The Bible Reading Plan

Numbers Chapter 20

¹⁴Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us: ¹⁵how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: ¹⁶and when we cried to ForeverOne, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us here out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

¹⁷"Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border." ¹⁸Edom said to him, "You won't pass through me, [if you try] I'll come out with the sword against you." ¹⁹The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet." ²⁰He said, "You won't pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

²¹Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

²²They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

²³ForeverOne spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, ²⁴"Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

²⁵Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; ²⁶and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there." ²⁷Moses did as ForeverOne commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

²⁸Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

²⁹When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Jeremiah Chapter 49

⁷Of Edom. Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

⁸Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.

⁹If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?

¹⁰But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his offspring is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

¹¹Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

¹²For thus says ForeverOne: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.

¹³For I have sworn by myself, says ForeverOne, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.

¹⁴I have heard news from ForeverOne, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

¹⁵For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

¹⁶As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says ForeverOne.

¹⁷Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

¹⁸As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says ForeverOne, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live in it.

¹⁹Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

²⁰Therefore hear the counsel of ForeverOne, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

²¹The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

²²Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

²³Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

²⁴Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

²⁵How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

²⁶Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says ForeverOne of Armies.

²⁷I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.

Psalm 116

¹I love ForeverOne, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

²Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

³The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴Then I called on the name of ForeverOne: "ForeverOne, I beg you, deliver my soul." ⁵ForeverOne is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

⁶ForeverOne preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷Return to your rest, my soul, for ForeverOne has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

⁹I will walk before ForeverOne in the land of the living.

¹⁰I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted." ¹¹I said in my haste, "All men are liars." ¹²What will I give to ForeverOne for all his benefits toward me?

¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of ForeverOne.

¹⁴I will pay my vows to ForeverOne, yes, in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵Precious in the sight of ForeverOne is the death of his saints.

¹⁶ForeverOne, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

¹⁷I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of ForeverOne.

¹⁸I will pay my vows to ForeverOne, yes, in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹in the courts of ForeverOne's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise EverOne!

Psalm 117

¹Praise ForeverOne, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!

²For his loving kindness is great toward us. ForeverOne's faithfulness endures forever. Praise EverOne!

2 Corinthians Chapter 11

³⁰If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus AnointedOne, he who is blessed for evermore, knows that I don't lie.

³²In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes' city, desiring to arrest me.

³³I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.

2 Corinthians Chapter 12

¹It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

²I know a man in the AnointedOne who, fourteen years ago, was caught up into the third heaven (whether in the body or out of the body, I don't know; God knows).

³I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows), ⁴how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

⁵On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

⁶For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me.

⁷By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

⁸Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

⁹He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." So I will rather glory in my weaknesses most gladly, that the power of the AnointedOne may rest on me.

¹⁰So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for AnointedOne's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹¹I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

¹²Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty acts.

¹³For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

¹⁴Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁵I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?