Bible reading for the day: 126_05-May-06_Psa89_Psa96_Psa100_Psa101_Psa105_Psa132Psa 89:2 For I have said, "Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness." Psa 89:3 "I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, Psa 89:4 I will establish your seed forever And build up your throne to all generations." Selah. Psa 89:5 The heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. Psa 89:6 For who in the skies is comparable to the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord, Psa 89:7 A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him? Psa 89:8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. Psa 89:9 You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them. Psa 89:10 You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. Psa 89:11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them. Psa 89:12 The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name. Psa 89:13 You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted. Psa 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You. Psa 89:15 How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance. Psa 89:16 In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted. Psa 89:17 For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted. Psa 89:18 For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel. Psa 89:19 Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones, And said, "I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. Psa 89:20 "I have found David My servant; With My holy oil I have anointed him, Psa 89:21 With whom My hand will be established; My arm also will strengthen him. Psa 89:22 "The enemy will not deceive him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. Psa 89:23 "But I shall crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him. Psa 89:24 "My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted. Psa 89:25 "I shall also set his hand on the sea And his right hand on the rivers. Psa 89:26 "He will cry to Me, 'You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' Psa 89:27 "I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth. Psa 89:28 "My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him. Psa 89:29 "So I will establish his descendants forever And his throne as the days of heaven. Psa 89:30 "If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments, Psa 89:31 If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments, Psa 89:32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod And their iniquity with stripes. Psa 89:33 "But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. Psa 89:34 "My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Psa 89:35 "Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. Psa 89:36 "His descendants shall endure forever And his throne as the sun before Me. Psa 89:37 "It shall be established forever like the moon, And the witness in the sky is faithful." Selah. Psa 89:38 But You have cast off and rejected, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. Psa 89:39 You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust. Psa 89:40 You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. Psa 89:41 All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors. Psa 89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice. Psa 89:43 You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in battle. Psa 89:44 You have made his splendor to cease And cast his throne to the ground. Psa 89:45 You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah. Psa 89:46 How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire? Psa 89:47 Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men! Psa 89:48 What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. Psa 89:49 Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? Psa 89:50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants; How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples, Psa 89:51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed. Psa 89:52 Blessed be the Lord forever! Amen and Amen. -------- Psa 96:1 Sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Psa 96:2 Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day. Psa 96:3 Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples. Psa 96:4 For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. Psa 96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens. Psa 96:6 Splendor and majesty are before Him, Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Psa 96:7 Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Psa 96:8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name; Bring an offering and come into His courts. Psa 96:9 Worship the Lord in holy attire; Tremble before Him, all the earth. Psa 96:10 Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity." Psa 96:11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and all it contains; Psa 96:12 Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy Psa 96:13 Before the Lord, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness And the peoples in His faithfulness. -------- Psa 100:1 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Psa 100:2 Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. Psa 100:3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Psa 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. Psa 100:5 For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations. -------- Psa 101:1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice, To You, O Lord, I will sing praises. Psa 101:2 I will give heed to the blameless way. When will You come to me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart. Psa 101:3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me. Psa 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil. Psa 101:5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure. Psa 101:6 My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me. Psa 101:7 He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me. Psa 101:8 Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity. -------- Psa 105:1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Psa 105:2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. Psa 105:3 Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad. Psa 105:4 Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually. Psa 105:5 Remember His wonders which He has done, His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth, Psa 105:6 O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones! Psa 105:7 He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. Psa 105:8 He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, Psa 105:9 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. Psa 105:10 Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Psa 105:11 Saying," To you I will give the land of Canaan As the portion of your inheritance," Psa 105:12 When they were only a few men in number, Very few, and strangers in it. Psa 105:13 And they wandered about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. Psa 105:14 He permitted no man to oppress them, And He reproved kings for their sakes: Psa 105:15 "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm." Psa 105:16 And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread. Psa 105:17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. Psa 105:18 They afflicted his feet with fetters, He himself was laid in irons; Psa 105:19 Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him. Psa 105:20 The king sent and released him, The ruler of peoples, and set him free. Psa 105:21 He made him lord of his house And ruler over all his possessions, Psa 105:22 To imprison his princes at will, That he might teach his elders wisdom. Psa 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. Psa 105:24 And He caused His people to be very fruitful, And made them stronger than their adversaries. Psa 105:25 He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants. Psa 105:26 He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen. Psa 105:27 They performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham. Psa 105:28 He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words. Psa 105:29 He turned their waters into blood And caused their fish to die. Psa 105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs Even in the chambers of their kings. Psa 105:31 He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies And gnats in all their territory. Psa 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land. Psa 105:33 He struck down their vines also and their fig trees, And shattered the trees of their territory. Psa 105:34 He spoke, and locusts came, And young locusts, even without number, Psa 105:35 And ate up all vegetation in their land, And ate up the fruit of their ground. Psa 105:36 He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits of all their vigor. Psa 105:37 Then He brought them out with silver and gold, And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled. Psa 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed, For the dread of them had fallen upon them. Psa 105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to illumine by night. Psa 105:40 They asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. Psa 105:41 He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river. Psa 105:42 For He remembered His holy word With Abraham His servant; Psa 105:43 And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with a joyful shout. Psa 105:44 He gave them also the lands of the nations, That they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples' labor, Psa 105:45 So that they might keep His statutes And observe His laws, Praise the Lord! -------- Psa 132:1 Remember, O Lord, on David's behalf, All his affliction; Psa 132:2 How he swore to the Lord And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, Psa 132:3 "Surely I will not enter my house, Nor lie on my bed; Psa 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes Or slumber to my eyelids, Psa 132:5 Until I find a place for the Lord, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob." Psa 132:6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah, We found it in the field of Jaar. Psa 132:7 Let us go into His dwelling place; Let us worship at His footstool. Psa 132:8 Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Psa 132:9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your godly ones sing for joy. Psa 132:10 For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your anointed. Psa 132:11 The Lord has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: "Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. Psa 132:12 "If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever." Psa 132:13 For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation. Psa 132:14 "This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. Psa 132:15 "I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy with bread. Psa 132:16 "Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy. Psa 132:17 "There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth; I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed. Psa 132:18 "His enemies I will clothe with shame, But upon himself his crown shall shine."
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