2 Samuel 22, Galatians 2, Ezekiel 29, Psalm 78:1~37

2 Samuel 22,

1 David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
 
2 He said: "The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
 
3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior-from violent men you save me.
 
4 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
 
5 "The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
 
6 The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
 
7 In my distress I called to the LORD; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.
 
8 "The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens shook; they trembled because he was angry.
 
9 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.
 
10 He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.
 
11 He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.
 
12 He made darkness his canopy around him-the dark rain clouds of the sky.
 
13 Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth.
 
14 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
 
15 He shot arrows and scattered the enemies, bolts of lightning and routed them.
 
16 The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.
 
17 "He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.
 
18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
 
19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.
 
20 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
 
21 "The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
 
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.
 
23 All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.
 
24 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.
 
25 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
 
26 "To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
 
27 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
 
28 You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
 
29 You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light.
 
30 With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
 
31 "As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
 
32 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
 
33 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.
 
34 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.
 
35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
 
36 You give me your shield of victory; you stoop down to make me great.
 
37 You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.
 
38 "I pursued my enemies and crushed them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
 
39 I crushed them completely, and they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
 
40 You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet.
 
41 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
 
42 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them-to the LORD, but he did not answer.
 
43 I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.
 
44 "You have delivered me from the attacks of my people; you have preserved me as the head of nations. People I did not know are subject to me,
 
45 and foreigners come cringing to me; as soon as they hear me, they obey me.
 
46 They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
 
47 "The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!
 
48 He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me,
 
49 who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.
 
50 Therefore I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to your name.
 
51 He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever."
 

Galatians 2,

1 Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
 
2 I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be leaders, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.
 
3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
 
4 This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
 
5 We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
 
6 As for those who seemed to be important-whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance-those men added nothing to my message.
 
7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews.
 
8 For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.
 
9 James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.
 
10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
 
11 When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
 
12 Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
 
13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
 
14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
 
15 "We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners'
 
16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
 
17 "If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
 
18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.
 
19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
 
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
 
21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
 

Ezekiel 29,

1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me:
 
2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
 
3 Speak to him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: " 'I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, "The Nile is mine; I made it for myself."
 
4 But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.
 
5 I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
 
6 Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the LORD. " 'You have been a staff of reed for the house of Israel.
 
7 When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were wrenched.
 
8 " 'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will bring a sword against you and kill your men and their animals.
 
9 Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. " 'Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it,"
 
10 therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.
 
11 No foot of man or animal will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.
 
12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
 
13 " 'Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.
 
14 I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
 
15 It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.
 
16 Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.' "
 
17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
 
18 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre.
 
19 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army.
 
20 I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
 
21 "On that day I will make a horn grow for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

Psalm 78:1~37

1 O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
 
2 I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old-
 
3 what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.
 
4 We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
 
5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
 
6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
 
7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
 
8 They would not be like their forefathers-a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
 
9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
 
10 they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
 
11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
 
12 He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
 
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
 
14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
 
15 He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
 
16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
 
17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
 
18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
 
19 They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
 
20 When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"
 
21 When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
 
22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
 
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
 
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
 
25 Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
 
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
 
27 He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
 
28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
 
29 They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
 
30 But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
 
31 God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
 
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
 
33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
 
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
 
35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
 
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
 
37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.