How to Be Perfect, Fully Equipped for Every
Good Work
God Has Spoken in Your Favor!
By Riqui Ricón*
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting
and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2
Timothy 3:16–17, NIV)Today I ask our Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit, who lives in
you, to help you never underestimate the importance of the Bible’s role in your
life. I pray that you make studying and meditating on the Word of God the most relevant
part of every day.
I know you work or study; that your days start very early; that you have to care for
your family, carry out your projects, provide
for your household, and barely have enough
time to finish everything that needs to be done each day.
However,
for all of this you need wisdom and guidance, strength and healing, restoration and prosperity, as
well as peace and joy. All of this you can only obtain from the Word of God.
Therefore my people are taken away
for lack of knowledge, and their glory is wasted for lack of understanding. Their
breath is taken away, and they stumble in hunger. (Isaiah
5:13, NIV)
Many born-again children of God, honest and sincere
believers, constantly stumble in the face of the world’s
troubles and fail to experience the peace that a
victorious life should bring.
I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world. (John 16:33, CST)
It is in the Bible, the Word of God, that
the answers to every need and challenge you will face today are found. In it is
the wisdom and guidance to make the right decisions. Only from the Bible flow the joy and peace that are your right as a born-again child of
God.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path… The
unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple…
Great peace have those
who love your law, and nothing causes them to stumble… I have chosen your
precepts as a heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart. (Psalm 119:105, 130, 165, 111, NIV)
Daily reading and meditation on the Bible will bring light to your
path, illuminate your understanding, bring peace to your life, and prevent you
from stumbling. The Bible is your true inheritance, and it will bring joy to your heart.
Then
Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him: If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free. (John 8:31–32, NIV)
The Bible is the only Truth that can make you free!
We also have the prophetic word
that is the most reliable. You do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining
in a dark place, until the day dawns and the
morning star rises in your hearts, understanding this first: that no prophecy
of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation, because prophecy never
came by human will, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the
Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:19–21, NIV)
Always remember that even if God wanted to,
He cannot lie, because every word that comes from His mouth has the power to fulfill
itself—it is the Word
of God!
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, NIV)
So if the Bible says that God loves you so much that He chose to
give His own Son rather than lose you, then you can be completely and absolutely convinced that God loves you that way.
Since faith
comes from hearing
the Word of God, you can be certain that:
1.
By Love, you have been made a child of God.
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
2. You have already overcome
and will continue
to overcome because
God is with you.
Dear children, you are from God and have overcome
them, because the one
who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1
John 4:4, NIV)
3.
There is nothing
you cannot do well.
I can do all this through
him who gives me strength.
(Philippians 4:13, NIV)
4. Whatever illness,
distress, or trial
you face today, God is the one who
guards and protects you in all adversity.
The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your
shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon
by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. (Psalm
121:5–8, NIV)
We know that everyone born of God
does not continue in sin, for the one born of
God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them. (1 John 5:18,
NIV)
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and
your staff, they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4, NIV)
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for the Truth of Your Word, which is Christ Jesus,
my Lord and Savior. I commit to making this day
the best of my days because I have Your Word to guide me. I repent
of all my sins and ask Your forgiveness, especially for giving place
to doubt and fear.
According to Your Word, the Bible, today I
declare that I am healed of every illness; I am prosperous before poverty and
lack; I am free to live the full and abundant life that You, Lord Jesus, won
for me. I will read and meditate on Your Word every day of my life and will treasure it in my heart so that I can
do everything written in it. Then I will prosper in my ways,
and everything I do will succeed. I will not fear; I will only
believe. There is no problem, distress, or illness from which I will not emerge more than victorious
through Your love. In the name of
Jesus, Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ,
who is now your Older Brother. Therefore, I give you these three, very
important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 7 2 Timothy 3 / Jeremiah 9-10 / Psalm
123
2 Timothy
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers
of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate
concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed
no further: for their folly
shall be manifest
unto all men, as their's also
was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner
of life, purpose,
faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions,
afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being
deceived.
14 But continue
thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou
hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures, which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture
is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Jeremiah
9
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place
of wayfaring men; that I might
leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of
treacherous men.
3 And they bend
their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother:
for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk
with slanders.
5 And they will deceive
every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth:
they have taught their tongue
to speak lies,
and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through
deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter
of my people?
8 Their tongue is
as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour
with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains
will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness
a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and
the beast are fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may
declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness,
that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken
my law which I set before
them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter
them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed
them.
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Consider ye, and call for the mourning
women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may
come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing
for us, that our eyes may
run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of
wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because
our dwellings have cast us
out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women,
and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows,
and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and
the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the
open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man
glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that
I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children
of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these
nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the
heart.
10 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people
are vain: for one cutteth
a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright
as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs
be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot
do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O
LORD; thou art great, and thy
name is great in might.
7 Who would not
fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations,
and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish:
the stock is a doctrine
of vanities.
9 Silver spread
into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman,
and of the hands of the founder:
blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of
cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the
living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not be able to abide his
indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens
and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under
these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there
is a multitude of waters
in the heavens, and he causeth
the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish
in his knowledge: every founder
is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors:
in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16 The portion
of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is
the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his
name.
17 Gather up thy wares
out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at
this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt!
my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief,
and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone
forth of me, and they are not: there is none
to stretch forth my tent any more,
and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors
are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall
be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit
is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct
me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out thy fury
upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured
him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Psalm
123 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters,
and as the eyes of a maiden
unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the
LORD
our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning
of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
God Has Spoken in Your Favor!
By Riqui Ricón*
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16–17, NIV)
Today I ask our Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit, who lives in
you, to help you never underestimate the importance of the Bible’s role in your
life. I pray that you make studying and meditating on the Word of God the most relevant
part of every day.
I know you work or study; that your days start very early; that you have to care for
your family, carry out your projects, provide
for your household, and barely have enough
time to finish everything that needs to be done each day.
However,
for all of this you need wisdom and guidance, strength and healing, restoration and prosperity, as
well as peace and joy. All of this you can only obtain from the Word of God.
Therefore my people are taken away
for lack of knowledge, and their glory is wasted for lack of understanding. Their
breath is taken away, and they stumble in hunger. (Isaiah
5:13, NIV)
Many born-again children of God, honest and sincere
believers, constantly stumble in the face of the world’s
troubles and fail to experience the peace that a
victorious life should bring.
I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world. (John 16:33, CST)
It is in the Bible, the Word of God, that
the answers to every need and challenge you will face today are found. In it is
the wisdom and guidance to make the right decisions. Only from the Bible flow the joy and peace that are your right as a born-again child of
God.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path… The
unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple…
Great peace have those
who love your law, and nothing causes them to stumble… I have chosen your
precepts as a heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart. (Psalm 119:105, 130, 165, 111, NIV)
Daily reading and meditation on the Bible will bring light to your
path, illuminate your understanding, bring peace to your life, and prevent you
from stumbling. The Bible is your true inheritance, and it will bring joy to your heart.
Then
Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him: If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free. (John 8:31–32, NIV)
The Bible is the only Truth that can make you free!
We also have the prophetic word
that is the most reliable. You do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining
in a dark place, until the day dawns and the
morning star rises in your hearts, understanding this first: that no prophecy
of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation, because prophecy never
came by human will, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the
Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:19–21, NIV)
Always remember that even if God wanted to,
He cannot lie, because every word that comes from His mouth has the power to fulfill
itself—it is the Word
of God!
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, NIV)
So if the Bible says that God loves you so much that He chose to
give His own Son rather than lose you, then you can be completely and absolutely convinced that God loves you that way.
Since faith
comes from hearing
the Word of God, you can be certain that:
1.
By Love, you have been made a child of God.
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
2. You have already overcome
and will continue
to overcome because
God is with you.
Dear children, you are from God and have overcome
them, because the one
who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1
John 4:4, NIV)
3.
There is nothing
you cannot do well.
I can do all this through
him who gives me strength.
(Philippians 4:13, NIV)
4. Whatever illness,
distress, or trial
you face today, God is the one who
guards and protects you in all adversity.
The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your
shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon
by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. (Psalm
121:5–8, NIV)
We know that everyone born of God
does not continue in sin, for the one born of
God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them. (1 John 5:18,
NIV)
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and
your staff, they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4, NIV)
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for the Truth of Your Word, which is Christ Jesus,
my Lord and Savior. I commit to making this day
the best of my days because I have Your Word to guide me. I repent
of all my sins and ask Your forgiveness, especially for giving place
to doubt and fear.
According to Your Word, the Bible, today I
declare that I am healed of every illness; I am prosperous before poverty and
lack; I am free to live the full and abundant life that You, Lord Jesus, won
for me. I will read and meditate on Your Word every day of my life and will treasure it in my heart so that I can
do everything written in it. Then I will prosper in my ways,
and everything I do will succeed. I will not fear; I will only
believe. There is no problem, distress, or illness from which I will not emerge more than victorious
through Your love. In the name of
Jesus, Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ,
who is now your Older Brother. Therefore, I give you these three, very
important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 7 2 Timothy 3 / Jeremiah 9-10 / Psalm
123
2 Timothy
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers
of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate
concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed
no further: for their folly
shall be manifest
unto all men, as their's also
was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner
of life, purpose,
faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions,
afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being
deceived.
14 But continue
thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou
hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures, which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture
is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Jeremiah
9
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place
of wayfaring men; that I might
leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of
treacherous men.
3 And they bend
their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother:
for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk
with slanders.
5 And they will deceive
every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth:
they have taught their tongue
to speak lies,
and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through
deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter
of my people?
8 Their tongue is
as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour
with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains
will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness
a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and
the beast are fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may
declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness,
that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken
my law which I set before
them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter
them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed
them.
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Consider ye, and call for the mourning
women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may
come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing
for us, that our eyes may
run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of
wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because
our dwellings have cast us
out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women,
and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows,
and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and
the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the
open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man
glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that
I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children
of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these
nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the
heart.
10 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people
are vain: for one cutteth
a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright
as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs
be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot
do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O
LORD; thou art great, and thy
name is great in might.
7 Who would not
fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations,
and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish:
the stock is a doctrine
of vanities.
9 Silver spread
into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman,
and of the hands of the founder:
blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of
cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the
living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not be able to abide his
indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens
and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under
these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there
is a multitude of waters
in the heavens, and he causeth
the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish
in his knowledge: every founder
is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors:
in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16 The portion
of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is
the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his
name.
17 Gather up thy wares
out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at
this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt!
my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief,
and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone
forth of me, and they are not: there is none
to stretch forth my tent any more,
and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors
are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall
be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit
is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct
me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out thy fury
upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured
him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Psalm
123 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters,
and as the eyes of a maiden
unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the
LORD
our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning
of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
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