Psalm 128
| A Song of degrees. Blessed
is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh
in his ways. |
| For thou shalt eat the
labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and
it shall be well with thee. |
| Thy wife shall be as a
fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy
table. |
| Behold, that thus shall the
man be blessed that feareth the LORD. |
| The LORD shall bless thee
out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life. |
| Yea, thou shalt see thy
children's children, and peace upon Israel. |
Psalm 128 |
Isaiah 58
| Cry aloud, spare not, lift
up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people
their transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sins. |
| Yet they seek me daily, and
delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of
their God: they ask of me the ordinances of
justice; they take delight in approaching to
God. |
| Wherefore have we fasted,
say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we
afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye
find pleasure, and exact all your labours. |
| Behold, ye fast for strife
and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
to make your voice to be heard on high. |
| Is it such a fast that I
have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable
day to the LORD? |
| Is not this the fast that I
have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? |
| Is it not to deal thy bread
to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that
are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide
not thyself from thine own flesh? |
| Then shall thy light break
forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD
shall be thy rereward. |
| Then shalt thou call, and
the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he
shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity; |
| And if thou draw out thy
soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity,
and thy darkness be as the noon day: |
| And the LORD shall guide
thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt
be like a watered garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters fail not. |
| And they that shall be of
thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to
dwell in. |
| If thou turn away thy foot
from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour
him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine
own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: |
| Then shalt thou delight
thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for
the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
Isaiah 58 |
John 4
| Then they went out of the
city, and came unto him. |
| In the mean while his
disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. |
| But he said unto them, I
have meat to eat that ye know not of. |
| Therefore said the
disciples one to another, Hath any man brought
him ought to eat? |
| Jesus saith unto them, My
meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and
to finish his work. |
| Say not ye, There are yet
four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I
say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the
fields; for they are white already to harvest. |
| And he that reapeth
receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together. |
| And herein is that saying
true, One soweth, and another reapeth. |
| I sent you to reap that
whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. |
John 4:30-38 |
Genesis 1
| And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. |
Genesis 1:26 |
John 15
| I am the true vine, and my
Father is the husbandman. |
| Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that
it may bring forth more fruit. |
| Now ye are clean through
the word which I have spoken unto you. |
| Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye,
except ye abide in me. |
| I am the vine, ye are the
branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without
me ye can do nothing. |
John 15:1-5 |
Hosea 10
| Israel is an empty vine, he
bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to
the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the
altars; according to the goodness of his land
they have made goodly images. |
Hosea 10:1 |
