Sunday, December 30, 2007
Psalms Chapter 78
Psalms Chapter 78
1: Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2: I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4: We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5: For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9: The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10: They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11: And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12: Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13: He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14: In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15: He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16: He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17: And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18: And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19: Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20: Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21: Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22: Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24: And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25: Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
26: He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27: He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28: And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29: So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30: They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31: The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32: For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33: Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34: When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
35: And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36: Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37: For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38: But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39: For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40: How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41: Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42: They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43: How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44: And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45: He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46: He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47: He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48: He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49: He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50: He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51: And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52: But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53: And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54: And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55: He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56: Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58: For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59: When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60: So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61: And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
62: He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63: The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64: Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65: Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66: And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67: Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68: But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69: And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70: He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71: From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72: So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Labels: Psalms
Monday, December 24, 2007
Just A Thought
I sit here, seemly all alone, but I know that You are with me where ever I rome.
You set beside me or above knowing all that is to come,
I sometimes, well often, wonder what it would be like to be in control,
Of all that is, and is to come,
I don't think that anyone could realize the power, of I Am
The peace you give me from within,
Is more than words could explain,
Even in a song,
The power You have is unimaginable,
For all of us where ever we rome.
Faith is believing without site,
But my site is true, believing in you.
For You are my Saviour Through good times and bad,
I live for You, the true Son of God,
Jesus Christ I love You, and no body else,
I look above for no one else,
With You by my side I have nothing to fear,
There is no darkness but a bright light ahead.
These are only thoughts from a simple mortal that knows a Man,
The Man that has the power to transform me,
From a mere mortal that fears death,
To a man that can't wait for his maker to come,
I love Jesus Christ and no more can be said,
But the simple fact is that we all won't be dead.
We will sing to the trumpets we will dance to the cymbles,
But the greatest thing of all is,
that we will have no worries at all!
To Christ be the glory of all that is,
Just give me a morsel of what is to come.
Ephesians Chapter 3
1: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2: If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to youward:
3: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4: Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6: That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8: Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9: And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11: According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13: Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14: For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15: Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18: May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19: And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
20: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21: Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Labels: Faith, grace of God, prayer
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Jerusalem On The Line Special Edition 23rd December 2007
JERUSALEM-ON-THE-LINE
Prayer Letter – December 23, 2007
JNN NEWS, P.O. Box 7411, Jerusalem 91073, Israel
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me, as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew, went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response:
She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says ‘thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal’, and ‘love your neighbor as yourself’. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with, 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Labels: JERUSALEM-ON-THE-LINE, Vision For Israel
JERUSALEM-ON-THE-LINE
Prayer Letter – December 23, 2007
JNN NEWS, P.O. Box 7411, Jerusalem 91073, Israel
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me, as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew, went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response:
She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says ‘thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal’, and ‘love your neighbor as yourself’. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with, 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Labels: JERUSALEM-ON-THE-LINE, Vision For Israel
Psalms Chapter 77
1: I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
2: In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
3: I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4: Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5: I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6: I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7: Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
8: Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
9: Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10: And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
11: I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12: I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
13: Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
14: Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
15: Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16: The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17: The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18: The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19: Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20: Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Labels: Psalms
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Persecution Continues In China
www.asianews.it
12/11/2007 12:26
CHINA
About 270 Christian leaders are arrested in Shandong for reading Bible together
The underground Protestant clergymen had gathered in Linyi’s Hedeng district where police, coming from 12 different towns, arrested them. About 150 are still in prison. A secret campaign to “normalise” underground Protestant Churches is still underway.
Linyi (AsiaNews) – Police in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have arrested 270 Protestant pastors from house Churches for taking part in an “illegal religious gathering” in the district of Hedeng near the city of Linyi. At present about 150 Christians are still in a state prison, this according to a US-based NGO, the China Aid Association (CAA), which lobbies for freedom of worship in China.
The arrests took place last Friday at around 1.30 pm local time. The Protestant clergymen had met to study the Bible when about 50 policemen from 12 different towns stormed the meeting place, blindfolded and handcuffed them two-by-two, and then taken them to a local police station for questioning.
The full story HERE
Also from Family Research Council
Religious Persecution: Made in China
As China works to better its image as host of next year's Olympic Games, their latest political crisis does little to help their cause. This weekend, reports have confirmed that Chinese officials stormed into the town of Shadong and violently arrested 270 Christian pastors for holding an illegal Bible meeting. As of this morning, 150 of the men were still in police custody. An eyewitness at the meeting said the raid was quick and brutal. Allegedly, 50 policemen "stormed the meeting place, blindfolded and handcuffed [the pastors] two-by-two," then hauled them off to headquarters for "questioning." While 120 were fined with "an interrogation tax" and released, dozens of others await their fate under a regime with a history of vicious religious persecution and zero tolerance for the underground church movement, now estimated at over 10 million members. Several local and international groups are monitoring the situation--which could have sweeping repercussions for the massive PR campaign underway to legitimize next year's Olympic hosts. Obviously, the detention of these pastors illustrates China's insincerity in moving toward a culture of religious tolerance. While the regime tries to project itself as progressive, the reality is that China has no intention of abiding by international law or abandoning its hostility to Western religious ideals. China's pastors offer the nation hope not a threat. FRC is calling on the State Department to intervene, issuing a letter today in hopes that Secretary Condoleezza Rice and the U.S. Ambassador can broker the pastors' quick release.1: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2: But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6: For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8: We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9: Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11: For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12: So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13: We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14: Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15: For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16: For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Labels: CHINA, persecuted, persecuted church
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Psalms Chapters 75 & 76
Psalms Chapter 75
1: Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
2: When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3: The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4: I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5: Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6: For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7: But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8: For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9: But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10: All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms Chapter76
1: In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2: In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3: There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4: Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5: The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6: At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7: Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8: Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9: When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
11: Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12: He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Labels: Psalms
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Psalms Chapter 74
Psalms Chapter 74
1: O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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.
3: Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4: Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5: A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6: But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7: They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
8: They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9: We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10: O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11: Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12: For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13: Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14: Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15: Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16: The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18: Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19: O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20: Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21: O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22: Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23: Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Labels: Psalms
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