What Do You Need to Become a Child of God?
Forgiveness of Sins and Eternal Life!
By Riqui RicónSurely it was for my benefit
that I suffered such anguish.
In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you
have put all my sins behind your back. (Isaiah
38:17, NIV)
How beautiful it is to know, without
a single doubt, that God Almighty loves you. He loves you so much that He
chose to give His own Son, Jesus Christ, rather than lose you.
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)
That’s right, beloved,
in Christ Jesus the Justice
of God was satisfied, and you
were set free from the pit of corruption—death itself—because God has cast all your sins behind His back.
For I will forgive
their wickedness and will remember
their sins no more.
(Jeremiah 31:34b, NIV)
Two powerful and sublime aspects
of God’s Love for you are:
1. Jesus has set you free from the power that death had over you, for now
you have Eternal Life:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ
Jesus our Lord. (Romans
6:23, KJV)
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. (John 3:16, NIV)
2.
God is not focused
on your sins but on you, which is why He is more than willing to forgive and forget all
your offenses.
“The days are coming,” declares the
Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the
people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because
they broke my covenant, though
I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “This is the
covenant I will make with the people of
Israel after
that time,” declares
the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and
write it on their
hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No
longer will they teach their
neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will
remember their sins no more.” (Jeremiah
31:31–34, NIV)
Eternal Life is the added value to the true gift God gives you, which you receive
the very moment you place your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
According to the Bible—the Word of God that
never lies—the Redemption Plan, the death
and resurrection of Jesus
Christ, has the exclusive purpose
of making you a genuine and legitimate child of God.
For you have been born again,
not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and
enduring Word of God. (1
Peter 1:23, NLT)
The New Covenant is established when you
accept and recognize Jesus as the Lord and Savior
of your life. His Blood is the sign of this New Covenant, which is
built on better promises. As I’ve already told you, its purpose is far greater than simply forgiving sins and giving
access to heaven: its goal is to give you Eternal Life and make you His very
own child.
Before the creation of the world, God decided to adopt us as His
children through Jesus Christ.
This was His plan, and He was pleased to carry it out.
In
love He predestined us for adoption
to sonship through
Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will. (Ephesians
1:5, NLT)
Since God
predestined you to be adopted as His
child according to the pure affection of His will,
the payment and forgiveness of all your sins is merely a requirement, and Eternal Life is the
natural consequence of being
made, by God’s Word, a
born-again child of God.
Considering
all of this, it’s worth
reflecting: if King Hezekiah was delivered from death because of a serious illness
when he prayed to God, then how much more will God do for one of His children
like you?
He
who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give
us all things? (Romans
8:32, NIV)
No matter your situation, illness,
or affliction, and even if you have fallen into sin or drifted from God, He will
never stop loving you or answering your prayers.
“Keep asking and it will be given
to you; keep seeking and you will find; keep knocking and the door will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who
ask Him!” (Matthew
7:7–11, NLT)
If you can believe the Word of God, then all things are possible
for the one who believes Him.
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, there is truly
nothing more beautiful than knowing and feeling so deeply loved by You. Thank You, because You cared more about
me than about what I had done with my
life. I do not have enough words to express what I feel for You, my God. Jesus,
You are my King, my Lord, and Savior. The new, full, and abundant life I now
enjoy is all thanks to You. Thank You for the
cross! Thank You for Your Blood! Thank You for Your resurrection! Thank
You for Your victory over death! Thank You for Your Love! With Your help, Holy
Spirit, I commit to living this life of joy, peace, and freedom. I know that in
this world I will face afflictions, but I can fully trust in Your Word—You have
overcome the world! So I will resist the devil and his lies, whether fear,
doubt, sickness, or poverty. In the name of Jesus,
I am what the Bible says I am
and nothing else: a beloved born-again child of God who can do all things
through Christ. In every situation, I am more than a conqueror. I am healthy! I
am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! Even in the midst of problems,
distress, or sickness, I have the peace that surpasses all understanding,
because I know, as You say in Your Word, that all things work together for
good. 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 2 1 Timothy
4 / Isaiah 38-39 / Psalm 119.121-144
1 Timothy
4
Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to
marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created
to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know
the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with
thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If thou put the
brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister
of Jesus Christ,
nourished up in the words
of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained.
7 But refuse
profane and old wives' fables,
and exercise thyself
rather unto godliness.
8 For bodily
exercise profiteth little:
but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that
now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful
saying and worthy
of all acceptation.
10 For therefore
we both labour and suffer reproach, because
we trust in the
living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
11
These things command
and teach.
12 Let no man despise
thy youth; but be thou an example
of the believers, in word,
in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13
Till I come,
give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things;
give thyself wholly
to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself,
and unto the doctrine; continue
in them: for in
doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Isaiah
38 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine
house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
3 And said, Remember
now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4
Then came the word of the
LORD to Isaiah,
saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer,
I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver
thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city.
7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this
thing that he hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring
again the shadow
of the degrees, which is gone down in
the sun dial of Ahaz,
ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees,
by which degrees it was gone down.
9 The writing
of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue
of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the
LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed,
and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:
I have cut off like a weaver
my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt
thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned
till morning, that,
as a lion, so will he break
all my bones: from day even
to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow,
so did I chatter: I did mourn
as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken
unto me, and himself hath done it: I
shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O LORD, by these things
men live, and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace
I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate
thee: they that go
down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living,
the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father
to the children shall make
known thy truth.
20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore
we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of
our life in the house of the LORD.
21 For Isaiah
had said, Let them take a lump of figs,
and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
the LORD?
39 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and
was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was
glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
ointment, and all the house
of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in
his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came
they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I
have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the days
come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they
take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the
LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there
shall be peace and truth in my days.
Psalm
119.121 I have done judgment
and justice: leave
me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety
for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant
according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy
statutes.
125 I am thy servant;
give me understanding, that I may know thy
testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things
to be right; and I hate every false way.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance
of thy words giveth light;
it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131 I opened
my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto
those that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;
and teach me thy statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because
they keep not thy law.
137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very
faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed
me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me
understanding, and I shall live.
Surely it was for my benefit
that I suffered such anguish.
In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you
have put all my sins behind your back. (Isaiah
38:17, NIV)
How beautiful it is to know, without
a single doubt, that God Almighty loves you. He loves you so much that He
chose to give His own Son, Jesus Christ, rather than lose you.
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)
That’s right, beloved,
in Christ Jesus the Justice
of God was satisfied, and you
were set free from the pit of corruption—death itself—because God has cast all your sins behind His back.
For I will forgive
their wickedness and will remember
their sins no more.
(Jeremiah 31:34b, NIV)
Two powerful and sublime aspects
of God’s Love for you are:
1. Jesus has set you free from the power that death had over you, for now
you have Eternal Life:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ
Jesus our Lord. (Romans
6:23, KJV)
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. (John 3:16, NIV)
2.
God is not focused
on your sins but on you, which is why He is more than willing to forgive and forget all
your offenses.
“The days are coming,” declares the
Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the
people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because
they broke my covenant, though
I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “This is the
covenant I will make with the people of
Israel after
that time,” declares
the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and
write it on their
hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No
longer will they teach their
neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will
remember their sins no more.” (Jeremiah
31:31–34, NIV)
Eternal Life is the added value to the true gift God gives you, which you receive
the very moment you place your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
According to the Bible—the Word of God that
never lies—the Redemption Plan, the death
and resurrection of Jesus
Christ, has the exclusive purpose
of making you a genuine and legitimate child of God.
For you have been born again,
not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and
enduring Word of God. (1
Peter 1:23, NLT)
The New Covenant is established when you
accept and recognize Jesus as the Lord and Savior
of your life. His Blood is the sign of this New Covenant, which is
built on better promises. As I’ve already told you, its purpose is far greater than simply forgiving sins and giving
access to heaven: its goal is to give you Eternal Life and make you His very
own child.
Before the creation of the world, God decided to adopt us as His
children through Jesus Christ.
This was His plan, and He was pleased to carry it out.
In
love He predestined us for adoption
to sonship through
Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will. (Ephesians
1:5, NLT)
Since God
predestined you to be adopted as His
child according to the pure affection of His will,
the payment and forgiveness of all your sins is merely a requirement, and Eternal Life is the
natural consequence of being
made, by God’s Word, a
born-again child of God.
Considering
all of this, it’s worth
reflecting: if King Hezekiah was delivered from death because of a serious illness
when he prayed to God, then how much more will God do for one of His children
like you?
He
who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give
us all things? (Romans
8:32, NIV)
No matter your situation, illness,
or affliction, and even if you have fallen into sin or drifted from God, He will
never stop loving you or answering your prayers.
“Keep asking and it will be given
to you; keep seeking and you will find; keep knocking and the door will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who
ask Him!” (Matthew
7:7–11, NLT)
If you can believe the Word of God, then all things are possible
for the one who believes Him.
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, there is truly
nothing more beautiful than knowing and feeling so deeply loved by You. Thank You, because You cared more about
me than about what I had done with my
life. I do not have enough words to express what I feel for You, my God. Jesus,
You are my King, my Lord, and Savior. The new, full, and abundant life I now
enjoy is all thanks to You. Thank You for the
cross! Thank You for Your Blood! Thank You for Your resurrection! Thank
You for Your victory over death! Thank You for Your Love! With Your help, Holy
Spirit, I commit to living this life of joy, peace, and freedom. I know that in
this world I will face afflictions, but I can fully trust in Your Word—You have
overcome the world! So I will resist the devil and his lies, whether fear,
doubt, sickness, or poverty. In the name of Jesus,
I am what the Bible says I am
and nothing else: a beloved born-again child of God who can do all things
through Christ. In every situation, I am more than a conqueror. I am healthy! I
am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! Even in the midst of problems,
distress, or sickness, I have the peace that surpasses all understanding,
because I know, as You say in Your Word, that all things work together for
good. 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 2 1 Timothy
4 / Isaiah 38-39 / Psalm 119.121-144
1 Timothy
4
Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to
marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created
to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know
the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with
thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If thou put the
brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister
of Jesus Christ,
nourished up in the words
of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained.
7 But refuse
profane and old wives' fables,
and exercise thyself
rather unto godliness.
8 For bodily
exercise profiteth little:
but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that
now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful
saying and worthy
of all acceptation.
10 For therefore
we both labour and suffer reproach, because
we trust in the
living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
11
These things command
and teach.
12 Let no man despise
thy youth; but be thou an example
of the believers, in word,
in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13
Till I come,
give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things;
give thyself wholly
to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself,
and unto the doctrine; continue
in them: for in
doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Isaiah
38 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine
house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
3 And said, Remember
now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4
Then came the word of the
LORD to Isaiah,
saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer,
I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver
thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city.
7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this
thing that he hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring
again the shadow
of the degrees, which is gone down in
the sun dial of Ahaz,
ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees,
by which degrees it was gone down.
9 The writing
of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue
of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the
LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed,
and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:
I have cut off like a weaver
my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt
thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned
till morning, that,
as a lion, so will he break
all my bones: from day even
to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow,
so did I chatter: I did mourn
as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken
unto me, and himself hath done it: I
shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O LORD, by these things
men live, and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace
I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate
thee: they that go
down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living,
the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father
to the children shall make
known thy truth.
20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore
we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of
our life in the house of the LORD.
21 For Isaiah
had said, Let them take a lump of figs,
and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
the LORD?
39 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and
was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was
glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
ointment, and all the house
of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in
his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came
they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I
have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the days
come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they
take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the
LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there
shall be peace and truth in my days.
Psalm
119.121 I have done judgment
and justice: leave
me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety
for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant
according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy
statutes.
125 I am thy servant;
give me understanding, that I may know thy
testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things
to be right; and I hate every false way.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance
of thy words giveth light;
it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131 I opened
my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto
those that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;
and teach me thy statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because
they keep not thy law.
137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very
faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed
me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me
understanding, and I shall live.
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