Deuteronomy 11

• 1. "You must love the LORD your God and obey all his requirements, laws, regulations, and commands.
• 2. Listen! I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and awesome power.
• 3. They weren't there to see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.
• 4. They didn't see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots--how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you, and how he has kept them devastated to this very day!
• 5. They didn't see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.
• 6. They weren't there to see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened up and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
• 7. But you have seen all the LORD's mighty deeds with your own eyes!
• 8. "Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and occupy the land you are about to enter.
• 9. If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants--a land flowing with milk and honey!
• 10. For the land you are about to enter and occupy is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and dug out irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
• 11. It is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain--
• 12. a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it day after day throughout the year!
• 13. "If you carefully obey all the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul, and if you worship him,
• 14. then he will send the rains in their proper seasons so you can harvest crops of grain, grapes for wine, and olives for oil.
• 15. He will give you lush pastureland for your cattle to graze in, and you yourselves will have plenty to eat.
• 16. "But do not let your heart turn away from the LORD to worship other gods.
• 17. If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and your harvests will fail. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is now giving you.
• 18. So commit yourselves completely to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands as a reminder, and wear them on your forehead.
• 19. Teach them 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.
• 20. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
• 21. so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.
• 22. "Be careful to obey all the commands I give you; show love to the LORD your God by walking in his ways and clinging to him.
• 23. Then the LORD will drive out all the nations in your land, though they are much greater and stronger than you.
• 24. Wherever you set your feet, the land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
• 25. No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will send fear and dread ahead of you, as he promised you, wherever you go in the whole land.
• 26. "Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!
• 27. You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.
• 28. You will receive a curse if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn from his way by worshiping foreign gods.
• 29. "When the LORD your God brings you into the land to possess it, you must pronounce a blessing from Mount Gerizim and a curse from Mount Ebal.
• 30. (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal. They are located toward the west, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)
• 31. For you are about to cross the Jordan to occupy the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you are living in that land,
• 32. you must be careful to obey all the laws and regulations I am giving you today.

Psalms 95

• 1. Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us give a joyous shout to the rock of our salvation!
• 2. Let us come before him with thanksgiving. Let us sing him psalms of praise.
• 3. For the LORD is a great God, the great King above all gods.
• 4. He owns the depths of the earth, and even the mightiest mountains are his.
• 5. The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.
• 6. Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,
• 7. for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the sheep under his care. Oh, that you would listen to his voice today!
• 8. The LORD says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
• 9. For there your ancestors tried my patience; they courted my wrath though they had seen my many miracles.
• 10. For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, `They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.'
• 11. So in my anger I made a vow: `They will never enter my place of rest.'"

Psalms 96

• 1. Sing a new song to the LORD! Let the whole earth sing to the LORD!
• 2. Sing to the LORD; bless his name. Each day proclaim the good news that he saves.
• 3. Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does.
• 4. Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! He is to be revered above all the gods.
• 5. The gods of other nations are merely idols, but the LORD made the heavens!
• 6. Honor and majesty surround him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
• 7. O nations of the world, recognize the LORD; recognize that the LORD is glorious and strong.
• 8. Give to the LORD the glory he deserves! Bring your offering and come to worship him.
• 9. Worship the LORD in all his holy splendor. Let all the earth tremble before him.
• 10. Tell all the nations that the LORD is king. The world is firmly established and cannot be shaken. He will judge all peoples fairly.
• 11. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!
• 12. Let the fields and their crops burst forth with joy! Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise
• 13. before the LORD! For the LORD is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and all the nations with his truth.

Isaiah 39

• 1. Soon after this, Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah his best wishes and a gift. He had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick and that he had recovered.
• 2. Hezekiah welcomed the Babylonian envoys and showed them everything in his treasure-houses--the silver, the gold, the spices, and the aromatic oils. He also took them to see his armory and showed them all his other treasures--everything! There was nothing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
• 3. Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did those men want? Where were they from?" Hezekiah replied, "They came from the distant land of Babylon."
• 4. "What did they see in your palace?" asked Isaiah. "They saw everything," Hezekiah replied. "I showed them everything I own--all my treasures."
• 5. Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to this message from the LORD Almighty:
• 6. The time is coming when everything you have--all the treasures stored up by your ancestors--will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
• 7. Some of your own descendants will be taken away into exile. They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon's king."
• 8. Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "This message you have given me from the LORD is good." But the king was thinking, "At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime."

New Living Translation: 158 of 365 days.