DAY 140
Psalms 79-82
Psalms 79:1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalms 79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Psalms 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
Psalms 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Psalms 79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalms 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Psalms 79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Psalms 79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
Psalms 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms 80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms 80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms 80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Psalms 80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms 80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Psalms 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms 80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms 80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms 80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Psalms 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psalms 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Psalms 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Psalms 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Psalms 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Psalms 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms 81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Psalms 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Psalms 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psalms 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Psalms 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.