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Psalm 8
8:1 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a
bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the
avenger.
8:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
8:4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
8:5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and
crowned them with glory and honor.
8:6 You have given them dominion over the works of your
hands; you have put all things under their feet,
8:7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8:8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever
passes along the paths of the seas.
8:9 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
Revelation 21:1-6a
21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no
more.
21:2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down
out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for
her husband.
21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the
home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as
their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will
be with them;
21:4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no
more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for
the first things have passed away."
21:5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am
making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these
words are trustworthy and true."
21:6 Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every
matter under heaven:
3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,
and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down,
and a time to build up;
3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and
a time to dance;
3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones
together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
embracing;
3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a
time to throw away;
3:7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep
silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a
time for peace.
3:9 What gain have the workers from their toil?
3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone
to be busy with.
3:11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover
he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they
cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be
happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
3:13 moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink
and take pleasure in all their toil.
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