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Psalms 68; Psalms 69; Romans 8:1-21

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Psalms 68

1 Let God rise up; let his enemies scatter; let those who hate him run scared before him!
2 Like smoke is driven away, drive them away! Like wax melting before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
3 But let the righteous be glad and celebrate before God. Let them rejoice with gladness!
4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Exalt the one who rides the clouds! The LORD is his name. Celebrate before him!
5 Father of orphans and defender of widows is God in his holy habitation.
6 God settles the lonely in their homes; he sets prisoners free with happiness, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7 When you went forth before your people, God, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah
8 the earth shook! Yes, heaven poured down before God, the one from Sinai— before God, the God of Israel!
9 You showered down abundant rain, God; when your inheritance grew weary, you restored it yourself,
10 and your creatures settled in it. In your goodness, God, you provided for the poor.
11 My Lord gives the command— many messengers are bringing good news:
12 "The kings of armies are on the run! The women back home divide the spoil.
13 Even if you lie down among the sheepfolds, there are wings of a dove covered with silver; its pinions covered in precious gold."
14 When the Almighty scattered the kings there, snow fell on Mount Zalmon.
15 Mighty mountain, Mount Bashan; many-peaked mountain, Mount Bashan!
16 You many-peaked mountain: Why do you look with envy at the mountain God desired for his dwelling, the mountain where the LORD dwells forever?
17 God's chariots are twice ten thousand— countless thousands! My Lord came from Sinai into the sanctuary.
18 You ascended the heights, leading away your captives, receiving tribute from people, even from those who rebel against the LORD God's dwelling there.
19 Bless the Lord! The God of our salvation supports us day after day! Selah
20 Our God is the God of salvation, and escape from certain death comes through God my LORD.
21 Yes, God will shatter the heads of his enemies— the very skulls of those who walk in guilt.
22 My Lord has spoken: "From Bashan I will bring those people back. I will bring them back from the ocean's depths
23 so that you can wash your feet in their blood, so that your dogs' tongues can lap up their share of your enemies."
24 They saw your procession, God— the procession of my God, my king, into the sanctuary.
25 First came the singers, then the musicians; between them the young women were playing hand drums:
26 "Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from Israel's fountain!"
27 There's Benjamin leading them, though he's little; then the princes of Judah, their speaker; then the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Summon your strength, God! Show how strong you are, God, just as you've done for us before,
29 from your temple above Jerusalem, where kings bring you gifts.
30 Rebuke the wild animals of the marshland, the herd of bulls among the calves of the peoples. Trample those who delight in money; scatter the peoples who take pleasure in battles.
31 Let ambassadors come from Egypt; let Cush stretch out its hands to God.
32 Sing to God, all kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to my Lord. Selah
33 Sing to the one who rides through heaven, the most ancient heaven. Look! God sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.
34 Recognize how strong God is! His majesty extends over Israel; his strength is in the clouds.
35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries— the God of Israel who gives strength and power to his people! Bless God!
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Psalms 69

1 Save me, God, because the waters have reached my neck!
2 I have sunk into deep mud. My feet can't touch the bottom! I have entered deep water; the flood has swept me up.
3 I am tired of crying. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are exhausted with waiting for my God.
4 More numerous than the hairs on my head are those who hate me for no reason. My treacherous enemies, those who would destroy me, are countless. Must I now give back what I didn't steal in the first place?
5 God, you know my foolishness; my wrongdoings aren't hidden from you.
6 LORD God of heavenly forces!— don't let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me. God of Israel!— don't let those who seek you be disgraced because of me.
7 I am insulted because of you. Shame covers my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my own brothers, an immigrant to my mother's children.
9 Because passion for your house has consumed me, the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me!
10 I wept while I fasted— even for that I was insulted.
11 When I wore funeral clothes, people made fun of me.
12 Those who sit at the city gate muttered things about me; drunkards made up rude songs.
13 But me? My prayer reaches you, LORD, at just the right time. God, in your great and faithful love, answer me with your certain salvation!
14 Save me from the mud! Don't let me drown! Let me be saved from those who hate me and from these watery depths!
15 Don't let me be swept away by the floodwaters! Don't let the abyss swallow me up! Don't let the pit close its mouth over me!
16 Answer me, LORD, for your faithful love is good! Turn to me in your great compassion!
17 Don't hide your face from me, your servant, because I'm in deep trouble. Answer me quickly!
18 Come close to me! Redeem me! Save me because of my enemies!
19 You know full well the insults I've received; you know my shame and my disgrace. All my adversaries are right there in front of you.
20 Insults have broken my heart. I'm sick about it. I hoped for sympathy, but there wasn't any; I hoped for comforters, but couldn't find any.
21 They gave me poison for food. To quench my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let the table before them become a trap, their offerings a snare.
23 Let their eyes grow too dim to see; make their insides tremble constantly.
24 Pour out your anger on them— let your burning fury catch them.
25 Let their camp be devastated; let no one dwell in their tents.
26 Because they go after those you've already struck; they talk about the pain of those you've already pierced.
27 Pile guilt on top of their guilt! Don't let them come into your righteousness!
28 Let them be wiped out of the scroll of life! Let them not be recorded along with the righteous!
29 And me? I'm afflicted. I'm full of pain. Let your salvation keep me safe, God!
30 I will praise God's name with song; I will magnify him with thanks
31 because that is more pleasing to the LORD than an ox, more pleasing than a young bull with full horns and hooves.
32 Let the afflicted see it and be glad! You who seek God— let your hearts beat strong again
33 because the LORD listens to the needy and doesn't despise his captives.
34 Let heaven and earth praise God, the oceans too, and all that moves within them!
35 God will most certainly save Zion and will rebuild Judah's cities so that God's servants can live there and possess it.
36 The offspring of God's servants will inherit Zion, and those who love God's name will dwell there.
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Romans 8:1-21

1 So now there isn't any condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3 God has done what was impossible for the Law, since it was weak because of selfishness. God condemned sin in the body by sending his own Son to deal with sin in the same body as humans, who are controlled by sin.
4 He did this so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Now the way we live is based on the Spirit, not based on selfishness.
5 People whose lives are based on selfishness think about selfish things, but people whose lives are based on the Spirit think about things that are related to the Spirit.
6 The attitude that comes from selfishness leads to death, but the attitude that comes from the Spirit leads to life and peace.
7 So the attitude that comes from selfishness is hostile to God. It doesn't submit to God's Law, because it can't.
8 People who are self-centered aren't able to please God.
9 But you aren't self-centered. Instead you are in the Spirit, if in fact God's Spirit lives in you. If anyone doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, they don't belong to him.
10 If Christ is in you, the Spirit is your life because of God's righteousness, but the body is dead because of sin.
11 If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your human bodies also, through his Spirit that lives in you.
12 So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it isn't an obligation to ourselves to live our lives on the basis of selfishness.
13 If you live on the basis of selfishness, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the actions of the body, you will live.
14 All who are led by God's Spirit are God's sons and daughters.
15 You didn't receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, "Abba, Father."
16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God's children.
17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God's heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.
18 I believe that the present suffering is nothing compared to the coming glory that is going to be revealed to us.
19 The whole creation waits breathless with anticipation for the revelation of God's sons and daughters.
20 Creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice—it was the choice of the one who subjected it—but in the hope
21 that the creation itself will be set free from slavery to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of God's children.
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