Today’s Reading :  Psalms 106 – 109  and  Hebrews 3  (KJV)

 

 

. Psalms 106

Psa 106:1  Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

Psa 106:2  Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can show forth all his praise?

Psa 106:3  Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Psa 106:4  Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

Psa 106:5  That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

Psa 106:6  We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Psa 106:7  Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Psa 106:8  Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

Psa 106:9  He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

Psa 106:10  And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psa 106:11  And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

Psa 106:12  Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

Psa 106:13  They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

Psa 106:14  But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

Psa 106:15  And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

Psa 106:16  They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

Psa 106:17  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Psa 106:18  And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Psa 106:19  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

Psa 106:20  Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Psa 106:21  They forgot God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

Psa 106:22  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

Psa 106:23  Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Psa 106:24  Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Psa 106:25  But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

Psa 106:26  Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

Psa 106:27  To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Psa 106:28  They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Psa 106:29  Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in upon them.

Psa 106:30  Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

Psa 106:31  And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations forevermore.

Psa 106:32  They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

Psa 106:33  Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

Psa 106:34  They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

Psa 106:35  But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

Psa 106:36  And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Psa 106:37  Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Psa 106:38  And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Psa 106:39  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Psa 106:40  Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Psa 106:41  And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

Psa 106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Psa 106:43  Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Psa 106:44  Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

Psa 106:45  And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psa 106:46  He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Psa 106:47  Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Psa 106:48  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

 

Psalms 107

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

Psa 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psa 107:3  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

Psa 107:4  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Psa 107:5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Psa 107:6  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Psa 107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Psa 107:10  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Psa 107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

Psa 107:12  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Psa 107:13  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Psa 107:14  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

Psa 107:15  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:16  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Psa 107:17  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Psa 107:18  Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Psa 107:19  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

Psa 107:33  He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

Psa 107:34  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Psa 107:35  He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Psa 107:36  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Psa 107:37  And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Psa 107:38  He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Psa 107:39  Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Psa 107:40  He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Psa 107:41  Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

Psa 107:42  The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Psa 107:43  Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

 

Psalms 108

Psa 108:1  A Song or Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Psa 108:2  Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Psa 108:3  I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

Psa 108:4  For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

Psa 108:5  Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

Psa 108:6  That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

Psa 108:7  God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Psa 108:8  Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Psa 108:9  Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

Psa 108:10  Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Psa 108:11  Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

Psa 108:12  Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psa 108:13  Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

 

Psalms 109

Psa 109:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

Psa 109:2  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psa 109:3  They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Psa 109:4  For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Psa 109:5  And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psa 109:6  Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Psa 109:7  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Psa 109:8  Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Psa 109:9  Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psa 109:10  Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Psa 109:11  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Psa 109:12  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Psa 109:13  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psa 109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psa 109:15  Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psa 109:16  Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Psa 109:17  As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Psa 109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psa 109:19  Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Psa 109:20  Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Psa 109:21  But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Psa 109:22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psa 109:23  I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psa 109:24  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psa 109:25  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Psa 109:26  Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

Psa 109:27  That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

Psa 109:28  Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

Psa 109:29  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

Psa 109:30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

Psa 109:31  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

 

Hebrews 3

Heb 3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Heb 3:2  Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

Heb 3:3  For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

Heb 3:4  For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

Heb 3:5  And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

Heb 3:6  But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Heb 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice,

Heb 3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Heb 3:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Heb 3:10  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Heb 3:11  So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Heb 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Heb 3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Heb 3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

Heb 3:15  While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Heb 3:16  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.