Sept.
5
Psalms
40-42
Psa
40:1 I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my
cry.
Psa
40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry
clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psa
40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many
shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Psa
40:4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't
respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psa
40:5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have
done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared
back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than
can be numbered.
Psa
40:6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my
ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Psa
40:7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me
in the book in the scroll.
Psa
40:8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my
heart."
Psa
40:9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great
assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
Psa
40:10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have
declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed
your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Psa
40:11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your
loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
Psa
40:12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have
overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than
the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Psa
40:13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
Psa
40:14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek
after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought
to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
Psa
40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me,
"Aha! Aha!"
Psa
40:16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let
such as love your salvation say continually, "Let Yahweh be
exalted!"
Psa
40:17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are
my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
Psa
41:1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him
in the day of evil.
Psa
41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be
blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of
his enemies.
Psa
41:3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from
his bed of illness.
Psa
41:4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have
sinned against you."
Psa
41:5 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and
his name perish?"
Psa
41:6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers
iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psa
41:7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the
worst for me.
Psa
41:8 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
Psa
41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread
with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Psa
41:10 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may
repay them.
Psa
41:11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy
doesn't triumph over me.
Psa
41:12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your
presence forever.
Psa
41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to
everlasting! Amen and amen.
Psa
42:1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after
you, God.
Psa
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come
and appear before God?
Psa
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they
continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Psa
42:4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I
used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the
voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psa
42:5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of
his presence.
Psa
42:6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember
you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill
Mizar.
Psa
42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your
waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psa
42:8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the
night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Psa
42:9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why
do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Psa
42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while
they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Psa
42:11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my
countenance, and my God.