Sept.
9
Psalms
52-54
Psa
52:1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness
endures continually.
Psa
52:2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
Psa
52:3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the
truth. Selah.
Psa
52:4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psa
52:5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and
pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the
living. Selah.
Psa
52:6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him,
saying,
Psa
52:7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself
in his wickedness."
Psa
52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I
trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
Psa
52:9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I
will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your
saints.
Psa
53:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one
who does good.
Psa
53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if
there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Psa
53:3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy
together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psa
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people
as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
Psa
53:5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has
scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them
to shame, because God has rejected them.
Psa
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When
God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
Psa
54:1 Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
Psa
54:2 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
Psa
54:3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought
after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Psa
54:4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my
soul.
Psa
54:5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your
truth.
Psa
54:6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give
thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
Psa
54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen
triumph over my enemies.