DAY 138

Psalms 71-74



Psalms 71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Psalms 71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Psalms 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

Psalms 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

Psalms 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

Psalms 71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Psalms 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

Psalms 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Psalms 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

Psalms 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Psalms 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Psalms 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

Psalms 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

Psalms 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

Psalms 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

Psalms 71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Psalms 71:18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Psalms 71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

Psalms 71:20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalms 71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

Psalms 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Psalms 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Psalms 72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

Psalms 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Psalms 72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

Psalms 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Psalms 72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Psalms 72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Psalms 72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Psalms 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Psalms 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalms 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Psalms 72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Psalms 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

Psalms 72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

Psalms 72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Psalms 72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

Psalms 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Psalms 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Psalms 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

Psalms 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Psalms 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Psalms 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Psalms 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Psalms 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Psalms 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Psalms 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalms 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Psalms 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Psalms 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Psalms 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Psalms 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Psalms 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Psalms 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Psalms 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Psalms 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Psalms 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Psalms 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Psalms 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Psalms 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Psalms 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Psalms 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Psalms 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Psalms 73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Psalms 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Psalms 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Psalms 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Psalms 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalms 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Psalms 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

Psalms 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Psalms 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

Psalms 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Psalms 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Psalms 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

Psalms 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Psalms 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

Psalms 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Psalms 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalms 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Psalms 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Psalms 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Psalms 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Psalms 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Psalms 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Psalms 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Psalms 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.