Sept.
14
Psalms
68-70
Psa
68:1 Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate
him also flee before him.
Psa
68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts
before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Psa
68:3 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God.
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
Psa
68:4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on
the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
Psa
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is
God in his holy habitation.
Psa
68:6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners
with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psa
68:7 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched
through the wilderness... Selah.
Psa
68:8 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the
presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of
Israel.
Psa
68:9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your
inheritance, when it was weary.
Psa
68:10 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your
goodness for the poor.
Psa
68:11 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a
great company.
Psa
68:12 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at
home divides the spoil,
Psa
68:13 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove
sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
Psa
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
Psa
68:15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains
of Bashan are rugged.
Psa
68:16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain
where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
Psa
68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of
thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
Psa
68:18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You
have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that
Yah God might dwell there.
Psa
68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God
who is our salvation. Selah.
Psa
68:20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord,
belongs escape from death.
Psa
68:21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy
scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Psa
68:22 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I
will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
Psa
68:23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the
tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."
Psa
68:24 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of
my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Psa
68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the
midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
Psa
68:26 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the
assembly of Israel!"
Psa
68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah,
their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Psa
68:28 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that
which you have done for us.
Psa
68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring
presents to you.
Psa
68:30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the
bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring
bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
Psa
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to
stretch out her hands to God.
Psa
68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the
Lord! Selah.
Psa
68:33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Psa
68:34 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his
strength is in the skies.
Psa
68:35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel
gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
Psa
69:1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
Psa
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psa
69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail,
looking for my God.
Psa
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my
head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are
mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
Psa
69:5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
Psa
69:6 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord
Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor
through me, God of Israel.
Psa
69:7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered
my face.
Psa
69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my
mother's children.
Psa
69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those
who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psa
69:10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psa
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psa
69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the
drunkards.
Psa
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable
time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the
truth of your salvation.
Psa
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be
delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psa
69:15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep
swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psa
69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According
to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psa
69:17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress.
Answer me speedily!
Psa
69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my
enemies.
Psa
69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My
adversaries are all before you.
Psa
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I
looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but
I found none.
Psa
69:21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me
vinegar to drink.
Psa
69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a
retribution and a trap.
Psa
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their
backs be continually bent.
Psa
69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your
anger overtake them.
Psa
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their
tents.
Psa
69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the
sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
Psa
69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into
your righteousness.
Psa
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be
written with the righteous.
Psa
69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God,
protect me.
Psa
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
Psa
69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has
horns and hoofs.
Psa
69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God,
let your heart live.
Psa
69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive
people.
Psa
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that
moves therein!
Psa
69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They
shall settle there, and own it.
Psa
69:36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who
love his name shall dwell therein.
Psa
70:1 Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
Psa
70:2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let
those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
Psa
70:3 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha!
Aha!"
Psa
70:4 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let
those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be
exalted!"
Psa
70:5 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my
help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.