Oct.
6
Psalms
138-140
Psa
138:1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I
will sing praises to you.
Psa
138:2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to
your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have
exalted your Name and your Word above all.
Psa
138:3 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me
with strength in my soul.
Psa
138:4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for
they have heard the words of your mouth.
Psa
138:5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is
Yahweh's glory.
Psa
138:6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but
the proud, he knows from afar.
Psa
138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You
will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your
right hand will save me.
Psa
138:8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving
kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your
own hands.
Psa
139:1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
Psa
139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my
thoughts from afar.
Psa
139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted
with all my ways.
Psa
139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you
know it altogether.
Psa
139:5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
Psa
139:6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
Psa
139:7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from
your presence?
Psa
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in
Sheol, behold, you are there!
Psa
139:9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost
parts of the sea;
Psa
139:10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will
hold me.
Psa
139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the
light around me will be night;"
Psa
139:12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines
as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Psa
139:13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my
mother's womb.
Psa
139:14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
Psa
139:15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
Psa
139:16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of
them.
Psa
139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the
sum of them!
Psa
139:18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
Psa
139:19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me,
you bloodthirsty men!
Psa
139:20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your
name in vain.
Psa
139:21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved
with those who rise up against you?
Psa
139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Psa
139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my
thoughts.
Psa
139:24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
everlasting way.
Psa
140:1 Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the
violent man;
Psa
140:2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually
gather themselves together for war.
Psa
140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's
poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psa
140:4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from
the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
Psa
140:5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the
cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Psa
140:6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the
cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
Psa
140:7 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have
covered my head in the day of battle.
Psa
140:8 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their
evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
Psa
140:9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of
their own lips cover them.
Psa
140:10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the
fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Psa
140:11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will
hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psa
140:12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and justice for the needy.
Psa
140:13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The
upright will dwell in your presence.