Baramhat 24, 1744

1Hear a just cause, O LORD, Attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer which is not from deceitful lips.

2Let my vindication come from Your presence; Let Your eyes look on the things that are upright.

3You have tested my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me and have found nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4Concerning the works of men, By the word of Your lips, I have kept away from the paths of the destroyer.

5Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.

6I have called upon You, for You will hear me, O God; Incline Your ear to me, and hear my speech.

7Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand, O You who save those who trust in You From those who rise up against them.

8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

9From the wicked who oppress me, From my deadly enemies who surround me.

10They have closed up their fat hearts; With their mouths they speak proudly.

11They have now surrounded us in our steps; They have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth,

12As a lion is eager to tear his prey, And like a young lion lurking in secret places.

13Arise, O LORD, Confront him, cast him down; Deliver my life from the wicked with Your sword,

14With Your hand from men, O LORD, From men of the world who have their portion in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your hidden treasure. They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their possession for their babes.

15As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.

22And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.

23Then one said to Him, "Lord, are there few who are saved?" And He said to them,

24"Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, "Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you, "I do not know you, where you are from,'

26then you will begin to say, "We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.'

27But He will say, "I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.'

28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

29They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

30And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last."

31On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, "Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You."

32And He said to them, "Go, tell that fox, "Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.'

33Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

34"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

35See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!"'

1Vindicate me, O LORD, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip.

2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart.

3For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.

4I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites.

5I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.

6I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,

7That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, And tell of all Your wondrous works.

8LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place where Your glory dwells.

9Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

10In whose hands is a sinister scheme, And whose right hand is full of bribes.

11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be merciful to me.

12My foot stands in an even place; In the congregations I will bless the LORD.

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,

2saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

3Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.

4For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.

6They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

7greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, "Rabbi, Rabbi.'

8But you, do not be called "Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren.

9Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

10And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.

11But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

12And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

13"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

15"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

16"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, "Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.'

17Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

18And, "Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.'

19Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

20Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

21He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it.

22And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

25"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

26Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

30and say, "If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

31"Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

33Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

34Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

37"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

38See! Your house is left to you desolate;

39for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!"'

5Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

7in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

8But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

10and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

11where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

12Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

13bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

14But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

14Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

15And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.

17All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

18We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

1Blessed is he who considers the poor; The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

22Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him.

23So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

24And he looked up and said, "I see men like trees, walking."

25Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly.

26Then He sent him away to his house, saying, "Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town."