Psalm 31
1. IN thee, O
LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy
righteousness.
2. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong
rock, for an house of defence to save me.
3. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake
lead me, and guide me.
4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou
art my strength.
5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God
of truth.
6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the
LORD.
7. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8. And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my
feet in a large room.
9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed
with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me
without fled from me.
12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13. For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while
they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my
life.
14. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
15. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.
16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies'
sake.
17. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the
wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19. Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that
fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before
the sons of men!
20. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of
man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of
tongues.
21. Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness
in a strong city.
22. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried
unto thee.
23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the
faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that
hope in the LORD.
Psalm 32
1. BLESSED
is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2. BLESSED is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in
whose spirit there is no guile.
3. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the
day long.
4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned
into the drought of summer. Selah.
5. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid.
I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou
forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when
thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall
not come nigh unto him.
7. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou
shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I
will guide thee with mine eye.
9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near
unto thee.
10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in
the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
11. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy,
all ye that are upright in heart.
July 22
Daily reading schedule.. No NT reading today.
|