Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

Psalm 7:

Plea for Help against Persecutors

7 O Lord my God, in thee do I take refuge;

save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

2 lest like a lion they rend me,

dragging me away, with none to rescue.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is wrong in my hands,

4 if I have requited my friend with evil

or plundered my enemy without cause,

5 let the enemy pursue me and overtake me,

and let him trample my life to the ground,

and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

6 Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,

lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee;

and over it take thy seat on high.

8 The Lord judges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

but establish thou the righteous,

thou who triest the minds and hearts,

thou righteous God.

10 My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous judge,

and a God who has indignation every day.

12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;

he has bent and strung his bow;

13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.

14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,

and is pregnant with mischief,

and brings forth lies.

15 He makes a pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole which he has made.

16 His mischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own pate his violence descends.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

Psalm 75:

Thanksgiving for God’s Wondrous Deeds

A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

75 We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks;

we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.

2 At the set time which I appoint

I will judge with equity.

3 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,

it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

4 I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”

and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;

5 do not lift up your horn on high,

or speak with insolent neck.”

6 For not from the east or from the west

and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;

7 but it is God who executes judgment,

putting down one and lifting up another.

8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup,

with foaming wine, well mixed;

and he will pour a draught from it,

and all the wicked of the earth

shall drain it down to the dregs.

9 But I will rejoice for ever,

I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked he will cut off,

but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.