Today's Reading

Psalms 66-70

Psalms Chapter 66
1 - Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
2 - Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
3 - Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4 - All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
5 - Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 - He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
7 - He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
8 - O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
9 - Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
10 - For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 - Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12 - Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
13 - I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
14 - Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15 - I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
16 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
17 - I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19 - But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
20 - Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

Psalms Chapter 67
1 - God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
2 - That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
3 - Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
4 - O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5 - Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
6 - Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 - God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Psalms Chapter 68
1 - Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
2 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 - But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 - Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
5 - A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 - God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 - O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
8 - The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 - Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10 - Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
11 - The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12 - Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 - When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15 - The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16 - Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
17 - The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
18 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 - Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 - He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
21 - But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
22 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
23 - That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
24 - They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25 - The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 - Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27 - There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28 - Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
29 - Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
30 - Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
31 - Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 - Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
33 - To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 - Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35 - O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Psalms Chapter 69
1 - Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2 - I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 - I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 - They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 - O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 - Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 - Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 - I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9 - For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10 - When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 - I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 - They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 - But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14 - Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 - Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 - Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17 - And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 - Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 - Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20 - Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 - They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 - Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 - Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 - Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 - Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 - For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27 - Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 - Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 - But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 - I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 - This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32 - The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 - For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34 - Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35 - For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 - The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalms Chapter 70
1 - MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD.
2 - Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
3 - Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
4 - Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
5 - But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.