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PSALM 140

Psalmist wants to be preserved from violent menverses 1-3

Deliver me – O LORD – from the evil man

preserve me from the violent man

      which imagine mischiefs in their heart continually

are they gathered together for war

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent

            adders’ poison is under their lips        SELAH

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PSALM 139

Omniscience of Godverses 1-6

O LORD – YOU have searched me, and known me

YOU know my down sitting and mine uprising

YOU understand my thought afar off

YOU compass my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways

For there is not a word in my tongue – BUT – lo – O LORDRead More

PSALM 138

Individual thankfulness to the LORDverses 1-3

I will praise YOU with my whole heart

before the gods will I sing praise to YOU

I will worship toward YOUR holy temple

and praise YOUR name for YOUR loving-kindness

and for YOUR truth

for YOU have magnified YOUR word

above all YOUR name

In the day when I cried YOU answered … Read More

PSALM 137

Prayer regarding captivityverses 1-6

By the rivers of Babylon – there we sat down – yea – we wept

when we remembered Zion

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof

            for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song

and they that wasted us required of us mirth

 saying

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PSALM 136

Mercy of the Sovereign of the Universeverses 1-3

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good

for HIS mercy endures for ever

O give thanks unto the God of gods

for HIS mercy endures for ever

O give thanks to the Lord of lords

for HIS mercy endures forever

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PSALM 135

Priest and Levites are to praise the LORDverses 1-2

Praise you the LORD

Praise you the name of the LORD

Praise HIM – O you servants of the LORD

You that stand in the house of the LORD

in the courts of the house of our God

Israel is to praise the LORD as HIS peculiar treasureverses 3-4Read More

PSALM 134

Priests were to praise the LORDverse 1

BEHOLD – bless you the LORD

all you servants of the LORD

                        which by night stand in the house of the LORD

Priests were to lift up their hands in praise to the LORDverse 2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary – and bless the LORD

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PSALM 133

Unity is pleasantverse 1

BEHOLD – how good and how pleasant for BRETHREN

to dwell together in unity

Unity is preciousverse 2

It is like precious ointment upon the head – THAT ran down upon the beard

even Aaron’s beard: THAT went down to the shirts of his garment

Unity is refreshingverse 3

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PSALM 132

Promise of King David to the LORDverses 1-5

LORD – remember David – and all his afflictions

            how he swore to the LORD

and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house

            nor go up into my bed

I will not give sleep to mine eyes – or slumber … Read More

PSALM 131

Humility of the Psalmistverse 1

LORD – my heart is not haughty – nor mine eyes lofty

            neither do I exercise myself in great matters

or in things to high for me

Contentment of the Psalmistverse 2

 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself

            as a child that is weaned of his mother

                        my soul is even as … Read More

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