Today’s
Reading : Psalms 84 – 89 and Philemon (KJV)
Psalms 84
Psa 84:1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD
of hosts!
Psa 84:2 My soul longeth,
yea even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my
heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psa 84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O
LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Psa 84:4 Blessed are
they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psa 84:5 Blessed is
the man whose strength is in thee; in
whose heart are the ways of them.
Psa 84:6 Who
passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in
Zion appeareth before God.
Psa 84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give
ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psa 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the
face of thine anointed.
Psa 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psa 84:11 For the LORD God is
a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly.
Psa 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth
in thee.
Psalms 85
Psa 85:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons
of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy
land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psa 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy
people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psa 85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast
turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psa 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Psa 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou
draw out thine anger to all generations?
Psa 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy
people may rejoice in thee?
Psa 85:7 Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy
salvation.
Psa 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for
he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn
again to folly.
Psa 85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell
in our land.
Psa 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed each
other.
Psa 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and
righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Psa 85:12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which
is good; and our land shall yield her
increase.
Psa 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall
set us in the way of his steps.
Psalms 86
Psa 86:1 A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psa 86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psa 86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto
thee daily.
Psa 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto
thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psa 86:5 For thou, Lord, art
good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon
thee.
Psa 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend
to the voice of my supplications.
Psa 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon
thee: for thou wilt answer me.
Psa 86:8 Among the gods there
is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works
like unto thy works.
Psa 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come
and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Psa 86:10 For thou art
great, and doest wondrous things: thou art
God alone.
Psa 86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy
truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Psa 86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all
my heart: and I will glorify thy name forevermore.
Psa 86:13 For great is
thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psa 86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and
the assemblies of violent men have
sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psa 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art
a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy
and truth.
Psa 86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give
thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine
handmaid.
Psa 86:17 Show me a token for good; that they which
hate me may see it, and be ashamed:
because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.
Psalms 87
Psa 87:1 A Psalm or
Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psa 87:2 The LORD loveth the
gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psa 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of
God. Selah.
Psa 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab
and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;
this man was born there.
Psa 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that
man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psa 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that
this man was born there. Selah.
Psa 87:7 As well the singers as the players on
instruments shall be there:
all my springs are in thee.
Psalms 88
Psa 88:1 A Song or
Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician
upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psa 88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Psa 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psa 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the
pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psa 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie
in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they
are cut off from thy hand.
Psa 88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in
darkness, in the deeps.
Psa 88:7 Thy wrath lieth
hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me
with all thy waves. Selah.
Psa 88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from
me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I
am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psa 88:9 Mine eye mourneth
by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched
out my hands unto thee.
Psa 88:10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the
dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psa 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness
be declared in the grave? or thy
faithfulness in destruction?
Psa 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and
thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psa 88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in
the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Psa 88:14 LORD, why castest
thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psa 88:15 I am
afflicted and ready to die from my youth
up: while I suffer thy terrors I am
distracted.
Psa 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth
over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Psa 88:17 They came round about me daily like water;
they compassed me about together.
Psa 88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 89
Psa 89:1 Maschil of Ethan
the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD
forever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psa 89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up
forever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the
very heavens.
Psa 89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have
sworn unto David my servant,
Psa 89:4 Thy seed will I establish forever, and build
up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Psa 89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O
LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Psa 89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto
the LORD? who among the sons of the
mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psa 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly
of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them
that are
about him.
Psa 89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee?
Psa 89:9 Thou rulest the
raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Psa 89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab
in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine
enemies with thy strong arm.
Psa 89:11 The heavens are
thine, the earth also is
thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast
founded them.
Psa 89:12 The north and the south thou hast created
them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psa 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Psa 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth
shall go before thy face.
Psa 89:15 Blessed is
the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of
thy countenance.
Psa 89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Psa 89:17 For thou art
the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
Psa 89:18 For the LORD is
our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is
our king.
Psa 89:19 Then thou spakest
in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty; I have
exalted one chosen out of the people.
Psa 89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy
oil have I anointed him:
Psa 89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine
arm also shall strengthen him.
Psa 89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the
son of wickedness afflict him.
Psa 89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his
face, and plague them that hate him.
Psa 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be
with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psa 89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his
right hand in the rivers.
Psa 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.
Psa 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Psa 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and
my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psa 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure
forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psa 89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not
in my judgments;
Psa 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my
commandments;
Psa 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with
the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psa 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness
will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psa 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the
thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psa 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will
not lie unto David.
Psa 89:36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne
as the sun before me.
Psa 89:37 It shall be established forever as the moon,
and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah.
Psa 89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou
hast been wroth with thine anointed.
Psa 89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy
servant: thou hast profaned his crown by
casting it
to the ground.
Psa 89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou
hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psa 89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a
reproach to his neighbours.
Psa 89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his
adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psa 89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword,
and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
Psa 89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast
his throne down to the ground.
Psa 89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psa 89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself
forever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psa 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast
thou made all men in vain?
Psa 89:48 What man is
he that
liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his
soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psa 89:49 Lord, where are
thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto
David in thy truth?
Psa 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
how I do bear in my bosom the reproach
of all the mighty people;
Psa 89:51 Wherewith thine
enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps
of thine anointed.
Psa 89:52 Blessed be
the LORD forevermore. Amen, and Amen.
Philemon
Phm 1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy
our brother, unto Philemon our dearly
beloved, and fellow labourer,
Phm 1:2 And to our
beloved Apphia, and Archippus
our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house:
Phm 1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Phm 1:4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always
in my prayers,
Phm 1:5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou
hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
Phm 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may
become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in
Christ Jesus.
Phm 1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy
love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Phm 1:8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in
Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Phm 1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now
also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Phm 1:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus,
whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Phm 1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable,
but now profitable to thee and to me:
Phm 1:12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore
receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Phm 1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in
thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Phm 1:14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that
thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Phm 1:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a
season, that thou shouldest receive him forever;
Phm 1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a
brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the
flesh and in the Lord?
Phm 1:17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive
him as myself.
Phm 1:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aught,
put that on mine account;
Phm 1:19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self
besides.
Phm 1:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the
Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Phm 1:21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote
unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Phm 1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I
trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Phm 1:23 There salute thee Epaphras,
my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
Phm 1:24 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow
labourers.
Phm 1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.