Today’s
Reading : Psalms 73 – 77 and Titus
2 (KJV)
Psalms 73
Psa 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph.
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Psa 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my
steps had well nigh slipped.
Psa 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psa 73:4 For there
are no bands in their death: but their
strength is firm.
Psa 73:5 They are
not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Psa 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth
them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psa 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have
more than heart could wish.
Psa 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psa 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and
their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psa 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and
waters of a full cup are wrung out to
them.
Psa 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there
knowledge in the most High?
Psa 73:12 Behold, these are
the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Psa 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Psa 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and
chastened every morning.
Psa 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should
offend against the generation of thy
children.
Psa 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Psa 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Psa 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery
places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psa 73:19 How are they brought
into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Psa 73:20 As a dream when one
awaketh; so, O
Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt
despise their image.
Psa 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked
in my reins.
Psa 73:22 So foolish was
I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before
thee.
Psa 73:23 Nevertheless I am
continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
Psa 73:24 Thou shalt guide me
with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to
glory.
Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee?
and there is
none upon earth that I desire beside
thee.
Psa 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth:
but God is
the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
Psa 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall
perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Psa 73:28 But it is
good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I
may declare all thy works.
Psalms 74
Psa 74:1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off forever? why
doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy
pasture?
Psa 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which
thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psa 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary.
Psa 74:4 Thine enemies roar
in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psa 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes
upon the thick trees.
Psa 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof
at once with axes and hammers.
Psa 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they
have defiled by casting down
the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psa 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy
them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psa 74:9 We see not our signs: there is
no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth
how long.
Psa 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
Psa 74:11 Why withdrawest
thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it
out of thy bosom.
Psa 74:12 For God is
my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psa 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psa 74:14 Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in
pieces, and gavest
him to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psa 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:
thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psa 74:16 The day is
thine, the night also is
thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Psa 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Psa 74:18 Remember this, that
the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that
the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psa 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto
the multitude of the wicked:
forget not the congregation of thy poor forever.
Psa 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark
places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psa 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let
the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psa 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine
own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth
thee daily.
Psa 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine
enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth
continually.
Psalms 75
Psa 75:1 To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto
thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
Psa 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will
judge uprightly.
Psa 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Psa 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly:
and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Psa 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a
stiff neck.
Psa 75:6 For promotion cometh
neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psa 75:7 But God is
the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psa 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a
cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth
out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring
them out, and
drink them.
Psa 75:9 But I will declare forever; I will sing
praises to the God of Jacob.
Psa 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut
off; but the horns of the righteous
shall be exalted.
Psalms 76
Psa 76:1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or
Song of Asaph. In Judah is
God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psa 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his
dwelling place in Zion.
Psa 76:3 There broke he the arrows of the bow, the
shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Psa 76:4 Thou art
more glorious and excellent than the
mountains of prey.
Psa 76:5 The stouthearted
are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have
found their hands.
Psa 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot
and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psa 76:7 Thou, even
thou, art to be feared: and who may
stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Psa 76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from
heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
Psa 76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the
meek of the earth. Selah.
Psa 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:
the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psa 76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all
that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psa 76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms 77
Psa 77:1 To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun,
A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto
me.
Psa 77:2 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.
Psa 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I
complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psa 77:4 Thou holdest mine
eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psa 77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years
of ancient times.
Psa 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I
commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Psa 77:7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he
be favourable no more?
Psa 77:8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? doth his promise fail forevermore?
Psa 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in
anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psa 77:10 And I said, This is
my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most
High.
Psa 77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely
I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psa 77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and
talk of thy doings.
Psa 77:13 Thy way, O God, is
in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our
God?
Psa 77:14 Thou art
the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Psa 77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of
Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psa 77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw
thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Psa 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent
out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Psa 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Psa 77:19 Thy way is
in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psa 77:20 Thou leddest thy
people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Titus 2
Tit
2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound
doctrine:
Tit 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Tit 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers,
not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Tit 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be
sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Tit 2:5 To be
discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that
the word of God be not blasphemed.
Tit 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Tit 2:7 In all things showing thyself a pattern of
good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Tit 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that
he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of
you.
Tit 2:9 Exhort
servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and
to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Tit 2:10 Not purloining, but showing all good
fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world;
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem
us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of
good works.
Tit 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke
with all authority. Let no man despise thee.