Leviticus 18

• 1. Then the LORD said to Moses,
• 2. "Say this to your people, the Israelites: I, the LORD, am your God.
• 3. So do not act like the people in Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am taking you. You must not imitate their way of life.
• 4. You must obey all my regulations and be careful to keep my laws, for I, the LORD, am your God.
• 5. If you obey my laws and regulations, you will find life through them. I am the LORD.
• 6. "You must never have sexual intercourse with a close relative, for I am the LORD.
• 7. Do not violate your father by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must never have intercourse with her.
• 8. Do not have sexual intercourse with any of your father's wives, for this would violate your father.
• 9. "Do not have sexual intercourse with your sister or half sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was brought up in the same family or somewhere else.
• 10. "Do not have sexual intercourse with your granddaughter, whether your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would violate you.
• 11. Do not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of any of your father's wives; she is your half sister.
• 12. Do not have intercourse with your aunt, your father's sister, because she is your father's close relative.
• 13. Do not have sexual intercourse with your aunt, your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
• 14. And do not violate your uncle, your father's brother, by having sexual intercourse with his wife; she also is your aunt.
• 15. Do not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife.
• 16. Do not have intercourse with your brother's wife; this would violate your brother.
• 17. "Do not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter or marry both a woman and her granddaughter, whether her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives, and to do this would be a horrible wickedness.
• 18. "Do not marry a woman and her sister because they will be rivals. But if your wife dies, then it is all right to marry her sister.
• 19. "Do not violate a woman by having sexual intercourse with her during her period of menstrual impurity.
• 20. "Do not defile yourself by having sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife.
• 21. "Do not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
• 22. "Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.
• 23. "A man must never defile himself by having sexual intercourse with an animal, and a woman must never present herself to a male animal in order to have intercourse with it; this is a terrible perversion.
• 24. "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
• 25. As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
• 26. You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
• 27. "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
• 28. Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.
• 29. Whoever does any of these detestable things will be cut off from the community of Israel.
• 30. So be careful to obey my laws, and do not practice any of these detestable activities. Do not defile yourselves by doing any of them, for I, the LORD, am your God."

Psalms 22

• 1. My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me? Why do you remain so distant? Why do you ignore my cries for help?
• 2. Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief.
• 3. Yet you are holy. The praises of Israel surround your throne.
• 4. Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them.
• 5. You heard their cries for help and saved them. They put their trust in you and were never disappointed.
• 6. But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all!
• 7. Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
• 8. "Is this the one who relies on the LORD? Then let the LORD save him! If the LORD loves him so much, let the LORD rescue him!"
• 9. Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb and led me to trust you when I was a nursing infant.
• 10. I was thrust upon you at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born.
• 11. Do not stay so far from me, for trouble is near, and no one else can help me.
• 12. My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls; fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!
• 13. Like roaring lions attacking their prey, they come at me with open mouths.
• 14. My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
• 15. My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.
• 16. My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
• 17. I can count every bone in my body. My enemies stare at me and gloat.
• 18. They divide my clothes among themselves and throw dice for my garments.
• 19. O LORD, do not stay away! You are my strength; come quickly to my aid!
• 20. Rescue me from a violent death; spare my precious life from these dogs.
• 21. Snatch me from the lions' jaws, and from the horns of these wild oxen.
• 22. Then I will declare the wonder of your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among all your people.
• 23. Praise the LORD, all you who fear him! Honor him, all you descendants of Jacob! Show him reverence, all you descendants of Israel!
• 24. For he has not ignored the suffering of the needy. He has not turned and walked away. He has listened to their cries for help.
• 25. I will praise you among all the people; I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who worship you.
• 26. The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the LORD will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
• 27. The whole earth will acknowledge the LORD and return to him. People from every nation will bow down before him.
• 28. For the LORD is king! He rules all the nations.
• 29. Let the rich of the earth feast and worship. Let all mortals--those born to die--bow down in his presence.
• 30. Future generations will also serve him. Our children will hear about the wonders of the Lord.
• 31. His righteous acts will be told to those yet unborn. They will hear about everything he has done.

Ecclesiastes 1

• 1. These are the words of the Teacher, King David's son, who ruled in Jerusalem.
• 2. "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"
• 3. What do people get for all their hard work?
• 4. Generations come and go, but nothing really changes.
• 5. The sun rises and sets and hurries around to rise again.
• 6. The wind blows south and north, here and there, twisting back and forth, getting nowhere.
• 7. The rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows again to the sea.
• 8. Everything is so weary and tiresome! No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.
• 9. History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.
• 10. What can you point to that is new? How do you know it didn't already exist long ago?
• 11. We don't remember what happened in those former times. And in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
• 12. I, the Teacher, was king of Israel, and I lived in Jerusalem.
• 13. I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done in the world. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.
• 14. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
• 15. What is wrong cannot be righted. What is missing cannot be recovered.
• 16. I said to myself, "Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them."
• 17. So I worked hard to distinguish wisdom from foolishness. But now I realize that even this was like chasing the wind.
• 18. For the greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow.

New Living Translation: 104 of 365 days.