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Saturday, 20 February 2021

LAMENTATIONS - Chapter One


- Lamentations

Overview 

The Bible Project


1 - א ( Alef )

How deserted lies the city,

    once so full of people!

How like a widow is she,

    who once was great among the nations!

She who was queen among the provinces

    has now become a slave.

2 - ב ( Beit )

Bitterly she weeps at night,

    tears are on her cheeks.

Among all her lovers

    there is no one to comfort her.

All her friends have betrayed her;

    they have become her enemies.

3 - ג ( Gimmel )

After affliction and harsh labour,

    Judah has gone into exile.

She dwells among the nations;

    she finds no resting place.

All who pursue her have overtaken her

    in the midst of her distress.

4 - ד ( Dalet )

The roads to Zion mourn,

    for no one comes to her appointed festivals.

All her gateways are desolate,

    her priests groan,

her young women grieve,

    and she is in bitter anguish.

5  - ה ( Hey )

Her foes have become her masters;

    her enemies are at ease.

The Lord has brought her grief

    because of her many sins.

Her children have gone into exile,

    captive before the foe.

6 - ו ( Vav )

All the splendour has departed

    from Daughter Zion.

Her princes are like deer

    that find no pasture;

in weakness they have fled

    before the pursuer.

7 - ז ( Zayin )

In the days of her affliction and wandering

    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures

    that were hers in days of old.

When her people fell into enemy hands,

    there was no one to help her.

Her enemies looked at her

    and laughed at her destruction.

8 - ח ( Cheit )

Jerusalem has sinned greatly

    and so has become unclean.

All who honoured her despise her,

    for they have all seen her naked;

she herself groans

    and turns away.

9 - ט ( Teit )

Her filthiness clung to her skirts;

    she did not consider her future.

Her fall was astounding;

    there was none to comfort her.

‘Look, Lord, on my affliction,

    for the enemy has triumphed.’

10 - י ( Yod )

The enemy laid hands

    on all her treasures;

she saw pagan nations

    enter her sanctuary –

those you had forbidden

    to enter your assembly.

11 - כ ( Kaf )

All her people groan

    as they search for bread;

they barter their treasures for food

    to keep themselves alive.

‘Look, Lord, and consider,

    for I am despised.’

12 - ל ( Lamed )

‘Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

    Look around and see.

Is any suffering like my suffering

    that was inflicted on me,

that the Lord brought on me

    in the day of his fierce anger?

13 - מ ( Mem )

‘From on high he sent fire,

    sent it down into my bones.

He spread a net for my feet

    and turned me back.

He made me desolate,

    faint all the day long.

14 - נ ( Nun )

My sins have been bound into a yoke;

    by his hands they were woven together.

They have been hung on my neck,

    and the Lord has sapped my strength.

He has given me into the hands

    of those I cannot withstand.

15 - ס ( Samech )

The Lord has rejected

    all the warriors in my midst;

he has summoned an army against me

    to crush my young men.

In his winepress the Lord has trampled

    Virgin Daughter Judah.

16 - ע ( Ayin )

‘This is why I weep

    and my eyes overflow with tears.

No one is near to comfort me,

    no one to restore my spirit.

My children are destitute

    because the enemy has prevailed.’

17 - פ ( Pey )

Zion stretches out her hands,

    but there is no one to comfort her.

The Lord has decreed for Jacob

    that his neighbours become his foes;

Jerusalem has become

    an unclean thing among them.

18 - צ ( Tzadeh )

‘The Lord is righteous,

    yet I rebelled against his command.

Listen, all you peoples;

    look on my suffering.

My young men and young women

    have gone into exile.

19 - ק ( Qoof )

‘I called to my allies

    but they betrayed me.

My priests and my elders

    perished in the city

while they searched for food

    to keep themselves alive.

20 - ר ( Resh )

‘See, Lord, how distressed I am!

    I am in torment within,

and in my heart I am disturbed,

    for I have been most rebellious.

Outside, the sword bereaves;

    inside, there is only death.

21 - ש ( Sheen )

‘People have heard my groaning,

    but there is no one to comfort me.

All my enemies have heard of my distress;

    they rejoice at what you have done.

May you bring the day you have announced

    so that they may become like me.

22 - ת ( Tav )

‘Let all their wickedness come before you;

    deal with them

as you have dealt with me

    because of all my sins.

My groans are many

    and my heart is faint.’


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Study - LINKS 


Lamentations - Overview 

The Bible Project

https://youtu.be/p8GDFPdaQZQ



LAMENTATIONS - David Pawson

https://youtu.be/eD4ruTpZ0qk


Lamentations - by Tim Mackie 

(The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/g72cXP3MKX0



Lamentations in 6 Minutes

https://youtu.be/s9nf0a8TkDg


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Friday, 19 February 2021

The First Book of Moses called GENESIS - Chapter Fifty


1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him  and kissed him. 2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, ‘If I have found favour in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 “My father made me swear an oath and said, ‘I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.”’

6 Pharaoh said, ‘Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.’

7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him – the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt – 8 besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. 9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.

10 When they reached the threshing-floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. 11 When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, they said, ‘The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.’ That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.

12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them: 13 they carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 14 After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.



Joseph reassures his brothers

15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, ‘What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?’ 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, ‘Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 “This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.” Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.’ When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. ‘We are your slaves,’ they said.

19 But Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21 So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.’ And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.


The death of Joseph

22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years 23 and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.

24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ 25 And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.’

26 So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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LINKS 


The Book of Genesis - Part 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/KOUV7mWDI34


The Book of Genesis - Part 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/VpbWbyx1008


Overview: Genesis Ch. 1-11- 

https://youtu.be/GQI72THyO5I


Overview: Genesis Ch. 12-50

https://youtu.be/F4isSyennFo


Covenant

https://youtu.be/8ferLIsvlmI


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Genesis: Beginning the Right Story - 

Tim Mackie (The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/JhTqbfbEaRA


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PSALM 146

1  Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul. 2  I will praise the Lord all my life;      I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3...