Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 18

Through My Bible – June 18

Psalms 86 – 87 (EHV)



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¹ Turn your ear, O Lord.

Answer me, for I am poor and needy.

² Guard my life, for I am favored by you. ^[1]

You are my God.

Save your servant, who trusts in you.

³ Have mercy on me, O Lord,

for I call to you all day long.

⁴ Bring joy to the soul of your servant,

for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

⁵ Indeed, you, Lord, are good and forgiving

and abounding in mercy to all who call to you.

⁶ Give ear to my prayer, O Lord.

Pay attention to the sound of my cries for mercy.

⁷ In the day of my distress I will call to you,

    because you will answer me.

⁸ There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord.

There are no deeds like your deeds.

⁹ All the nations you have made will come.

They will bow before you, O Lord,

and they will give glory to your name,

¹⁰ because you are great and do marvelous deeds.

You alone are God.

¹¹ Teach me your way, O Lord.

I will walk in your truth.

Give me wholehearted commitment to fear your name.

¹² I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart,

and I will glorify your name forever.

¹³ For great is your mercy toward me,

and you have delivered my soul from “the lowest hell.” ^[2]

¹⁴ God, the arrogant rise against me.

A mob of ruthless men seeks my life.

They pay no attention to you.

¹⁵ But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

slow to anger, abounding in mercy and faithfulness.

¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy on me.

Give your strength to your servant.

Save the son of your maidservant.

¹⁷ Give a sign of your goodness for me.

Then those who hate me will see it and be put to shame,

because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

¹ The city he founded is on the holy mountains.

² The Lord loves the gates of Zion

    more than all the other dwellings of Jacob. Interlude

³ Glorious things are spoken about you, O City of God.

⁴ I will register Rahab ^[3] and Babylon among those who know me.

Look! Philistia and Tyre are there, along with Cush!

Of them I say, “This one was born there in Zion.” <sup>[4]

5</sup> And about Zion it will be said,

“This one and that one were born in her,

and the Most High himself will establish her.”

⁶ When he registers the peoples,

the Lord will write: Interlude

“This one was born there.”

⁷ Then the singers, as they dance, will sing,

“All my springs are in you.”

Footnotes

1. Psalm 86:2 Or I am loyal to you


2. Psalm 86:13 Or have delivered my life from the depths of the grave


3. Psalm 87:4 Rahab here is a name for Egypt, which is pictured as a sea monster.


4. Psalm 87:4 The words of them I say and in Zion are added to clarify the antecedents.