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Shabbat 1 June 2024

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SOAP Scriptures Jeremiah 17 The Sin of Judah 1  “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, 2  while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, 3  on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. 4  You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.” 5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,[ a ] whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6  He is like a shrub in the desert,  and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trus

Friday 31 May 2024

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SOAP Scripture Psalms 149 English Standard Version Sing to the Lord a New Song 1  Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song,    his praise in the assembly of the godly! 2  Let Israel be glad in his Maker;    let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 3  Let them praise his name with dancing,    making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 4  For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;    he adorns the humble with salvation. 5  Let the godly exult in glory;    let them sing for joy on their beds. 6  Let the high praises of God be in their throats    and two-edged swords in their hands, 7  to execute vengeance on the nations    and punishments on the peoples, 8  to bind their kings with chains    and their nobles with fetters of iron, 9  to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord! Joel 2:28-32 The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit 28 [ a ] “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons

Thursday, 30 May 2024

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SOAP Scriptures Psalms 148 English Standard Version Praise the Name of the Lord 1  Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens;    praise him in the heights! 2  Praise him, all his angels;    praise him, all his hosts! 3  Praise him, sun and moon,    praise him, all you shining stars! 4  Praise him, you highest heavens,    and you waters above the heavens! 5  Let them praise the name of the Lord!    For he commanded and they were created. 6  And he established them forever and ever;    he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.[ a ] 7  Praise the Lord from the earth,    you great sea creatures and all deeps, 8  fire and hail, snow and mist,    stormy wind fulfilling his word! 9  Mountains and all hills,    fruit trees and all cedars! 10  Beasts and all livestock,    creeping things and flying birds! 11  Kings of the earth and all peoples,    princes and all rulers of the earth! 12  Young men and maidens together,    old men and children! 13  Let them praise the name of the Lor

Wednesday 29 May 2024

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SOAP Scripture: Isaiah 34 15 There the owl nests and lays    and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate. 16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:    Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. 17 He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever;  from generation to generation they shall dwell in it. Psalms 147 English Standard Version He Heals the Brokenhearted 1  Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God;    for it is pleasant,[ a ] and a song of praise is fitting.  2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;    he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted    and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars;    he gives to all of them their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;    his understanding is

Tuesday May 28, 2024

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SOAP Scriptures Isaiah 33 2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning,    our salvation in the time of trouble. 5 The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;    he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, 6 and he will be the stability of your times,    abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;    the fear of the Lord is Zion's[ a ] treasure. 15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, 16 he will dwell on the heights;    his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;    his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. 17 Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty;    they will see a land that stretches afar. 21 But there the Lord in majesty will be for us    a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go,    nor majestic ship can pass.

Monday 27 May 2024

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SOAP Isaiah 32 8 But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands. Complacent Women Warned of Disaster 9  Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;    you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. 10  In little more than a year    you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails,    the fruit harvest will not come. 11  Tremble, you women who are at ease,    shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare,    and tie sackcloth around your waist. 12  Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,    for the fruitful vine, 13  for the soil of my people    growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses    in the exultant city. 14 For the palace is forsaken,    the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower    will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys,    a pasture of flocks;  15 until the Spirit is poured upon u s from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field

Sunday Wedding

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SOAP Scriptures Isaiah 30 8  And now, go, write it before them on a tablet    and inscribe it in a book,that it may be for the time to come    as a witness forever.[ a ] 9  For they are a rebellious people,    lying children, children unwilling to hear    the instruction of the Lord; 10  who say to the seers, “Do not see,”    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things,    prophesy illusions, 11  leave the way, turn aside from the path,    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” 12  Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word    and trust in oppression and perverseness    and rely on them, 13  therefore this iniquity shall be to you    like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant; 14  and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel    that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found    with which to take