Reading the Old Testament

New International Version: 214 of 324 days

• Psalms 138
• 1. I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; before the "gods" I will sing your praise.
• 2. I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.
• 3. When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted.
• 4. May all the kings of the earth praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth.
• 5. May they sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great.
• 6. Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar.
• 7. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes, with your right hand you save me.
• 8. The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever- do not abandon the works of your hands.
• Psalms 139
• 1. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
• 2. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
• 3. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
• 4. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
• 5. You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
• 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
• 7. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
• 8. If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
• 9. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
• 10. even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
• 11. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
• 12. even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
• 13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
• 14. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
• 15. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
• 16. your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
• 17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
• 18. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
• 19. If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
• 20. They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
• 21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
• 22. I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
• 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
• 24. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
• Psalms 140
• 1. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,
• 2. who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.
• 3. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah
• 4. Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.
• 5. Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. Selah
• 6. O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God." Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.
• 7. O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle-
• 8. do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah
• 9. Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.
• 10. Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
• 11. Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.
• 12. I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
• 13. Surely the righteous will praise your name and the upright will live before you.

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