Day 180: Psalms 85 - 89
Bible in a year reading for day 180.
Psalms 85
- 5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
- 6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
- 7 Show us Your loving devotion, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.
- 8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
- 9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
- 10 Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
- 11 Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
- 12 The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
- 13 Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
Psalms 86
- 1 A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
- 2 Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.
- 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
- 4 Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
- 5 For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- 6 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.
- 7 In the day of my distress I call on You, because You answer me.
- 8 O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- 9 All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- 10 For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.
- 11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
- 12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.
- 13 For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- 14 The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.
- 15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- 16 Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
- 17 Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Psalms 87
- 1 A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.
- 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- 3 Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah
- 4 “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me— along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush— when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
- 5 And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
- 6 The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
- 7 Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
Psalms 88
- 1 A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
- 2 May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
- 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- 4 I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
- 5 I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
- 6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- 7 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- 8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- 9 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- 10 Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- 11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
- 12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
- 13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- 14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- 15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- 16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- 17 All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- 18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
Psalms 89
- 1 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- 2 For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
- 3 You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
- 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
- 5 The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
- 6 For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
- 7 In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
- 8 O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
- 9 You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
- 10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- 11 The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
- 12 North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
- 13 Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
- 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
- 15 Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
- 16 They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
- 17 For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
- 18 Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- 19 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
- 20 I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- 21 My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
- 22 No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
- 23 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
- 24 My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
- 25 I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
- 26 He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
- 27 I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- 28 I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
- 29 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
- 30 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
- 31 if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
- 32 I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
- 33 But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
- 34 I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.