{"id":10166,"date":"2018-03-23T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T21:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T21:48:12","slug":"recent-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10166\/recent-psalms\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Here are some Psalms we have been working on lately, and finished.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Amy B.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u23b7Psalm 50<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A melody by Asaph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00b61. The mighty God, Jehovah, spoke, and He called to earth from the rising of the sun until its going down.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Our God shall come, and He will not be silent!\u00a0 Fire will devour before Him, and around Him it will be very tempestuous.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">He will call to the heavens from above and to the earth to judge His people,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cGather my saints to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And heaven will declare His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.\u00a0 Selah.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cListen, O my people, and let me speak!\u00a0 O Israel, I will testify against you!\u00a0 I am God \u2013 your God!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you, nor for your burnt offerings that are continually before me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am not taking a bullock from your house\u00a0or\u00a0he-goats from your folds,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">for every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I know every bird of the mountains, and the creature of the field is mine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine and its fullness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of he-goats?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">and then call on me in the day of trouble!\u00a0 I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But to the wicked man, God says, \u201cHow dare you declare my statutes, or take up my covenant into your mouth!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You despise correction, and you cast off my words behind you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and your portion is with adulterers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You turn your mouth loose with evil, and your tongue contrives deceit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You sit with your brother,\u00a0and yet, you speak slander against your mother\u2019s son.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">These things you have done and I remained silent.\u00a0 You thought that I was altogethersuch a one\u00a0as yourself.\u00a0 I will reprove you, and I will set\u00a0things\u00a0in order before your eyes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear in pieces \u2013 and there will be no deliverer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">He who offers the sacrifice of praise and orders\u00a0his\u00a0way glorifies me.\u00a0 I will show him the salvation of God.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u23b7Psalm 51<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For the director.\u00a0 A melody by David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When Nathan the prophet came to him because he had gone in to Bathsheba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00b61. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your lovingkindness!\u00a0 In the abundance of your compassion, blot out my transgressions!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Against you, against you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight, so that you may be vindicated in your words.\u00a0 You are justified in your judgment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Behold, you delight in truth in the inner parts, and in the secret\u00a0chamber, you make me know wisdom.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.\u00a0 Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Make me to hear joy and gladness,\u00a0and the bones you have crushed will shout for joy!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Create a clean heart for me, O God, and make within me a new, steadfast spirit!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy Spirit from me!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and you will sustain me\u00a0with\u00a0a willing spirit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, God of my salvation!\u00a0 My tongue will cry aloud of your righteousness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will make your praise known.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Truly, you do not delight in sacrifice; otherwise, I would offer it.\u00a0 Burnt offering does not please you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.\u00a0 A broken and crushed heart, O God, you will not despise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In your good will, do good to Zion.\u00a0 You will build the walls of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Then, you will delight in sacrifices of righteousness, burnt offering and whole burnt offering.\u00a0 Then will they offer bullocks on your altar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u23b7Psalm 52<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For the director.\u00a0 A song of wisdom by David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, and he said to him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cDavid has gone to Ahimelech\u2019s house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00b61. How can you commend yourself with evil, O mighty man?\u00a0 God\u2019s faithfulness never ceases.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharpened razor, working deceit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You love evil rather than good,\u00a0and\u00a0falsehood rather than to speak righteousness.\u00a0 Selah.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">5.But God will break you down for eternity.\u00a0 He will seize you and tear you out of\u00a0your\u00a0tent, and He will uproot you from the land of the living.\u00a0 Selah.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And the righteous will see it, and fear.\u00a0 And they will laugh at him,\u00a0saying,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cBehold the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches!\u00a0 He was strengthened by his own will.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.\u00a0 I will trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I will praise you forever because you did\u00a0it, and I will wait for your Name, for\u00a0he is\u00a0good in the sight of your saints.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u23b7Psalm 38<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Tom and Suzi<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A melody by David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">To bring to remembrance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00b61. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor chasten me in your burning anger,<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">for your arrows have sunk down into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My wounds stink; they fester.\u00a0 Because of my foolishness,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am bent over; I am completely humbled.\u00a0 All day long, I walk about, mourning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My loins overflow with scornings, and there is no soundness in my flesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am benumbed and utterly crushed.\u00a0 I roar because of the groaning in my heart.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My heart pounds; my strength, as well as the light of my eyes, has forsaken me.\u00a0 Even they are not with me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My loved ones and friends stand aloof from my affliction, even those nearest to me stand at a distance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Moreover, those who seek my life set traps, and those who desire my hurt speak of\u00a0mydestruction, and plot treachery all the day long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yea, I have become like a man that does not hear and in whose mouth are no reproofs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For I am waiting for you, O Lord. \u00a0 You will give answer, my Lord, my God!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For I said, \u201cSave me!\u00a0lest they gloat over me when my foot slips; they magnify themselves against me.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For I am being set up for a fall, and my sorrow is always with me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For I will declare my iniquity; I am afraid because of my sin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My enemies are alive and powerful, and they are many who hate me wrongfully.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And they who render evil for good accuse me because I am after good.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Do not abandon me, O Jehovah, my God!\u00a0 Be not far from me!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Make haste to help me, my Lord, my salvation!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some Psalms we have been working on lately, and finished. Amy B. \u23b7Psalm 50 Damien A melody by Asaph. \u00b61. The mighty God, Jehovah, spoke, and He called to earth from the rising of the sun until its going down. From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone. 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