麥克謙一年通讀

Eyes Lifted in Hope of Mercy

¹Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.

²Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyes [look] unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.

³Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.

Salvation like a Bird Escaped from the Snare

¹If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Let Israel now say,

²If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us;

³Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

⁴Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

⁵Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

⁶Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

⁸Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.

The Lord Who Surrounds and Keeps like the Mountains

¹They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.

²As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for evermore.

³For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

⁴Do good, O Jehovah, unto those that are good, And to them that are upright in their hearts.

⁵But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Zion's New Name and the Unceasing Watchmen

¹For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

²And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.

³Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

⁴Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

⁵For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

⁶I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest,

⁷and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

⁸Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

⁹but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

¹¹Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

¹²And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles

¹And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.

²Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;

³Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

⁴Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

⁵These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying,Go not into [any] way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans:

⁶but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

⁷And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

⁸Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.

⁹Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;

¹⁰no wallet for [your] journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

¹¹And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter, search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go forth.

¹²And as ye enter into the house, salute it.

¹³And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

¹⁴And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.

¹⁵Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Coming Persecutions Foretold

¹⁶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

¹⁷But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;

¹⁸yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁹But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

²⁰For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

²¹And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

²²And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

²⁴A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

²⁵It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!

Fear Him Who Is to Be Feared

²⁶Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

²⁷What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.

²⁸And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:

³⁰but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

³²Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

³³But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Not Peace, but a Sword

³⁴Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

³⁵For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law:

³⁶and a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household.

³⁷He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

³⁸And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

³⁹He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Rewards for Receiving a Disciple

⁴⁰He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

⁴¹He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

⁴²And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.