Aug.
29
Psalm
16-19
Psa
16:1 Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
Psa
16:2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart
from you I have no good thing."
Psa
16:3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent
ones in whom is all my delight.
Psa
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another
god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their
names on my lips.
Psa
16:5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
Psa
16:6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a
good inheritance.
Psa
16:7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart
instructs me in the night seasons.
Psa
16:8 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right
hand, I shall not be moved.
Psa
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body
shall also dwell in safety.
Psa
16:10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you
allow your holy one to see corruption.
Psa
16:11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is
fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Psa
17:1 Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that
doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
Psa
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes
look on equity.
Psa
17:3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You
have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall
not disobey.
Psa
17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept
myself from the ways of the violent.
Psa
17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not
slipped.
Psa
17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your
ear to me. Hear my speech.
Psa
17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who
take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
Psa
17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of
your wings,
Psa
17:9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround
me.
Psa
17:10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they
speak proudly.
Psa
17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes
to cast us down to the earth.
Psa
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a
young lion lurking in secret places.
Psa
17:13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul
from the wicked by your sword;
Psa
17:14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose
portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psa
17:15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Psa
18:1 By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words
of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of
all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,>> I love
you, Yahweh, my strength.
Psa
18:2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my
rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower.
Psa
18:3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved
from my enemies.
Psa
18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
Psa
18:5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on
me.
Psa
18:6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He
heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his
ears.
Psa
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the
mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
Psa
18:8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his
mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Psa
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was
under his feet.
Psa
18:10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of
the wind.
Psa
18:11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psa
18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa
18:13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his
voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa
18:14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great
lightning bolts, and routed them.
Psa
18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the
world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the
breath of your nostrils.
Psa
18:16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many
waters.
Psa
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
Psa
18:18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my
support.
Psa
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
Psa
18:20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Psa
18:21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
Psa
18:22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his
statutes from me.
Psa
18:23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psa
18:24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
Psa
18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the
perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Psa
18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
Psa
18:27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes
you will bring down.
Psa
18:28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my
darkness.
Psa
18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over
a wall.
Psa
18:30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psa
18:31 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
Psa
18:32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psa
18:33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high
places.
Psa
18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of
bronze.
Psa
18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
Psa
18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Psa
18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I
turn again until they are consumed.
Psa
18:38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to
rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psa
18:39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psa
18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
Psa
18:41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he
didn't answer them.
Psa
18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast
them out as the mire of the streets.
Psa
18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You
have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known
shall serve me.
Psa
18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners
shall submit themselves to me.
Psa
18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out
of their close places.
Psa
18:46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my
salvation,
Psa
18:47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues
peoples under me.
Psa
18:48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those
who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
Psa
18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the
nations, and will sing praises to your name.
Psa
18:50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving
kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
Psa
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his
handiwork.
Psa
19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night
they display knowledge.
Psa
19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
heard.
Psa
19:4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to
the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Psa
19:5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a
strong man rejoicing to run his course.
Psa
19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to
its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
Psa
19:7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony
is sure, making wise the simple.
Psa
19:8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's
commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psa
19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's
ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psa
19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine
gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Psa
19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there
is great reward.
Psa
19:12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Psa
19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them
not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be
blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Psa
19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.