Today’s
Reading : Psalms 44 – 50 and 2Timothy
2 (KJV)
Psalms 44
Psa 44:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard
with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what
work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psa 44:2 How
thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; how thou didst afflict the people,
and cast them out.
Psa 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Psa 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances
for Jacob.
Psa 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Psa 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall
my sword save me.
Psa 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and
hast put them to shame that hated us.
Psa 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise
thy name forever. Selah.
Psa 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
Psa 44:10 Thou makest us to
turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Psa 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among
the heathen.
Psa 44:12 Thou sellest thy
people for naught, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price.
Psa 44:13 Thou makest us a
reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about
us.
Psa 44:14 Thou makest us a
byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psa 44:15 My confusion is
continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psa 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth
and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psa 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psa 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have
our steps declined from thy way;
Psa 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place
of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psa 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or
stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psa 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psa 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day
long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa 44:23 Awake, why sleepest
thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off
forever.
Psa 44:24 Wherefore hidest
thou thy face, and forgettest
our affliction and our oppression?
Psa 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our
belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psa 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy
mercies' sake.
Psalms 45
Psa 45:1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah,
Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have
made touching the king: my tongue is the
pen of a ready writer.
Psa 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men:
grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever.
Psa 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most
mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psa 45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because
of truth and meekness and righteousness;
and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Psa 45:5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psa 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psa 45:7 Thou lovest
righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,
thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psa 45:8 All thy garments smell
of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Psa 45:9 Kings' daughters were
among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Psa 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and
incline thine ear; forget also thine
own people, and thy father's house;
Psa 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:
for he is thy Lord; and worship thou
him.
Psa 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even
the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.
Psa 45:13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Psa 45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment
of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto
thee.
Psa 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be
brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
Psa 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Psa 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all
generations: therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever.
Psalms 46
Psa 46:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
in trouble.
Psa 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth
be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Psa 46:3 Though
the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Selah.
Psa 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God, the holy place of the
tabernacles of the most High.
Psa 46:5 God is
in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that
right early.
Psa 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:
he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psa 46:7 The LORD of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Psa 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what
desolations he hath made in the earth.
Psa 46:9 He maketh wars to
cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow,
and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Psa 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I
will be exalted in the earth.
Psa 46:11 The LORD of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Psalms 47
Psa 47:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons
of Korah. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout
unto God with the voice of triumph.
Psa 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he
is a great King over all the earth.
Psa 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the
nations under our feet.
Psa 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Psa 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with
the sound of a trumpet.
Psa 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing
praises unto our King, sing praises.
Psa 47:7 For God is
the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Psa 47:8 God reigneth over
the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.
Psa 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered
together, even the people of the God of
Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong
unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Psalms 48
Psa 48:1 A Song and
Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the
city of our God, in the mountain of his
holiness.
Psa 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole
earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great
King.
Psa 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Psa 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they
passed by together.
Psa 48:5 They saw it,
and so they marvelled; they were
troubled, and hasted away.
Psa 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psa 48:7 Thou breakest the
ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psa 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city
of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever.
Selah.
Psa 48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness,
O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Psa 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy
right hand is full of righteousness.
Psa 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of
Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Psa 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell
the towers thereof.
Psa 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her
palaces; that ye may tell it to the
generation following.
Psa 48:14 For this God is
our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even
unto death.
Psalms 49
Psa 49:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons
of Korah. Hear this, all ye
people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of
the world:
Psa 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psa 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the
meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Psa 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psa 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me
about?
Psa 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psa 49:7 None of
them can by any means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psa 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth
forever:)
Psa 49:9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
Psa 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psa 49:11 Their inward thought is, that
their houses shall continue forever, and
their dwelling places to all generations; they call their
lands after their own names.
Psa 49:12 Nevertheless man being
in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psa 49:13 This their way is
their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psa 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death
shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psa 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of
the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psa 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased;
Psa 49:17 For when he dieth
he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Psa 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul:
and men will praise thee, when thou
doest well to thyself.
Psa 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
they shall never see light.
Psa 49:20 Man that
is in honour, and understandeth
not, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 50
Psa 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath
spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
Psa 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
Psa 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him.
Psa 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and
to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psa 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that
have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psa 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God is judge himself.
Selah.
Psa 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O
Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am
God, even thy God.
Psa 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or
thy burnt offerings, to have been
continually before me.
Psa 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psa 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and
the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psa 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psa 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for
the world is mine, and the fullness
thereof.
Psa 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats?
Psa 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows
unto the most High:
Psa 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psa 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that
thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest
instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psa 50:18 When thou sawest a
thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers.
Psa 50:19 Thou givest thy
mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psa 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against
thy brother; thou slanderest thine
own mother's son.
Psa 50:21 These things
hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest
that I was altogether such a one as
thyself: but I will reprove thee, and
set them in order before thine eyes.
Psa 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I
tear you in pieces, and there be
none to deliver.
Psa 50:23 Whoso offereth
praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation aright will I show the
salvation of God.
2Timothy 2
2Ti
2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the
grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me
among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others also.
2Ti 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ.
2Ti 2:4 No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen
him to be a soldier.
2Ti 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2Ti 2:6 The husbandman that laboureth
must be first partaker of the fruits.
2Ti 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee
understanding in all things.
2Ti 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of
David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
2Ti 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not
bound.
2Ti 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's
sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
eternal glory.
2Ti 2:11 It is
a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him,
we shall also live with him:
2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him,
he also will deny us:
2Ti 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot
deny himself.
2Ti 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about
words to no profit, but to the
subverting of the hearers.
2Ti 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
2Ti 2:16 But shun profane and
vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
2Ti 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of
whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2Ti 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying
that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
2Ti 2:20 But in a great house there are not only
vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to
honour, and some to dishonour.
2Ti 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these,
he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
2Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow
righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a
pure heart.
2Ti 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do engender strifes.
2Ti 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all men, apt to
teach, patient,
2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth;
2Ti 2:26 And that
they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken
captive by him at his will.