PSALMS 82 and 83

Rescue the Weak and Needy

1 

God has taken his place in the divine council;

    in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

2 

“How long will you judge unjustly

    and show partiality to the wicked? 

Selah

3 

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;

    maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

4 

Rescue the weak and the needy;

    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

5 

They have neither knowledge nor understanding,

    they walk about in darkness;

    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6 

I said, “You are gods,

    sons of the Most High, all of you;

7 

nevertheless, like men you shall die,

    and fall like any prince.”

8 

Arise, O God, judge the earth;

    for you shall inherit all the nations!

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

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O God, Do Not Be Silent (Psalm 83) 

Wendell Kimbrough (Official Music Video)

Psalm 83 Song - Do Not Keep Silence- Jason Silver

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1 

O God, do not keep silence;

    do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

2 

For behold, your enemies make an uproar;

    those who hate you have raised their heads.

3 

They lay crafty plans against your people;

    they consult together against your treasured ones.

4 

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

5 

For they conspire with one accord;

    against you they make a covenant—

6 

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

    Moab and the Hagrites,

7 

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

    Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 

Asshur also has joined them;

    they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. 

Selah

9 

Do to them as you did to Midian,

    as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

10 

who were destroyed at En-dor,

    who became dung for the ground.

11 

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 

who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves

    of the pastures of God.”

13 

O my God, make them like whirling dust,

    like chaff before the wind.

14 

As fire consumes the forest,

    as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

15 

so may you pursue them with your tempest

    and terrify them with your hurricane!

16 

Fill their faces with shame,

    that they may seek your name, O Lord.

17 

Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;

    let them perish in disgrace,

18 

that they may know that you alone,

    whose name is the Lord,

    are the Most High over all the earth.

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2 PETER Chapter Three

Overview of 2 PETER

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The Day of the Lord Will Come

1 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Final Words

14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 PETER Chapter Two

Overview of 2 PETER- Bible Project

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False Prophets and Teachers

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.Bold and wilful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 13 suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

17 These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. 18 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

2 PETER Chapter One

Overview: 2 Peter by Bible Project

Greeting

1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Confirm Your Calling and Election

3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, 14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

Christ's Glory and the Prophetic Word

16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honour and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

PSALM 81

 

psalm 81 - Jason Silver

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Psalm 81- Ian White

Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.Of Asaph.

1 

Sing aloud to God our strength;

    shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2 

Raise a song; sound the tambourine,

    the sweet lyre with the harp.

3 

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

    at the full moon, on our feast day.

4 

For it is a statute for Israel,

    a rule of the God of Jacob.

5 

He made it a decree in Joseph

    when he went out over the land of Egypt.

I hear a language I had not known:

6 

“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;

    your hands were freed from the basket.

7 

In distress you called, and I delivered you;

    I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

    I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

8 

Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!

    O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9 

There shall be no strange god among you;

    you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

10 

I am the Lord your God,

    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

    Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 

“But my people did not listen to my voice;

    Israel would not submit to me.

12 

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,

    to follow their own counsels.

13 

Oh, that my people would listen to me,

    that Israel would walk in my ways!

14 

I would soon subdue their enemies

    and turn my hand against their foes.

15 

Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,

    and their fate would last forever.

16 

But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,

    and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

PSALM 80

Psalm 80 Song - Revive us

Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. 

A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.

1 

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

    you who lead Joseph like a flock.

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

2 

    Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

stir up your might

    and come to save us!

3 

Restore us, O God;

    let your face shine, that we may be saved!

4 

O Lord God of hosts,

    how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

5 

You have fed them with the bread of tears

    and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6 

You make us an object of contention for our neighbours,

    and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 

Restore us, O God of hosts;

    let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8 

You brought a vine out of Egypt;

    you drove out the nations and planted it.

9 

You cleared the ground for it;

    it took deep root and filled the land.

10 

The mountains were covered with its shade,

    the mighty cedars with its branches.

11 

It sent out its branches to the sea

    and its shoots to the River.

12 

Why then have you broken down its walls,

    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13 

The boar from the forest ravages it,

    and all that move in the field feed on it.

14 

Turn again, O God of hosts!

    Look down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

15 

    the stock that your right hand planted,

    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16 

They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;

    may they perish at the rebuke of your face!

17 

But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,

    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18 

Then we shall not turn back from you;

    give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19 

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!

    Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

PAUL's LETTER to The EPHESIANS Chapter Six

Children and Parents

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 

2 “Honour your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bondservants and Masters

5 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. 9 Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

The Whole Armor of God

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Final Greetings

21 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.

23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.