Sept.
20
Psalms
86-88
Psa
86:1 Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Psa
86:2 Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your
servant who trusts in you.
Psa
86:3 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Psa
86:4 Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I
lift up my soul.
Psa
86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in
loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psa
86:6 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Psa
86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will
answer me.
Psa
86:8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds
like your deeds.
Psa
86:9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you,
Lord. They shall glorify your name.
Psa
86:10 For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
Psa
86:11 Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my
heart undivided to fear your name.
Psa
86:12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will
glorify your name forevermore.
Psa
86:13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have
delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psa
86:14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent
men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you
before them.
Psa
86:15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger,
and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Psa
86:16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your
servant. Save the son of your handmaid.
Psa
86:17 Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may
see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and
comforted me.
Psa
87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psa
87:2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
Jacob.
Psa
87:3 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
Psa
87:4 I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born
there."
Psa
87:5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was
born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.
Psa
87:6 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This
one was born there." Selah.
Psa
87:7 Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my
springs are in you."
Psa
88:1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night
before you.
Psa
88:2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my
cry.
Psa
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
Psa
88:4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a
man who has no help,
Psa
88:5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
Psa
88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
Psa
88:7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all
your waves. Selah.
Psa
88:8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an
abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
Psa
88:9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
I have spread out my hands to you.
Psa
88:10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and
praise you? Selah.
Psa
88:11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your
faithfulness in Destruction?
Psa
88:12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
Psa
88:13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer
comes before you.
Psa
88:14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face
from me?
Psa
88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I
suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Psa
88:16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me
off.
Psa
88:17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely
engulfed me.
Psa
88:18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into
darkness.