These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(A)
how I used to go to the house of God(B)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(C) and praise(D)
    among the festive throng.(E)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

29 And you will sing
    as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;(A)
your hearts will rejoice(B)
    as when people playing pipes(C) go up
to the mountain(D) of the Lord,
    to the Rock(E) of Israel.

Read full chapter

Psalm 122

A song of ascents. Of David.

I rejoiced with those who said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Read full chapter

Trust in him at all times, you people;(A)
    pour out your hearts to him,(B)
    for God is our refuge.

Read full chapter

15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled.(A) I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring(B) out my soul to the Lord. 16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”(C)

Read full chapter

15 Look, there on the mountains,
    the feet of one who brings good news,(A)
    who proclaims peace!(B)
Celebrate your festivals,(C) Judah,
    and fulfill your vows.
No more will the wicked invade you;(D)
    they will be completely destroyed.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:15 In Hebrew texts this verse (1:15) is numbered 2:1.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving(A)
    and his courts(B) with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.(C)

Read full chapter

14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship(A)
    at the house of God,(B)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

Read full chapter

25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things,(A) but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.(B)

Read full chapter

19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(A) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.(B)
Lift up your hands(C) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint(D) from hunger
    at every street corner.

Read full chapter

Psalm 81[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] Of Asaph.

Sing for joy to God our strength;
    shout aloud to the God of Jacob!(A)
Begin the music, strike the timbrel,(B)
    play the melodious harp(C) and lyre.(D)

Sound the ram’s horn(E) at the New Moon,(F)
    and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:1 In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.
  2. Psalm 81:1 Title: Probably a musical term

“How I long for the months gone by,(A)
    for the days when God watched over me,(B)
when his lamp shone on my head
    and by his light I walked through darkness!(C)
Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
    when God’s intimate friendship(D) blessed my house,(E)
when the Almighty was still with me
    and my children(F) were around me,(G)
when my path was drenched with cream(H)
    and the rock(I) poured out for me streams of olive oil.(J)

“When I went to the gate(K) of the city
    and took my seat in the public square,
the young men saw me and stepped aside(L)
    and the old men rose to their feet;(M)
the chief men refrained from speaking(N)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;(O)
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed,(P)
    and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.(Q)
11 Whoever heard me spoke well of me,
    and those who saw me commended me,(R)
12 because I rescued the poor(S) who cried for help,
    and the fatherless(T) who had none to assist them.(U)
13 The one who was dying blessed me;(V)
    I made the widow’s(W) heart sing.
14 I put on righteousness(X) as my clothing;
    justice was my robe and my turban.(Y)
15 I was eyes(Z) to the blind
    and feet to the lame.(AA)
16 I was a father to the needy;(AB)
    I took up the case(AC) of the stranger.(AD)
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked
    and snatched the victims(AE) from their teeth.(AF)

18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.(AG)
19 My roots will reach to the water,(AH)
    and the dew will lie all night on my branches.(AI)
20 My glory will not fade;(AJ)
    the bow(AK) will be ever new in my hand.’(AL)

21 “People listened to me expectantly,
    waiting in silence for my counsel.(AM)
22 After I had spoken, they spoke no more;(AN)
    my words fell gently on their ears.(AO)
23 They waited for me as for showers
    and drank in my words as the spring rain.(AP)
24 When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;
    the light of my face(AQ) was precious to them.[a](AR)
25 I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;(AS)
    I dwelt as a king(AT) among his troops;
    I was like one who comforts mourners.(AU)

30 “But now they mock me,(AV)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.(AW)
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
    since their vigor had gone from them?
Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed[b] the parched land(AX)
    in desolate wastelands(AY) at night.(AZ)
In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(BA)
    and their food[c] was the root of the broom bush.(BB)
They were banished from human society,
    shouted at as if they were thieves.
They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
    among the rocks and in holes in the ground.(BC)
They brayed(BD) among the bushes(BE)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
A base and nameless brood,(BF)
    they were driven out of the land.(BG)

“And now those young men mock me(BH) in song;(BI)
    I have become a byword(BJ) among them.
10 They detest me(BK) and keep their distance;
    they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(BL)
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(BM) and afflicted me,(BN)
    they throw off restraint(BO) in my presence.
12 On my right(BP) the tribe[d] attacks;
    they lay snares(BQ) for my feet,(BR)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(BS)
13 They break up my road;(BT)
    they succeed in destroying me.(BU)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(BV)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(BW) overwhelm me;(BX)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(BY)

16 “And now my life ebbs away;(BZ)
    days of suffering grip me.(CA)
17 Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.(CB)
18 In his great power(CC) God becomes like clothing to me[e];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(CD)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(CE)

20 “I cry out to you,(CF) God, but you do not answer;(CG)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(CH)
    with the might of your hand(CI) you attack me.(CJ)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(CK)
    you toss me about in the storm.(CL)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(CM)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(CN)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(CO)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(CP)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(CQ)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(CR)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(CS)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(CT)
    days of suffering confront me.(CU)
28 I go about blackened,(CV) but not by the sun;
    I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(CW)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(CX)
    a companion of owls.(CY)
30 My skin grows black(CZ) and peels;(DA)
    my body burns with fever.(DB)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(DC)
    and my pipe(DD) to the sound of wailing.

Footnotes

  1. Job 29:24 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  2. Job 30:3 Or gnawed
  3. Job 30:4 Or fuel
  4. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  5. Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing

23 The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate(A) the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully. 24 Hezekiah king of Judah provided(B) a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats for the assembly, and the officials provided them with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep and goats. A great number of priests consecrated themselves. 25 The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel(C), including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah. 26 There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon(D) son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends