Daily Devotional

Desire for the LORD to answer prayerverses 1-7

Bow down YOUR ear – O LORD – hear me – for I am poor and needy

            preserve my soul – for I am holy – O YOU my God

                        save YOUR servant that trust in YOU

            be merciful to me – O Lord – for I cry to YOU daily… Read More

Forgiveness of sinverses 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 backverses 3

YOU have TAKEN AWAY all YOUR wrath

            YOU have turned YOURSELF

from the fierceness of YOUR anger

Revival needed… Read More

Strong desire to be with the LORDverses 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

where … Read More

Psalmist questions the LORDverses 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 enemiesverses 3-4

They have taken crafty counsel against YOUR people

            and consulted … Read More

God is the Judgeverses 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 fatherlessverses 3-4

Defend the poor and fatherless

do justice to the afflicted and needy

deliver the poor and needy

rid … Read More

Prelude to a feast dayverses 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 day

History of the feast … Read More

Prayer to the Shepherd of Israelverses 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

Chorusverse 3

               Turn us again – O God – and cause … Read More

Description of defeated people of Israelverses 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 earth… Read More

Instruction to children regarding historyverses 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 hide … Read More

Overwhelmed in spiritverses 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

I … Read More