Today's Reading

Psalms 6-10

Psalms Chapter 6
1 - O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 - Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
3 - My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
4 - Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
5 - For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
6 - I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7 - Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
8 - Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9 - The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
10 - Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Psalms Chapter 7
1 - O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
2 - Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 - O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 - If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
5 - Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 - Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
7 - So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
8 - The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
9 - Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
10 - My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
11 - God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
12 - If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 - He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
14 - Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 - He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
17 - I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

Psalms Chapter 8
1 - O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 - All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 - The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 - O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalms Chapter 9
1 - I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2 - I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3 - When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 - For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5 - Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 - O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 - But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 - And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 - The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10 - And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 - Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 - When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
13 - Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 - That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 - The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 - The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 - For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 - Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 - Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalms Chapter 10
1 - Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 - The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 - For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
4 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5 - His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6 - He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8 - He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 - He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 - He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12 - Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13 - Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15 - Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 - The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17 - LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18 - To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.