Bible reading for the day: 144_05-May-24_Psa108-110Psa 108:2 Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn! Psa 108:3 I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples, And I will sing praises to You among the nations. Psa 108:4 For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies. Psa 108:5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, And Your glory above all the earth. Psa 108:6 That Your beloved may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and answer me! Psa 108:7 God has spoken in His holiness: "I will exult, I will portion out Shechem And measure out the valley of Succoth. Psa 108:8 "Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet of My head; Judah is My scepter. Psa 108:9 "Moab is My washbowl; Over Edom I shall throw My shoe; Over Philistia I will shout aloud." Psa 108:10 Who will bring me into the besieged city? Who will lead me to Edom? Psa 108:11 Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us? And will You not go forth with our armies, O God? Psa 108:12 Oh give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain. Psa 108:13 Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries. -------- Psa 109:1 O God of my praise, Do not be silent! Psa 109:2 For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Psa 109:3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause. Psa 109:4 In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer. Psa 109:5 Thus they have repaid me evil for good And hatred for my love. Psa 109:6 Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand. Psa 109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, And let his prayer become sin. Psa 109:8 Let his days be few; Let another take his office. Psa 109:9 Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow. Psa 109:10 Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes. Psa 109:11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor. Psa 109:12 Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children. Psa 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; In a following generation let their name be blotted out. Psa 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out. Psa 109:15 Let them be before the Lord continually, That He may cut off their memory from the earth; Psa 109:16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death. Psa 109:17 He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him. Psa 109:18 But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered into his body like water And like oil into his bones. Psa 109:19 Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself. Psa 109:20 Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, And of those who speak evil against my soul. Psa 109:21 But You, O God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me; Psa 109:22 For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. Psa 109:23 I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. Psa 109:24 My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness. Psa 109:25 I also have become a reproach to them; When they see me, they wag their head. Psa 109:26 Help me, O Lord my God; Save me according to Your lovingkindness. Psa 109:27 And let them know that this is Your hand; You, Lord, have done it. Psa 109:28 Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, they shall be ashamed, But Your servant shall be glad. Psa 109:29 Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. Psa 109:30 With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord; And in the midst of many I will praise Him. Psa 109:31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul. -------- Psa 110:1 The Lord says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET." Psa 110:2 The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of Your enemies." Psa 110:3 Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power; In holy array, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew. Psa 110:4 The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek." Psa 110:5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath. Psa 110:6 He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country. Psa 110:7 He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head.
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