Today's bible teaching: Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling

Psalm 2

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Psalm 2

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Why do the nations conspire ^[1] and the peoples plot in vain?

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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. ^[2]

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"Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."

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The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

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Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

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"I have installed my King ^[3] on Zion, my holy hill."

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I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son ^[4] ; today I have become your Father. ^[5]

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Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.

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You will rule them with an iron scepter ^[6] ; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."

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Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.

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Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.

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Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Today's bible teaching: With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse

Psalm 62

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Psalm 62 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

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My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.

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He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

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How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down-- this leaning wall, this tottering fence?

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They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Selah

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Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.

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He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

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My salvation and my honor depend on God ^[1] ; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

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Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah

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Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

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Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

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One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong,

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and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.

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Today's bible teaching: He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return

Psalm 78

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Psalm 78 A maskil ^[1] of Asaph.

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O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.

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I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old--

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what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.

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We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.

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He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,

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so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

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Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.

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They would not be like their forefathers-- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

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The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

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they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.

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They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.

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He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

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He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.

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He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.

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He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

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he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.

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But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

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They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.

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They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

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When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"

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When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,

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for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.

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Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;

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he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.

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Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.

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He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.

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He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.

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He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.

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They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.

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But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,

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God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.

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In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

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So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

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Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.

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They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

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But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

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their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

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Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

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He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

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How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!

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Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

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They did not remember his power-- the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

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the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

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He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.

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He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

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He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

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He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

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He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

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He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility-- a band of destroying angels.

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He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

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He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

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But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.

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He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

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Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

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He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

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But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

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Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

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They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

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When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.

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He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.

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He sent [the ark of] his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

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He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.

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Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;

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their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.

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He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.

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Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

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but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.

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He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

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He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

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from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.

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And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

Today's prayer: Be merciful to me, O LORD! See the sufferings my enemies cause me

Psalm 9

Thanksgiving to God for his Justice

1I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart;

I will tell of all the wonderful things you have done.

2I will sing with joy because of you.

I will sing praise to you, Almighty God.

3My enemies turn back when you appear;

they fall down and die.

4You are fair and honest in your judgements,

and you have judged in my favour.

5You have condemned the heathen

and destroyed the wicked;

they will be remembered no more.

6Our enemies are finished for ever;

you have destroyed their cities,

and they are completely forgotten.

7But the LORD is king for ever;

he has set up his throne for judgement.

8He rules the world with righteousness;

he judges the nations with justice.

9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,

a place of safety in times of trouble.

10Those who know you, LORD, will trust you;

you do not abandon anyone who comes to you.

11Sing praise to the LORD, who rules in Zion!

Tell every nation what he has done!

12God remembers those who suffer;

he does not forget their cry,

and he punishes those who wrong them.

13Be merciful to me, O LORD!

See the sufferings my enemies cause me!

Rescue me from death, O LORD,

14that I may stand before the people of Jerusalem

and tell them all the things for which I praise you.

I will rejoice because you saved me.

15The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in;

they have been caught in their own trap.

16The LORD has revealed himself by his righteous judgements,

and the wicked are trapped by their own deeds.

17Death is the destiny of all the wicked,

of all those who reject God.

18The needy will not always be neglected;

the hope of the poor will not be crushed for ever.

19Come, LORD! Do not let human beings defy you!

Bring the heathen before you

and pronounce judgement on them.

20Make them afraid, O LORD;

make them know that they are only mortal beings.

Today's bible teaching: Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness

Psalm 29

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Psalm 29 A psalm of David.

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Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

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Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his ^[1] holiness.

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The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

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The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

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The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

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He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, Sirion ^[2] like a young wild ox.

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The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.

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The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.

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The voice of the LORD twists the oaks ^[3] and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, "Glory!"

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The LORD sits ^[4] enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

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The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Today's bible teaching: Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart

Psalm 73

 1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.

2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,

3 envying the arrogant as I did, and seeing the prosperity of the wicked.

4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;

5 exempt from the cares which are the human lot, they have no part in Adam's afflictions.

6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.

7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.

8 Cynically they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.

9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never still on earth.

10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,

11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'

12 That is what the wicked are like, piling up wealth without any worries.

13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?

14 When I was under a hail of blows all day long, and punished every morning,

15 had I said, 'I shall talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.

16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!

17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of the gods and understood what was destined to become of them.

18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.

19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!

20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.

21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,

22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.

23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;

24 you will guide me with advice, and will draw me in the wake of your glory.

25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And, with you, I lack nothing on earth.

26 My heart and my flesh are pining away: my heart's rock, my portion, God for ever!

27 Truly, those who abandon you will perish; you destroy those who adulterously desert you,

28 whereas my happiness is to be near God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, to tell of all your works.