Daily reading in version Bible American Standard - English
O Jehovah, thou art my God I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built.
Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.
For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
He hath swallowed up death for ever and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim but [Jehovah] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faith may enter in.
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee] because he trusteth in thee.
Trust ye in Jehovah for ever for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust.
The foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee to thy name, even to thy memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.
Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.
O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
[They are] dead, they shall not live [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Thy dead shall live my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh
and [having] a great priest over the house of God
let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not for he is faithful that promised:
and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another] and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses:
of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings
partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.
For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.