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AUGUST 14
8 He will fly away like a dream, and not 26 Total darkness is reserved for his
be found; treasures.
Yes, he will be chased away like a An unfanned fire will consume him;
vision of the night. It shall go ill with him who is left in his
9 The eye that saw him will see him no tent.
more, 27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
Nor will his place behold him anymore. And the earth will rise up against him.
10 His children will seek the favor of the 28 The increase of his house will depart,
poor, And his goods will flow away in the day
And his hands will restore his wealth. of His wrath.
11 His bones are full of his youthful vigor, 29 This is the portion from God for a
But it will lie down with him in the wicked man,
dust. The heritage appointed to him by
God.”
12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
And he hides it under his tongue, Psalm 95:6–11
13 Though he spares it and does not
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow
forsake it,
But still keeps it in his mouth, down;
14 Yet his food in his stomach turns sour; Let us kneel before the LORD our
It becomes cobra venom within him. Maker.
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15 He swallows down riches For He is our God,
And vomits them up again; And we are the people of His pasture,
God casts them out of his belly. And the sheep of His hand.
16 He will suck the poison of cobras; Today, if you will hear His voice:
The viper’s tongue will slay him. 8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in
17 He will not see the streams, the rebellion,
The rivers flowing with honey and As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
cream. 9 When your fathers tested Me;
18 He will restore that for which he They tried Me, though they saw My
labored, work.
And will not swallow it down;
From the proceeds of business
He will get no enjoyment.
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the 95:9 tested Me. This is a reference to the
poor, same event (v. 8), also called “Massah” (trans-
He has violently seized a house which lated “testing”), when God brought water out
he did not build. of the rock (Ex. 17:7; Deut. 6:16; 9:22; 33:8).The
writer to the Hebrews applies the principle of
20 “Because he knows no quietness in his this event to his readers, suggesting that their
heart, inclination to doubt the Lord and return to
He will not save anything he desires. Judaism was parallel with their fathers’inclina-
21 Nothing is left for him to eat; tion to doubt the Lord and go back to Egypt.
Therefore his well-being will not last.
22 In his self-sufficiency he will be in
10 For forty years I was grieved with that
distress;
Every hand of misery will come generation,
against him. And said, ‘It is a people who go astray
23 When he is about to fill his stomach, in their hearts,
God will cast on him the fury of His And they do not know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
wrath,
And will rain it on him while he is ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
eating.
He will flee from the iron weapon;
24 Proverbs 23:4–5
A bronze bow will pierce him through. 4 Do not overwork to be rich;
25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; Because of your own understanding,
Yes, the glittering point comes out of cease!
his gall. 5 Will you set your eyes on that which
Terrors come upon him; is not?

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