Jul 4 - Psalms 109-114
Psalms
1O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,2for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.3With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.4In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.6Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.8May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.10May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.11May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.12May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.13May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.16For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.17He loved to pronounce a curse- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing- may it be far from him.18He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.20May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.21But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.24My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.26Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.27Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O LORD, have done it.28They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.29My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.30With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.31For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.
1The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."2The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.3Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.4The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."5The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.7He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
1Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.3Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.4He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.5He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.6He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.7The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.8They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.9He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever- holy and awesome is his name.10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
1Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight in his commands.2His children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.4Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.5Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice.6Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever.7He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.8His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.10The wicked man will see and be vexed, he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.
1Praise the LORD. Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.2Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.3From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.4The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.5Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,6who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;8he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people.9He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
1When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,2Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,6you mountains, that you skipped like rams, you hills, like lambs?7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.