[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SUNDAY JUNE 12

[Donnie Parrett]

DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SUNDAY JUNE 12

DAILY BIBLE READING

Psalm 41-45 New King James Version
The Blessing and Suffering of the Godly
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
41 Blessed is he who considers the [a]poor;
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will [b]sustain him on his sickbed.

4 I said, "Lord, be merciful to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."
5 My enemies speak evil of me:
"When will he die, and his name perish?"
6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks [c]lies;
His heart gathers iniquity to itself;
When he goes out, he tells it.

7 All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they [d]devise my hurt.
8 "An[e] evil disease," they say, "clings to him.
And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more."
9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has [f]lifted up his heel against me.

10 But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.
11 By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
12 As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And set me before Your face forever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
>From everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.

BOOK TWO
Psalms 42-72
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
To the Chief Musician. A [g]Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
42 As the deer [h]pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and [i]appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
"Where is your God?"

4 When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

5 Why are you [j]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
[k]For the help of His countenance.

6 [l]O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
>From [m]the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me-
A prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my Rock,
"Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 As with a [n]breaking of my bones,
My enemies [o]reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
"Where is your God?"

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [p]help of my countenance and my God.

Prayer to God in Time of Trouble
43 Vindicate me, O God,
And plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
2 For You are the God of my strength;
Why do You cast me off?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your [q]tabernacle.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp I will praise You,
O God, my God.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [r]help of my countenance and my God.

Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[s] of the sons of Korah.
44 We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:
2 You drove out the [t]nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
3 For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
Because You favored them.

4 You are my King, [u]O God;
[v]Command victories for Jacob.
5 Through You we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.
7 But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.
8 In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.
10 You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken [w]spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
14 You make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the avenger.

17 All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or stretched[x] out our hands to a foreign god,
21 Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the [y]dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
26 Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.

The Glories of the Messiah and His Bride
To the Chief Musician. Set to [z]"The Lilies." A [aa]Contemplation of the
sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
45 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a [ab]ready writer.

2 You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3 [ac]Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and Your majesty.
4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and
righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies;
The peoples fall under You.

6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
9 Kings' daughters are among Your honorable women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

10 Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
Forget your own people also, and your father's house;
11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the people will seek your favor.

13 The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with gold.
14 She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King's palace.

16 Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.

Footnotes
Psalm 41:1 helpless or powerless
Psalm 41:3 restore
Psalm 41:6 empty words
Psalm 41:7 plot
Psalm 41:8 Lit. A thing of Belial
Psalm 41:9 Acted as a traitor
Psalm 42:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 42:1 Lit. longs for
Psalm 42:2 So with MT, Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Tg. I see the face of
God
Psalm 42:5 Lit. bowed down
Psalm 42:5 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. The help of my
countenance, my God
Psalm 42:6 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. put my God at
the end of v. 5
Psalm 42:6 Or Mount
Psalm 42:10 Lit. shattering
Psalm 42:10 revile
Psalm 42:11 Lit. salvation
Psalm 43:3 dwelling places
Psalm 43:5 Lit. salvation
Psalm 44:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 44:2 Gentiles, heathen
Psalm 44:4 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. and my God
Psalm 44:4 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. Who commands
Psalm 44:10 plunder
Psalm 44:20 Worshiped
Psalm 44:25 Ground, in humiliation
Psalm 45:1 Heb. Shoshannim
Psalm 45:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 45:1 skillful
Psalm 45:3 Belt on