Kế hoạch đọc Kinh Thánh — M'Cheyne One Year

The Duty and Calling of the Watchman

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and you shall say to them, On whatever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take one man of them, and set him for their watchman:

³and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;

⁴and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head.

⁵Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

⁶But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman's hand.

⁷And you, son of man, I have set you as a watchman to the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from my mouth.

⁸When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; if you speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁹But if you forewarn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but you have delivered your own soul.

The Justice That Judges Each According to His Ways

¹⁰And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel; Thus have you⌃ spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live?

¹¹Say to them, Thus says the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn you⌃ heartily from your way; for why will you⌃ die, O house of Israel?

¹²Say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous erring shall not be able to deliver himself.

¹³When I say to the righteous, You shall live; and he trusts in his righteousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousnesses shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he die.

¹⁴And when I say to the ungodly, You shall surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgment and justice,

¹⁵and return the pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, and walk in the ordinances of life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die.

¹⁶None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered: because he has wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live.

¹⁷Yet the children of your people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight.

¹⁸When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.

¹⁹And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them.

²⁰And this is that which you⌃ said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

News of Jerusalem's Fall and the People's Hypocrisy

²¹And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.

²²Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and he opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning: and my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed.

²³And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²⁴Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abram was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

²⁷Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will kill with pestilence.

²⁸And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.

²⁹And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.

³⁰And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are they that speak concerning you by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.

³¹They approach you as a people comes together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.

³²And you are to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned lute, and they will hear your words, but they will not do them.

³³But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.

A Voice Urging Obedience at the Feast

¹God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods.

²How long will you⌃ judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

³Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.

⁴Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

⁶I have said, You⌃ are gods; and all of you children of the Most High.

⁷But you⌃ die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

A Rebuke Against Unjust Judges

¹O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

²For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

³Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints.

⁴They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

⁵For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you;

⁶even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

⁸Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

⁹Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

¹⁰They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:

¹²who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

¹³O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.

¹⁴As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

¹⁵so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger.

¹⁶Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.

¹⁸And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.