Kế hoạch đọc Kinh Thánh — M'Cheyne One Year

Called from Slaves to Sons

¹And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

²but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

³so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

⁴and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

⁵that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

⁶and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

⁷so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

Do Not Turn Back to Weak Elemental Principles

⁸But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

⁹and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

¹⁰days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Paul's Heartfelt Appeal to the Galatians

¹²Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

¹³and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

¹⁴and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;

¹⁵what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

¹⁶so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

¹⁷they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

¹⁸and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

¹⁹my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

²⁰and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

Hagar and Sarah, an Allegory of Two Covenants

²¹Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

²²for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

²³but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;

²⁴which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

²⁵for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,

²⁶and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

²⁷for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

²⁸And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

²⁹but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

³⁰but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

³¹then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

Egypt Likened to a Cedar of Lebanon

¹And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying:

²`Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and unto his multitude: To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness?

³Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.

⁴Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.

⁵Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,

⁶In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

⁷And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

⁸Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

⁹Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of God.

The Cedar Cut Down and Brought to Sheol

¹⁰Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

¹¹I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.

¹²And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

¹³On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,

¹⁴In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.

¹⁵Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.

¹⁶From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth -- the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters.

¹⁷Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.

¹⁸Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It [is] Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

A Lament over the Defiled Temple

¹A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

²They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

³They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

⁴We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

⁵Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

⁶Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.

⁷For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

⁸Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake.

¹⁰Why do the nations say, `Where [is] their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

¹¹Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death.

¹²And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

¹³And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!