May 11

Psalm 108-109

King James Version (KJV)

108 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

^2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

^3 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

^4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

^5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

^6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

^7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

^8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

^9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

^10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

^11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

^12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

^13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

 

109 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

^2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

^3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

^4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

^5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

^6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

^7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

^8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

^9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

^10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

^11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

^12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

^13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

^14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

^15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

^16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

^17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

^18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

^19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

^20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

^21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

^22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

^23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

^24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

^25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

^26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

^27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

^28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

^29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

^30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

^31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

 

Psalm 120-121

120 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

^2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

^3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

^4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

^5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

^6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

^7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

 

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

^2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

^3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

^4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

^5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

^6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

^7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

^8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

 

Psalm 140

140 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

^2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

^3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

^4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

^5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

^6 I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

^7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

^8 Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

^9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

^10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

^11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

^12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

^13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

 

Psalm 143-144 

143 Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

^2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

^3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

^4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

^5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

^6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

^7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

^8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

^9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

^10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

^11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.

^12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

 

144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

^2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

^3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

^4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

^5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

^6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

^7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

^8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

^9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

^10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

^11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

^12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

^13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

^14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

^15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.