Daily Reading

1 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from evil men; / From violent men preserve me;

2 Who devise evil schemes in their hearts / And continually stir up wars.

3 They have sharpened their tongues like that of a serpent; / The poison of adders is under their lips. Selah

4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; / From violent men preserve me; / Who devise schemes to thrust me down.

5 The proud have hidden a trap for me and cords; / They have spread a net by the wayside; / They have set snares for me. Selah

6 I said to Jehovah, You are my God; / Give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.

7 O Jehovah Lord, strength of my salvation, / You have covered my head in the day of battle.

8 O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked man; / Do not let his evil scheme advance, / Lest he be exalted. Selah

9 As for the head of those who surround me, / May the mischief of their own lips cover them.

10 May burning coals drop down upon them; / May they be thrown down into the fire, / Into deep pits, never to rise again.

11 Let no slanderer be established in the land; / Let evil hunt down the violent man speedily.

12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted / And justice for the needy.

13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; / The upright will dwell in Your presence.

1 O Jehovah, I have called upon You; hasten to me. / Give ear to my voice when I call out to You.

2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, / The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; / Keep the door of my lips.

4 Do not let my heart turn to anything evil, / To practice deeds of wickedness / With men who commit iniquity; / And let me not eat of their delicacies.

5 Let the righteous strike me in kindness and reprove me; / Let not my head refuse oil upon the head, / For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.

6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock, / And they hear my words, that they are pleasant.

7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, / Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

8 For my eyes are upon You, O Jehovah Lord; / In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.

9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me / And from the snares of the workers of iniquity.

10 May the wicked fall into their own nets / While I alone pass by.

1 With my voice I cry to Jehovah; / With my voice I make my supplication to Jehovah.

2 I pour out my complaint before Him; / I declare my trouble before Him.

3 When my spirit fainted within me, / You knew my path. / On the way on which I walked / They have hidden a trap for me.

4 Look on my right hand and see, / For there is no one who regards me; / Refuge has failed me; / No one cares for me.

5 I cried to You, O Jehovah; / I said, You are my refuge, / My portion in the land of the living.

6 Give heed to my cry, / For I have been brought very low; / Deliver me from those who persecute me, / For they are stronger than I.

7 Bring my soul out of prison, / That I may give thanks to Your name. / The righteous will surround me, / For You will deal bountifully with me.

1 O Jehovah, hear my prayer; / Give ear to my supplications; / Answer me in Your faithfulness and in Your righteousness;

2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, / For no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; / He has crushed my life down to the ground; / He has caused me to dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

4 Therefore my spirit faints within me; / My heart is appalled in the midst of me.

5 I remember the days of old; / I meditate upon all that You have done; / I muse upon the work of Your hands.

6 I spread out my hands to You; / My soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

7 Hurry and answer me, O Jehovah; / My spirit fails. / Do not hide Your face from me, / Lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, / For in You I trust. / Make known to me the way on which I should walk, / For to You I lift up my soul.

9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Jehovah; / I have fled to You for a refuge.

10 Teach me to do Your will, / For You are my God; / Let Your good Spirit lead me / In a plain country.

11 For Your name’s sake, O Jehovah, preserve me alive; / In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

12 And in Your lovingkindness cut off my enemies / And destroy all those who oppress my soul, / For I am Your servant.

1 Blessed be Jehovah my rock, / Who teaches my hands for war / And my fingers for battle:

2 My Lord of lovingkindness and my fortress, / My high retreat and my Deliverer, / My shield and He in whom I take refuge, / Who subdues my people under me.

3 O Jehovah, what is man, that You take knowledge of him, / And the son of mortal man, that You think of him?

4 Man is like a breath; / His days are like a passing shadow.

5 O Jehovah, bow Your heavens down and descend; / Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

6 Flash forth lightning, and scatter them; / Send forth Your arrows, and discomfit them.

7 Stretch forth Your hand from on high; / Rescue me and deliver me / From the great waters, / From the hand of foreigners;

8 Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 O God, I will sing a new song to You; / Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to You,

10 Who gives salvation to kings, / Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword.

11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, / Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

12 May our sons be like plants / Grown up in their youth; / May our daughters be like corner pillars / Hewn out in fashion for a palace;

13 May our barns be full, / Furnishing produce of all kinds; / May our sheep bring forth thousands / And ten thousands in our fields;

14 May our oxen be fully laden; / May there be no breaking in to rob or going forth to fight, / Or outcry in our streets.

15 Blessed are the people who are so; / Blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah.

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 And if I dole out all my possessions to feed others, and if I deliver up my body that I may boast, but do not have love, I profit nothing.

4 Love suffers long. Love is kind; it is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not puffed up;

5 It does not behave unbecomingly and does not seek its own things; it is not provoked and does not take account of evil;

6 It does not rejoice because of unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 It covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never falls away. But whether prophecies, they will be rendered useless; or tongues, they will cease; or knowledge, it will be rendered useless.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

10 But when that which is complete comes, that which is in part will be rendered useless.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror obscurely, but at that time face to face; now I know in part, but at that time I will fully know even as also I was fully known.

13 Now there abide faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.