Psalm 42Psalm 43Psalm 442 Corinthians 3.7->2 Corinthians 4.1-48Psalm 42
1
Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
2
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God when may I come and see the face of God?
3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
4
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
5
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
6
My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
7
Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls all your waves have gone rolling over me.
8
But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
10
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
11
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalm 43
1
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion O keep me from the false and evil man.
2
You are the God of my strength why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
3
O send out your light and your true word let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
4
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
5
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalm 44
1
It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,
2
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
3
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
4
You are my King and my God ordering salvation for Jacob.
5
Through you will we overcome our haters by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
6
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.
7
But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.
8
Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)
9
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame you do not go out with our armies.
10
Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
11
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat we are put to flight among the nations.
12
You let your people go for nothing your wealth is not increased by their price.
13
You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.
14
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
15
My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face
16
Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.
17
All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory and we have not been false to your word.
18
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way
19
Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
20
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
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Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
22
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
23
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
24
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
25
For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
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Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.
2 Corinthians 3
7->
7
For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
8
Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?
9
For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
10
For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.
11
For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.
12
Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,
13
And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:
14
But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted though it is taken away in Christ.
15
But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.
16
But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.
17
Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.
18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4
1-48
1
For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:
2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
3
But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7
But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God
8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them
9
We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope we are made low, but we are not without help
10
In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.
11
For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.
12
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
13
But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith
14
Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.
15
For we go through all things on account of you, because the greater the number to whom the grace is given, the greater is the praise to the glory of God.
16
For which cause we do not give way to weariness but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.
17
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory
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While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time but the things which are not seen are eternal.
