April 24 – Psalms 43-45, 49, 84-85, 87

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Psalms Chapters 43-45

Send Out Your Light and Your Truth
Psa 43:1  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psa 43:2  For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa 43:3  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psa 43:4  Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Psa 43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Come to Our Help
Psa 44:1  To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psa 44:2  How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
Psa 44:3  For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Psa 44:4  Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Psa 44:5  Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that 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 thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
Psa 44:8  In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Psa 44:9  But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Psa 44:10  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Psa 44:11  Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Psa 44:12  Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psa 44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psa 44:14  Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psa 44:15  My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psa 44:16  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psa 44:17  All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psa 44:18  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Psa 44:19  Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psa 44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psa 44:21  Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psa 44:22  Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa 44:23  Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Psa 44:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psa 44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psa 44:26  Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.

Your Throne, O God, Is Forever
Psa 45:1  To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psa 45:2  Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psa 45:3  Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psa 45:4  And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Psa 45:5  Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psa 45:6  Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psa 45:7  Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psa 45:8  All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Psa 45:9  Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Psa 45:10  Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
Psa 45:11  So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Psa 45:12  And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Psa 45:13  The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Psa 45:14  She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Psa 45:15  With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
Psa 45:16  Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Psa 45:17  I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Psalm Chapter 49

Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
Psa 49:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Psa 49:2  Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psa 49:3  My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Psa 49:4  I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psa 49:5  Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Psa 49:6  They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psa 49:7  None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psa 49:8  (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Psa 49:9  That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Psa 49:10  For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psa 49:11  Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Psa 49:12  Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psa 49:13  This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psa 49:14  Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psa 49:15  But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psa 49:16  Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psa 49:17  For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Psa 49:18  Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
Psa 49:19  He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psa 49:20  Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm Chapters 84-85

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
Psa 84:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Psa 84:2  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psa 84:3  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Psa 84:4  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psa 84:5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Psa 84:6  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Psa 84:7  They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psa 84:8  O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psa 84:9  Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psa 84:10  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psa 84:11  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psa 84:12  O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Revive Us Again
Psa 85:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psa 85:2  Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psa 85:3  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psa 85:4  Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Psa 85:5  Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Psa 85:6  Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Psa 85:7  Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
Psa 85:8  I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Psa 85:9  Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Psa 85:10  Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psa 85:11  Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Psa 85:12  Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
Psa 85:13  Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalm Chapter 87

Glorious Things of You Are Spoken
Psa 87:1  A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psa 87:2  The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psa 87:3  Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Psa 87:4  I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Psa 87:5  And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psa 87:6  The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psa 87:7  As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

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