Deuteronomy 22

• 1. "If you see your neighbor's ox or sheep wandering away, don't pretend not to see it. Take it back to its owner.
• 2. If it does not belong to someone nearby or you don't know who the owner is, keep it until the owner comes looking for it; then return it.
• 3. Do the same if you find your neighbor's donkey, clothing, or anything else your neighbor loses. Don't pretend you did not see it.
• 4. "If you see your neighbor's ox or donkey lying on the road, do not look the other way. Go and help your neighbor get it to its feet!
• 5. "A woman must not wear men's clothing, and a man must not wear women's clothing. The LORD your God detests people who do this.
• 6. "If you find a bird's nest on the ground or in a tree and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.
• 7. You may take the young, but let the mother go, so you may prosper and enjoy a long life.
• 8. "Every new house you build must have a barrier around the edge of its flat rooftop. That way you will not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your household if someone falls from the roof.
• 9. "Do not plant any other crop between the rows of your vineyard. If you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes from the vineyard or the produce of the other crop.
• 10. "Do not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.
• 11. "Do not wear clothing made of wool and linen woven together.
• 12. "You must put tassels on the four corners of your cloaks.
• 13. "Suppose a man marries a woman and, after sleeping with her, changes his mind about her
• 14. and falsely accuses her of having slept with another man. He might say, `I discovered she was not a virgin when I married her.'
• 15. If the man does this, the woman's father and mother must bring the proof of her virginity to the leaders of the town.
• 16. Her father must tell them, `I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her.
• 17. He has accused her of shameful things, claiming that she was not a virgin when he married her. But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they must spread the cloth before the judges.
• 18. The judges must then punish the man.
• 19. They will fine him one hundred pieces of silver, for he falsely accused a virgin of Israel. The payment will be made to the woman's father. The woman will then remain the man's wife, and he may never divorce her.
• 20. "But suppose the man's accusations are true, and her virginity could not be proved.
• 21. In such cases, the judges must take the girl to the door of her father's home, and the men of the town will stone her to death. She has committed a disgraceful crime in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her parents' home. Such evil must be cleansed from among you.
• 22. "If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the other man's wife must be killed. In this way, the evil will be cleansed from Israel.
• 23. "Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,
• 24. you must take both of them to the gates of the town and stone them to death. The woman is guilty because she did not scream for help. The man must die because he violated another man's wife. In this way, you will cleanse the land of evil.
• 25. "But if the man meets the engaged woman out in the country, and he rapes her, then only the man should die.
• 26. Do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no crime worthy of death. This case is similar to that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor.
• 27. Since the man raped her out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but there was no one to rescue her.
• 28. "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged,
• 29. he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
• 30. "A man must not have intercourse with his father's wife, for this would violate his father.

Psalms 110

• 1. The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit in honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."
• 2. The LORD will extend your powerful dominion from Jerusalem; you will rule over your enemies.
• 3. In that day of battle, your people will serve you willingly. Arrayed in holy garments, your vigor will be renewed each day like the morning dew.
• 4. The LORD has taken an oath and will not break his vow: "You are a priest forever in the line of Melchizedek."
• 5. The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you. He will strike down many kings in the day of his anger.
• 6. He will punish the nations and fill them with their dead; he will shatter heads over the whole earth.
• 7. But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious.

Psalms 111

• 1. Praise the LORD! I will thank the LORD with all my heart as I meet with his godly people.
• 2. How amazing are the deeds of the LORD! All who delight in him should ponder them.
• 3. Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty. His righteousness never fails.
• 4. Who can forget the wonders he performs? How gracious and merciful is our LORD!
• 5. He gives food to those who trust him; he always remembers his covenant.
• 6. He has shown his great power to his people by giving them the lands of other nations.
• 7. All he does is just and good, and all his commandments are trustworthy.
• 8. They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity.
• 9. He has paid a full ransom for his people. He has guaranteed his covenant with them forever. What a holy, awe-inspiring name he has!
• 10. Reverence for the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom. The rewards of wisdom come to all who obey him. Praise his name forever!

Isaiah 49

• 1. Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.
• 2. He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
• 3. He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, and you will bring me glory."
• 4. I replied, "But my work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all. Yet I leave it all in the LORD's hand; I will trust God for my reward."
• 5. And now the LORD speaks--he who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring his people of Israel back to him. The LORD has honored me, and my God has given me strength.
• 6. He says, "You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."
• 7. The LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by a nation, to the one who is the servant of rulers: "Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will bow low because the LORD has chosen you. He, the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel, chooses you."
• 8. This is what the LORD says: "At just the right time, I will respond to you. On the day of salvation, I will help you. I will give you as a token and pledge to Israel. This will prove that I will reestablish the land of Israel and reassign it to its own people again.
• 9. Through you I am saying to the prisoners of darkness, `Come out! I am giving you your freedom!' They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures and on hills that were previously bare.
• 10. They will neither hunger nor thirst. The searing sun and scorching desert winds will not reach them anymore. For the LORD in his mercy will lead them beside cool waters.
• 11. And I will make my mountains into level paths for them. The highways will be raised above the valleys.
• 12. See, my people will return from far away, from lands to the north and west, and from as far south as Egypt. "
• 13. Sing for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on them in their sorrow.
• 14. Yet Jerusalem says, "The LORD has deserted us; the Lord has forgotten us."
• 15. "Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for a child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!
• 16. See, I have written your name on my hand. Ever before me is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins.
• 17. Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.
• 18. Look and see, for all your children will come back to you. As surely as I live," says the LORD, "they will be like jewels or bridal ornaments for you to display.
• 19. "Even the most desolate parts of your abandoned land will soon be crowded with your people. Your enemies who enslaved you will be far away.
• 20. The generations born in exile will return and say, `We need more room! It's crowded here!'
• 21. Then you will think to yourself, `Who has given me all these descendants? For most of my children were killed, and the rest were carried away into exile. I was left here all alone. Who bore these children? Who raised them for me?'"
• 22. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will give a signal to the godless nations. They will carry your little sons back to you in their arms; they will bring your daughters on their shoulders.
• 23. Kings and queens will serve you. They will care for all your needs. They will bow to the earth before you and lick the dust from your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Those who wait for me will never be put to shame."
• 24. Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior? Who can demand that a tyrant let his captives go?
• 25. But the LORD says, "The captives of warriors will be released, and the plunder of tyrants will be retrieved. For I will fight those who fight you, and I will save your children.
• 26. I will feed your enemies with their own flesh. They will be drunk with rivers of their own blood. All the world will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel. "

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