Daily Devotional

Forgiveness of sin                                                verse 1- 2 

LORD

YOU have been favorable to YOUR land

            YOU have brought back the captivity of Jacob

            YOU have FORGIVEN the iniquity of YOUR people

            YOU have COVERED all their sin   

SELAH 

Chastening held back                                          verse 3 

YOU have TAKEN AWAY all YOUR wrath

            YOU… Read More

Strong desire to be with the LORD                     verse 1- 4 

How amiable are YOUR tabernacles – O LORD of hosts

my soul longs – yea – even faints for the courts of the LORD 

      my heart and my flesh cry out for the LIVING God

Yea – the sparrow hath found an house

and the swallow a nest for herself… Read More

Psalmist questions the LORD                             verse 1- 2 

Keep not YOU silence – O God – hold not YOUR PEACE

            and be not still – O God

FOR lo – YOUR enemies make a tumult

            they that hate YOU have lifted up the head 

Psalmist explains actions of the enemies              verse 3- 4 

They have taken crafty counsel against YOUR people… Read More

God is the Judge                                                  verse 1- 2 

God stands in the congregation of the mighty

HE judges among the gods

How long will you judge unjustly

and accept the persons of the wicked?           SELAH

Request to help the poor and fatherless              verse 3- 4 

Defend the poor and fatherless

do justice to the afflicted and needy

deliver the poor and … Read More

Prelude to a feast day                                                    verse 1- 3 

Sing aloud to God our strength – make a joyful noise

to the God of Jacob

Take a psalm – and bring hither the timbrel

            the pleasant harp with the psaltery

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon – in the time appointed

            on our solemn feast … Read More

Prayer to the Shepherd of Israel                                   verse 1- 2 

Give ear – O Shepherd of Israel – YOU that lead Joseph like a flock

YOU that dwell between the cherubim – shine forth

      before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up

YOUR strength and come – and save us 

Chorus                                                                          verse 3 

               Turn us again – O God – and … Read More

Description of defeated people of Israel                        verse 1- 4 

O God – the heathen are come into YOUR inheritance

YOUR holy temple have they defiled

They have laid Jerusalem on heaps – the dead bodies of YOUR servants

have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven

      the flesh of YOUR saints to the beasts of the … Read More

Instruction to children regarding history                     verse 1- 8 

Give ear – O my people – to my law – incline your ears to the words of my mouth

I will open my mouth in a parable – I will utter dark sayings of old

      which we have heard and known – and our fathers have told us

We will not … Read More

Overwhelmed in spirit                                         verse 1- 3

I cried to God with my voice – even to God with my voice

and HE gave ear to me

In the day of my trouble – I sought the LORD

my sore ran in the night – and ceased not

      my soul refused to be comforted

I remembered God – and was troubled… Read More

   God establishes residence of Israel                      verse 1- 3 

In Judah is God known – HIS name is great in Israel

in Salem also is HIS tabernacle

HIS dwelling place in Zion

            there brake HE the arrows of the

 bow – shield – sword – battle

SELAH 

God protects the residence of Israel                    verse 4- 6 

YOU are more glorious and … Read More