THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: Psalms and Proverbs: 5

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Psalms and Proverbs: 5

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

PSALMS: 5, 35, 65, 95, 125

PROVERBS: 5

PSALMS: 5

For the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David.

1Give ear to my words, O LORD,

consider my sighing.

2Listen to my cry for help,

my King and my God,

for to you I pray.

3In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;

in the morning I lay my requests before you

and wait in expectation.

4You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;

with you the wicked cannot dwell.

5The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;

you hate all who do wrong.

6You destroy those who tell lies;

bloodthirsty and deceitful men

the LORD abhors.

7But I, by your great mercy,

will come into your house;

in reverence will I bow down

toward your holy temple.

8Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness

because of my enemies--

make straight your way before me. [1]

9Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;

their heart is filled with destruction.

Their throat is an open grave;

with their tongue they speak deceit.

10Declare them guilty, O God!

Let their intrigues be their downfall.

Banish them for their many sins,

for they have rebelled against you.

11But let all who take refuge in you be glad;

let them ever sing for joy.

Spread your protection over them,

that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

12For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;

you surround them with your favor as with a shield. [2]

PSALMS: 35

Of David.

1Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me;

fight against those who fight against me.

2Take up shield and buckler;

arise and come to my aid.

3Brandish spear and javelinA

against those who pursue me.

Say to my soul,

"I am your salvation."

4May those who seek my life

be disgraced and put to shame;

may those who plot my ruin

be turned back in dismay.

5May they be like chaff before the wind,

with the angel of the LORD driving them away;

6may their path be dark and slippery,

with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

7Since they hid their net for me without cause

and without cause dug a pit for me,

8may ruin overtake them by surprise--

may the net they hid entangle them,

may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.

9Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD

and delight in his salvation.

10My whole being will exclaim,

"Who is like you, O LORD?

You rescue the poor from those too strong for them,

the poor and needy from those who rob them."[3]

11Ruthless witnesses come forward;

they question me on things I know nothing about.

12They repay me evil for good

and leave my soul forlorn.

13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth

and humbled myself with fasting.

When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

14I went about mourning

as though for my friend or brother.

I bowed my head in grief

as though weeping for my mother.

15But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;

attackers gathered against me when I was unaware.

They slandered me without ceasing.

16Like the ungodly they maliciously mockedB;

they gnashed their teeth at me.

17O Lord, how long will you look on?

Rescue my life from their ravages,

my precious life from these lions.

18I will give you thanks in the great assembly;

among throngs of people I will praise you.

19Let not those gloat over me

who are my enemies without cause;

let not those who hate me without reason

maliciously wink the eye.

20They do not speak peaceably,

but devise false accusations

against those who live quietly in the land.

21They gape at me and say, "Aha! Aha!

With our own eyes we have seen it."[4]

22O LORD, you have seen this; be not silent.

Do not be far from me, O Lord.

23Awake, and rise to my defense!

Contend for me, my God and Lord.

24Vindicate me in your righteousness, O LORD my God;

do not let them gloat over me.

25Do not let them think, "Aha, just what we wanted!"

or say, "We have swallowed him up."

26May all who gloat over my distress

be put to shame and confusion;

may all who exalt themselves over me

be clothed with shame and disgrace.

27May those who delight in my vindication

shout for joy and gladness;

may they always say, "The LORD be exalted,

who delights in the well-being of his servant."

28My tongue will speak of your righteousness

and of your praises all day long. [5]

PSALMS: 65

For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.

1Praise awaitsA you, O God, in Zion;

to you our vows will be fulfilled.

2O you who hear prayer,

to you all men will come.

3When we were overwhelmed by sins,

you forgaveB our transgressions.

4Blessed are those you choose

and bring near to live in your courts!

We are filled with the good things of your house,

of your holy temple.

5You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,

O God our Savior,

the hope of all the ends of the earth

and of the farthest seas,

6who formed the mountains by your power,

having armed yourself with strength,

7who stilled the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

and the turmoil of the nations.

8Those living far away fear your wonders;

where morning dawns and evening fades

you call forth songs of joy.

9You care for the land and water it;

you enrich it abundantly.

The streams of God are filled with water

to provide the people with grain, [6]

for so you have ordained it.C

10You drench its furrows

and level its ridges;

you soften it with showers

and bless its crops.

11You crown the year with your bounty,

and your carts overflow with abundance.

12The grasslands of the desert overflow;

the hills are clothed with gladness.

13The meadows are covered with flocks

and the valleys are mantled with grain;

they shout for joy and sing. [7]

PSALMS: 95

1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;

let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

2Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and extol him with music and song.

3For the LORD is the great God,

the great King above all gods.

4In his hand are the depths of the earth,

and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5The sea is his, for he made it,

and his hands formed the dry land.

6Come, let us bow down in worship,

let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

7for he is our God

and we are the people of his pasture,

the flock under his care.

Today, if you hear his voice,

8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,A

as you did that day at MassahB in the desert,

9where your fathers tested and tried me,

though they had seen what I did.

10For forty years I was angry with that generation;

I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray,

and they have not known my ways."

11So I declared on oath in my anger,

"They shall never enter my rest." [8]

PSALMS: 125

A song of ascents.

1Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,

which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

2As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

so the LORD surrounds his people

both now and forevermore.

3The scepter of the wicked will not remain

over the land allotted to the righteous,

for then the righteous might use

their hands to do evil.

4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good,

to those who are upright in heart.

5But those who turn to crooked ways

the LORD will banish with the evildoers.

Peace be upon Israel. [9]

PROVERBS: 5

51 My son, pay attention to my wisdom,

listen well to my words of insight,

2that you may maintain discretion

and your lips may preserve knowledge.

3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil;

4but in the end she is bitter as gall,

sharp as a double-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death;

her steps lead straight to the grave.A

6She gives no thought to the way of life;

her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.

7Now then, my sons, listen to me;

do not turn aside from what I say.

8Keep to a path far from her,

do not go near the door of her house,

9lest you give your best strength to others

and your years to one who is cruel,

10lest strangers feast on your wealth

and your toil enrich another man's house.

11At the end of your life you will groan,

when your flesh and body are spent.

12You will say, "How I hated discipline!

How my heart spurned correction!

13I would not obey my teachers

or listen to my instructors.

14I have come to the brink of utter ruin

in the midst of the whole assembly."

15Drink water from your own cistern,

running water from your own well.

16Should your springs overflow in the streets,

your streams of water in the public squares?

17Let them be yours alone, [10]

never to be shared with strangers.

18May your fountain be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19A loving doe, a graceful deer--

may her breasts satisfy you always,

may you ever be captivated by her love.

20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?

Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?

21For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,

and he examines all his paths.

22The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;

the cords of his sin hold him fast.

23He will die for lack of discipline,

led astray by his own great folly. [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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Psalms and Proverbs: 5

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