes,            O you who are enthroned in the heavens!  2   As the eyes of servants            look to the hand of their master,       as the eyes of a maid            to the hand of her mistress,       so our eyes look to the LORD our God,            until he has mercy upon us. 3   Have…

21Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him,…

9And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning; 10they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,       “Alas, alas, the great city,            Babylon, the mighty city!       For in one hour your judgment…

26“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies. 27Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their…

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