Monday, August 23, 2021
Lamentations 5
1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look, and
see our disgrace. 2Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
our homes to foreigners. 3We have become orphans and fatherless, our
mothers like widows. 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood can
be had only at a price. 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we
are weary and find no rest. 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to
get enough bread. 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear
their punishment. 8Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us
from their hands. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because
of the sword in the desert. 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish
from hunger. 11Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the
towns of Judah. 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders
are shown no respect. 13Young men toil at the millstones; boys
stagger under loads of wood. 14The elders are gone from the city
gate; the young men have stopped their music. 15Joy is gone from our
hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. 16The crown has fallen
from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! 17Because of this our
hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim 18for
Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
19You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from
generation to generation. 20Why do you always forget us? Why do you
forsake us so long? 21Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may
return; renew our days as of old 22unless you have utterly rejected
us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Psalm
52
1For the
director of music. A [maskil] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul
and told him: "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech." Why do you
boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a
disgrace in the eyes of God? 2Your tongue plots destruction; it is
like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit. 3You love evil
rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. [Selah] 4You
love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue! 5Surely God will
bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from
your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah] 6The
righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at him, saying, 7"Here
now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great
wealth and grew strong by destroying others!" 8But I am like an
olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for
ever and ever. 9I will praise you forever for what you have done; in
your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence
of your saints.
Colossians
2:16–23
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you
eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or
a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come;
the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who
delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the
prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his
unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. 19He has lost
connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together
by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
20Since you died with Christ to the basic principles
of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its
rules: 21"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22These
are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands
and teachings. 23Such regulations indeed have an appearance of
wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh
treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual
indulgence.
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