Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day two hundred and ninety nine.
Psalm 84 for the choir director, a Psalm of the descendants of Cora to be
accompanied by a strained instrument.
How lovely is your dwelling place?
Oh Lord of heaven's armies.
I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord.
With my whole being body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow builds her nest and raises
her young at a place near your altar.
Oh Lord of heaven's armies, my king and my God.
What joy for those who can live in your house, always
singing your praises interlude.
What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord who have set their minds
on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, when they walk through the valley of weeping, it
will become a place of refreshing springs.
The autumn reigns will clothe it with blessings.
They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will
appear before God in Jerusalem.
Oh Lord God of heaven's armies.
Hear my prayer.
Listen, oh God of Jacob.
Interlude.
Oh God.
Look, with favor upon the king, our shield.
Show favor to the one you have Anointed a single day in your courts is
better than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the
good life in the homes of the wicked.
For the Lord, God is our son and our shield.
He gives us grace and glory.
The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.
Oh Lord of heaven's armies, what joy for those who trust in you?
Psalm 85 for the choir director, a Psalm of the descendants of Quora.
Lord, you poured out blessings on your land.
You restored the fortunes of Israel.
You forgave the guilt of your people.
Yes, you covered all their sins.
Interlude.
You held back your fury.
You kept back your blazing anger.
Now, restore us again.
Oh God, of our salvation.
Put aside your anger against us once more.
Will you be angry with us?
Always?
Will you prolong your wrath to all generations?
Won't you revive us again so your people can rejoice in you?
Show us your unfailing love, oh Lord, and grant us your salvation.
I listen carefully to what God, the Lord is saying, for he speaks peace
to his faithful people, but let them not return to their foolish ways.
Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, so our land
will be filled with his glory.
Unfailing love and truth have met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed.
Truth springs up from the earth and righteousness smiles down from heaven.
Yes, the Lord pours down his blessings.
Our land will yield its bountiful harvest.
Righteousness goes as a herald Before him preparing the way for his steps,
Psalm 86, a prayer of David, bend down oh Lord, and hear my prayer.
Answer me for I need your help.
Protect me for I am devoted to you.
Save me for I serve you and trust you.
You are my God.
Be merciful to me, oh Lord, for I am calling on you constantly.
Give me happiness, oh Lord, for I give myself to you.
Oh Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive.
So full of unfailing love for all who Ask for your help.
Listen closely to my prayer.
Oh Lord.
Hear my urgent cry.
I will call to you whenever I'm in trouble and you will answer me.
No.
Pagan God is like you.
Oh Lord.
None can do what you do.
All the nations you made will come and bow before you Lord, they will
praise your holy name for you are great, and perform wonderful deeds.
You alone are God.
Teach me your ways, oh Lord, that I may live according to your true grant me
purity of heart so that I may honor you.
With all my heart.
I will praise you.
Oh Lord, my God, I will give glory to your name forever.
For your love for me is very great.
You have rescued me from the depths of death.
Oh God.
Insulin people rise up against me.
A violent gang is trying to kill me.
You mean nothing to them but you.
Oh Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy.
Slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
Look down and have mercy on me.
Give your strength to your servant.
Save me the son of your servant.
Send me a sign of your favor.
Then those who hate me will be put to shame for you.
Oh Lord, help and comfort me.
Psalm 87 a song.
A Psalm of the descendants of Quora on the Holy Mountain stands
the city founded by the Lord.
He loves the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in Israel.
Oh, city of God.
What glorious things are said of you interlude.
I will count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me also, Felicia and
Tyre, and even distant Ethiopia.
They have all become citizens of Jerusalem.
Regarding Jerusalem.
It will be said everyone enjoys the rights of citizenship there and the most
high will personally bless this city.
When the Lord registers the nations, he will say they have
all become citizens of Jerusalem.
Interlude.
The people will play flutes and sing The source of my life Springs from Jerusalem.
Psalm 88 for the choir director.
A Psalm of the Descendants of Cora, a song to be sung to the
tune, the suffering of affliction.
A Psalm of Heman, the Ezra Height.
Oh Lord God of my salvation.
I cry out to you by day.
I come to you at night now, hear my prayer.
Listen to my cry.
For my life is full of troubles and death draws near.
I am as good as dead.
Like a strong man with no strength left.
They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse
in a grave I am forgotten.
Cut off from your care.
You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.
Your anger weighs me down.
With wave after wave you have engulfed me.
Interlude.
You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them.
I am in a trap with no way of escape.
My eyes are blinded by my tears each day.
I beg for your help.
Oh Lord, I lift my hands to you for mercy Are your wonderful
deeds of any use to the dead?
Do the dead rise up and praise you interlude.
Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?
Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?
Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
Oh Lord, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.
Oh Lord.
Why do you reject me?
Why do you turn your face from me?
I have been sick and close to death since my youth.
I stand helpless and desperate.
Before your terrors.
Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me.
Your terrors have paralyzed me.
They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long.
They have engulfed me completely.
You have taken away my companions and loved ones.
Darkness is my closest friend.
Psalm 89, a Psalm of Ethan, the Ezra Height.
I will sing of the Lord's unfailing love.
Forever, young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
Your unfailing love will last forever.
Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.
The Lord said.
I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant.
I have sworn this oath to him.
I will establish your descendants as kings forever.
They will sit on your throne.
From now until eternity interlude all heaven will
praise your great wonders Lord.
Myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord what mightiest angel is
anything like the Lord, the highest angelic powers stand in awe of God.
He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.
Oh Lord God of heaven's armies.
Where is there anyone as mighty as you?
Oh Lord, you are entirely faithful.
You rule the oceans, you subdue their storm tossed waves.
You crushed the great sea monster.
You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
The heavens are yours and the earth is yours.
Everything in the world is yours.
You created it all.
You created North and South Mount Tabor and Mount Herman.
Praise your name.
Powerful is your arm.
Strong is your hand.
Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne,
unfailing love and truth.
Walk before you as attendance.
Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship.
For they will walk in the light of your presence.
Lord, they rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation.
They exalt in your righteousness.
You are their glorious strength.
It pleases you to make us strong.
Yes, our protection comes from the Lord and he the holy one of
Israel has given us our king.
Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people.
You said, I have raised up a warrior.
I have selected him from the common people to be king.
I have found my servant David.
I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I will steady him with my hand, with my powerful arm.
I will make him strong.
His enemies will not defeat him.
Norra will the wicked overpower him.
I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.
My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him and by my authority.
He will grow in power.
I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers,
and he will call out to me.
You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.
I will love him and be kind to him forever.
My covenant with him will never end.
I will preserve and air for him.
His throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.
But if his descendants forsake my instructions and fail to obey my
regulations, if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,
then I will punish their sin with the rod and their disobedience with beating.
But I will never stop loving him, nor fail to keep my promise to him.
No, I will not break my covenant.
I will not take back a single word.
I said.
I have sworn an oath to David and in my holiness, I cannot lie.
His dynasty will go on forever.
His kingdom will endure as the sun.
It will be as eternal as the moon.
My faithful witness in the sky interlude.
But now you have rejected him and cast him off.
You are angry with your anointed king.
You have renounced your covenant with him.
You have thrown his crown in the dust.
You have broken down the walls, protecting him and ruined every fort.
Defending him.
Everyone who comes along has robbed him and he has become a joke to his neighbors.
You have strengthened his enemies and made them all rejoice.
You have made his sword useless and refused to help him in battle.
You have ended his splendor and overturned his throne.
You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him.
Interlude, oh Lord.
How long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence.
No one can live forever.
All will die.
No one can escape the power of the grave interlude Lord.
Where is your unfailing love?
You promised it to David with a faithful pledge.
Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced.
I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.
Your enemies have mocked me.
Oh Lord.
They mock your anointed king wherever he goes.
Praise the Lord forever.
Amen and amen.
This concludes today's immer reading experience.
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