Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year

Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience - Day 314

In today's episode of 'Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience', we journey through Psalms 120 to 134. These Psalms, also known as the 'Songs for Pilgrims Ascending to Jerusalem', depict deep emotions of distress, supplication, and praise. Psalm 120 begins with a heartfelt plea for rescue from deceit and malice, while Psalm 121 assures of divine protection. King David's words in Psalm 122 express joy for Jerusalem's sanctity. A recurring theme across the Psalms is a cry for God's mercy and acknowledgment of His unwavering support. The final Psalm, 134, exalts the Lord's blessings and calls for night praise in His house. Each Psalm captures unique aspects of faith, perseverance, and the Israelites' experiences with God.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:04 Psalm 120: A Cry for Rescue
00:55 Psalm 121: Assurance of God's Protection
01:48 Psalm 122: Joy in the House of the Lord
02:59 Psalm 123: A Plea for Mercy
03:43 Psalm 124: The Lord's Deliverance
04:38 Psalm 125: Security in the Lord
05:28 Psalm 126: Joyful Restoration
06:17 Psalm 127: Dependence on the Lord
07:13 Psalm 128: Blessings for Those Who Fear the Lord
08:06 Psalm 129: Overcoming Persecution
09:04 Psalm 130: A Cry for Help
10:10 Psalm 131: Childlike Trust in the Lord
10:53 Psalm 132: The Lord's Promise to David
13:05 Psalm 133: The Blessing of Harmony
13:46 Psalm 134: A Call to Praise the Lord
14:13 Conclusion and Thanks

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4 Questions to get your conversations started:
1. What stood out to you this week?
2. Was there anything confusing or troubling?
3. Did anything make you think differently about God?
4. How might this change the way we live?

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3 ways to get the most out of your experience
  1. Use Immerse: Beginnings instead of your regular chapter and verse Bible. This special reader’s edition restores the Bible to its natural simplicity and beauty by removing chapter and verse numbers and other historical additions. Letters look like letters, songs look like songs, and the original literary structures are visible in each book.
  2. Commit to making this a community experience. Immerse is designed for groups to encounter large portions of the Bible together
    for 8 weeks–more like a book club, less like a Bible study. By meeting every week in small groups and discussing what you read in open,
    honest conversations, you and your community can come together to be transformed through an authentic experience with the Scriptures.
  3. Aim to understand the big story. Read through “The Stories and the Story” (p. 483) to see how the books of the Bible work together to tell God’s story of his creation’s restoration. As you read through Immerse: Beginnings, rather than ask, “How do I fit God into my busy life?” begin asking, “How can I join in God’s great plan by living out my part in his story?”
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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 14.

Psalm 120, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

I took my troubles to the Lord.

I cried out to him and
he answered my prayer.

Rescue me, oh Lord, from liars
and from all deceitful people.

Oh, deceptive tongue.

What will God do to you?

How will he increase your punishment?

You will be pierced with sharp
arrows and burned with glowing coals.

How I suffer in far off miche, it
pains me to live in distant Keter.

I am tired of living among
people who hate peace.

I search for peace, but when I
speak of peace, they want war.

Psalm 121, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

I look up to the mountains.

Does my help come from there?

My help comes from the Lord
who made heaven and earth.

He will not let you stumble.

The one who watches over
you will not slumber.

Indeed, he who watches over
Israel never slumbers or sleeps.

The Lord himself watches over you.

The Lord stands beside you
as your protective shade.

The sun will not harm you by
day, nor the moon at night.

The Lord keeps you from all
harm and watches over your life.

The Lord keeps watch over you as you
come and go both now and forever.

Psalm 122.

A song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

A Psalm of David.

I was glad when they said to me,
let us go to the house of the Lord.

And now here we are,
standing inside your gates.

Oh Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is a well-built city.

Its seamless walls cannot be breached.

All the tribes of Israel, the Lord's
people make their pilgrimage here.

They come to give thanks to the name of
the Lord as the law requires of Israel.

Here's Stand the Thrones where judgment is
given the thrones of the dynasty of David.

Pray for peace in Jerusalem.

May all who love this city prosper.

Oh Jerusalem.

May there be peace within your walls
and prosperity in your palaces.

For the sake of my family and friends,
I will say, may you have peace.

For the sake of the house, of the Lord
our God, I will seek What is best for you?

Oh Jerusalem,

Psalm 123, A song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

I lift my eyes to you.

Oh God.

Enthroned in heaven.

We keep looking to the
Lord our God for his mercy.

Just as servants keep
their eyes on their master.

As a slave girl watches her
mistress for the slightest signal.

Have mercy on us.

Lord have mercy.

For we have had our fill of contempt.

We have had more than our fill
of the scoffing of the proud and

the contempt of the arrogant.

Psalm 124, A song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

A Psalm of David.

What if the Lord had not been on our side?

Let all Israel repeat.

What if the Lord had not been on our side?

When people attacked us, they would've
swallowed us alive in their burning anger.

The waters would have engulfed us.

A torrent would have overwhelmed us.

Yes, the raging waters of their fury
would have overwhelmed our very lives.

Praise the Lord, who did not
let their teeth tear us apart.

We escaped like a bird
from a hunter's trap.

The trap is broken and we are free.

Our help is from the Lord
who made Heaven and earth.

Psalm 125, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

Those who trust in the Lord
are as secure as Mount Zion.

They will not be defeated but
will endure forever just as the

mountains surround Jerusalem.

So the Lord surrounds his
people both now and forever.

The wicked will not rule the land
of the Godly for then the Godly

might be tempted to do wrong.

Oh Lord, do good to those who are good,
whose hearts are in tune with you.

But banish those who turn to crooked ways.

Oh Lord, take them away
with those who do evil.

May Israel have peace.

Psalm 126, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

When the Lord brought back his exiles
to Jerusalem, it was like a dream.

We were filled with laughter and we sang
for joy and the other nations said what

amazing things the Lord has done for them.

Yes, the Lord has done
amazing things for us.

What joy restore our fortunes Lord, as
streams renew the desert, those who plant

in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.

They weep as they go to plant
their seed, but they sing as

they return with the harvest.

Psalm 127, a song for pilgrims ascending
to Jerusalem, a Psalm of Psalm.

Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.

Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding
it with centuries will do no good.

It is useless for you to work so hard
from early morning until late at night.

Anxiously working for food to eat
for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Children are a gift from the Lord.

They are a reward from him.

Children born to a young man are
like arrows in a warrior's hands.

How joyful is the man whose
quiver is full of them?

He will not be put to shame when he
confronts his accusers at the city gates.

Psalm 128, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

How joyful are those who fear
the Lord all who follow his ways?

You'll enjoy the fruit of your labor.

How joyful and prosperous you will be.

Your wife will be like a fruitful
grapevine flourishing within your home.

Your children will be like vigorous young
olive trees as they sit around your table.

That is the Lord's blessing
for those who fear him.

May the Lord continually
bless you from Zion.

May you see Jerusalem
prosper as long as you live.

May you live to enjoy your grandchildren.

May Israel have peace?

Psalm 129, A song for pilgrims ascending
to Jerusalem from my earliest youth.

My enemies have persecuted me.

Let all Israel repeat this.

From my earliest youth, my
enemies have persecuted me, but

they have never defeated me.

My back is covered with cuts as if
a farmer had plowed long furrows.

But the Lord is good.

He has cut me free from
the ropes of the ungodly.

May all who hate Jerusalem be
turned back in shameful defeat.

May they be as useless as grass
on a rooftop turning yellow when

only half grown, ignored by the
harvester, despised by the binder.

And may those who pass by refuse
to give them this blessing.

The Lord bless you.

We bless you in the Lord's name,

Psalm 130.

A song for pilgrims ascending to
Jerusalem from the depths of despair.

Oh Lord, I call for your help.

Hear my cry.

Oh Lord.

Pay attention to my prayer.

Lord, if you kept a record of
our sins, who oh Lord could ever

survive, but you offer forgiveness,
that we might learn to fear you.

I am counting on the Lord.

Yes, I am counting on him.

I have put my hope in his word.

I long for the Lord more than
centuries long for the dawn.

Yes.

More than centuries long for the dawn.

Oh Israel.

Hope in the Lord.

For with the Lord there is unfailing
love his redemption overflows.

He himself will redeem Israel
from every kind of sin.

Psalm 131, A song for pilgrims ascending
to Jerusalem, a Psalm of David, A Lord.

My heart is not proud.

My eyes are not haughty.

I don't concern myself with matters, too
great or too awesome for me to grasp.

Instead, I have calmed and quieted
myself like a weaned child who no

longer cries for its mother's milk.

Yes, like a weaned child
is my soul within me.

Oh, Israel, put your hope
in the Lord now and always.

Psalm 132, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

Lord.

Remember David and all that he suffered.

He made a solemn promise to the Lord.

He vowed to the mighty one of Israel.

I will not go home.

I will not let myself rest.

I will not let my eyes sleep nor close
my eyelids and slumber until I find a

place to build a house for the Lord.

A sanctuary for the mighty one of Israel.

We heard that the ark was in
Ritha, then we found it in

the distant countryside of jr.

Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord.

Let us worship at the
footstool of his throne.

Arise oh Lord, and enter your
resting place along with the

ark, the symbol of your power.

May your priests be clothed in godliness.

May your loyal servants sing for joy.

For the sake of your servant,
David, do not reject the king.

You have anointed.

The Lord swore an oath to David with
a promise he will never take back.

I will place one of your
descendants on your throne.

If your descendants obey the terms
of my covenant and the laws that

I teach them, then your royal line
will continue forever and ever.

For the Lord has chosen Jerusalem.

He has desired it for his home.

This is my resting place forever.

He said, I will live here for
this is the home I desired.

I will bless this city
and make it prosperous.

I will satisfy its pour with food.

I will clothe its priests with godliness.

Its faithful servants will sing for joy.

Here I will increase the power of David.

My anointed one will be
a light for my people.

I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but he will be a glorious king.

Psalm 133, A song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

A Psalm of David.

How wonderful and pleasant it is when
brothers live together in harmony.

For harmony is as precious as the
anointing oil that was poured over

Aaron's head that ran down his beard
and onto the border of his robe.

Harmony is as refreshing as
the dew from Mount Herman that

falls on the mountains of Zion.

And there the Lord has pronounced
his blessing, even life everlasting.

Psalm 134, a song for pilgrims
ascending to Jerusalem.

Oh, praise the Lord.

All you servants of the Lord, you who
serve at night in the house of the Lord.

Lift your hands toward the
sanctuary and praise the Lord.

May the Lord who made heaven and
earth bless you from Jerusalem.

This concludes today's
Immer Reading experience.

Thank you for joining us.