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Words, Deeds, and Destiny

1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

2 A good man obtains favour from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

3 No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

5 The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

7 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

8 A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.

9 Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.

10 Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

11 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

12 Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

13 An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

14 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

16 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

17 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

19 Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

20 Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

21 No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

23 A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labour.

25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

26 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

27 Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

28 In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. — Proverbs 12 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Anglicised Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 49:15; Deuteronomy 30:15; 2 Samuel 15:3; 1 Kings 13:18; 2 Chronicles 22:4; Job 5:2; Job 34:11; Psalm 50:17; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 1:11; Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 6:32; Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 10:14; Proverbs 10:25; Proverbs 11:30; Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 15:13; Proverbs 16:29; Isaiah 19:14; Matthew 7:24; Matthew 15:8; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Corinthians 11:7; 1 Peter 3:13; 2 Peter 2:9; Revelation 2:15

Do Not Be Conformed To The World

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. — Romans 12:2 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Ezra 10:11; Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:19; Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 4:23-24; Ephesians 5:10

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Sayings of King Lemuel

1 The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:

2 What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? 3 Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, 5 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. 6 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; 7 let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. 8 Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

The Woman Who Fears the Lord

10 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 14 She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. 15 She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. 16 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. 19 She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. 20 She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet. 22 She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant. 25 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. 27 She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 29 “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. — Proverbs 31 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Anglicised Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Deuteronomy 16:18; Judges 14:12; Ruth 3:11; Ruth 4:1-2; 2 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 3:29; 1 Kings 2:1-9; 1 Kings 11:1-4; 1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 4:29; Job 14:21; Job 28:18; Psalm 112:1; Proverbs 10:31; Proverbs 11:16; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 22:4; Ecclesiastes 1:1; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 5:22-23; Isaiah 65:13-14; Ezekiel 27:25; Luke 12:42; Luke 16:19; Romans 12:11; Romans 12:13; Ephesians 4:28; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Timothy 2:9-10; Revelation 19:8

O Lord, Deliver My Life To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. 2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? 4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? 6 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. 7 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes. 8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. 9 The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer. 10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. — Psalm 6 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Anglicised Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: 1 Samuel 1:27; 1 Chronicles 15:21; Job 7:13; Job 17:7; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 17:13; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 22:14; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 30:2; Psalm 30:9; Psalm 31:9; Psalm 71:13; Psalm 71:24; Psalm 74:9; Psalm 88:10; Matthew 7:23; Luke 13:27; John 12:27

Life in the Spirit

1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

मसीही आत्मिक जीवन

1 इसलिए अब उनके लिए, जो मसीह येशु में हैं, दण्ड की कोई आज्ञा नहीं है 2 क्योंकि मसीह येशु में बसा हुआ, जीवन से संबंधित पवित्रात्मा की व्यवस्था ने, तुम्हें पाप और मृत्यु की व्यवस्था से मुक्त कर दिया है. — Romans 8:1-2 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) and Saral Hindi Bible (SHB) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers and New Testament, Saral Hindi Bible (नए करार, सरल हिन्दी बाइबल) Copyright © 1978, 2009, 2016 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Ezekiel 18:9; John 8:32; John 8:36; Romans 5:16; Romans 6:14; Romans 6:22; Romans 8:9; Romans 8:11

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Judgment Against Nineveh

1 Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey! 2 The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! 3 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies! 4 And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms. 5 Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame. 6 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. 7 And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her? Where shall I seek comforters for you? 8 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water round her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall? 9 Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers. 10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honoured men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy. 12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater. 13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars. 14 Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mould! 15 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper! 16 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away. 17 Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are. 18 Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. 19 There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? — Nahum 3 | English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Anglicised Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Leviticus 26:37; 1 Kings 22:17; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 32:3-4; Job 6:27; Job 9:31; Job 27:23; Job 30:8; Job 39:22; Psalm 62:10; Psalm 76:5-6; Psalm 105:34; Isaiah 2:10; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 19:6; Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 23:8; Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 45:1-2; Isaiah 47:2-3; Isaiah 51:19; Isaiah 51:27; Isaiah 66:15-16; Jeremiah 15:5; Jeremiah 25:19; Jeremiah 30:12; Jeremiah 46:3; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 51:14; Ezekiel 24:6; Revelation 6:13; Revelation 9:7; Revelation 17:1-2; Revelation 18:3

Why Do You Hide Yourself?

1 Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? 2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. 3 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. 4 In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” 5 His ways prosper at all times; your judgements are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. 6 He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.” 7 His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. 8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; 9 he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. 10 The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might. 11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.” 12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted. 13 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”? 14 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none. 16 The Lord is king for ever and ever; the nations perish from his land. 17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear 18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. — Psalm 10 | English Standard Version Anglicized (ESVUK) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Anglicized Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Exodus 15:18; Exodus 22:23; Deuteronomy 8:20; 1 Kings 9:3; 1 Chronicles 29:18; Job 20:12; Job 22:13; Job 24:14; Job 38:15; Psalm 1:1; Psalm 7:16; Psalm 9:9; Psalm 9:12; Psalm 12:5; Psalm 13:1; Psalm 17:2; Psalm 17:4; Psalm 17:7; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 22:11; Psalm 24:15; Psalm 28:5; Psalm 30:6; Psalm 36:2; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 49:6; Psalm 49:18; Isaiah 29:15; Matthew 5:21; Matthew 13:19; Romans 3:14; Revelation 18:7

Psalm 10: Where is God Now?

Key Moments in Psalm 10

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.