THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: Psalms and Proverbs: 24

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Psalms and Proverbs: 24

Genesis 1:1 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

PSALMS: 24, 54, 84, 114, 144

PROVERBS: 24

PSALMS: 24

Of David. A psalm.

1The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it;

2for he founded it upon the seas

and established it upon the waters.

3Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?

Who may stand in his holy place?

4He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to an idol

or swear by what is false.A

5He will receive blessing from the LORD

and vindication from God his Savior.

6Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek your face, O God of Jacob.B

Selah

7Lift up your heads, O you gates;

be lifted up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

8Who is this King of glory?

The LORD strong and mighty,

the LORD mighty in battle.

9Lift up your heads, O you gates;

lift them up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

10Who is he, this King of glory?

The LORD Almighty--

he is the King of glory. [1]

Selah [2]

PSALMS: 54

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskilA of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding among us?"

1Save me, O God, by your name;

vindicate me by your might.

2Hear my prayer, O God;

listen to the words of my mouth.

3Strangers are attacking me;

ruthless men seek my life--

men without regard for God.

Selah

4Surely God is my help;

the Lord is the one who sustains me.

5Let evil recoil on those who slander me;

in your faithfulness destroy them.

6I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;

I will praise your name, O LORD,

for it is good.

7For he has delivered me from all my troubles,

and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. [3]

PSALMS: 84

For the director of music. According to gittith.A Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

1How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD Almighty!

2My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.

3Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young--

a place near your altar,

O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

4Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Selah

5Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

6As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a place of springs;

the autumn rains also cover it with pools.B

7They go from strength to strength,

till each appears before God in Zion.

8Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;

listen to me, O God of Jacob.

Selah

9Look upon our shield,C O God;

look with favor on your anointed one. [4]

10Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

11For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

the LORD bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

12O LORD Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you. [5]

PSALMS: 114

1When Israel came out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

2Judah became God's sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

3The sea looked and fled,

the Jordan turned back;

4the mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

5Why was it, O sea, that you fled,

O Jordan, that you turned back,

6you mountains, that you skipped like rams,

you hills, like lambs?

7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8who turned the rock into a pool,

the hard rock into springs of water. [6]

PSALMS: 144

Of David.

1Praise be to the LORD my Rock,

who trains my hands for war,

my fingers for battle.

2He is my loving God and my fortress,

my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield, in whom I take refuge,

who subdues peoplesA under me.

3O LORD, what is man that you care for him,

the son of man that you think of him?

4Man is like a breath;

his days are like a fleeting shadow.

5Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;

touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

6Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies;

shoot your arrows and rout them.

7Reach down your hand from on high;

deliver me and rescue me

from the mighty waters,

from the hands of foreigners

8whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

9I will sing a new song to you, O God;

on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

10to the One who gives victory to kings,

who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. [7]

11Deliver me and rescue me

from the hands of foreigners

whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

12Then our sons in their youth

will be like well-nurtured plants,

and our daughters will be like pillars

carved to adorn a palace.

13Our barns will be filled

with every kind of provision.

Our sheep will increase by thousands,

by tens of thousands in our fields;

14our oxen will draw heavy loads.B

There will be no breaching of walls,

no going into captivity,

no cry of distress in our streets.

15Blessed are the people of whom this is true;

blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. [8]

PROVERBS: 24

241 Do not envy wicked men,

do not desire their company;

2for their hearts plot violence,

and their lips talk about making trouble.

3By wisdom a house is built,

and through understanding it is established;

4through knowledge its rooms are filled

with rare and beautiful treasures.

5A wise man has great power,

and a man of knowledge increases strength;

6for waging war you need guidance,

and for victory many advisers.

7Wisdom is too high for a fool;

in the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.

8He who plots evil

will be known as a schemer.

9The schemes of folly are sin,

and men detest a mocker.

10If you falter in times of trouble,

how small is your strength!

11Rescue those being led away to death;

hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

12If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"

does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not he who guards your life know it?

Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? [9]

13Eat honey, my son, for it is good;

honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

14Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;

if you find it, there is a future hope for you,

and your hope will not be cut off.

15Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house,

do not raid his dwelling place;

16for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,

but the wicked are brought down by calamity.

17Do not gloat when your enemy falls;

when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,

18or the LORD will see and disapprove

and turn his wrath away from him.

19Do not fret because of evil men

or be envious of the wicked,

20for the evil man has no future hope,

and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

21Fear the LORD and the king, my son,

and do not join with the rebellious,

22for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,

and who knows what calamities they can bring?

23These also are sayings of the wise:

To show partiality in judging is not good:

24Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--

peoples will curse him and nations denounce him.

25But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,

and rich blessing will come upon them. [10]

26An honest answer

is like a kiss on the lips.

27Finish your outdoor work

and get your fields ready;

after that, build your house.

28Do not testify against your neighbor without cause,

or use your lips to deceive.

29Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;

I'll pay that man back for what he did."

30I went past the field of the sluggard,

past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;

31thorns had come up everywhere,

the ground was covered with weeds,

and the stone wall was in ruins.

32I applied my heart to what I observed

and learned a lesson from what I saw:

33A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest--

34and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man.A [11]

John 3:16-21 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."H

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