Today's Reading

Psalms 86-90

Psalms Chapter 86
1 - Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2 - Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
3 - Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 - Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 - For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6 - Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 - In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8 - Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9 - All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 - For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11 - Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
12 - I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
13 - For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
14 - O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
15 - But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 - O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
17 - Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Psalms Chapter 87
1 - His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 - The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 - Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 - I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 - The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7 - As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

Psalms Chapter 88
1 - O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 - Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 - For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 - I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 - Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 - Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 - Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8 - Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 - Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 - Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 - Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 - Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 - But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14 - LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16 - Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17 - They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18 - Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalms Chapter 89
1 - I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 - For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 - I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 - Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 - And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 - For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 - God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 - O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 - Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 - Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 - The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 - The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 - Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 - Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 - In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 - For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18 - For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 - Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 - I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 - With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 - The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 - And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 - But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 - I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 - He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 - Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 - My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 - His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 - If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 - Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 - Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 - Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 - His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 - It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
38 - But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 - Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 - Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 - All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 - Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 - Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 - Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 - The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
46 - How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 - Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
48 - What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 - Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 - Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 - Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 - Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Psalms Chapter 90
1 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 - Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 - Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 - In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 - For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 - Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 - For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 - Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 - So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 - Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 - O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 - Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 - And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.