September 4, 2066
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος: In the beginning was the Word(John 1:1)
καὶ γνώσεσθε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free(John 8:32)
Today's Reading
Song of Solomon 7:1–8:14
Psalm 103:31–35 (MT: 104)
Proverbs 24:21–22
1 Corinthians 14:1–20
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Song of Solomon 7Septuagint (LXX2012)
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Old TestamentSeptuagint (LXX2012)
Song of Solomon 7:1–8:14
1Your steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of [your] thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman. 2Your navel is [as] a turned bowl, not lacking liquor; your belly is [as] a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3Your two breasts are as two twin fawns. 4Your neck is as an ivory tower; your eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: your nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus. 5Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries. 6How beautiful are you, and how sweet are you, [my] love! 7This is your greatness in your delights: you were made like a palm tree, and your breasts to cluster. 8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose of apples; 9and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth. 10I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me. 11Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, [if] the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts. 13The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors [are] all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept [them] for you. Chapter 81I would that you, O my kinsman, were he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found you without, I would kiss you; yes, they should not despise me. 2I would take you, I would bring you into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make you to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates. 3His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 4I have charged you, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that you⌃ stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please. 5Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised you up under an apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she that bore you brought you forth. 6Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, [even] the flames thereof. 7Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, [men] would utterly despise it. 8Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for? 9If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels. 10I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace. 11Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand [pieces] of silver. 12My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred. 13You that dwell in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice: make me hear [it]. 14Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
PsalmSeptuagint (LXX2012)
Psalm 103:31–35(MT: 104)
MT Psalm 104 = LXX Psalm 103 (standard offset).
31Let the glory of the Lord be for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works; 32who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke. 33I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist. 34Let my meditation be sweet to him: and I will rejoice in the Lord. 35Let the sinners fail from off the earth, and transgressors, so that they shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
ProverbSeptuagint (LXX2012)
Proverbs 24:21–22
21[My] son, fear God and the king; and do not disobey either of them. 22For they will suddenly punish the ungodly, and who can know the vengeance [inflicted] by both? [A son that keeps the commandment shall escape destruction; for [such an one] has fully received it. Let no falsehood be spoken by the king from the tongue; yes, let no falsehood proceed from his tongue. The king's tongue is a sword, and not one of flesh; and whoever shall be given up to [it] shall be destroyed: for if his wrath should be provoked, he destroys men with cords, and devours men's bones, and burns them up as a flame, so that they are not [even] fit to be eaten by the young eagles. [My] son, reverence my words, and receive them, and repent.]
New TestamentKing James Version
1 Corinthians 14:1–20
1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. 6Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. 11Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 12Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. 14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
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