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Bible Reading for May 10

Psalms 88
[1] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: [2]
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; [3] For my
soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
[4] I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that
hath no strength:
[5] Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. [6] Thou hast laid
me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. [7] Thy wrath lieth hard
upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
[8] Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. [9] Mine eye
mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I
have stretched out my hands unto thee. [10] Wilt thou shew wonders to the
dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
[11] Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness
in destruction?
[12] Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the
land of forgetfulness?
[13] But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee.
[14] LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
[15] I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy
terrors I am distracted.
[16] Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. [17] They
came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
[18] Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalms 89
[1] I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I
make known thy faithfulness to all generations. [2] For I have said, Mercy
shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the
very heavens. [3] I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto
David my servant,
[4] Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
[5] And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also
in the congregation of the saints.
[6] For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons
of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? [7] God is greatly to be feared
in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that
are about him. [8] O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto
thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
[9] Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
[10] Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast
scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. [11] The heavens are thine,
the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou
hast founded them. [12] The north and the south thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
[13] Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right
hand. [14] Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and
truth shall go before thy face.
[15] Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O
LORD, in the light of thy countenance. [16] In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
[17] For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn
shall be exalted.
[18] For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
[19] Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
[20] I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
[21] With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen
him.
[22] The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
[23] And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
[24] But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name
shall his horn be exalted.
[25] I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
[26] He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.
[27] Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
[28] My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
[29] His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the
days of heaven.
[30] If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; [31] If
they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; [32] Then will I
visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
[33] Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail.
[34] My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
[35] Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. [36]
His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. [37] It
shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in
heaven. Selah.
[38] But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
[39] Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned
his crown by casting it to the ground.
[40] Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong
holds to ruin.
[41] All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
neighbours. [42] Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou
hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
[43] Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
[44] Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
[45] The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
[46] How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
[47] Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
[48] What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. [49] Lord, where are thy former
lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
[50] Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my
bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; [51] Wherewith thine enemies
have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of
thine anointed. [52] Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Psalms 90
[1] LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. [2] Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and
the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. [3] Thou
turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. [4] For
a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as
a watch in the night.
[5] Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the
morning they are like grass which groweth up. [6] In the morning it
flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
[7] For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
[8] Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light
of thy countenance.
[9] For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale that is told.
[10] The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason
of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [11] Who knoweth the power
of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
[12] So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
[13] Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
[14] O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
[15] Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and
the years wherein we have seen evil. [16] Let thy work appear unto thy
servants, and thy glory unto their children.
[17] And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou
the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou
it.

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