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Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible.
This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.
Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day three hundred and fifteen.
Psalm 135.
Praise the Lord.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Praise him.
You who serve the Lord, you who
serve in the house of the Lord and
the courts of the house of our God.
Praise the Lord.
For the Lord is good.
Celebrate his lovely name with music.
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel, for his own special treasure.
I know the greatness of the Lord, that
our Lord is greater than any other God.
The Lord does whatever pleases him
throughout all heaven and earth,
and on the seas and in their deaths.
He causes the clouds to
rise over the whole earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain and
releases the wind from his storehouses.
He destroyed the first born in each
Egyptian home, both people and animals.
He performed miraculous signs
and wonders in Egypt against
Pharaoh and all his people.
He struck down great nations and
slaughtered mighty kings, Shan
King of the Amorites, og, king of
Basian, and all the kings of Canaan.
He gave their land as an inheritance,
a special possession to his people.
Israel.
Your name, oh Lord, endures forever.
Your fame, oh Lord, is
known to every generation.
For the Lord will give
justice to his people and have
compassion on his servants.
The idols of the nations are merely things
of silver and gold shaped by human hands.
They have mouths but cannot
speak and eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears but cannot hear
and mouths but cannot breathe, and
those who make idols are just like
them, as are all who trust in them.
Oh, Israel, praise the Lord.
O priests, descendants of Aaron.
Praise the Lord.
Oh levies.
Praise the Lord.
All you who fear the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
The Lord be praised from Zion,
for he lives here in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 136.
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to the God of Gods.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to the Lord of Lords.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who alone
does mighty miracles, his
faithful love in endures forever.
Give thanks to him who made
the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who placed
the earth among the waters?
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who
made the heavenly lights.
His faithful love endures forever.
The sun to rule the day.
His faithful love endures forever.
And the moon and stars to rule the night.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who killed
the firstborn of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
He brought Israel out of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
He acted with a strong
hand and powerful arm.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who parted
the Red Sea, his faithful love.
Endures forever.
He led Israel safely through his faithful
love endures forever, but he hurled
Pharaoh in his army into the Red Sea.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who led his
people through the wilderness.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to him who
struck down mighty kings.
His faithful love endures forever.
He killed powerful kings.
His faithful love endures forever.
Shan King of the Amorites, his
faithful love endures forever.
And og King of Basian, his
faithful love endures forever.
God gave the land of these
kings as an inheritance.
His faithful love endures forever.
A special possession
to his servant Israel.
His faithful love endures forever.
He remembered us in our weakness,
his faithful love in endures forever.
He saved us from our enemies.
His faithful love endures forever.
He gives food to every living thing.
His faithful love endures forever.
Give thanks to the God of heaven.
His faithful love endures forever.
Psalm 137, beside the rivers
of Babylon, we sat and wept
as we thought of Jerusalem.
We put away our harps hanging them
on the branches of Poplar trees.
For our captors demanded a song from us.
Our tormentors insisted on a joyful hymn
sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem.
But how can we sing the songs of
the Lord while in a pagan land?
If I forget you owe Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget how to play the harp.
May my tongue stick to the roof of
my mouth if I fail to remember you.
If I don't make Jerusalem my
greatest joy, oh Lord, remember
what the Elamites did on the day?
The armies of Babylon captured Jerusalem.
Destroy it.
They yelled.
Level it to the ground.
Oh, Babylon.
You will be destroyed.
Happy is the one who pays you
back for what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who takes your babies
and smashes them against the rocks.
Psalm 138 A Psalm of David, I give you
thanks, oh Lord, with all my heart.
I will sing your praises before the gods I
bow before your holy temple as I worship.
I praise your name for your unfailing
love and faithfulness for your promises
are backed by all the honor of your name.
As soon as I pray you answer me, you
encourage me by giving me strength.
Every king and all the earth will.
Thank you Lord, for all of
them will hear your words.
Yes, they will sing about the Lord's ways.
For the glory of the Lord is very
great though the Lord is great,
he cares for the humble, but he
keeps his distance from the proud.
Though I am surrounded by
troubles, you will protect me
from the anger of my enemies.
You reach out your hand and the
power of your right hand saves me.
The Lord will work out
his plans for my life.
For your faithful love,
oh Lord, endures forever.
Don't abandon me for you made me.
Psalm 139 for the choir
director, a Psalm of David.
Oh Lord, you have examined my
heart and know everything about me.
You know when I sit down or stand up, you
know my thoughts even when I'm far away.
You see me when I travel and when I
rest at home, you know everything I do.
You know what I am going to
say even before I say it.
Lord, you go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of
blessing on my head.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.
Too great for me to understand.
I can never escape from your spirit.
I can never get away from your presence.
If I go up to heaven, you are there.
If I go down to the grave, you are there.
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
even there, your hand will guide me
and your strength will support me.
I could ask the darkness to hide me and
the light around me to become night.
But even in darkness, I
cannot hide from you to you.
The night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
You made all the delicate inner
parts of my body and knit me
together in my mother's womb.
Thank you for making me
so wonderfully complex.
Your workmanship is marvelous.
How well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed
in utter seclusion as I was woven
together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was
recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me?
Oh God, they cannot be numbered.
I can't even count them.
They outnumber the grains of sand and
when I wake up, you are still with me.
Oh God, if only you would destroy
the wicked, get out of my life.
You murderers, they blaspheme you.
Your enemies misuse your name.
Oh Lord.
Shouldn't I hate those who hate you?
Shouldn't I despise those who oppose you?
Yes, I hate them with total hatred
for your enemies or my enemies.
Search me, oh God, and know my heart.
Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that
offends you and lead me along
the path of everlasting life.
Psalm 140 for the choir director, a Psalm
of David, oh Lord, rescue me from evil.
People protect me from
those who are violent.
Those who plot evil in their hearts
and stir up trouble all day long.
Their tongues sting like a snake.
The venom of a viper
drips from their lips.
Interlude.
Oh Lord, keep me out of
the hands of the wicked.
Protect me from those who are violent
for they are plotting against me.
The proud have set a trap to catch me.
They have stretched out a net.
They have placed traps all along the way.
Interlude.
I said to the Lord, you are my God.
Listen, oh Lord, to my cries for mercy.
Oh, sovereign Lord, the
strong one who rescued me.
You protected me on the day of battle.
Lord, do not let evil
people have their way.
Do not let their evil schemes succeed,
or they will become proud, interlude.
Let my enemies be destroyed by the
very evil they have planned for me.
Let burning coals fall
down on their heads.
Let them be thrown into the fire or into
watery pits from which they can't escape.
Don't let liars prosper here in
our land cause great disasters
to fall on the violent, but I
know the Lord will help those.
They persecute.
He will give justice to the poor.
Surely righteous people
are praising your name.
The Godly will live in your presence.
Psalm 141 a Psalm of David,
oh Lord, I am calling to you.
Please hurry.
Listen, when I cry to you for help.
Accept my prayer as incense
offered to you and my upraised
hands as an evening offering.
Take control of what I say,
oh Lord, and guard my lips.
Don't let me drift toward evil or
take part in acts of wickedness.
Don't let me share in the
delicacies of those who do wrong.
Let the Godly strike me.
It will be a kindness.
If they correct me, it
is soothing medicine.
Don't let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly against
the wicket in their deeds.
When their leaders are thrown down
from a cliff, the wicket will listen
to my words and find them true
like rocks brought up by a plow.
The bones of the wicked will
lie, scattered without burial.
I look to you for help.
Oh, sovereign Lord.
You are my refuge.
Don't let them kill me.
Keep me from the traps they have set for
me from the snares of those who do wrong.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets.
But let me escape.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.