daily reading 52.4 (Psalm 89:1–37)

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023


Our opening prayer for this week:

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let ev’ry heart prepare him room
And heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let all their songs employ.
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground.
He comes to make his blessings known
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love. Amen.

 

Psalm 89:1–37

  • A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 
  • I will sing about the LORD's faithful love forever; I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations with my mouth.
  • 2 For I will declare, "Faithful love is built up forever; you establish your faithfulness in the heavens."
  • 3 The LORD said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn an oath to David my servant: 4 'I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.'" Selah
  • 5 LORD, the heavens praise your wonders—your faithfulness also—in the assembly of the holy ones.
  • 6 For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD? 7 God is greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, more awe-inspiring than all who surround him.
  • 8 LORD God of Armies, who is strong like you, LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you.
  • 9 You rule the raging sea; when its waves surge, you still them. 10 You crushed Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your powerful arm.
  • 11 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours. The world and everything in it—you founded them. 12 North and south—you created them. Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at your name.
  • 13 You have a mighty arm; your hand is powerful; your right hand is lifted high.
  • 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; faithful love and truth go before you.
  • 15 Happy are the people who know the joyful shout; LORD, they walk in the light from your face.
  • 16 They rejoice in your name all day long, and they are exalted by your righteousness.
  • 17 For you are their magnificent strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.
  • 18 Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
  • 19 You once spoke in a vision to your faithful ones and said: "I have granted help to a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
  •  20 "I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with my sacred oil.
  •  21 "My hand will always be with him, and my arm will strengthen him.
  •  22 "The enemy will not oppress him; the wicked will not afflict him.
  •  23 "I will crush his foes before him and strike those who hate him.
  •  24 "My faithfulness and love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.
  •  25 "I will extend his power to the sea and his right hand to the rivers.
  •  26 "He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the rock of my salvation.'
  •  27 "I will also make him my firstborn, greatest of the kings of the earth.
  •  28 "I will always preserve my faithful love for him, and my covenant with him will endure.
  •  29 "I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as heaven lasts.
  •  30 "If his sons abandon my instruction and do not live by my ordinances, 31 if they dishonor my statutes and do not keep my commands, 32 then I will call their rebellion to account with the rod, their iniquity with blows.
  •  33 "But I will not withdraw my faithful love from him or betray my faithfulness. 34 I will not violate my covenant or change what my lips have said.
  •  35 "Once and for all I have sworn an oath by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
  •  36 "His offspring will continue forever, his throne like the sun before me, 37 like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky." Selah




For yourself pray:

  • That God shows you more and more mercies so that you are filled with desire to sing of them forever

For others pray:

  • That God gives safe travels to anyone you know who is traveling

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

 

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