Daily reading in version Bible American Standard - English
Praise ye Jehovah. Praise, O ye servants of Jehovah, Praise the name of Jehovah.
Blessed be the name of Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore.
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.
Jehovah is high above all nations, And his glory above the heavens.
Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high,
That humbleth himself to behold [The things that are] in heaven and in the earth?
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill
That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.
When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language
Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled The Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams Ye little hills, like lambs?
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, But unto thy name give glory, For thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth's sake.
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?
But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever he pleased.
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
They have mouths, but they speak not Eyes have they, but they see not
They have ears, but they hear not Noses have they, but they smell not
They have hands, but they handle not Feet have they, but they walk not Neither speak they through their throat.
They that make them shall be like unto them Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield.
O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield.
Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield.
Jehovah hath been mindful of us He will bless [us]: He will bless the house of Israel He will bless the house of Aaron.
He will bless them that fear Jehovah, Both small and great.
Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.
Blessed are ye of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah But the earth hath he given to the children of men.
The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence
But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore. Praise ye Jehovah.
I love Jehovah, because he heareth My voice and my supplications.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call [upon him] as long as I live.
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous Yea, our God is merciful.
Jehovah preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, [And] my feet from falling.
I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.
I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
What shall I render unto Jehovah For all his benefits toward me?
I will take the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of Jehovah.
I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.
O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid Thou hast loosed my bonds.
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of Jehovah.
I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of Jehovah's house, In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
who are Israelites whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises
whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.
For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only so but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--
for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
[even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people And her beloved, that was not beloved.
And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.
And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.