Today's bible teaching: But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation

 Psalm 13

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Psalm 13 For the director of music. A psalm of David.

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How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

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How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

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Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

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my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

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But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

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I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me.

Today's bible teaching: The LORD watches over you-- the LORD is your shade at your right hand

 Psalm 121

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Psalm 121 A song of ascents.

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I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help come from?

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My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

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He will not let your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber;

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indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

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The LORD watches over you-- the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

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the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

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The LORD will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life;

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the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Today's praises: Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD

 Psalm 134

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Psalm 134 A song of ascents.

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Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.

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Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

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May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

Today's praises: Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth

 Psalm 100

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Psalm 100 A psalm. For giving thanks.

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Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

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Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

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Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ^[1] ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

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Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

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For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Today's praises:With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him

 Psalm 109

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Psalm 109 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

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O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

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for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

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With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

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In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

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They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

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Appoint ^[1] an evil man ^[2] to oppose him; let an accuser ^[3] stand at his right hand.

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When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

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May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven ^[4] from their ruined homes.

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May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

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May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

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May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

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May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.

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He loved to pronounce a curse-- may it ^[5] come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing-- may it be ^[6] far from him.

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He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

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May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

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May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

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But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

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My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

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I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

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Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.

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Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O LORD, have done it.

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They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

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My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

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With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.

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For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.

Today's praises: May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

 Psalm 134

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Psalm 134 A song of ascents.

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Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.

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Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

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May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

Today's bible teaching: He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs

 Psalm 107

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Psalm 107

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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

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Let the redeemed of the LORD say this-- those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,

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those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south. ^[1]

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Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.

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They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.

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Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

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He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,

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for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

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Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

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for they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

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So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

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Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.

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He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains.

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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,

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for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.

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Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.

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They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.

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Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.

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He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.

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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men.

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Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy.

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Others went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters.

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They saw the works of the LORD, his wonderful deeds in the deep.

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For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves.

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They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away.

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They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their wits' end.

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Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

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He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.

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They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided them to their desired haven.

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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men.

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Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

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He turned rivers into a desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground,

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and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

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He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;

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there he brought the hungry to live, and they founded a city where they could settle.

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They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a fruitful harvest;

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he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish.

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Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;

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he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

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But he lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased their families like flocks.

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The upright see and rejoice, but all the wicked shut their mouths.

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Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the LORD.