[ Rest is the highest form of worship – 62.2
Psalms Chapter 62
1 For the Leader; for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
2 Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness;
from Him cometh my salvation.
3 He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower, I shall not be greatly moved.
4 How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, {N}
as a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
5 They only devise to thrust him down from his height, delighting in lies; {N}
they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
Selah
6 Only for God wait thou in stillness, my soul;
for from Him cometh my hope.
7 He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower, I shall not be moved.
8 Upon God resteth my salvation and my glory;
the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
9 Trust in Him at all times, ye people;
pour out your heart before Him; {N}
God is a refuge for us.
Selah
10 Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; {N}
if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.
11 Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; {N}
if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
12 God hath spoken once, twice have I heard this:
that strength belongeth unto God;
13 Also unto Thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy;
for Thou renderest to every man according to his work. {P}
Psalms Chapter 63
1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
2 O God, Thou art my God, earnestly will I seek Thee; {N}
my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee, {N}
in a dry and weary land, where no water is.
3 So have I looked for Thee in the sanctuary, to see Thy power and Thy glory.
4 For Thy lovingkindness is better than life;
my lips shall praise Thee.
5 So will I bless Thee as long as I live;
in Thy name will I lift up my hands.
6 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness;
and my mouth doth praise Thee with joyful lips;
7 When I remember Thee upon my couch, and meditate on Thee in the night-watches.
8 For Thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of Thy wings do I rejoice.
9 My soul cleaveth unto Thee;
Thy right hand holdeth me fast.
10 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth.
11 They shall be hurled to the power of the sword;
they shall be a portion for foxes.
12 But the king shall rejoice in God; {N}
every one that sweareth by Him shall glory;
for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. {P}
parsha 12.vi,vii ” God meant it for good “
Genesis 49
27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.’
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them:
‘I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.’
33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis Chapter 50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days. 4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying:
‘If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: 5 My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come back.’
6 And Pharaoh said:
‘Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.’
7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said:
‘This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.’
Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said:
‘It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.’
16 And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying:
‘Thy father did command before he died, saying:
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph:
Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.’
And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said:
‘Behold, we are thy bondmen.’
19 And Joseph said unto them:
‘Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.’
And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren:
‘I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.’
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying:
‘God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.’
26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. {P}
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