Psalms 138

• 1. I give you thanks, O LORD, with all my heart; I will sing your praises before the gods.
• 2. I bow before your holy Temple as I worship. I will give thanks to your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness, because your promises are backed by all the honor of your name.
• 3. When I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me the strength I need.
• 4. Every king in all the earth will give you thanks, O LORD, for all of them will hear your words.
• 5. Yes, they will sing about the LORD's ways, for the glory of the LORD is very great.
• 6. Though the LORD is great, he cares for the humble, but he keeps his distance from the proud.
• 7. Though I am surrounded by troubles, you will preserve me against the anger of my enemies. You will clench your fist against my angry enemies! Your power will save me.
• 8. The LORD will work out his plans for my life--for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever. Don't abandon me, for you made me.

Psalms 139

• 1. O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
• 2. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my every thought when far away.
• 3. You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am.
• 4. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
• 5. You both precede and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
• 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to know!
• 7. I can never escape from your spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
• 8. If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there.
• 9. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
• 10. even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
• 11. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night--
• 12. but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you.
• 13. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
• 14. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it.
• 15. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
• 16. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
• 17. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable!
• 18. I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
• 19. O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
• 20. They blaspheme you; your enemies take your name in vain.
• 21. O LORD, shouldn't I hate those who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who resist you?
• 22. Yes, I hate them with complete hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
• 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
• 24. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Psalms 140

• 1. O LORD, rescue me from evil people. Preserve me from those who are violent,
• 2. those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.
• 3. Their tongues sting like a snake; the poison of a viper drips from their lips.
• 4. O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.
• 5. The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way.
• 6. I said to the LORD, "You are my God!" Listen, O LORD, to my cries for mercy!
• 7. O Sovereign LORD, my strong savior, you protected me on the day of battle.
• 8. LORD, do not give in to their evil desires. Do not let their evil schemes succeed, O God.
• 9. Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.
• 10. Let burning coals fall down on their heads, or throw them into the fire, or into deep pits from which they can't escape.
• 11. Don't let liars prosper here in our land. Cause disaster to fall with great force on the violent.
• 12. But I know the LORD will surely help those they persecute; he will maintain the rights of the poor.
• 13. Surely the godly are praising your name, for they will live in your presence.

New Living Translation: 214 of 324 days.