Today's prayer: May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you

Psalm 20

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Psalm 20 For the director of music. A psalm of David.

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May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

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May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

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May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. Selah

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May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

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We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.

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Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.

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Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

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They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

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O LORD, save the king! Answer ^[1] us when we call!

Today's bible teaching: You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 77

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Psalm 77 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.

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I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.

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When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted.

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I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint. Selah

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You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.

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I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;

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I remembered my songs in the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired:

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"Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?

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Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?

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Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?" Selah

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Then I thought, "To this I will appeal: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

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I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

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I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.

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Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God?

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You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

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With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

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The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.

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The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.

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Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

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Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

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You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Today's praises: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth

Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 For the director of music. According to gittith. ^[1] A psalm of David.

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O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

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From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise ^[2] because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

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what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

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You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings ^[3] and crowned him with glory and honor.

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You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

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all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,

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the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

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O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Today's prayer: To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

Psalm 25

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Psalm 25 Of David. 

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To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

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in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

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No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

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Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;

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guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

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Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

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Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.

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Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

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He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

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All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

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For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

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Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.

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He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

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The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

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My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.

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Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.

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The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish.

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Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.

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See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me!

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Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

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May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.

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Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles!

Today's praises: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation

Psalm 95

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Psalm 95

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Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

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Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

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For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.

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In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

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The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

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Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

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for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his voice,

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do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, ^[1] as you did that day at Massah ^[2] in the desert,

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where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did.

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For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways."

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So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my rest."

Today's bible teaching: In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them

Psalm 22

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Psalm 22 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David.

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

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O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

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Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. ^[1]

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In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

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They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

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But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

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All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

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"He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

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Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.

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From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

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Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

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Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

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Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.

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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.

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My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me ^[2] in the dust of death.

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Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced ^[3] my hands and my feet.

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I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.

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They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

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But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

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Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.

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Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save ^[4] me from the horns of the wild oxen.

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I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.

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You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

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For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

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From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you ^[5] will I fulfill my vows.

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The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him-- may your hearts live forever!

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All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,

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for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

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All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him-- those who cannot keep themselves alive.

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Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.

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They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn-- for he has done it.

Today's praises: Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

Psalm 111

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Psalm 111 

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Praise the LORD.  I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

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Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

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Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.

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He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

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He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

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He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.

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The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

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They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.

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He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever-- holy and awesome is his name.

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

1. This psalm is an acrostic poem, the lines of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.