May 20 – Psalms 5, 38, 41-42

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Psalm Chapter 5

Psa 5:1  To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Psa 5:2  Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
Psa 5:3  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Psa 5:4  For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psa 5:5  The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psa 5:6  Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Psa 5:7  But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psa 5:8  Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Psa 5:9  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psa 5:10  Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psa 5:11  But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Psa 5:12  For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

Psalm Chapter 38

Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord
Psa 38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psa 38:2  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psa 38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psa 38:4  For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psa 38:5  My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psa 38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Psa 38:7  For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psa 38:8  I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psa 38:9  Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Psa 38:10  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psa 38:11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psa 38:12  They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psa 38:13  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Psa 38:14  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psa 38:15  For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Psa 38:16  For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psa 38:17  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psa 38:18  For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psa 38:19  But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psa 38:20  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Psa 38:21  Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psa 38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

Psalms Chapters 41-42

O Lord, Be Gracious to Me
Psa 41:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psa 41:2  The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psa 41:3  The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psa 41:4  I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psa 41:5  Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psa 41:6  And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psa 41:7  All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psa 41:8  An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Psa 41:9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psa 41:10  But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psa 41:11  By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psa 41:12  And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Psa 41:13  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:4  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psa 42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psa 42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psa 42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psa 42:8  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa 42:10  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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