Deuteronomy 15

• 1. At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
• 2. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
• 3. Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
• 4. Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
• 5. Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
• 6. For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
• 7. If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
• 8. But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
• 9. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• 10. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
• 11. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
• 12. And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
• 13. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
• 14. Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
• 15. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
• 16. And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
• 17. Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
• 18. It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
• 19. All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
• 20. Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
• 21. And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
• 22. Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
• 23. Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Psalms 101

• 1. I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
• 2. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
• 3. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
• 4. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
• 5. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
• 6. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
• 7. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
• 8. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Psalms 102

• 1. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
• 2. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
• 3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
• 4. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
• 5. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
• 6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
• 7. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
• 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
• 9. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
• 10. Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
• 11. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
• 12. But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
• 13. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
• 14. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
• 15. So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
• 16. When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
• 17. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
• 18. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
• 19. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
• 20. To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
• 21. To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
• 22. When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
• 23. He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
• 24. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
• 25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
• 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
• 27. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
• 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Isaiah 42

• 1. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• 2. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
• 3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
• 4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
• 5. Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
• 6. I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
• 7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• 8. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
• 9. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
• 10. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
• 11. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
• 12. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
• 13. The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
• 14. I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
• 15. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
• 16. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• 17. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
• 18. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
• 19. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?
• 20. Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
• 21. The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
• 22. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
• 23. Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
• 24. Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
• 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

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