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Bible Reading for June 21

Psalms Chapter 40

1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) I waited patiently for the
LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many
shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and
thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order
unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can
be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have
not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness
and thy truth from the great congregation.

11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have
taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than
the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul
to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me
evil.

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me,
Aha, aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as
love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my
help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalms Chapter 41

1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) Blessed is he that
considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be
blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of
his enemies.

3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt
make all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned
against thee.

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
devise my hurt.

8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he
lieth he shall rise up no more.

9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my
bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may
requite them.

11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not
triumph over me.

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me
before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Psalms Chapter 42

1 (To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.) As the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and
appear before God?

3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say
unto me, Where is thy God?

4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone
with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice
of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his
countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember
thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves
and thy billows are gone over me.

8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in
the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say
daily unto me, Where is thy God?

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within
me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of
my countenance, and my God.

Psalms Chapter 43

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go
I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring
me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea,
upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within
me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalms Chapter 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.

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

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.

4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we
tread them under that rise up against us.

6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame
that hated us.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with
our armies.

10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us
spoil for themselves.

11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered
us among the heathen.

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth
by their price.

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision
to them that are round about us.

14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head
among the people.

15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of
the enemy and avenger.

17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither
have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from
thy way;

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered
us with the shadow of death.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands
to a strange god;

21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as
sheep for the slaughter.

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the
earth.

26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Psalms Chapter 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.

2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy
lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is
a right sceptre.

7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy
God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the
ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand
did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also
thine own people, and thy father's house;

11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich
among the people shall intreat thy favour.

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of
wrought gold.

14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the
virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter
into the king's palace.

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make
princes in all the earth.

17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore
shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

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