Sept.
19
Psalms
83-85
Psa 83:1 God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent,
and don't be still, God.
Psa 83:2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
Psa 83:3 They conspire with cunning against your
people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Psa 83:4 "Come," they say, "and let's
destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered
no more."
Psa 83:5 For they have conspired together with one
mind. They form an alliance against you.
Psa 83:6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psa 83:7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with
the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psa 83:8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have
helped the children of Lot. Selah.
Psa 83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to
Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Psa 83:10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung
for the earth.
Psa 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
Psa 83:12 who said, "Let us take possession of
God's pasturelands."
Psa 83:13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like
chaff before the wind.
Psa 83:14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the
flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Psa 83:15 so pursue them with your tempest, and
terrify them with your storm.
Psa 83:16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they
may seek your name, Yahweh.
Psa 83:17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed
forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Psa 83:18 that they may know that you alone, whose
name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
Psa 84:1 How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of
Armies!
Psa 84:2 My soul longs, and even faints for the
courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psa 84:3 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your
altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
Psa 84:4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you. Selah.
Psa 84:5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you;
who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
Psa 84:6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they
make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with
blessings.
Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength. Everyone
of them appears before God in Zion.
Psa 84:8 Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer.
Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
Psa 84:9 Behold, God our shield, look at the face of
your anointed.
Psa 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a
thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than
to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psa 84:11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from
those who walk blamelessly.
Psa 84:12 Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who
trusts in you.
Psa 85:1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your
land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
Psa 85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your
people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
Psa 85:3 You have taken away all your wrath. You
have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Psa 85:4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause
your indignation toward us to cease.
Psa 85:5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you
draw out your anger to all generations?
Psa 85:6 Won't you revive us again, that your people
may rejoice in you?
Psa 85:7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant
us your salvation.
Psa 85:8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not
turn again to folly.
Psa 85:9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear
him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Psa 85:10 Mercy and truth meet together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psa 85:11 Truth springs out of the earth.
Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Psa 85:12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good.
Our land will yield its increase.
Psa 85:13 Righteousness goes before him, And
prepares the way for his steps.