Daily Reading

1 In Jehovah have I taken refuge. How can you say to my soul, / Flee to the mountains like a bird?

2 For behold, the wicked bend the bow; / They ready their arrow on the string / To shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

3 When the foundations are destroyed, / What will the righteous man do?

4 Jehovah is in His holy temple; / Jehovah — His throne is in heaven. / His eyes behold; / His eyelids try the sons of men.

5 Jehovah tries the righteous man; / But the wicked man and him who loves violence, His soul hates.

6 He will rain down snares upon the wicked; / Fire and brimstone and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

7 For Jehovah is righteous; He loves righteous deeds. / The upright man will behold His face.

1 Save, O Jehovah; for the faithful man is no more, / For the trustworthy have vanished from among the sons of men.

2 Each man speaks falsehood with his neighbor; / With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

3 May Jehovah cut off all the flattering lips, / The tongue speaking great things,

4 Those who said, With our tongue we will prevail; / Our lips are our own: Who is our lord?

5 Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, / I will now arise, says Jehovah; / I will set him in the safety that he longs for.

6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, / Silver refined in a furnace on the earth, / Purified seven times.

7 You, O Jehovah, will keep them; / You will guard them from this generation forever.

8 The wicked go about all around, / While vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

1 How long, O Jehovah? Will You forget me continually? / How long will You hide Your face from me?

2 How long will I take counsel in my soul / And sorrow in my heart day after day? / How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God; / Enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, / And my adversaries exult when I am shaken.

5 But I trust in Your lovingkindness; / My heart will exult in Your salvation;

6 I will sing to Jehovah, / For He has dealt bountifully with me.

1 The fool has said in his heart, / There is no God. / They are corrupt; they commit abominable deeds; / There is none who does good.

2 Jehovah looked down from heaven / Upon the sons of men / To see if there was anyone who had insight, / Who seeks after God.

3 They have all turned aside; / They are together perverse. / There is none who does good; / There is not even one.

4 Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, / Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread / And do not call upon Jehovah?

5 There they were in great fear, / For God is among the generation of the righteous.

6 You put the counsel of the afflicted to shame, / But Jehovah is their refuge.

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion! / When Jehovah turns the captivity of His people, / Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.

1 O Jehovah, who may sojourn in Your tent? / Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?

2 He who walks in integrity / And does righteousness / And speaks truth from his heart.

3 He does not slander with his tongue; / He does not do evil to his friend, / Nor does he take up a reproach against his neighbor.

4 In his eyes a reprobate is despised, / But he honors those who fear Jehovah. / Should he swear to his harm, / He does not change.

5 He does not lend his money on interest, / Nor accept a bribe against the innocent. / He who does these things will not be shaken forever.

1 Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.

2 I say to Jehovah, You are my Lord; / No good have I beyond You;

3 As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent; / All my delight is in them.

4 The sorrows of them who bartered for some other god will be multiplied; / Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, / Nor will I take up their names upon my lips.

5 Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; / You maintain my lot.

6 The measuring lines have fallen on pleasant places for me; / Indeed the inheritance is beautiful to me.

7 I will bless Jehovah, who counsels me; / Indeed in the nights my inward parts instruct me.

8 I have set Jehovah before me continually; / Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

9 Therefore my heart rejoices and my glory exults; / Even my flesh dwells securely.

10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, / Nor let Your Holy One see the pit.

11 You will make known to me the path of life; / In Your presence is fullness of joy; / At Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

1 Hear, O Jehovah, what is righteous; / Give heed to my cry; / Give ear to my prayer, / Which is not made with lips of deceit.

2 May a judgment for me come forth from Your presence; / May Your eyes regard equity.

3 You have examined my heart; You have visited me by night; / You have tried me: You have found nothing. / I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.

4 Regarding the works of man, by the word of Your lips, / I have kept myself from the paths of the violent man.

5 My steps have held fast to Your tracks; / My footsteps have not slipped.

6 I call on You, for You will answer me, O God; / Incline Your ear to me; hear my speaking.

7 Wondrously display Your lovingkindness, / You who save by Your right hand / Those who take refuge in You from them who rise up against them.

8 Guard me like the pupil of Your eye; / In the shadow of Your wings hide me

9 From the presence of the wicked who oppress me, / From my deadly enemies, who close in upon me.

10 They have shut up their fat hearts; / With their mouths they speak arrogantly.

11 Now they have surrounded us in our steps; / They have fixed their eyes on casting us down to the ground.

12 He is like a lion that is eager to tear, / And like a young lion lurking in hidden places.

13 Arise, O Jehovah, confront him; bring him down. / With Your sword rescue my soul from the wicked man,

14 From mortal men with Your hand, O Jehovah, / From mortal men of the world, whose portion is in this life, / And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; / They are satisfied with children, / And they leave their abundance for their little ones.

15 As for me, in righteousness I will behold Your face; / When I awake, I will be satisfied with Your likeness.

12 Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin, death; and thus death passed on to all men because all have sinned —

13 For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one’s account when there is no law.

14 But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type of Him who was to come.

15 But it is not that as the offense was, so also the gracious gift is; for if by the offense of the one the many died, much more the grace of God and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ have abounded to the many.

16 And it is not that as through one who sinned, so also the free gift is; for the judgment was out of one offense unto condemnation, but the gracious gift is out of many offenses unto justification.

17 For if, by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

18 So then as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men.

19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be constituted righteous.

20 And the law entered in alongside that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, grace has superabounded,

21 In order that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.