Today's bible teaching: With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies

 Psalm 60

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Psalm 60 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Lily of the Covenant." A miktam ^[1] of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim ^[2] and Aram Zobah, ^[3] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry--now restore us!

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You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.

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You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.

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But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow. Selah

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Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.

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God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.

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Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.

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Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph."

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Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

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Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?

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Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

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With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

Today's bible teaching: May He send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

 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 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 both now and forevermore

 Psalm 131

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Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David.

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My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

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But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

Dimitri Payet has confirmed his ‘sadomasochism’ relationship with Larissa Ferrari but has denied any aggression towards her.

Dimitri Payet has confirmed his ‘sadomasochism’ relationship with Larissa Ferrari but has denied any aggression towards her. 

Payet has admitted they met on social media, acknowledged his fetishism and having had sexual relations with the complainant, dressed as a bride.  

According to the player, she asked him to "urinate" on him several times.  In January 2025, Larissa Ferrari sent him "a video in which she spontaneously drank her own urine and put her head in the toilet.”  

According to Payet, the practice of drinking urine was common within their relationship.  

In response to the accusations of "aggression" made by Larissa Ferrari, Payet nevertheless says that the lawyer “asked her to slap her buttocks, which left traces.” 

 He therefore firmly rejects these accusations against him and repeats that their relationship was consensual!  

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Today's bible teaching: They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer

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.