Day 189: Psalms 119 - 127
Bible in a year reading for day 189.
Psalms 119
- 143 Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- 144 Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
- 145 I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
- 146 I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.
- 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- 148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
- 149 Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
- 150 Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.
- 151 You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true.
- 152 Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.
- 153 Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
- 154 Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
- 155 Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- 156 Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
- 157 Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
- 158 I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.
- 159 Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
- 160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
- 161 Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
- 162 I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
- 163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
- 164 Seven times a day I praise You for Your righteous judgments.
- 165 Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
- 166 I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.
- 167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
- 168 I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
- 169 May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.
- 170 May my plea come before You; rescue me according to Your promise.
- 171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
- 172 My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
- 173 May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
- 174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
- 175 Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
- 176 I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
Psalms 120
- 1 A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
- 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- 3 What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
- 4 Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- 5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
- 6 Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.
- 7 I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.
Psalms 121
- 1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- 2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- 3 He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- 4 Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- 5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
- 6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
- 7 The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- 8 The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
Psalms 122
- 1 A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
- 2 Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
- 3 Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
- 4 where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
- 5 For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
- 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
- 7 May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
- 8 For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
- 9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
Psalms 123
- 1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
- 2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
- 3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
- 4 We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
Psalms 124
- 1 A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel now declare—
- 2 if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
- 3 when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
- 4 then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- 5 then the raging waters would have swept us away.
- 6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- 7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- 8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalms 125
- 1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
- 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
- 3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
- 4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.
- 5 But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalms 126
- 1 A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- 2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- 3 The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.
- 4 Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
- 5 Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- 6 He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
Psalms 127
- 1 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
- 2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
- 3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.