Underlines from my Bible… November 29, 2007

My favorite Bible is missing its cover and is too fragile to use daily anymore.  I thought it would be fun to go through and record some of the verses I have underlined over the years…

 

“FOR THIS GOD IS OUR GOD FOR EVER AND EVER;
HE WILL BE OUR GUIDE EVEN TO THE END.”
                                                      Psalm 48:14

• Genesis 50: 20-”You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
  
• Leviticus 11: 44-”I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.”
  
• Numbers 23: 19-”God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promise and not fulfill?
  
• Deuteronomy 6: 4-9-”Hear, O Israel:  The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.  Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates.”
  
• Deuteronomy 33:12, 27-”Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.”
  “The eternal God is your refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms.”
  
• Joshua 1: 6-9-”Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.  Be strong and very courageous.  Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.  Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.  Then you will be prosperous and successful.”
  
• Joshua 3: 5-”Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”
  
• Joshua 24: 15e-”But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
  
• II Chronicles 16: 9-”For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.”
  
• Psalm 16: 5-8,11-”Lord you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.  The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.  I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.  I have set the Lord always before me.  Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
  “You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”
  
• Psalm 18-
• Psalm 24: 8-10-”Who is this King of glory?  The Lord strong and mighty,the Lord mighty in  battle.  Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The Lord Almighty–he is the King of glory.”
  
• Psalm 27: 1-”The Lord is my light and my salvation–whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid?”
  
• Psalm 33-
• Psalm 34-
• Psalm 37 (for a turbulent world where it feels evil prevails)-
• Psalm 40: 5-”Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done.  The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.”
  
• Psalm 46-
• Psalm 61: 1-4-”Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.  From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.  For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.  I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.”
  
• Psalm 63: 1-8-”O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.  Because your love is better than life, my lips will will glorify you.  I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name will I lift up my hands.  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.  On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.  Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.”
  
• Psalm 73: 23-28-”Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.  You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you take me into glory.  Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.  But as for me, it is good to be near God.  I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all your good deeds.”
  
• Psalm 84-
• Psalm 90: 1-2-”Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.  Before the mountains were born or you you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
  
• Psalm 91: 1-2-”He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
  
• Psalm 97: 11, 12-”Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.  Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name.”
  
• Psalm 112: 6-8-”Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever.  He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.  His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.”
  
• Psalm 119: 54-56-”Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.  In the night I remember your name, O Lord, and I will keep your law.  This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.”
   
• Psalm 119: 96, 130, 165-”To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless.”
  “The unfolding of your word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
  “Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.”
  
• Psalm 121-”I lift up my eyes to the hills–where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot slip–he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.  The Lord watches over you–the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.  The Lord will keep you from all harm–he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
  
• Psalm 138: 8-”The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever–do not abandon the works of your hands.”
  
• Psalm 150: 6-”Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord.”
  
• Proverbs 30: 7-9-”Two things I ask of you, O Lord; do not refuse me before I die:  Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me my daily bread.  Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you or say, ‘Who is the Lord?’  Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.”
  
• Ecclesiastes 3: 11-14-”He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.  That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil–this is the gift of God.  I know that everything God does will endure forever’ nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it.  God does it so that men will revere him.”
  
• Ecclesiastes 7: 13-14-”Consider what God has done:  Who can straighten what he has made crooked?  When times are bad, consider:  God has made the one as well as the other.  Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.”
  
• Isaiah 1: 18-”Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
  
• Isaiah 26: 3, 4-”You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.  Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.”
  
• Isaiah 30: 18-21-”Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion.  For the Lord is a God of justice.  Blessed are all who wait for him!  O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.  How gracious he will be when you cry for help!  As soon as he hears, he will answer you.  Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.  Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
  
• Isaiah 32: 17-18-”My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.”
  
• Isaiah 33: 2-”O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you.  Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.”
  
• Isaiah 40: 28-31-”Do you not know?  Have you not heard?  the Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.  He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.  Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
  
• Isaiah 50: 4-5 (a word given to me a few years ago and it still humbles me…I love this scripture)-“The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.  He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.  The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.”
  
• Isaiah 50: 7-”Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.  Therefore have I set my face like fling, and I know I will not be put to shame.”
  
• Isaiah 55: 8-13-”For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts not your thoughts.  As the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.  You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.  Instead of the thorn-bush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.  This will be the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”
  
• Isaiah 58: 8-9a,b,11-12-”Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.  They you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help and he will say: Here I am.”
  “The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.  You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.  Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”
  
• Isaiah 61: 1-4-”The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion–to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.  They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.”
  
• Jeremiah 6: 16-”This is what the Lord says:  Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
  
• Jeremiah 15: 16-”When your word came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty.”
  
• Jeremiah 24: 6-7-”My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land.  I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.  I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord.  They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.”
  
• Jeremiah 29: 11-14-”For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you.”
  
• Jeremiah 32: 17-”Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm.  Nothing is too hard for you.”
  
• Jeremiah 33: 3-”Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”
  
• Lamentations 3: 22-24-”Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail.  They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  I say to myself, The Lord is my portion; therefore, I will wait for him.”
  
• Micah 6: 8-”He has showed you, O man, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
  
• Habakkuk 2: 14-”For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”
  
• Habakkuk 3: 19-”The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer, he enables me to go on the heights.”
  
•  Zephaniah 3: 17-“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” 

  Zechariah 4: 6d-”So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
  

• Malachi 3: 10-12-”Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.  Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”

Drink deeply of the abundant storehouse of God’s Word…may you be reminded of a favorite verse or buoyed by a new one…but most of all may you drop to your knees and praise the LORD!!!

***Coming soon…The New Testament