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Remembering God’s Help for Israel For the music director, on Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. 1 I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me. 2 In the day I have trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out ?continually?; my soul refuses to be comforted. 3 I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint. Selah 4 You hold open my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak. 5 I think about the days from long ago, the years of ancient times. 6 I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate,..
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 53
Psa 53:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
there is none who does good.
Psa 53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Psa 53:3 They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good, not even one.
Psa 53:4 Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?
Psa 53:5 There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror!
For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
Psa 53:6 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Reading for Wednesday February 19th Psalm 79
Remembering God’s Help for Israel
77 For the music director, on Jeduthun.
Of Asaph. A psalm.
1 I cry out with my voice to God;
with my voice to God, that he may hear me.
2 In the day I have trouble, I seek the Lord.
At night my hand stretches out ?continually?;
my soul refuses to be comforted.
3 I remember God and I groan loudly;
I meditate and my spirit grows faint. Selah
4 You hold open my eyelids.
I am troubled and cannot speak.
5 I think about the days from long ago,
the years of ancient times.
6 I remember my song in the night.
With my heart I meditate,
and my spirit searches to understand.
7 Will the Lord reject us forever,
and will he never be pleased with us again?
8 Has his loyal love ceased forever?
Is his promise ended throughout generations?
9 Has God forgotten to have compassion?
Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah
10 So I said, “This pierces me—
the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
11 I will remember the deeds of Yah.
Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago.
12 I will also muse on all your work,
and meditate on your deeds.
13 O God, your way is distinctive.
Who is a great god like our God?
14 You are the God who works wonders;
you have made known your might among the peoples.
15 With your arm you redeemed your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
16 Waters saw you, O God;
waters saw you and they trembled.
Surely the deeps shook.
17 The clouds poured out water.
The skies ?thundered?.
Your arrows also ?flew about?.
18 The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
lightnings lit the world;
the earth shook and quaked.
19 Your way was through the sea,
and your path through many waters.
Yet your footprints were not discerned.
20 You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Gracious Father, Your blessed Son came down from heaven to be the true bread that gives life to the world. Grant that Christ, the bread of life, may live in us and we in Him. Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us to do Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
