Sept.
6
Psalms
43-45
Psa
43:1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psa
43:2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa
43:3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let
them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
Psa
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I
will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Psa
43:5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper,
and my God.
Psa
44:1 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us,
what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Psa
44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
Psa
44:3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your
arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
Psa
44:4 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
Psa
44:5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your
name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
Psa
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Psa
44:7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed
those who hate us.
Psa
44:8 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks
to your name forever. Selah.
Psa
44:9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't
go out with our armies.
Psa
44:10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us
take spoil for themselves.
Psa
44:11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us
among the nations.
Psa
44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from
their sale.
Psa
44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a
derision to those who are around us.
Psa
44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
Psa
44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my
face,
Psa
44:16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psa
44:17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
Psa
44:18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed
from your path,
Psa
44:19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
Psa
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our
hands to a strange god;
Psa
44:21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the
heart.
Psa
44:22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded
as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa
44:23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us
forever.
Psa
44:24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our
oppression?
Psa
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to
the earth.
Psa
44:26 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
Psa
45:1 My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for
the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
Psa
45:2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has
anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psa
45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and
your majesty.
Psa
45:4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth,
humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome
deeds.
Psa
45:5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows
in the heart of the king's enemies.
Psa
45:6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is
the scepter of your kingdom.
Psa
45:7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore
God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your
fellows.
Psa
45:8 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of
ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
Psa
45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right
hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
Psa
45:10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own
people, and also your father's house.
Psa
45:11 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your
lord.
Psa
45:12 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the
people entreat your favor.
Psa
45:13 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is
interwoven with gold.
Psa
45:14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins,
her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Psa
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall
enter into the king's palace.
Psa
45:16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make
them princes in all the earth.
Psa
45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.