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8-10God, I love living with you;your house glows with your glory.When it’s time for spring cleaning,don’t sweep me out with the quacks and crooks,Men with bags of dirty tricks,women with purses stuffed with bribe-money.
1-9Shapely and graceful your sandaled feet,and queenly your movement—Your limbs are lithe and elegant,the work of a master artist.Your body is a chalice,wine-filled.Your skin is silken and tawnylike a field of wheat touched by the breeze.Your breasts are like fawns,twins of a gazelle.Your neck is carved ivory, curved and slender.Your eyes are wells of light, deep with mystery.Quintessentially feminine!Your profile turns all heads,commanding attention.The feelings I get when I see the high mountain ranges—stirrings of desire, longings for the heights—Remind me of you,and I’m spoiled for anyone else!Your beauty, within and without, is absolute,dear lover, close companion.You are tall and supple, like the palm tree,and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates.I say, "I’m going to climb that palm tree!I’m going to caress its fruit!"Oh yes! Your breastswill be clusters of sweet fruit to me,Your breath clean and cool like fresh mint,your tongue and lips like the best wine.
1-6"Human life is a struggle, isn’t it?It’s a life sentence to hard labor.Like field hands longing for quitting timeand working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday,I’m given a life that meanders and goes nowhere—months of aimlessness, nights of misery!I go to bed and think, ‘How long till I can get up?’I toss and turn as the night drags on—and I’m fed up!I’m covered with maggots and scabs.My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus.My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles,and then the yarn runs out—an unfinished life!
1-4Within five days, the Chief Priest Ananias arrived with a contingent of leaders, along with Tertullus, a trial lawyer. They presented the governor with their case against Paul. When Paul was called before the court, Tertullus spoke for the prosecution: "Most Honorable Felix, we are most grateful in all times and places for your wise and gentle rule. We are much aware that it is because of you and you alone that we enjoy all this peace and gain daily profit from your reforms. I’m not going to tire you out with a long speech. I beg your kind indulgence in listening to me. I’ll be quite brief.
5,6God is supremely esteemed. His center holds.Zion brims over with all that is just and right.God keeps your days stable and secure—salvation, wisdom, and knowledge in surplus,and best of all, Zion’s treasure, Fear-of-God.
1-6God’s Message came to me: "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherd-leaders of Israel. Yes, prophesy! Tell those shepherds, ‘God, the Master, says: Doom to you shepherds of Israel, feeding your own mouths! Aren’t shepherds supposed to feed sheep? You drink the milk, you make clothes from the wool, you roast the lambs, but you don’t feed the sheep. You don’t build up the weak ones, don’t heal the sick, don’t doctor the injured, don’t go after the strays, don’t look for the lost. You bully and badger them. And now they’re scattered every which way because there was no shepherd—scattered and easy pickings for wolves and coyotes. Scattered—my sheep!—exposed and vulnerable across mountains and hills. My sheep scattered all over the world, and no one out looking for them!
1-3Three days after Festus arrived in Caesarea to take up his duties as governor, he went up to Jerusalem. The high priests and top leaders renewed their vendetta against Paul. They asked Festus if he wouldn’t please do them a favor by sending Paul to Jerusalem to respond to their charges. A lie, of course—they had revived their old plot to set an ambush and kill him along the way.
2From the time that the Chest came to rest in Kiriath Jearim, a long time passed—twenty years it was—and throughout Israel there was a widespread, fearful movement toward God.
8,9At once, Moses fell to the ground and worshiped, saying, "Please, O Master, if you see anything good in me, please Master, travel with us, hard-headed as these people are. Forgive our iniquity and sin. Own us, possess us."
3,4But you, God, shield me on all sides;You ground my feet, you lift my head high;With all my might I shout up to God,His answers thunder from the holy mountain.
2,3"Who got things rolling here,got this champion from the east on the move?Who recruited him for this job,then rounded up and corralled the nationsso he could run roughshod over kings?He’s off and running,pulverizing nations into dust,leaving only stubble and chaff in his wake.He chases them and comes through unscathed,his feet scarcely touching the path.
4-11In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children?My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline,but don’t be crushed by it either.It’s the child he loves that he disciplines;the child he embraces, he also corrects.God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off big-time, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.
3-5Look, here he comes! God, from his place!He comes down and strides across mountains and hills.Mountains sink under his feet,valleys split apart;The rock mountains crumble into gravel,the river valleys leak like sieves.All this because of Jacob’s sin,because Israel’s family did wrong.You ask, "So what is Jacob’s sin?"Just look at Samaria—isn’t it obvious?And all the sex-and-religion shrines in Judah—isn’t Jerusalem responsible?* * *
1-5Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors. Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.
20-26"In famine, he’ll keep you from starving,in war, from being gutted by the sword.You’ll be protected from vicious gossipand live fearless through any catastrophe.You’ll shrug off disaster and famine,and stroll fearlessly among wild animals.You’ll be on good terms with rocks and mountains;wild animals will become your good friends.You’ll know that your place on earth is safe,you’ll look over your goods and find nothing amiss.You’ll see your children grow up,your family lovely and graceful as orchard grass.You’ll arrive at your grave ripe with many good years,like sheaves of golden grain at harvest.
5,6Ezra opened the book. Every eye was on him (he was standing on the raised platform) and as he opened the book everyone stood. Then Ezra praised God, the great God, and all the people responded, "Oh Yes! Yes!" with hands raised high. And then they fell to their knees in worship of God, their faces to the ground.
1-4Observe the month of Abib by celebrating the Passover to God, your God. It was in the month of Abib that God, your God, delivered you by night from Egypt. Offer the Passover-Sacrifice to God, your God, at the place God chooses to be worshiped by establishing his name there. Don’t eat yeast bread with it; for seven days eat it with unraised bread, hard-times bread, because you left Egypt in a hurry—that bread will keep the memory fresh of how you left Egypt for as long as you live. There is to be no sign of yeast anywhere for seven days. And don’t let any of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening be left over until morning.
3-5Rachel said, "Here’s my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her. Let her substitute for me so I can have a child through her and build a family." So she gave him her maid Bilhah for a wife and Jacob slept with her. Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
17Fed up, Jesus spun around and left the city for Bethany, where he spent the night.
7,8The leaders of Moab and Midian were soon on their way, with the fee for the cursing tucked safely in their wallets. When they got to Balaam, they gave him Balak’s message."Stay here for the night," Balaam said. "In the morning I’ll deliver the answer that God gives me."The Moabite nobles stayed with him.