Today's Reading

Psalms 46-50

Psalms Chapter 46
1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 - Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 - Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 - God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 - The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 - The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 - Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 - Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 - The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalms Chapter 47
1 - O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 - For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3 - He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4 - He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5 - God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 - Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7 - For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
8 - God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
9 - The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Psalms Chapter 48
1 - Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
2 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 - God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
4 - For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5 - They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
6 - Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 - Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
8 - As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
9 - We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
10 - According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
11 - Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
12 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
13 - Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
14 - For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

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

Psalms Chapter 50
1 - The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 - Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 - He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 - Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 - And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 - Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8 - I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9 - I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 - I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 - If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 - Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15 - And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 - But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 - Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
18 - When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 - Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 - Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 - Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.