Afternoon Devotion/Prayer
Exercise: Physical therapy /Lower resistance
Habakkuk 1:1-3:19; Revelations 9:1-21; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 30:10
Habakkuk 1-3New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Chaldeans Used to Punish Judah
1 The [a]oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 How long, O Lord, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do not save.
3 Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;
Strife exists and contention arises.
4 Therefore the law is [b]ignored
And justice [c]is never upheld.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes out perverted.
5 “Look among the nations! Observe!
Be astonished! Wonder!
Because I am doing something in your days—
You would not believe if [d]you were told.
6 “For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
That [e]fierce and impetuous people
Who march [f]throughout the earth
To [g]seize dwelling places which are not theirs.
7 “They are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and [h]authority [i]originate with themselves.
8 “Their horses are swifter than leopards
And [j]keener than wolves in the evening.
Their [k]horsemen come galloping,
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.
9 “All of them come for violence.
[l]Their horde of faces moves forward.
They collect captives like sand.
10 “They mock at kings
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They laugh at every fortress
And heap up rubble to capture it.
11 “Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.
But they will be held guilty,
They whose strength is their god.”
12 Are You not from everlasting,
O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge;
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
13 Your eyes are too pure to [m]approve evil,
And You can not look on wickedness with favor.
Why do You look with favor
On those who deal treacherously?
Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
14 Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?
15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,
Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
And [n]burn incense to their fishing net;
Because through these things their [o]catch is [p]large,
And their food is [q]plentiful.
17 Will they therefore empty their net
And continually slay nations without sparing?
God Answers the Prophet
2 I will stand on my guard post
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply [r]when I am reproved.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said,
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That [s]the one who [t]reads it may run.
3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It [u]hastens toward the goal and it will not [v]fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
4 “Behold, as for the proud one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the righteous will live by his [w]faith.
5 “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself [x]rich with loans?’
7 “Will not [y]your creditors rise up suddenly,
And those who [z]collect from you awaken?
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
8 “Because you have looted many nations,
All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—
Because of human bloodshed and violence [aa]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!
10 “You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.
11 “Surely the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the [ab]framework.
12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with [ac]violence!
13 “Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?
14 “For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to you who make [ad]your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
16 “You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor.
Now you yourself drink and [ae]expose your own nakedness.
The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,
And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
17 “For the violence [af]done to Lebanon will [ag]overwhelm you,
And the devastation of its beasts [ah]by which you terrified them,
Because of human bloodshed and violence [ai]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
18 “What profit is the [aj]idol when its maker has carved it,
Or [ak]an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 “Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.
20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple.
[al]Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
God’s Deliverance of His People
3 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to [am]Shigionoth.
2 Lord, I have heard [an]the report about You and [ao]I fear.
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years,
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember [ap]mercy.
3 God comes from Teman,
And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.
His splendor covers the heavens,
And the earth is full of His praise.
4 His radiance is like the sunlight;
He has rays flashing from His hand,
And there is the hiding of His power.
5 Before Him goes pestilence,
And plague comes [aq]after Him.
6 He stood and surveyed the earth;
He looked and startled the nations.
Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered,
The ancient hills [ar]collapsed.
His ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan under distress,
The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.
8 Did the Lord rage against the rivers,
Or was Your anger against the rivers,
Or was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
On Your chariots of salvation?
9 Your bow was made bare,
The rods of [as]chastisement were sworn. Selah.
You cleaved the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.
11 Sun and moon stood in their places;
They went away at the light of Your arrows,
At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.
12 In indignation You marched through the earth;
In anger You [at]trampled the nations.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For the salvation of Your anointed.
You struck the head of the house of the evil
To lay him open from [au]thigh to neck. Selah.
14 You pierced with his own [av]spears
The head of his [aw]throngs.
They stormed in to scatter [ax]us;
Their exultation was like those
Who devour the oppressed in secret.
15 You trampled on the sea with Your horses,
On the surge of many waters.
16 I heard and my [ay]inward parts trembled,
At the sound my lips quivered.
Decay enters my bones,
And in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,
[az]For the people to arise who will invade us.
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no [ba]fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,
18 Yet I will exult in the Lord,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
19 The Lord [bb]God is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.
For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.
Footnotes:
Habakkuk 1:1 Or burden
Habakkuk 1:4 Or ineffective; lit numbed
Habakkuk 1:4 Lit never goes forth
Habakkuk 1:5 Lit it
Habakkuk 1:6 Lit bitter
Habakkuk 1:6 Lit the breadth of
Habakkuk 1:6 Lit take possession of
Habakkuk 1:7 Lit eminence
Habakkuk 1:7 Lit proceeds from
Habakkuk 1:8 Or more eager to attack
Habakkuk 1:8 Or steeds paw the ground
Habakkuk 1:9 Or The eagerness of their faces
Habakkuk 1:13 Lit look at
Habakkuk 1:16 Or sacrifice
Habakkuk 1:16 Lit portion
Habakkuk 1:16 Lit fat; or plentiful
Habakkuk 1:16 Lit the fat portion
Habakkuk 2:1 Lit upon my reproof
Habakkuk 2:2 Or one may read it fluently
Habakkuk 2:2 Or is to proclaim it
Habakkuk 2:3 Lit pants
Habakkuk 2:3 Or lie
Habakkuk 2:4 Or faithfulness
Habakkuk 2:6 Lit heavy
Habakkuk 2:7 Lit those who bite you
Habakkuk 2:7 Lit violently shake you
Habakkuk 2:8 Lit of the land
Habakkuk 2:11 Lit wood
Habakkuk 2:12 Or injustice
Habakkuk 2:15 Lit his neighbor
Habakkuk 2:16 Lit show yourself uncircumcised; or stagger; so DSS and ancient versions
Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of Lebanon
Habakkuk 2:17 Lit cover
Habakkuk 2:17 Lit which terrified them
Habakkuk 2:17 Lit of the land
Habakkuk 2:18 Or a graven image
Habakkuk 2:18 Lit a cast metal image
Habakkuk 2:20 Lit Hush before Him, all the earth
Habakkuk 3:1 I.e. a highly emotional poetic form
Habakkuk 3:2 Or Your report
Habakkuk 3:2 Or I stand in awe of Your work, O Lord; In the midst of the years revive it,
Habakkuk 3:2 Or compassion
Habakkuk 3:5 Lit at His feet
Habakkuk 3:6 Lit bowed; or sank down
Habakkuk 3:9 Lit word
Habakkuk 3:12 Or thresh
Habakkuk 3:13 Lit foundation
Habakkuk 3:14 Lit shafts
Habakkuk 3:14 Or warriors or villagers
Habakkuk 3:14 Lit me
Habakkuk 3:16 Lit belly
Habakkuk 3:16 Or To come upon the people who will
Habakkuk 3:17 Lit produce
Habakkuk 3:19 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
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Revelation 9
Revelation 9New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Fifth Trumpet—the Bottomless Pit
9 Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the [a]bottomless pit was given to him. 2 He opened the [b]bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts [c]upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And [d]they were not permitted to kill [e]anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it [f]stings a man. 6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
7 The [g]appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. 10 They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months. 11 They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is [h]Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name [i]Apollyon.
12 The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East
13 Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard [j]a voice from the [k]four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of [l]mankind. 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. 17 And [m]this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of [n]brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and [o]brimstone. 18 A third of [p]mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the [q]brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.
20 The rest of [r]mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; 21 and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.
Footnotes:
Revelation 9:1 Lit shaft of the abyss
Revelation 9:2 V 1, note 1
Revelation 9:3 Lit into
Revelation 9:5 Lit it was given to them
Revelation 9:5 Lit them
Revelation 9:5 Lit strikes
Revelation 9:7 Lit likenesses
Revelation 9:11 I.e. destruction
Revelation 9:11 I.e. destroyer
Revelation 9:13 Lit one voice
Revelation 9:13 Two early mss do not contain four
Revelation 9:15 Gr anthropoi
Revelation 9:17 Lit thus I saw
Revelation 9:17 I.e. burning sulphur
Revelation 9:17 I.e. burning sulphur
Revelation 9:18 Gr anthropoi
Revelation 9:18 I.e. burning sulphur
Revelation 9:20 Gr anthropoi
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Psalm 137
Psalm 137New American Standard Bible (NASB)
An Experience of the Captivity.
137 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.
2 Upon the [a]willows in the midst of it
We hung our [b]harps.
3 For there our captors [c]demanded of us [d]songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand [e]forget her skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not [f]exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze it, raze it
To its very foundation.”
8 O daughter of Babylon, you [g]devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who repays you
With [h]the recompense with which you have repaid us.
9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.
Footnotes:
Psalm 137:2 Or poplars
Psalm 137:2 Lit lyres
Psalm 137:3 Lit asked
Psalm 137:3 Lit words of song
Psalm 137:5 I.e. become lame
Psalm 137:6 Lit cause to ascend
Psalm 137:8 Or devastator
Psalm 137:8 Lit your recompense
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Proverbs 30:10
Proverbs 30:10New American Standard Bible (NASB)
10 Do not slander a slave to his master,
Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty.
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