Monday, November 20, 2023

Proverbs 6

Translation: ESV

Practical Warnings

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Date: December 23 2024
Inktober prompt: Gingerbread

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,

2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,[a] and plead urgently with your neighbor.

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Date: January 16 2025
Inktober prompt: Grungy

4 Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;

5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[b]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.


6 Go to the ant, O sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise.
7 Without having any chief,
officer, or ruler,
8 she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.


12 A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
13 winks with his eyes, signals[c] with his feet,
points with his finger,
14 with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;

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Date: May 13 2024

15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.


16 There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.


Warnings Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they[d] will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.

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Date: June 11 2024

23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[g]
but a married woman[h] hunts down a precious life.
27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

Patreon image donor: Clayton Orr
Date: November 21 2023

34 For jealousy makes a man furious,
     and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation;
     he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Proverbs 4

 Translation: ESV

A Father's Wise Instruction

Patreon image donor: Stephen MacLellan
Date: November 18 2023
Inktober prompt: Trumpet

1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
2 for I give you good precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.

3 When I was a son with my father,
    tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom; get insight;
    do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
    love her, and she will guard you.
7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
    and whatever you get, get insight.
8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
    she will honor you if you embrace her.
9 She will place on your head a graceful garland;
    she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

10 Hear, my son, and accept my words,
    that the years of your life may be many.
11 I have taught you the way of wisdom;
    I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 When you walk, your step will not be hampered,
    and if you run, you will not stumble.
13 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
    guard her, for she is your life.

Patreon image donor: Mena Farag
Date: October 22 2023
Inktober prompt: Scratchy

14 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
    and do not walk in the way of the evil.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
    turn away from it and pass on.

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Date: May 5 2024
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16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
     they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.

Patreon image donor: Clayton Orr
Date: December 8 2024
Inktober prompt: Horizon

18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
    which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Patreon image donor: Stephen MacLellan
Date: October 7 2024
Inktober prompt: Boots

19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
    they do not know over what they stumble.

20 My son, be attentive to my words;
    incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Let them not escape from your sight;
    keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them,
    and healing to all their flesh.

Patreon image donor: Mena Farag
Date: June 24 2024
Inktober prompt: Jar

23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for from it flow the springs of life.

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Date: October 26 2023

24 Put away from you crooked speech,
    and put devious talk far from you.

Patreon image donor: JP
Date: January 3 2025
Inktober prompt: Finish Line

25 Let your eyes look directly forward,
    and your gaze be straight before you.
26 Ponder the path of your feet;
    then all your ways will be sure.
27 Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
    turn your foot away from evil.

Monday, October 9, 2023

Proverbs 3

Translation: ESV

Patreon image donor: Fr. Branko Bosančić
Date: December 10 2024
Inktober prompt: Guidebook

1 My son, do not forget my teaching,
    but let your heart keep my commandments,
2 for length of days and years of life
    and peace they will add to you.

Patreon image donor: Clayton Orr
Date: October 21 2023
Inktober prompt: Chain

3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
    bind them around your neck;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 So you will find favor and good success
    in the sight of God and man.

Patreon image donor: Stephan MacLellan
Date: February 22 2024
Inktober prompt: Reflection

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes;
    fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Patreon image donor: Mena Farag
Date: November 25 2023
Inktober prompt: Fresh

8 It will be healing to your flesh
    and refreshment to your bones.

Patreon image donor: Yasemin Gurdal
Date: October 19 2023
Inktober prompt: Plump

9 Honor the Lord with your wealth
    and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your vats will be bursting with wine.

11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
    as a father the son in whom he delights.

Blessed Is the One Who Finds Wisdom
13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
    and the one who gets understanding,
14 for the gain from her is better than gain from silver
    and her profit better than gold.
15 She is more precious than jewels,
    and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Patreon image donor: Ivanhoe
Date: February 24 2024
Inktober prompt: Ancient

16 Long life is in her right hand;
    in her left hand are riches and honor.

17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
    and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
    those who hold her fast are called blessed.

19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth;
    by understanding he established the heavens;
20 by his knowledge the deeps broke open,
    and the clouds drop down the dew.

Patreon image donor: Fr. Branko Bosančić
Date: March 3 2025
Inktober prompt: Lamp

21 My son, do not lose sight of these—
    keep sound wisdom and discretion,

22 and they will be life for your soul
    and adornment for your neck.

Patreon image donor: Stephen MacLellan
Date: October 20 2023
Inktober prompt: Frost

23 Then you will walk on your way securely,
    and your foot will not stumble.

Patreon image donor: Ivanhoe
Date: October 28 2023
Inktober prompt: Beast

24 If you lie down, you will not be afraid;
    when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
25 Do not be afraid of sudden terror
    or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes,
26 for the Lord will be your confidence
    and will keep your foot from being caught.

Patreon image donor: Yasemin Gurdal
Date: November 8 2023
Inktober prompt: Rush

27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in your power to do it.

Patreon image donor: Casey Rubino
Date: January 8 2024
Inktober prompt: Home

28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
    tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

Patreon image donor: Christian Tran
Date: October 25 2023
Inktober prompt: Dangerous

29 Do not plan evil against your neighbor,
    who dwells trustingly beside you.

Patreon image donor: JP
Date: March 26 2025
Inktober prompt: Sever

30 Do not contend with a man for no reason,
    when he has done you no harm.

Patreon image donor: WalkerTexasCoder
Date: October 13 2023
Inktober prompt: Dagger

31 Do not envy a man of violence
    and do not choose any of his ways,

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Date: November 18 2023

32 for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,
    but the upright are in his confidence.

Patreon image donor: Giles
Date: October 9 2023
Inktober prompt: Bounce

33 The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked,
    but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

34 Toward the scorners he is scornful,
    but to the humble he gives favor.

Patreon image donor: Clayton Orr
Date: December 28 2024
Inktober prompt: Wrapped

35 The wise will inherit honor,
    but fools get disgrace.

Monday, October 2, 2023

Proverbs 2

Translation: ESV



The Value of Wisdom

Patreon image donor: Ivanhoe
Date: October 11
Inktober prompt: Fortune

1 My son, if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;

Patreon image donor: Sarah Hodges
Date: October 5 2023
Inktober prompt: Map

3 yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.

Patreon image donor: Tamara Buch
Date: November 6 2023
Inktober prompt: Sparkle

6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Patreon image donor: Tamara Buch
Date: October 11 2023
Inktober prompt: Wander

7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of justice
    and watching over the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
    and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 discretion will watch over you,
    understanding will guard you,

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Date: October 4 2023
Inktober prompt: Dodge

12 delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil
    and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked,
    and who are devious in their ways.

SubscribeStar image donor: M Kurosaki
Date: October 2 2023
Inktober prompt: Spider

16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
    from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
    and forgets the covenant of her God;

Patreon image donor: Angle and Michael Loveless
Date: October 3 2023
Inktober prompt: Path

18 for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

Patreon image donor: Casey Rubino
Date: October 24 2023
Inktober prompt: Celestial

20 So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,

Patreon image donor: WalkerTexasCoder
Date: October 25 2023
Inktober prompt: Shallow

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Thursday, July 6, 2023

2 Samuel Pile

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2 Samuel 12

And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man.

Patreon image donor: Antonio Cabrera González
Date: September 27 2023

46 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling out of their fortresses.

Patreon image donor: Gene Burke
Date: August 30 2020
2 Samuel 24

16 And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

1 Samuel Pile

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1 Samuel 17

48 And when the Philistine arose and was coming, and drew nigh to meet David, David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the Philistine. 49 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about struck the Philistine in the forehead: and the stone was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. 50 And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a stone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no sword in his hand,

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1 Samuel 18

1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Judges Pile


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Judges 4

1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod,


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Judges 4

2 And the Lord delivered them up into the hands of Jaban king of Chanaan, who reigned in Asor: and he had a general of his army named Sisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes, and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them.

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Judges 4

4 And there was at that time Debbora a prophetess the wife of Lapidoth, who judged the people, 5 And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name, between Rama and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for all judgment.

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Judges 4

8 And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come with me, I will go: if thou wilt not come with me, I will not go. 9 She said to him: I will go indeed with thee, but at this time the victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be delivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went with Barac to Cedes.

Patreon image donor: Phil Gonzales
Date: December 15 2020
Judges 9

8 The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.

9 And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?

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Date: December 22 2020
Judges 9

10 And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.

11 And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?

Patreon image donor: Ivanhoe
Date: December 30 2020
Judges 9

12 And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.

13 And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?

Patreon image donor: Alyssa W.
Date: January 4
Inktober prompt: Ominous
Judges 9

14 And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us.

15 And it answered them: If indeed you mean to make me king, come ye and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.

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Judges 15

15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men. 16 And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.

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Judges 16

28 But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God, remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge. 29 And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested, and holding the one with his right hand, and the other with his left, 30 He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.