Sept.
15
Psalms
71-73
Psa
71:1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Psa
71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear
to me, and save me.
Psa
71:3 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the
command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Psa
71:4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psa
71:5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
Psa
71:6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out
of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
Psa
71:7 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Psa
71:8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all
the day.
Psa
71:9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my
strength fails.
Psa
71:10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul
conspire together,
Psa
71:11 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for
no one will rescue him."
Psa
71:12 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
Psa
71:13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be
covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
Psa
71:14 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Psa
71:15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your
salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
Psa
71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will
make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Psa
71:17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have
declared your wondrous works.
Psa
71:18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake
me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your
might to everyone who is to come.
Psa
71:19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have
done great things. God, who is like you?
Psa
71:20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let
me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psa
71:21 Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
Psa
71:22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my
God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Psa
71:23 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed,
sings praises to you!
Psa
71:24 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day
long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to
harm me.
Psa
72:1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the
royal son.
Psa
72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor
with justice.
Psa
72:3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills
bring the fruit of righteousness.
Psa
72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children
of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psa
72:5 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the
moon, throughout all generations.
Psa
72:6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that
water the earth.
Psa
72:7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of
peace, until the moon is no more.
Psa
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to
the ends of the earth.
Psa
72:9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His
enemies shall lick the dust.
Psa
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Psa
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall
serve him.
Psa
72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has
no helper.
Psa
72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the
souls of the needy.
Psa
72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their
blood will be precious in his sight.
Psa
72:15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all
day long.
Psa
72:16 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its
fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of
the field.
Psa
72:17 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the
sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Psa
72:18 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does
marvelous deeds.
Psa
72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be
filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Psa
72:20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
Psa
73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psa
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly
slipped.
Psa
73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
Psa
73:4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength
is firm.
Psa
73:5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued
like other men.
Psa
73:6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence
covers them like a garment.
Psa
73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of
conceit.
Psa
73:8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten
oppression.
Psa
73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks
through the earth.
Psa
73:10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up
waters of abundance.
Psa
73:11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the
Most High?"
Psa
73:12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they
increase in riches.
Psa
73:13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands
in innocence,
Psa
73:14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every
morning.
Psa
73:15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would
have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psa
73:16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
Psa
73:17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter
end.
Psa
73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to
destruction.
Psa
73:19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept
away with terrors.
Psa
73:20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you
will despise their fantasies.
Psa
73:21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
Psa
73:22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before
you.
Psa
73:23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my
right hand.
Psa
73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me
to glory.
Psa
73:25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire
besides you.
Psa
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever.
Psa
73:27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have
destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Psa
73:28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the
Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.