Today's bible teaching: For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity

 Psalm 122

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Psalm 122 A song of ascents. Of David.

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I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."

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Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.

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That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.

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There the thrones for judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure.

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May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels."

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For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."

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For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Today's praises: Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

 Psalm 105

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Psalm 105

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Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

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Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.

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Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

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Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

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O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

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He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,

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the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

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He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

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"To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."

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When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

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they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

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He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:

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"Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."

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He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;

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and he sent a man before them-- Joseph, sold as a slave.

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They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

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till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.

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The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.

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He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,

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to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

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Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

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The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,

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whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

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He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

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They performed his miraculous signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.

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He sent darkness and made the land dark-- for had they not rebelled against his words?

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He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.

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Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.

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He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

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He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;

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he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

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He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;

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they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.

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Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.

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He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.

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Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

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He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.

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They asked, and he brought them quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

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He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.

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For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.

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He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

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he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for--

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that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the LORD. 

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.

1. [3] Or and not we ourselves

Today's prayer: 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: O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption

 Psalm 130

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Psalm 130 A song of ascents.

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Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;

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O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.

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If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?

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But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.

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I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.

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My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.

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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

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He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Today's bible teaching: For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

 Psalm 122

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Psalm 122 A song of ascents. Of David.

1

I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."

2

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.

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That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.

5

There the thrones for judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure.

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May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels."

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For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."

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For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Today's prayer: Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues

 Psalm 120

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Psalm 120 A song of ascents.

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I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

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Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

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What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?

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He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.

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Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

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Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.

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I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.