Daily Readings for July 7
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1Samuel 19

 

1.Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. 2.Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself. 3.I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you."

4.Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you; 5.for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

6.Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death."

7.Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before. 8.There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

9.An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. 10.Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11.Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12.So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped. 13.Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes. 14.When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

15.Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." 16.When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

17.Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?"

Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

18.Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. 19.It was told Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."

20.Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21.When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22.Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?"

One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah."

23.He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24.He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

 

Isaiah 63

 

1.Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." 2.Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

3."I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. 4.For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 5.I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 6.I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

7.I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 8.For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely:" so he was their Savior. 9.In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. 10.But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

11.Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in their midst? 12.who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13.who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble? 14.As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.

15.Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. 16.For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. 17.O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18.Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19.We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

 

Matthew 8

 

1.When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 2.Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

3.Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4.Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

5.When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, 6.and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."

7.Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."

8.The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9.For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

10.When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel. 11.I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 12.but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 13.Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.

14.When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. 15.He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.⁴² 16.When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; 17.that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."[43] 18.Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

19.A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

20.Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

21.Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

22.But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

23.When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24.Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. 25.They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"

26.He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

27.The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

28.When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes,⁴⁴ two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. 29.Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" 30.Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. 31.The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."

32.He said to them, "Go!"

They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. 33.Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. 34.Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

 

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