Today's Reading

Psalms 21-25

Psalms Chapter 21
1 - The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 - Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3 - For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 - He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
5 - His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
6 - For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
7 - For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
8 - Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9 - Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 - Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11 - For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 - Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 - Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

Psalms Chapter 22
1 - My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 - O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 - But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 - Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 - They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 - But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 - He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 - But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10 - I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 - Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 - Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 - They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 - My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 - For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 - I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 - They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 - But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 - Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 - Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 - Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 - For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 - My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 - The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 - For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 - All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 - A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 - They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Psalms Chapter 23
1 - The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 - He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Psalms Chapter 24
1 - The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 - For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 - He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 - He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 - This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 - Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 - Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Psalms Chapter 25
1 - Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 - O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3 - Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 - Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
5 - Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
6 - Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 - Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
8 - Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 - The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
10 - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 - For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 - What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13 - His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 - The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
15 - Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 - The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
18 - Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 - Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 - O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
21 - Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
22 - Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.