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‭Tehillim (Psalms) 15:1-5 

[1] יהוה, who does sojourn in Your Tent? Who does dwell in Your set-apart mountain? [2] He who walks blamelessly, And does righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart. [3] He has not slandered with his tongue, He has not done evil to his neighbour, Nor lifted up a reproach against his friend;

[4] In whose eyes a reprobate one is despised, But he esteems those who fear יהוה; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; [5] He has not put out his silver at interest, And has not taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these is never moved.

Welcoming The World Wide Word Wednesday

‭Yeshayah (Isaiah) 1:1-31 

[1] The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziyahu, Yotham, Aḥaz, Ḥizqiyahu – sovereigns of Yehuḏah. [2] Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For יהוה has spoken, “I have reared and brought up children, but they have transgressed against Me. [3] An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl does not know, My people have not understood.” [4] Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness, a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken יהוה, they have provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, they went backward. [5] Why should you be stricken any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints. [6] From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. [7] Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers. [8] And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. [9] Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.

[10] Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah! [11] “Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. [12] “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards? [13] “Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, the calling of gatherings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly. [14] “My being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. [15] “And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood. [16] “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!

[17] “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. [18] “Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

[19] “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land; [20] but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,” for the mouth of יהוה has spoken. [21] How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. [22] Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water. [23] Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them. [24] Therefore the Master declares, יהוה of hosts, the Mighty One of Yisra’ĕl, “Ah, I shall be eased of My adversaries, and I shall be avenged of My enemies. [25] “And I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove all your alloy. [26] “And I shall give back your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.” [27] Tsiyon shall be ransomed with right-ruling, and her returning ones with righteousness. [28] And the destruction of transgressors and of sinners is together, and those who forsake יהוה shall be consumed. [29] For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired. And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen. [30] For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. [31] The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish.

They Know Not What They Do.

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Kĕpha Bĕt (2 Peter) 3:1-18 

[1] This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind, to remember [2] the words previously spoken by the set-apart prophets, and of the command of the Master and Saviour, spoken by your emissaries, [3] knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

[4] and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.” [5] For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim, [6] through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. [7] And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men. [8] But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [9] יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

[10] But the day of יהוה shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. [11] Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behaviour and reverence, [12] looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat! [13] But according to His promise we wait for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth in which righteousness dwells. [14] So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, [15] and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

[16] as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures. [17] You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless, [18] but grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Saviour יהושע Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Amĕn.

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‭Berĕshith (Genesis) 2:1-25 

[1] Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their array. [2] And in the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. [3] And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.immkmmkmmkmkmmmmmmmmmmmm
[6] but a mist went up from the earth and watered the entire surface of the ground. [7] And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of lives. And the man became a living being. [8] And יהוה Elohim planted a garden in Ěḏen, to the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed. [9] And out of the ground יהוה Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [10] And a river went out of Ěḏen to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads. [11] The name of the first is Pishon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Ḥawilah, where there is gold. [12] And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone. [13] And the name of the second river is Giḥon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush. [14] And the name of the third river is Ḥiddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. [15] And יהוה Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Ěḏen to work it and to guard it. [16] And יהוה Elohim commanded the man, saying, “Eat of every tree of the garden, [17] but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall certainly die.” [18] And יהוה Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone, I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.” [19] And from the ground יהוה Elohim formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living being, that was its name. [20] So the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field. But for the man there was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart. [21] So יהוה Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. [22] And the rib which יהוה Elohim had taken from the man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. [23] And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.” [24] For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [25] And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.