Psalms 103; Psalms 104; 1 Corinthians 2

Psalms 103

1 My soul, praise the Lord, and all that is within me, praise His holy name.

2 My soul, praise the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits.

3 He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.

4 He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

5 He satisfies you with goodness; your youth is renewed like the eagle.

6 The Lord executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He revealed His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and full of faithful love.

9 He will not always accuse [us] or be angry forever.

10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our offenses.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

14 For He knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass- he blooms like a flower of the field;

16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known.

17 But from eternity to eternity the Lord's faithful love is toward those who fear Him, and His righteousness toward the grandchildren

18 of those who keep His covenant, who remember to observe His instructions.

19 The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.

20 Praise the Lord, [all] His angels of great strength, who do His word, obedient to His command.

21 Praise the Lord, all His armies, His servants who do His will.

22 Praise the Lord, all His works in all the places where He rules. My soul, praise the Lord!

Psalms 104

1 My soul, praise the Lord! Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with majesty and splendor.

2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

3 laying the beams of His palace on the waters [above], making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,

4 and making the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.

6 You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away-

8 mountains rose and valleys sank- to the place You established for them.

9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

11 They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the sky live beside [the springs]; they sing among the foliage.

13 He waters the mountains from His palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock and [provides] crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,

15 wine that makes man's heart glad- making his face shine with oil- and bread that sustains man's heart.

16 The trees of the Lord flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.

17 There the birds make their nests; the stork makes its home in the pine trees.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.

21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

24 How countless are Your works, Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number- living things both large and small.

26 There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.

27 All of them wait for You to give them their food at the right time.

28 When You give it to them, they gather it; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

30 When You send Your breath, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in His works.

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.

34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him; I will rejoice in the Lord.

35 May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. My soul, praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

4 My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,

5 so that your faith might not be based on men's wisdom but on God's power.

6 However, among the mature we do speak a wisdom, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7 On the contrary, we speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory.

8 None of the rulers of this age knew it, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has never come into a man's heart, is what God has prepared for those who love Him.

10 Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

11 For who among men knows the concerns of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the concerns of God except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order to know what has been freely given to us by God.

13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

14 But the natural man does not welcome what comes from God's Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to know it since it is evaluated spiritually.

15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.

16 For: who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.