21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who

    does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your

    name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’

23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice

    lawlessness.’”

15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous

     wolves.

16 You will know them by their fruits.  Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from

    thistles, are they?

17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

20 So then, you will know them by their fruits."

1 I will sing of steadfast love and justice;

    to you, O Lord, I will make music.

2 I will ponder the way that is blameless.

    Oh when will you come to me?

  I will walk with integrity of heart

    within my house;

3 I will not set before my eyes

    anything that is worthless.

  I hate the work of those who fall away;

    it shall not cling to me.

4 A perverse heart shall be far from me;

    I will know nothing of evil.

5 Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly

    I will destroy.

  Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart

    I will not endure.

6 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,

    that they may dwell with me;

  he who walks in the way that is blameless

    shall minister to me.

7 No one who practices deceit

    shall dwell in my house;

  no one who utters lies

    shall continue before my eyes.

8 Morning by morning I will destroy

    all the wicked in the land,

  cutting off all the evildoers

    from the city of the Lord.

  From where shall my help come?

2 My help comes from the Lord,

  Who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not allow your foot to slip;

  He who keeps you will not slumber.

4 Behold, He who keeps Israel

  Will neither slumber nor sleep.

  The Lord is your shade on your right hand.

6 The sun will not smite you by day,

  Nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will protect you from all evil;

  He will keep your soul.

8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in

  From this time forth and forever.

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

2 O Lord, I have heard the report of you,

   and your work, O Lord, do I fear.

   In the midst of the years revive it;

   in the midst of the years make it known;

   in wrath remember mercy.

3 God came from Teman,

   and the Holy One from Mount Paran.  Selah

   His splendor covered the heavens,

   and the earth was full of his praise.

4 His brightness was like the light;

   rays flashed from his hand;

   and there he veiled his power.

5 Before him went pestilence,

   and plague followed at his heels.

6 He stood and measured the earth;

   he looked and shook the nations;

   then the eternal mountains were scattered;

   the everlasting hills sank low.

   His were the everlasting ways.

7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;

   the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

8 Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?

   Was your anger against the rivers,

   or your indignation against the sea,

   when you rode on your horses,

   on your chariot of salvation?

9 You stripped the sheath from your bow,

   calling for many arrows.  Selah

   You split the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw you and writhed;

   the raging waters swept on;

   the deep gave forth its voice;

   it lifted its hands on high.

11 The sun and moon stood still in their place

    at the light of your arrows as they sped,

    at the flash of your glittering spear.

12 You marched through the earth in fury;

    you threshed the nations in anger.

13 You went out for the salvation of your people,

    for the salvation of your anointed.

    You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,

    laying him bare from thigh to neck.  Selah

14 You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,

    who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,

    rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

15 You trampled the sea with your horses,

    the surging of mighty waters.

16 I hear, and my body trembles;

    my lips quiver at the sound;

    rottenness enters into my bones;

    my legs tremble beneath me.

    Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble

    to come upon people who invade us.

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,

    nor fruit be on the vines,

    the produce of the olive fail

    and the fields yield no food,

    the flock be cut off from the fold

    and there be no herd in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord;

    I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

19 God, the Lord, is my strength;

    he makes my feet like the deer's;

    he makes me tread on my high places.

2  Then the Lord answered me and said,

  “Record the vision

   And inscribe it on tablets,

   That the one who reads it may run.

3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;

    It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.

    Though it tarries, wait for it;

    For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

4 “Behold, as for the proud one,

    His soul is not right within him;

    But the righteous will live by his faith.

5 “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,

    So that he does not stay at home.

    He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,

    And he is like death, never satisfied.

    He also gathers to himself all nations

    And collects to himself all peoples.

6 “Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,

    Even mockery and insinuations against him

    And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—

    For how long— And makes himself rich with loans?’

7 “Will not your creditors rise up suddenly,

    And those who collect from you awaken?

    Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

8 “Because you have looted many nations,

    All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—

    Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,

    To the town and all its inhabitants.

9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house

    To put his nest on high,

    To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

10 “You have devised a shameful thing for your house

     By cutting off many peoples;

     So you are sinning against yourself.

11 “Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,

     And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed

     And founds a town with violence!

13 “Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts

     That peoples toil for fire,

     And nations grow weary for nothing?

14 “For the earth will be filled

     With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,

     As the waters cover the sea.

15 “Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,

     Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk

     So as to look on their nakedness!

16 “You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor.

     Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness.

     The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,

     And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.

17 “For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,

     And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,

     Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,

     To the town and all its inhabitants.

18 “What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,

     Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?

     For its maker trusts in his own handiwork

     When he fashions speechless idols.

19 “Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’

     To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’

     And that is your teacher?

     Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,

     And there is no breath at all inside it.

20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple.

     Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

2 How long, O Lord, will I call for help,

  And You will not hear?

  I cry out to You, “Violence!”

  Yet You do not save.

3 Why do You make me see iniquity,

  And cause me to look on wickedness?

  Yes, destruction and violence are before me;

  Strife exists and contention arises.

4 Therefore the law is ignored

  And justice is never upheld.

  For the wicked surround the righteous;

  Therefore justice comes out perverted.

5 “Look among the nations! Observe!

  Be astonished! Wonder!

  Because I am doing something in your days—

  You would not believe if you were told.

6 “For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,

  That fierce and impetuous people

  Who march throughout the earth

  To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

7 “They are dreaded and feared;

  Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

8 “Their horses are swifter than leopards

  And keener than wolves in the evening.

  Their horsemen come galloping,

  Their horsemen come from afar;

  They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

9 “All of them come for violence.

  Their horde of faces moves forward.

  They collect captives like sand.

10 “They mock at kings

   And rulers are a laughing matter to them.

   They laugh at every fortress

   And heap up rubble to capture it.

11 “Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.

   But they will be held guilty,

   They whose strength is their god.”

12 Are You not from everlasting,

   O Lord, my God, my Holy One?

   We will not die.

   You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge;

   And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.

13 Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,

   And You can not look on wickedness with favor.

   Why do You look with favor

   On those who deal treacherously?

   Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up

   Those more righteous than they?

14 Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,

    Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,

   Drag them away with their net,

   And gather them together in their fishing net.

   Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net

   And burn incense to their fishing net;

   Because through these things their catch is large,

   And their food is plentiful.

17 Will they therefore empty their net

   And continually slay nations without sparing?

2:1 I will stand on my guard post

    And station myself on the rampart;

    And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,

    And how I may reply when I am reproved.

13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.  14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  9 Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?  10 Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?  11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”