Deuteronomy 26

• 1. "When you arrive in the land the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession and you have conquered it and settled there,
• 2. put some of the first produce from each harvest into a basket and bring it to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored.
• 3. Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, `With this gift I acknowledge that the LORD your God has brought me into the land he swore to give our ancestors.'
• 4. The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.
• 5. You must then say in the presence of the LORD your God, `My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live in Egypt. His family was few in number, but in Egypt they became a mighty and numerous nation.
• 6. When the Egyptians mistreated and humiliated us by making us their slaves,
• 7. we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors. He heard us and saw our hardship, toil, and oppression.
• 8. So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with amazing power, overwhelming terror, and miraculous signs and wonders.
• 9. He brought us to this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey!
• 10. And now, O LORD, I have brought you a token of the first crops you have given me from the ground.' Then place the produce before the LORD your God and worship him.
• 11. Afterward go and celebrate because of all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household. Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in the celebration.
• 12. "Every third year you must offer a special tithe of your crops. You must give these tithes to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows so that they will have enough to eat in your towns.
• 13. Then you must declare in the presence of the LORD your God, `I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, just as you commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands.
• 14. I have not eaten any of it while in mourning; I have not touched it while I was ceremonially unclean; and I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God and have done everything you commanded me.
• 15. Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us--a land flowing with milk and honey--just as you solemnly promised our ancestors.'
• 16. "Today the LORD your God has commanded you to obey all these laws and regulations. You must commit yourself to them without reservation.
• 17. You have declared today that the LORD is your God. You have promised to obey his laws, commands, and regulations by walking in his ways and doing everything he tells you.
• 18. The LORD has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.
• 19. And if you do, he will make you greater than any other nation. Then you will receive praise, honor, and renown. You will be a nation that is holy to the LORD your God, just as he promised."

Psalms 117

• 1. Praise the LORD, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth.
• 2. For he loves us with unfailing love; the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!

Psalms 118

• 1. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
• 2. Let the congregation of Israel repeat: "His faithful love endures forever."
• 3. Let Aaron's descendants, the priests, repeat: "His faithful love endures forever."
• 4. Let all who fear the LORD repeat: "His faithful love endures forever."
• 5. In my distress I prayed to the LORD, and the LORD answered me and rescued me.
• 6. The LORD is for me, so I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
• 7. Yes, the LORD is for me; he will help me. I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
• 8. It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in people.
• 9. It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
• 10. Though hostile nations surrounded me, I destroyed them all in the name of the LORD.
• 11. Yes, they surrounded and attacked me, but I destroyed them all in the name of the LORD.
• 12. They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a roaring flame. But I destroyed them all in the name of the LORD.
• 13. You did your best to kill me, O my enemy, but the LORD helped me.
• 14. The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my victory.
• 15. Songs of joy and victory are sung in the camp of the godly. The strong right arm of the LORD has done glorious things!
• 16. The strong right arm of the LORD is raised in triumph. The strong right arm of the LORD has done glorious things!
• 17. I will not die, but I will live to tell what the LORD has done.
• 18. The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not handed me over to death.
• 19. Open for me the gates where the righteous enter, and I will go in and thank the LORD.
• 20. Those gates lead to the presence of the LORD, and the godly enter there.
• 21. I thank you for answering my prayer and saving me!
• 22. The stone rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone.
• 23. This is the LORD's doing, and it is marvelous to see.
• 24. This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
• 25. Please, LORD, please save us. Please, LORD, please give us success.
• 26. Bless the one who comes in the name of the LORD. We bless you from the house of the LORD.
• 27. The LORD is God, shining upon us. Bring forward the sacrifice and put it on the altar.
• 28. You are my God, and I will praise you! You are my God, and I will exalt you!
• 29. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.

Isaiah 53

• 1. Who has believed our message? To whom will the LORD reveal his saving power?
• 2. My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
• 3. He was despised and rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.
• 4. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins!
• 5. But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed!
• 6. All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.
• 7. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
• 8. From prison and trial they led him away to his death. But who among the people realized that he was dying for their sins--that he was suffering their punishment?
• 9. He had done no wrong, and he never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man's grave.
• 10. But it was the LORD's good plan to crush him and fill him with grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have a multitude of children, many heirs. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD's plan will prosper in his hands.
• 11. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of what he has experienced, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.
• 12. I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners. He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners.

New Living Translation: 172 of 365 days.