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Psalms 86:1-17
Listen, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.Protect my life, for I am faithful. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.Be gracious to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.Bring joy to your servant’s life, because I appeal to you, Lord.For you, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abounding in faithful love to all who call on you.LORD, hear my prayer; listen to my cries for mercy.I call on you in the day of my distress, for you will answer me.Lord, there is no one like you among the gods, and there are no works like yours.All the nations you have made will come and bow down before you, Lord, and will honor your name.For you are great and perform wonders; you alone are God.Teach me your way, LORD, and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.I will praise you with all my heart, Lord my God, and will honor your name forever.For your faithful love for me is great, and you rescue my life from the depths of Sheol.God, arrogant people have attacked me; a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me. They do not let you guide them.But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth.Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant; save the son of your female servant.Show me a sign of your goodness; my enemies will see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped and comforted me.
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Psalms 7:1-17
LORD my God, I seek refuge in you; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,if I have done harm to one at peace with me or have plundered my adversary without cause,may an enemy pursue and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. SelahRise up, LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries; awake for me; you have ordained a judgment.Let the assembly of peoples gather around you; take your seat on high over it.The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness and my integrity.Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. The one who examines the thoughts and emotions is a righteous God.My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.God is a righteous judge and a God who shows his wrath every day.If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.He has prepared his deadly weapons; he tips his arrows with fire.See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.He dug a pit and hollowed it out but fell into the hole he had made.His trouble comes back on his own head; his own violence comes down on top of his head.I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High.
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Psalms 90:1-17
Lord, you have been our refuge in every generation.Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity, you are God.You return mankind to the dust, saying,“ Return, descendants of Adam.”For in your sight a thousand years are like yesterday that passes by, like a few hours of the night.You end their lives; they sleep. They are like grass that grows in the morning—in the morning it sprouts and grows; by evening it withers and dries up.For we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.For all our days ebb away under your wrath; we end our years like a sigh.Our lives last seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow; indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.Who understands the power of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.LORD— how long? Turn and have compassion on your servants.Satisfy us in the morning with your faithful love so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.Make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity.Let your work be seen by your servants, and your splendor by their children.Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish for us the work of our hands— establish the work of our hands!
