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DECEMBER 9
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
10:8 Cover us!…Fall on us! The captivity When I was made in secret,
would be so severe that the people would pray And skillfully wrought in the lowest
for the mountains and hills to fall on them,sim- parts of the earth.
ilar to the last days (Luke 23:30; Rev.6:16). 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet
unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
They shall say to the mountains, The days fashioned for me,
“Cover us!” When as yet there were none of them.
And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
9 “O Israel, you have sinned from the
days of Gibeah;
There they stood.
The battle in Gibeah against the 139:13 formed…covered. By virtue of the
children of iniquity divinely designed period of pregnancy, God
Did not overtake them. providentially watches over the development
10 When it is My desire, I will chasten of the child while yet in the mother’s womb.
them.
Peoples shall be gathered against them 139:16 Your book. This figure of speech
When I bind them for their two likens God’s mind to a book of remembrance.
none of them. God sovereignly ordained
transgressions.
11 David’s life before he was conceived.
Ephraim is a trained heifer
That loves to thresh grain;
But I harnessed her fair neck,
I will make Ephraim pull a plow.
Judah shall plow; Proverbs 29:21
Jacob shall break his clods.”
21 He who pampers his servant from
12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
childhood
Reap in mercy; Will have him as a son in the end.
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the LORD, 3 John 1–14
Till He comes and rains righteousness he Elder,
on you. T
13 You have plowed wickedness; To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth:
You have reaped iniquity. 2
You have eaten the fruit of lies, Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all
Because you trusted in your own way, things and be in health, just as your soul pros-
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In the multitude of your mighty men. pers. For I rejoiced greatly when brethren
14 Therefore tumult shall arise among came and testified of the truth that is in you,
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your people, just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater
And all your fortresses shall be joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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plundered Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do
As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in
the day of battle—
A mother dashed in pieces upon her
children. 4 I have no greater joy. John’s personal affec-
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, tion for Gaius radiated especially from his per-
Because of your great wickedness. sonal conduct (Luke 6:46). my children. The
At dawn the king of Israel word “my” is emphatic in the original. John’s
Shall be cut off utterly. heart delighted in the proper conduct of his
spiritual children in the faith. Those who walk
Psalm 139:13–16 (conduct) in the truth (belief) have integrity—
13 For You formed my inward parts; there is no dichotomy between professing
You covered me in my mother’s womb. and living.He had strong fatherly affection for
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and them (1 Cor. 4:14–16; 1 Thess. 2:11; 3:1–10).
wonderfully made;

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