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Bible Reading for April 25


Psalms 43
[1] Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. [2] For thou art the God of
my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the
oppression of the enemy? [3] O send out thy light and thy truth: let them
lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. [4]
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon
the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. [5] Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet
praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalms 44
[1] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work
thou didst in their days, in the times of old. [2] How thou didst drive out
the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the
people, and cast them out. [3] For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand,
and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a
favour unto them. [4] Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for
Jacob. [5] Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
will we tread them under that rise up against us. [6] For I will not trust
in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. [7] But thou hast saved us from
our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
[8] In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
[9] But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with
our armies.
[10] Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us
spoil for themselves.
[11] Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered
us among the heathen.
[12] Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth
by their price.
[13] Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to
them that are round about us.
[14] Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among
the people.
[15] My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[16] For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of
the enemy and avenger.
[17] All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have
we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[18] Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
[19] Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered
us with the shadow of death.
[20] If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands
to a strange god;
[21] Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the
heart. [22] Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23] Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
[24] Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our
oppression?
[25] For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[26] Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Psalms 45
[1] My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have
made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. [2] Thou
art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips:
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. [3] Gird thy sword upon thy
thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
[4] And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and
righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. [5]
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the
people fall under thee.
[6] Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is
a right sceptre.
[7] Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy
God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. [8] All
thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory
palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. [9] Kings' daughters were among
thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of
Ophir. [10] Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; [11] So shall the
king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
[12] And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich
among the people shall intreat thy favour. [13] The king's daughter is all
glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
[14] She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the
virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. [15]
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into
the king's palace.
[16] Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make
princes in all the earth.
[17] I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore
shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

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