One Year Bible.

How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

¹Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD my God, You are very great;

You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

²He wraps Himself in light as with a garment;

He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

³laying the beams of His chambers

in the waters above,

making the clouds His chariot,

walking on the wings of the wind.

⁴He makes the winds His messengers,

flames of fire His servants.

⁵He set the earth on its foundations,

never to be moved.

⁶You covered it with the deep like a garment;

the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At Your rebuke the waters fled;

at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away —

⁸the mountains rose and the valleys sank

to the place You assigned for them —

⁹You set a boundary they cannot cross,

that they may never again cover the earth.

¹⁰He sends forth springs in the valleys;

they flow between the mountains.

¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the air nest beside the springs;

they sing among the branches.

¹³He waters the mountains from His chambers;

the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

¹⁴He makes the grass grow for the livestock

and provides crops for man to cultivate,

bringing forth food from the earth:

¹⁵wine that gladdens the heart of man,

oil that makes his face to shine,

and bread that sustains his heart.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD have their fill,

the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

¹⁷where the birds build their nests;

the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats,

the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the seasons;

the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You bring darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

²¹The young lions roar for their prey

and seek their food from God.

²²The sun rises, and they withdraw;

they lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes forth to his work

and to his labor until evening.

²⁴How many are Your works, O LORD!

In wisdom You have made them all;

the earth is full of Your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide,

teeming with creatures beyond number,

living things both great and small.

²⁶There the ships pass,

and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

²⁷All creatures look to You

to give them their food in due season.

²⁸When You give it to them,

they gather it up;

when You open Your hand,

they are satisfied with good things.

²⁹When You hide Your face,

they are terrified;

when You take away their breath,

they die and return to dust.

³⁰When You send Your Spirit,

they are created,

and You renew

the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in His works.

³²He looks on the earth,

and it trembles;

He touches the mountains,

and they smolder.

³³I will sing to the LORD all my life;

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to Him,

for I rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵May sinners vanish from the earth

and the wicked be no more.

Bless the LORD, O my soul.

Hallelujah!

Teaching Sound Doctrine

¹But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.

²Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

³Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. ⁴In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, ⁵to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

⁶In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

⁷In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, ⁸and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

⁹Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, ¹⁰not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

God’s Grace Brings Salvation

¹¹For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. ¹²It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, ¹³as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. ¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

¹⁵Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

The Song of Moses and the Lamb

¹Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.

²And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God, ³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:

“Great and wonderful are Your works,

O Lord God Almighty!

Just and true are Your ways,

O King of the nations!

⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord,

and glorify Your name?

For You alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before You,

for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Preparation for Judgment

⁵After this I looked, and the temple — the tabernacle of the Testimony — was opened in heaven. ⁶And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.

⁷Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. ⁸And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.