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Bible Reading for April 27

Psalms 49
[1] Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
[2] Both low and high, rich and poor, together. [3] My mouth shall speak of
wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
[4] I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
[5] Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my
heels shall compass me about?
[6] They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude
of their riches;
[7] None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a
ransom for him:
[8] (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for
ever:) [9] That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. [10]
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person
perish, and leave their wealth to others. [11] Their inward thought is,
that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all
generations; they call their lands after their own names.
[12] Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
[13] This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
[14] Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and
the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty
shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. [15] But God will redeem my
soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
[16] Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house
is increased;
[17] For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not
descend after him.
[18] Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee,
when thou doest well to thyself.
[19] He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
[20] Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalms 50
[1] The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from
the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. [2] Out of Zion, the
perfection of beauty, God hath shined. [3] Our God shall come, and shall
not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about him. [4] He shall call to the heavens from above,
and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
[5] Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with
me by sacrifice.
[6] And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
[7] Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God, even thy God. [8] I will not reprove thee for thy
sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
[9] I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
[10] For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand
hills.
[11] I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the
field are mine.
[12] If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and
the fulness thereof.
[13] Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? [14] Offer
unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: [15] And call
upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
me.
[16] But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? [17] Seeing
thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. [18] When thou
sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with
adulterers.
[19] Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. [20]
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own
mother's son.
[21] These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that
I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set
them in order before thine eyes.
[22] Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and
there be none to deliver.
[23] Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Psalms 51
[1] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according
unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. [2]
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. [3] For I
acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. [4] Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou
mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
[5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
[6] Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
[7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow.
[8] Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken
may rejoice.
[9] Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. [10]
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. [11]
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
[12] Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
[13] Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
converted unto thee.
[14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and
my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. [15] O Lord, open thou my
lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. [16] For thou desirest not
sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. [18] Do good in thy good pleasure unto
Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
[19] Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with
burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar.

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