Saturday, July 18, 2026

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

²They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³Therefore the LORD says: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

⁴In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

⁵Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the LORD's assembly.

¹Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

²In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

³For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.

⁴The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

⁸He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

¹⁴But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

¹⁴But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

¹⁵Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

¹⁶and commanded them that they should not make him known,

¹⁷that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

¹⁸"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

¹⁹He will not strive, nor shout, neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

²⁰He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

²¹In his name, the nations will hope."