Anonymous ID: eb3c2b Feb. 7, 2019, 9:41 a.m. No.5067556   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

 

Psalm 44:

National Lament and Prayer for Help

A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

 

44 We have heard with our ears, O God,

our fathers have told us,

what deeds thou didst perform in their days,

in the days of old:

2 thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations,

but them thou didst plant;

thou didst afflict the peoples,

but them thou didst set free;

3 for not by their own sword did they win the land,

nor did their own arm give them victory;

but thy right hand, and thy arm,

and the light of thy countenance;

for thou didst delight in them.

 

4 Thou art my King and my God,

who ordainest victories for Jacob.

5 Through thee we push down our foes;

through thy name we tread down our assailants.

6 For not in my bow do I trust,

nor can my sword save me.

7 But thou hast saved us from our foes,

and hast put to confusion those who hate us.

8 In God we have boasted continually,

and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. Selah

 

9 Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us,

and hast not gone out with our armies.

10 Thou hast made us turn back from the foe;

and our enemies have gotten spoil.

11 Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter,

and hast scattered us among the nations.

12 Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle,

demanding no high price for them.

 

13 Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors,

the derision and scorn of those about us.

14 Thou hast made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock among the peoples.

15 All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face,

16 at the words of the taunters and revilers,

at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

 

17 All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten thee,

or been false to thy covenant.

18 Our heart has not turned back,

nor have our steps departed from thy way,

19 that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals,

and covered us with deep darkness.

 

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,

or spread forth our hands to a strange god,

21 would not God discover this?

For he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long,

and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

 

23 Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord?

Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!

24 Why dost thou hide thy face?

Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;

our body cleaves to the ground.

26 Rise up, come to our help!

Deliver us for the sake of your merciful love!

Anonymous ID: eb3c2b Feb. 7, 2019, 9:46 a.m. No.5067603   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

 

Psalm 46:

God’s Defense of His City and People

A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.

 

46 God is our refuge and strength,

a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change,

though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;

3 though its waters roar and foam,

though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

 

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

the holy habitation of the Most High.

5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;

God will help her right early.

6 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;

he utters his voice, the earth melts.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

 

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,

how he has wrought desolations in the earth.

9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;

he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear,

he burns the chariots with fire!

10 “Be still, and know that I am God.

I am exalted among the nations,

I am exalted in the earth!”

11 The Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Anonymous ID: eb3c2b Feb. 7, 2019, 9:48 a.m. No.5067632   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

 

Psalm 47:

God’s Rule over the Nations

A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

 

47 Clap your hands, all peoples!

Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

2 For the Lord, the Most High, is terrible,

a great king over all the earth.

3 He subdued peoples under us,

and nations under our feet.

4 He chose our heritage for us,

the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

 

5 God has gone up with a shout,

the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

7 For God is the king of all the earth;

sing praises with a psalm!

 

8 God reigns over the nations;

God sits on his holy throne.

9 The princes of the peoples gather

as the people of the God of Abraham.

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

he is highly exalted!