Psalms 82

• 1. God presides over heaven's court; he pronounces judgment on the judges:
• 2. "How long will you judges hand down unjust decisions? How long will you shower special favors on the wicked?
• 3. "Give fair judgment to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
• 4. Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
• 5. But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! And because they are in darkness, the whole world is shaken to the core.
• 6. I say, `You are gods and children of the Most High.
• 7. But in death you are mere men. You will fall as any prince, for all must die.'"
• 8. Rise up, O God, and judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you.

Psalms 83

• 1. O God, don't sit idly by, silent and inactive!
• 2. Don't you hear the tumult of your enemies? Don't you see what your arrogant enemies are doing?
• 3. They devise crafty schemes against your people, laying plans against your precious ones.
• 4. "Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."
• 5. This was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you--
• 6. these Edomites and Ishmaelites, Moabites and Hagrites,
• 7. Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites, and people from Philistia and Tyre.
• 8. Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot.
• 9. Do to them as you did to the Midianites or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
• 10. They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
• 11. Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
• 12. for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!"
• 13. O my God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind!
• 14. As a fire roars through a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
• 15. chase them with your fierce storms; terrify them with your tempests.
• 16. Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.
• 17. Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Make them failures in everything they do,
• 18. until they learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.

Psalms 84

• 1. How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty.
• 2. I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the LORD. With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God.
• 3. Even the sparrow finds a home there, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young--at a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God!
• 4. How happy are those who can live in your house, always singing your praises.
• 5. Happy are those who are strong in the LORD, who set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
• 6. When they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of refreshing springs, where pools of blessing collect after the rains!
• 7. They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.
• 8. O LORD God Almighty, hear my prayer. Listen, O God of Israel.
• 9. O God, look with favor upon the king, our protector! Have mercy on the one you have anointed.
• 10. A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.
• 11. For the LORD God is our light and protector. He gives us grace and glory. No good thing will the LORD withhold from those who do what is right.
• 12. O LORD Almighty, happy are those who trust in you.

New Living Translation: 194 of 324 days.