Day 169 of 364

^30:1A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ^30:2LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. ^30:3LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ^30:4Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. ^30:5For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. ^30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” ^30:7You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. ^30:8I cried to you, LORD. I made supplication to the Lord: ^30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? ^30:10Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper.” ^30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, ^30:12to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! ^31:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, LORD, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. ^31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. ^31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. ^31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. ^31:5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth. ^31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD. ^31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. ^31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. ^31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. ^31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. ^31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. ^31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. ^31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. ^31:14But I trust in you, LORD. I said, “You are my God.” ^31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. ^31:16Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. ^31:17Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. ^31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. ^31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! ^31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues. ^31:21Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. ^31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you. ^31:23Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. ^31:24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD. ^32:1By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ^32:2Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. ^32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. ^32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. ^32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. ^32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. ^32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. ^32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. ^32:9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you. ^32:10Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD. ^32:11Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart! ^33:1Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. ^33:2Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings. ^33:3Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! ^33:4For the LORD’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness. ^33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD. ^33:6By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth. ^33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses. ^33:8Let all the earth fear the LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ^33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. ^33:10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. ^33:11The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. ^33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. ^33:13The LORD looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. ^33:14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, ^33:15he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. ^33:16There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. ^33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power. ^33:18Behold, the LORD’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness, ^33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. ^33:20Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield. ^33:21For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. ^33:22Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD, since we have hoped in you. ^34:1By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. ^34:2My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. ^34:3Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together. ^34:4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. ^34:5They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. ^34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. ^34:7The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. ^34:8Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. ^34:9Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him. ^34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing. ^34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD. ^34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? ^34:13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. ^34:14Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. ^34:15The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. ^34:16The LORD’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth. ^34:17The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. ^34:18The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. ^34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. ^34:20He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. ^34:21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. ^34:22The LORD redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.