Book Three

God Is My Strength and Portion Forever

A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

73 Truly God is good to (B)Israel,
    to those who are (C)pure in heart.

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10 (A)Create in me a (B)clean heart, O God,
    and (C)renew a right[a] spirit within me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:10 Or steadfast

11 For the Lord God is (A)a sun and (B)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
(C)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who (D)walk uprightly.

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(A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded.

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47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, (A)an Israelite indeed, (B)in whom there is no deceit!”

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he saved us, (A)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but (B)according to his own mercy, by (C)the washing of regeneration and (D)renewal of the Holy Spirit,

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16 That is why it depends on faith, (A)in order that the promise may rest on grace and (B)be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, (C)who is the father of us all,

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28 For (A)no one is a Jew (B)who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29 But a Jew is one (C)inwardly, and (D)circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. (E)His praise is not from man but from God.

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God Himself Is Judge

A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

50 (B)The Mighty One, God the Lord,
    speaks and summons the earth
    (C)from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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David Organizes the Musicians

25 David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of (A)Asaph, and of (B)Heman, and of (C)Jeduthun, who (D)prophesied with lyres, with (E)harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who (F)prophesied under the direction of the king. Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei,[a] Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, (G)who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. All these were the sons of Heman (H)the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, (I)harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 25:3 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts lack Shimei

14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
    that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
    lodge within you?

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The Lord's Mercy Remembered

I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
    the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
    (A)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely.”
    And he became their Savior.
(B)In all their affliction he was afflicted,[a]
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
(C)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    (D)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:9 Or he did not afflict

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

83 O God, do not keep silence;
    (B)do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

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18 Truly you set them in (A)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed (B)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by (C)terrors!
20 Like (D)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when (E)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered,
    when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was (F)brutish and ignorant;
    I was like (G)a beast toward you.

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
    you (H)hold my right hand.
24 You (I)guide me with your counsel,
    and afterward you will (J)receive me to glory.
25 (K)Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 (L)My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is (M)the strength[a] of my heart and my (N)portion (O)forever.

27 For behold, those who are (P)far from you shall perish;
    you put an end to everyone who is (Q)unfaithful to you.
28 But for me it is good to (R)be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my (S)refuge,
    that I may (T)tell of all your works.

Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause

A Maskil[b] of (U)Asaph.

74 O God, why do you (V)cast us off forever?
    Why does your anger (W)smoke against (X)the sheep of your pasture?

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:26 Hebrew rock
  2. Psalm 74:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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(A)He who has (B)clean hands and (C)a pure heart,
    who does not (D)lift up his soul to (E)what is false
    and does not swear deceitfully.

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“As for me, I have (A)set my King
    on (B)Zion, my (C)holy hill.”

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30 And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

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Worship Before the Ark

37 So David left Asaph and his brothers there (A)before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the ark (B)as each day required,

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Then on that day (A)David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

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17 So the Levites appointed (A)Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers (B)Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, (C)Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

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39 and his brother (A)Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,

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But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham (A)because they are his offspring, but (B)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

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