Deuteronomy 6

• 1. "These are all the commands, laws, and regulations that the LORD your God told me to teach you so you may obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy,
• 2. and so you and your children and grandchildren might fear the LORD your God as long as you live. If you obey all his laws and commands, you will enjoy a long life.
• 3. Listen closely, Israel, to everything I say. Be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
• 4. "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.
• 5. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.
• 6. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands I am giving you today.
• 7. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away on a journey, when you are lying down and when you are getting up again.
• 8. Tie them to your hands as a reminder, and wear them on your forehead.
• 9. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
• 10. "The LORD your God will soon bring you into the land he swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a land filled with large, prosperous cities that you did not build.
• 11. The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land,
• 12. be careful not to forget the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
• 13. You must fear the LORD your God and serve him. When you take an oath, you must use only his name.
• 14. "You must not worship any of the gods of neighboring nations,
• 15. for the LORD your God, who lives among you, is a jealous God. His anger will flare up against you and wipe you from the face of the earth.
• 16. Do not test the LORD your God as you did when you complained at Massah.
• 17. You must diligently obey the commands of the LORD your God--all the stipulations and laws he has given you.
• 18. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so all will go well with you. Then you will enter and occupy the good land that the LORD solemnly promised to give your ancestors.
• 19. You will drive out all the enemies living in your land, just as the LORD said you would.
• 20. "In the future your children will ask you, `What is the meaning of these stipulations, laws, and regulations that the LORD our God has given us?'
• 21. Then you must tell them, `We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with amazing power.
• 22. Before our eyes the LORD did miraculous signs and wonders, dealing terrifying blows against Egypt and Pharaoh and all his people.
• 23. He brought us out of Egypt so he could give us this land he had solemnly promised to give our ancestors.
• 24. And the LORD our God commanded us to obey all these laws and to fear him for our own prosperity and well-being, as is now the case.
• 25. For we are righteous when we obey all the commands the LORD our God has given us.'

Psalms 89

• 1. I will sing of the tender mercies of the LORD forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
• 2. Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.
• 3. The LORD said, "I have made a solemn agreement with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him:
• 4. `I will establish your descendants as kings forever; they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.'"
• 5. All heaven will praise your miracles, LORD; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
• 6. For who in all of heaven can compare with the LORD? What mightiest angel is anything like the LORD?
• 7. The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than those who surround his throne.
• 8. O LORD God Almighty! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, LORD? Faithfulness is your very character.
• 9. You are the one who rules the oceans. When their waves rise in fearful storms, you subdue them.
• 10. You are the one who crushed the great sea monster. You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
• 11. The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours--you created it all.
• 12. You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.
• 13. Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.
• 14. Your throne is founded on two strong pillars--righteousness and justice. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.
• 15. Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
• 16. They rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation. They exult in your righteousness.
• 17. You are their glorious strength. Our power is based on your favor.
• 18. Yes, our protection comes from the LORD, and he, the Holy One of Israel, has given us our king.
• 19. You once spoke in a vision to your prophet and said, "I have given help to a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.
• 20. I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
• 21. I will steady him, and I will make him strong.
• 22. His enemies will not get the best of him, nor will the wicked overpower him.
• 23. I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.
• 24. My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and he will rise to power because of me.
• 25. I will extend his rule from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the east.
• 26. And he will say to me, `You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'
• 27. I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.
• 28. I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.
• 29. I will preserve an heir for him; his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.
• 30. But if his sons forsake my law and fail to walk in my ways,
• 31. if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,
• 32. then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their disobedience with beating.
• 33. But I will never stop loving him, nor let my promise to him fail.
• 34. No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.
• 35. I have sworn an oath to David, and in my holiness I cannot lie:
• 36. His dynasty will go on forever; his throne is as secure as the sun,
• 37. as eternal as the moon, my faithful witness in the sky!"
• 38. But now you have rejected him. Why are you so angry with the one you chose as king?
• 39. You have renounced your covenant with him, for you have thrown his crown in the dust.
• 40. You have broken down the walls protecting him and laid in ruins every fort defending him.
• 41. Everyone who comes along has robbed him while his neighbors mock.
• 42. You have strengthened his enemies against him and made them all rejoice.
• 43. You have made his sword useless and have refused to help him in battle.
• 44. You have ended his splendor and overturned his throne.
• 45. You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him.
• 46. O LORD, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?
• 47. Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!
• 48. No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave.
• 49. Lord, where is your unfailing love? You promised it to David with a faithful pledge.
• 50. Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced! I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.
• 51. Your enemies have mocked me, O LORD; they mock the one you anointed as king.
• 52. Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen!

Isaiah 34

• 1. Come here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words.
• 2. For the LORD is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, bringing about their slaughter.
• 3. Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood.
• 4. The heavens above will melt away and disappear like a rolled-up scroll. The stars will fall from the sky, just as withered leaves and fruit fall from a tree.
• 5. And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, then watch. It will fall upon Edom, the nation I have completely destroyed.
• 6. The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood. It is covered with fat as though it had been used for killing lambs and goats and rams for a sacrifice. Yes, the LORD will offer a great sacrifice in the rich city of Bozrah. He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.
• 7. The strongest will die--veterans and young men, too. The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with fat.
• 8. For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.
• 9. The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire.
• 10. This judgment on Edom will never end; the smoke of its burning will rise forever. The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. No one will live there anymore.
• 11. It will be haunted by the horned owl, the hawk, the screech owl, and the raven. For God will bring chaos and destruction to that land.
• 12. It will be called the Land of Nothing, and its princes soon will all be gone.
• 13. Thorns will overrun its palaces; nettles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for ostriches.
• 14. Wild animals of the desert will mingle there with hyenas, their howls filling the night. Wild goats will bleat at one another among the ruins, and night creatures will come there to rest.
• 15. There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings. And the vultures will come, each one with its mate.
• 16. Search the book of the LORD, and see what he will do. He will not miss a single detail. Not one of these birds and animals will be missing, and none will lack a mate, for the LORD has promised this. His Spirit will make it all come true.
• 17. He has surveyed and divided the land and deeded it over to those creatures. They will possess it forever, from generation to generation.

New Living Translation: 153 of 365 days.