Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Wednesday,
February 13, 2019
1Jacob also
went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2When Jacob saw
them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place
Mahanaim.
3Jacob sent
messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of
Edom. 4He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my
master Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have
remained there till now. 5I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and
goats, menservants and maidservants. Now I am sending this message to my lord,
that I may find favor in your eyes.' "
6When the
messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau,
and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
7In great
fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,
and the flocks and herds and camels as well. 8He thought, "If
Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."
9Then Jacob
prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who
said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you
prosper,' 10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you
have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but
now I have become two groups. 11Save me, I pray, from the hand of my
brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers
with their children. 12But you have said, 'I will surely make you
prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot
be counted.' "
13He spent
the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his
brother Esau: 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two
hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty female camels with their
young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male
donkeys. 16He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by
itself, and said to his servants, "Go ahead of me, and keep some space
between the herds."
17He
instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks,
'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals
in front of you?' 18then you are to say, 'They belong to your
servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind
us.' "
19He also
instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds:
"You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 20And
be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' " For he
thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later,
when I see him, perhaps he will receive me." 21So Jacob's gifts
went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
22That night
Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons
and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23After he had sent them across
the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24So Jacob was left
alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25When the man saw
that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that
his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26Then the man
said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go
unless you bless me."
27The man
asked him, "What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
28Then the
man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have
struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
29Jacob
said, "Please tell me your name."
But he replied, "Why do you ask my
name?" Then he blessed him there.
30So Jacob
called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face,
and yet my life was spared."
31The sun
rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. 32Therefore
to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the
hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
Psalm
42
1For the
director of music. A [maskil] of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for
streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2My soul thirsts
for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3My
tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long,
"Where is your God?" 4These things I remember as I pour
out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the
house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. 5Why
are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6my God. My soul is
downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the
heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. 7Deep calls to deep in the roar
of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By
day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the
God of my life. 9I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten
me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" 10My
bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long,
"Where is your God?" 11Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my
Savior and my God.
Matthew
21:1–17
1As they
approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent
two disciples, 2saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of
you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie
them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, tell him
that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away."
4This took
place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5"Say
to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a
donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "
6The
disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7They brought
the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. 8A
very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches
from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went
ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
"Hosanna to the Son of David!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in
the highest!"
10When Jesus
entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, "Who is
this?"
11The crowds
answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee."
12Jesus
entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He
overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling
doves. 13"It is written," he said to them, " 'My
house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.'
"
14The blind
and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15But
when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he
did and the children shouting in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of
David," they were indignant.
16"Do
you hear what these children are saying?" they asked him.
"Yes," replied Jesus, "have you
never read, " 'From the lips of children and infants you have ordained
praise'?"
17And he
left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
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