Day 2: Psalm 6-10
Psalms in 30 days reading for day 2.
Psalms 6
- 1 For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- 2 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- 3 My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
- 4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
- 5 For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
- 6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- 7 My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
- 8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- 9 The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
- 10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
Psalms 7
- 1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
- 2 or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
- 4 if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
- 5 then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
- 6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
- 7 Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
- 8 The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- 9 Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
- 10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
- 11 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
- 12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- 13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- 14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- 15 He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
- 16 His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- 17 I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalms 8
- 1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
- 2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
- 3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- 4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- 5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
- 6 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
- 7 all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
- 8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
- 9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Psalms 9
- 1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
- 2 I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
- 3 When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
- 4 For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- 5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
- 6 The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- 7 But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.
- 8 He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
- 9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
- 10 Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
- 11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
- 12 For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
- 13 Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
- 14 that I may declare all Your praises— that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
- 15 The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- 16 The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- 17 The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
- 18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- 19 Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
- 20 Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
Psalms 10
- 1 Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
- 2 In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- 3 For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
- 4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- 5 He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
- 6 He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
- 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- 8 He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- 9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
- 10 They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
- 11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- 12 Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- 13 Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
- 14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- 16 The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
- 17 You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
- 18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.