Alive in Christ
Spirituality & Religious StudiesPsalms 139-143
“I praise You because I’m fearfully & wonderfully made.”
Psalm 139:14
Psalm 139
O Lord, You’ve searched me & You know me. You know when I sit & when I rise. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out & my lying down. You’re familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in – behind & before. You’ve laid Your hand upon me. Suck knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
If I go up to the Heavens, You are there. If I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me & the light becomes night around me.”
Even the darkness will not be dark to You, the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You. For You created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb, I praise You because I’m fearfully & wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame wasn’t hidden from You, when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before 1 of them came to be. (This is where the doctrine of predestination came from.) How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awaken, I’m still with You. If only You would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! They speak of You with evil intent.
Your adversaries misuse Your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, & abhor those who rise up against you? I’ve nothing but hatred for them. I count them as my enemies. Search me, O God, & know my heart. Test me & know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, & lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 140
Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence, who devise evil plans in their hearts & stir up war every day. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips. (Check out Romans 3:13.) Selah.
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked. Protect me from men of violence, who plan to trip my feet. Proud men have hidden a snare for me. They’ve spread out the cords of their net & have set traps for me along my path. Selah.
O Lord, I say to You, “You are my God.” Hear me, O Lord, my cry for mercy. O Sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle. Don’t grant the wicked their desires, O Lord.
Don’t let their plans succeed, or they’ll become proud. Selah. Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused. Let burning coals fall upon them. May they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence. I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor & upholds the cause of the needy. Surely the righteous will praise Your name & the upright will live before You.
Psalm 141
O Lord, I call to You; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You. May my prayer be set before You like the evening sacrifices. Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Let not my heart be drawn to what’s evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers. Let me not eat of their delicacies. Let a righteous man strike me – it’s a kindness. Let him rebuke me – it’s oil on my head. My head will not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers. Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, & the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken. They’ll say, “As one plows & breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
But my eyes are fixed on You, O Sovereign Lord. In You, I take refuge – don’t give me over to death. Keep me from the snares they’ve laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
Psalm 142
I cry aloud to the Lord. I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out my complaint before him; before him, I tell my trouble. When my spirit grows faint within me, it’s You who knows my way. In the path where I walk, men have hidden a snare for me.
Look to my right & see. No one is concerned for me. I’ve no refuge; no one cares for my life. I cry to you, O Lord. I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” Listen to my cry for I’m in desperate need.
Rescue me from those who pursue me, for they’re too strong for me. Set me free from my prison, that I may praise Your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of Your goodness to me.
Psalm 143
O Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy. In Your faithfulness & righteousness, come to my relief. Don’t bring Your servat into judgment, for no one living is righteous before You. The enemy pursues me. He crushes me to the ground.
He makes me dwell in darkness like those long dead. So my spirit grows faint within me. My heart within me is dismayed. I remember the days of long ago. I meditate on all Your works & consider what Your hands have done.
I spread out my hands to You. My soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah. Answer me quickly, O Lord. My spirit fails. Don’t hide Your face from me or I’ll be like those who go down the pit. Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I’ve put my trust in You.
Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul. Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord, for I hide myself in You. Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
For Your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life. In Your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. In Your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy my foes, for I’m Your servant.
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