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Bible Reading for April 24


Psalms 40
[1] 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 41
[1] 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 42
[1] 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.


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