Daily Reading

1 O Jehovah my God, in You do I take refuge. / Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me;

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, / Tearing it apart without anyone to deliver it.

3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, / If there is unrighteousness in my hands,

4 If I have recompensed with evil him who was at peace with me / ( Rather, I have delivered him who vexed me without cause);

5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake me, / And let him trample my life to the ground / And lay my glory down in the dust. Selah

6 Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; / Lift Yourself up against the overflowing wrath of those who vex me, / And awake for me: You have commanded judgment.

7 And let the assembly of the peoples surround You, / And over it return on high.

8 Jehovah will execute judgment on the peoples; / Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness / And according to my integrity that is with me.

9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, / But establish the righteous man. / For the righteous God / Tries the hearts and the inward parts.

10 My shield is with God, / Who saves the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous Judge / And a God who has indignation every day.

12 If one does not turn, He will whet His sword. / He bends His bow and makes it ready.

13 And He prepares instruments of death against him; / He has made His arrows fiery shafts.

14 Behold, the evil man travails with iniquity; / He conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.

15 He digs a pit and hollows it out, / Then he falls into the hole that he has made.

16 His mischief returns upon his own head, / And upon the crown of his own head his violence comes down.

17 I will give thanks to Jehovah according to His righteousness, / And I will sing psalms to the name of Jehovah the Most High.

1 O Jehovah our Lord, / How excellent is Your name / In all the earth, / You who have set Your glory over the heavens!

2 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings / You have established strength / Because of Your adversaries, / To stop the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, / The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

4 What is mortal man, that You remember him, / And the son of man, that You visit him?

5 You have made Him a little lower than angels / And have crowned Him with glory and honor.

6 For You have caused Him to rule over the works of Your hands; / You have put all things under His feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, / As well as the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea, / Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O Jehovah our Lord, / How excellent is Your name / In all the earth!

1 I will give thanks to You, O Jehovah, with all my heart; / I will tell out all Your wonders.

2 I will rejoice and exult in You; / I will sing psalms to Your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turn back, / They stumble and perish at Your presence.

4 For You have upheld my right and my cause; / You sit on the throne, judging righteously.

5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; / You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

6 The enemies are finished; they are in perpetual ruins; / And You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has perished.

7 But Jehovah sits enthroned forever; / He has established His throne for judgment.

8 And it is He who judges the world with righteousness; / He executes judgment on the peoples with equity.

9 And Jehovah is a high retreat for the oppressed, / A high retreat in times of distress.

10 And those who know Your name put their trust in You, / For You have not forsaken those who seek You, O Jehovah.

11 Sing psalms to Jehovah, the Inhabitant of Zion; / Declare His deeds among the peoples,

12 For He who avenges bloodshed remembers those who were slain; / He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah; look on my affliction from those who hate me, / You who raise me from the gates of death,

14 That I may tell out all Your praises / And, in the gates of the daughter of Zion, exult in Your salvation.

15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they have made; / In the net that they hid, their own foot is caught.

16 Jehovah has made Himself known; He has executed justice; / The wicked have been snared in the work of their hands. Higgaion. Selah

17 The wicked will be turned back to Sheol, / All the nations who forget God.

18 For not always will the needy be forgotten, / Nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

19 Arise, O Jehovah! Let not mortal man prevail; / Let the nations be judged in Your sight.

20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah; / Let the nations know that they are mortal men. Selah

1 Why, O Jehovah, do You stand far off? / Why do You hide Yourself in times of distress?

2 Arrogantly the wicked hotly pursue the poor — / May they be caught in the plots that they devise!

3 For the wicked man boasts of the desire of his soul, / And the rapacious man curses, even despises, Jehovah.

4 The wicked man, according to the haughtiness of his countenance, / Says, He will not require it; / All his thoughts are this: There is no God!

5 His ways succeed at all times; / Your judgments are on high, out of his sight; / As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

6 He has said in his heart, I will not be shaken; / I will be in no trouble forever.

7 His mouth is full of curses and of deceit and oppression; / Under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

8 He sits in the ambushes of the open villages; / In hidden places he murders the innocent; / His eyes secretly watch for the unfortunate.

9 He lurks in secret like a lion in its covert; / He lurks ready to seize the poor; / He seizes the poor, drawing them up in his net.

10 He stoops, he crouches, / And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.

11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; / He has hidden His face; He will never see this.

12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up Your hand. / Do not forget the poor.

13 Why does the wicked man despise God / And say in his heart, You will not require it?

14 You do see! For You observe mischief and vexation, / To requite it with Your own hand. / To You the unfortunate one commits his cause; / You have been the help of the orphan.

15 Break the arm of the wicked man and the evildoer; / Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.

16 Jehovah is King forever and ever; / The nations have perished from His land.

17 You have heard the desire of the lowly, O Jehovah; / You will establish their heart; You will cause Your ears to listen,

18 In order to execute justice for the orphan and the oppressed one, / That the mortal man of the earth may terrorize no longer.

1 Therefore having been justified out of faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 Through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and boast because of the hope of the glory of God.

3 And not only so, but we also boast in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

4 And endurance, approvedness; and approvedness, hope;

5 And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

6 For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die.

8 But God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, having now been justified in His blood, we will be saved through Him from the wrath.

10 For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled,

11 And not only so, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.