1 Chronicles 16

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The Ark Placed in a Tent

16 And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside ^(A)the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. ²And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord ³and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat,^[a] and a cake of raisins.

⁴Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁵^(B)Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals, ⁶and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God. ⁷Then on that day ^(C)David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

David's Song of Thanks

⁸^(D)Oh give thanks to the Lord; ^(E)call upon his name;
    ^(F)make known his deeds among the peoples!
⁹Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    tell of all his wondrous works!
¹⁰Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
¹¹^(G)Seek the Lord and his strength;
    seek his presence continually!
¹²^(H)Remember the wondrous works that he has done,
    ^(I)his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
¹³O offspring of Israel his servant,
    children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

¹⁴He is the Lord our God;
    ^(J)his judgments are in all the earth.
¹⁵Remember his covenant forever,
    the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
¹⁶the covenant ^(K)that he made with Abraham,
    his sworn promise to Isaac,
¹⁷which ^(L)he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹⁸saying, ^(M)“To you I will give the land of Canaan,
    as your portion for an inheritance.”

¹⁹When you were ^(N)few in number,
    of little account, and ^(O)sojourners in it,
²⁰wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
²¹he allowed no one to oppress them;
    he ^(P)rebuked kings on their account,
²²saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
    do my ^(Q)prophets no harm!”

²³^(R)Sing to the Lord, all the earth!
    Tell of his salvation from day to day.
²⁴Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous works among all the peoples!
²⁵For ^(S)great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
    and he is to be feared ^(T)above all gods.
²⁶For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,
    ^(U)but the Lord made the heavens.
²⁷Splendor and majesty are before him;
    strength and joy are in his place.

²⁸Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
    ^(V)ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
²⁹Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering and come before him!
^(W)Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;^[b]
³⁰    tremble before him, all the earth;
    yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
³¹^(X)Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,
    and let them say among the nations, ^(Y)“The Lord reigns!”
³²^(Z)Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
    let the field exult, and everything in it!
³³Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy
    before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
³⁴Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
    for his steadfast love endures forever!

³⁵^(AA)Say also:

“Save us, O God of our salvation,
    and gather and deliver us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.
³⁶^(AB)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
    from everlasting to everlasting!”

^(AC)Then all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

Worship Before the Ark

³⁷So David left Asaph and his brothers there ^(AD)before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the ark ^(AE)as each day required, ³⁸and also ^(AF)Obed-edom and his^[c] sixty-eight brothers, while ^(AG)Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and ^(AH)Hosah were to be gatekeepers. ³⁹And he left ^(AI)Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord ^(AJ)in the high place that was at Gibeon ⁴⁰to offer burnt offerings to the Lord ^(AK)on the altar of burnt offering ^(AL)regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel. ⁴¹With them were ^(AM)Heman and Jeduthun ^(AN)and the rest of those chosen and ^(AO)expressly named to give thanks to the Lord, ^(AP)for his steadfast love endures forever. ⁴²Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments ^(AQ)for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.

⁴³^(AR)Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.

Footnotes

1 Chronicles 16:3 Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
1 Chronicles 16:29 Or in holy attire
1 Chronicles 16:38 Hebrew their

Psalm 42

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

42 ^(B)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
²^(C)My soul thirsts for God,
    for ^(D)the living God.
When shall I come and ^(E)appear before God?^[b]
³^(F)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
^(G)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”
⁴These things I remember,
    as I ^(H)pour out my soul:
^(I)how I would go ^(J)with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    ^(K)a multitude keeping festival.

⁵^(L)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you ^(M)in turmoil within me?
^(N)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation^[c] ⁶and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I ^(O)remember you
^(P)from the land of Jordan and of ^(Q)Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
⁷Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
^(R)all your breakers and your ^(S)waves
    have gone over me.
⁸By day the Lord ^(T)commands his steadfast love,
    and at ^(U)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹I say to God, ^(V)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
^(W)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
^(X)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

¹¹^(Y)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

Footnotes

Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God
Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

Psalm 44

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Come to Our Help

To the choirmaster. ^(A)A Maskil^[a] of the Sons of Korah.

44 O God, we have heard with our ears,
    ^(B)our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
    ^(C)in the days of old:
²you with your own hand ^(D)drove out the nations,
    but ^(E)them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
    but ^(F)them you set free;
³for not ^(G)by their own sword did they win the land,
    nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
    and ^(H)the light of your face,
    ^(I)for you delighted in them.

⁴^(J)You are my King, O God;
    ^(K)ordain salvation for Jacob!
⁵Through you we ^(L)push down our foes;
    through your name we ^(M)tread down those who rise up against us.
⁶For not in ^(N)my bow do I trust,
    nor can my sword save me.
⁷But you have saved us from our foes
    and have ^(O)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸^(P)In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

⁹But you have ^(Q)rejected us and disgraced us
    and ^(R)have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰You have made us ^(S)turn back from the foe,
    and those who hate us have gotten spoil.
¹¹You have made us like ^(T)sheep for slaughter
    and have ^(U)scattered us among the nations.
¹²^(V)You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.
¹³You have made us ^(W)the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and ^(X)scorn of those around us.
¹⁴You have made us ^(Y)a byword among the nations,
    ^(Z)a laughingstock^[b] among the peoples.
¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and ^(AA)shame has covered my face
¹⁶at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
    at the sight of ^(AB)the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷^(AC)All this has come upon us,
    though we have not forgotten you,
    and we have not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our ^(AD)steps ^(AE)departed from your way;
¹⁹yet you have ^(AF)broken us in the place of ^(AG)jackals
    and covered us with ^(AH)the shadow of death.
²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or ^(AI)spread out our hands to ^(AJ)a foreign god,
²¹^(AK)would not God discover this?
    ^(AL)For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²²Yet ^(AM)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³^(AN)Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
    Rouse yourself! ^(AO)Do not reject us forever!
²⁴Why ^(AP)do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵For our ^(AQ)soul is bowed down to the dust;
    our belly clings to the ground.
²⁶Rise up; ^(AR)come to our help!
    ^(AS)Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!

Footnotes

Psalm 44:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

1 Corinthians 10:1-18

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Warning Against Idolatry

10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,^[a] that our fathers were all under ^(A)the cloud, and all ^(B)passed through the sea, ²and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³and ^(C)all ate the same ^(D)spiritual food, ⁴and ^(E)all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. ⁵Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for ^(F)they were overthrown^[b] in the wilderness.

⁶Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^(G)they did. ⁷^(H)Do not be idolaters ^(I)as some of them were; as it is written, ^(J)“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ⁸^(K)We must not indulge in sexual immorality ^(L)as some of them did, and ^(M)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. ⁹We must not put Christ^[c] to the test, ^(N)as some of them did and ^(O)were destroyed by serpents, ¹⁰nor grumble, ^(P)as some of them did and ^(Q)were destroyed by ^(R)the Destroyer. ¹¹Now these things happened to them as an example, but ^(S)they were written down for our instruction, ^(T)on whom the end of the ages has come. ¹²Therefore ^(U)let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. ^(V)God is faithful, and ^(W)he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

¹⁴Therefore, my beloved, ^(X)flee from idolatry. ¹⁵I speak ^(Y)as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ¹⁶^(Z)The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? ^(AA)The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷Because there is one bread, we who are many are ^(AB)one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸Consider ^(AC)the people of Israel:^[d] ^(AD)are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?