CIL Daily Bible Readings

CIL Daily Bible Readings

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  • Psalms 51,52
    Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
    Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
    For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
    Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
    Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
    Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
    Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
    Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
    Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
    Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
    Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
    Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
    Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
    O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
    Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
    Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
    Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
    The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
    Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
    Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
    God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
    The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
    Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
    But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
    I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
    5 min
  • Romans 3, 4
    What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
    Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
    For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
    God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
    But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
    God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
    For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
    And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
    What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
    As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
    There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
    They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
    Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
    Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
    Their feet are swift to shed blood:
    Destruction and misery are in their ways:
    And the way of peace have they not known:
    There is no fear of God before their eyes.
    Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
    Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
    But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
    Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
    For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
    Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
    Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
    To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
    Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
    Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
    Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
    Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
    Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
    What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
    For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
    For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
    Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
    But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
    Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
    Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
    Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
    Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in cir
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  • Psalms 50
    The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
    Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
    Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
    He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
    Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
    And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
    Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
    I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
    I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
    For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
    I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
    If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
    Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
    Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
    And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
    But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
    Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
    When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
    Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
    Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
    Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
    3 min
  • Genesis 46,47
    And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
    And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
    And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
    I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
    And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
    And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
    His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
    And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
    And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
    And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
    And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
    And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
    And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
    These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
    And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
    And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
    These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
    The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
    And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
    And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
    These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
    And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
    And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
    These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
    All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
    And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
    And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
    And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
    And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
    And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
    And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
    And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
    That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that y
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  • Genesis 44,45
    And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
    And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
    As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
    And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
    Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
    And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
    And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
    Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
    With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
    And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
    Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
    And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
    Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
    And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
    And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
    And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
    And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
    Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
    My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
    And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
    And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
    And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
    And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
    And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
    And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
    And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
    And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
    And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
    And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
    Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
    It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
    For thy servant became surety for the lad unto
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  • Romans 1, 2
    Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
    (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
    Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
    And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
    By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
    Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
    To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
    For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
    Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
    For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
    That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
    Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
    I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
    So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
    For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
    For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
    Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
    For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
    Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
    Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
    And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
    Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
    Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
    For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
    And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
    And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
    Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
    Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
    Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
    Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
    The
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  • Psalms 49
    Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
    Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
    My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
    I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
    Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
    They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
    None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
    (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
    That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
    For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
    Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
    Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
    This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
    Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
    But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
    Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
    For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
    Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
    He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
    Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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  • Matthew 28
    In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
    And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
    His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
    And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
    And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
    He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
    And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
    And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
    And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
    Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
    Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
    And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
    Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
    And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
    So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
    Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
    And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
    And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
    Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
    3 min
  • Genesis 42,43
    Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
    And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
    And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
    But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
    And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
    And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
    And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
    And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
    And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
    And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
    We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
    And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
    And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
    And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
    Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
    Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
    And he put them all together into ward three days.
    And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
    If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
    But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
    And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
    And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
    And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
    And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
    Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
    And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
    And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
    And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
    And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
    The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
    And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
    We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
    And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your br
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  • Psalms 46,47,48
    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
    Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
    Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
    There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
    God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
    The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
    The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
    Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
    He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
    Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
    The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
    O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
    For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
    He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
    He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
    God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
    Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
    For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
    God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
    The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
    Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
    Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
    God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
    For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
    They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
    Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
    Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
    As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
    We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
    According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
    Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
    Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
    Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
    For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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