Saturday, September 11, 2027

¹Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD’s name. ²Blessed be the LORD’s name, from this time forward and forever more. ³From the rising of the sun to its going down, the LORD’s name is to be praised. ⁴The LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. ⁵Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high, ⁶who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth? ⁷He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

⁴³“For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. ⁴⁴For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. ⁴⁵The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. ⁴⁶“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? ⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you who he is like. ⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. ⁴⁹But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”