Sunday, December 31, 2006
Psalms Chapters 39 & 40
Thanks and praise to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Psalms Chapter 39
1: I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2: I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3: My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4: LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
5: Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6: Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7: And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8: Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9: I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10: Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11: When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12: Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms Chapter 40
1: I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3: And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4: Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5: Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7: Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
9: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10: I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11: Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12: For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14: Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15: Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16: Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms Chapter 39
1: I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2: I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3: My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4: LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
5: Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6: Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7: And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8: Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9: I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10: Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11: When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12: Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms Chapter 40
1: I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3: And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4: Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5: Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7: Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
9: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10: I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11: Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12: For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14: Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15: Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16: Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
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