June 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Welcome back to Abide & Slumber — a podcast where you can rest in His Word and sleep in His peace.
Tonight’s episode features Psalms 42 through 56, a soul-stirring journey through longing, lament, and unwavering trust in God. These Psalms give voice to our deepest aches — from seasons of isolation and anxiety to the comforting reality that God is near to the brokenhearted.
As with every episode, we begin with a gentle moment of prayer and mindfulness using the P.R.A.Y. method:
Pause – Take a deep breath and let your body settle.
Reflect – Remember where God met you today.
Ask – Speak your worries or needs to Him.
Yield – Surrender your thoughts and rest in His care.
In Psalms 42–56, you’ll hear:
“Why, my soul, are you downcast?” (Psalm 42) — an honest cry for hope.
“When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.” (Psalm 56) — a reminder to rest in faith.
“You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in Your bottle.” (Psalm 56:8) — God’s tender awareness of your pain.
Whether you're feeling weary, anxious, or simply longing for deeper rest, these Psalms invite you to pour out your heart and find peace in God's steadfast presence.
This episode is designed to calm your spirit, settle your thoughts, and guide you into deep, healing rest through scripture, prayer, and soothing narration.
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Welcome to abide in slumber, where we rest in His Word and
sleep in His peace. This is your time to unwind, to
let go, and to enter into God's presence with stillness and
(00:26):
trust. Before we begin tonight's
scripture meditation, let's takea moment to quiet our hearts
using the rhythm of prey. Pause, reflect, ask and yield.
(00:49):
Pause. Take a deep breath in and slowly
exhale. Release the weight of the day.
Let your body soften, your mind quiet, and your spirit rest in
(01:11):
His presence. Reflect.
Consider God's faithfulness today.
Where did you see His goodness? What small moments of grace can
(01:33):
you hold on to as you rest? Ask.
Whisper a prayer to God, whetherfor peace, comfort, or simply
the ability to let go and trust Him as you sleep.
(02:01):
Yield now, surrender, release control.
Know that you are held, loved and watched over by the One who
never sleeps. Father, comfort us now as we
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drift into sleep. Calm our hearts, our minds, our
bodies, and our spirits as we meditate on Your Word tonight.
Give us deep rest so we can wakeup tomorrow.
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Refresh and ready to glorify youin all that we do.
Let's now rest in His word together as we journey through
Psalms. Psalms 42 for the choir
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director. As a deer longs for streams of
water, So I long for you God. I thirst for God, the living
God. When can I come and appear
before God? My tears have been food day and
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night while all day long people say to me, Where is your God?
I remember this as I pour out myheart how I walked with many
leading the festive procession to the House of God with joyful
and thankful shouts. Why am I so depressed?
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Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will
still praise Him, my Savior and my God.
I am deeply depressed. Therefore I remember you from
the land of Jordan and the peaksof Herman, from Mount Mizar.
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Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls.
All your Breakers and your billows have swept over me.
The Lord will send His faithful love by day.
His song will be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my
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life. I will say to God, My rock, Why
have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow
Because of the enemy's oppression?
My adversaries taunt me as if crushing my bones, while all day
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long they say to me, where is your God?
Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I willstill praise Him, my Savior and
my God. Psalms 43 Vindicate me, God, and
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defend my cause against an ungodly nation.
Rescue me from the deceitful andunjust man, for you are the God
of my refuge. Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow? Because of the enemy's
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oppression? Send your light and your truth.
Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy
mountain, to your dwelling place.
Then I will come to the altar ofmy God.
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To God, my greatest joy. I will praise you with a liar.
God, my God, why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will
still praise Him, my Savior, andmy God.
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Psalms 44 for the choir director.
God, we have heard with our ears, our ancestors have told
us, the work you accomplished intheir days, in days long ago, to
plant them. You drove out the nations with
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your hand to settle them, you crushed the peoples, for they
did not take the land by their sword.
Their arm did not bring them victory, but by your right hand,
your arm, and the light of your face, for you were pleased with
them. You are my king, my God, who
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ordains victories for Jacob. Through you we drive back our
foes, Through your name we trample our enemies.
For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword does not bring me
victory. But you give us victory over our
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foes and let those who hate us be disgraced.
We boast in God all day long. We will praise your name
forever, say law. But you have rejected and
humiliated us. You do not March out with our
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enemies. You make us retreat from the
foe. And those who hate us have taken
plunder for themselves. You hand us over to be eaten
like sheep and scatter us among the nations.
You sell your people for nothing.
You make no profit from selling them.
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You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a
source of mockery and ridicule those around us.
You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among
the peoples. My disgrace is before me all day
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long, and shame has covered my face because of the voice of the
Scorner and Reviler, because of the enemy and Avenger.
All this has happened to us, butwe have not forgotten you or
betrayed your covenant. Our hearts have not turned back,
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our steps have not strayed from your path, but you have crushed
us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest
darkness. If we had forgotten the name of
our God and spread out our handsto a foreign God, wouldn't God
have found this out since He knows the secrets of the heart?
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Because of you we are slain all day long.
We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
Wake up Lord, why are you sleeping?
Get up, Don't reject us forever.Why do you hide yourself and
forget our affliction and oppression?
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For we have sunk down to the dust.
Our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up, help us, redeem us,
because of your faithful love. Psalms 45 for the choir director
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A love song. My heart is moved by a noble
theme as I recite my verses to the King.
My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
You are the most handsome of men.
Grace flows from your lips. Therefore God has blessed you
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forever, mighty warrior. Strap your sword at your side in
your majesty, in splendor, in your splendor.
Ride triumphantly in the cause of truth, humility and justice.
May your right hand show your awe inspiring acts.
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Your arrows Pierce the hearts ofthe King's enemies.
The peoples fall under you. Your throne, God, is forever and
ever. The scepter of your Kingdom is a
scepter of justice. You love righteousness and hate
wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has
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anointed you with the oil of joymore than your companions.
Myrrh, aloes and cassia perfume all your garments from ivory
palaces. Harps bring you joy.
King's daughters are among your honored women.
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The Queen, adorned with gold from Ophir, stands at your right
hand. Listen, daughter, pay attention
and consider. Forget your people and your
father's house, and the King will desire your beauty.
Bow down to him, for he is your Lord, the daughter of Tyre.
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The wealthy people will seek your favor with gifts in her
chamber. The royal daughter is all
glorious, her clothing embroidered with gold in
colorful garments. She's led to the king.
After her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.
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They are LED in with gladness and rejoicing.
They enter the King's palace. Your sons will succeed your
ancestors. You will make them Princess
throughout the land. I will cause your name to be
remembered for all generations. Therefore the peoples will
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praise you forever and ever. Psalms 46 for the choir
director. God is our refuge and strength,
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a helper who is always found in times of trouble.
Therefore, we will not be afraid.
Though the earth trembles and the mountains topple into the
depths of the Seas. There was waters roar and foam
in the mountains quake with its turmoil.
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Sayla, there is a river. It streams.
Delight in the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most
High. God is within her.
She will not be toppled. God will help her.
When the morning dawns. Nation's rage, kingdom's topple.
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The earth melts when he lifts his voice.
The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our
stronghold. Say law.
Come see the works of the Lord who brings devastation on the
earth. He makes war cease throughout
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the earth. He shatters, bows and cuts
Spears to pieces. He burns up the Chariots.
Stop your fighting and know thatI am God, exalted among the
nations, exalted on the earth. Yahweh of hosts is with us.
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The God of Jacob is our stronghold.
Say Law. Psalms 47 for the choir
director. Clap your hands all you peoples.
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Shout to God with a jubilant cryfor Yahweh.
The Most High is awe inspiring. A great King over all the earth,
He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet.
He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob
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whom he loves. Say law.
God ascends among shouts of joy,the Lord among the sound of
trumpets. Sing praise to God.
Sing praise. Sing praise to our king.
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Sing praise, sing a song of wisdom, for God is king of all
the earth. God reigns over the nations.
God is seated on His holy throne.
The nobles of peoples have assembled with the people of the
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God of Abraham, for the leaders of the earth belong to God.
He is greatly exalted. Psalms 48 A song.
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The Lord is great and highly praised in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, rising splendidly, is the joy of the
whole earth. Mount Zion, on the slopes of the
north, is the city of the great King.
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God is known as a stronghold in its citadels.
Look the kings assembled. They advanced together.
They looked and froze with fear.They fled in terror.
Trembling seized them there. Agony like that of a woman in
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labor, as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.
Just as we heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of
hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.
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Say law God, within your temple we contemplate your faithful
love. Your name.
God, like your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with justice.
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Mount Zion is glad. The towns of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments. Go around Zion and circle it and
count its towers. Note its ramparts tore its
citadels, so that you can tell the future generation this God,
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our God, forever and ever, He will always lead us.
Psalms 49 for the choir director.
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Hear this all you peoples, listen all who inhabit the
world, both low and high, rich and poor, together.
My mouth speaks wisdom. My heart's meditation brings
understanding. I turn my ear to a proverb.
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I explain my Riddle with a liar.Why should I fear in times of
trouble? The iniquity of my foes
surrounds me. They trust in their wealth and
boast of their abundant riches. Yet these cannot redeem a person
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or pay his ransom to God. Since the price of redeeming him
is too costly. One should forever stop trying
so that he may live forever and not see the pit.
For one can see that wise men die.
Foolish and stupid men also passaway, then they leave their
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wealth to others. Their graves are their eternal
homes, their homes from generation to generation, though
they have named estates after themselves.
But despite his assets, man willnot last.
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He is like the animals that perish.
This is the way of those who arearrogant and of those followers
who approve of their words. Say law.
Like sheep who are headed for Sheol, Death will shepherd them.
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The upright will rule over them in the morning, and their form
will waste away, and she'll far from their lofty abode.
But God will redeem my life, forHe will take me, say law.
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Do not be afraid when a man getsrich, when the wealth of his
house increases, For when he dies he will take nothing at
all. His wealth will not follow him
down, though he praises himself during his lifetime, and people
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praise you and you do well for yourself.
He will go to the generation of his father's.
They will never see the light. A man with valuable possessions
but without understanding is like the animals that perish.
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Psalms 50. Yahweh, the God of God speaks.
He summons the earth from east to West, from Zion, the
perfection of beauty. God appears in radiance.
Our God is coming. He will not be silent.
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Devouring fire precedes him, anda storm rages around him.
On high he summons heaven and earth in order to judge His
people. Gather my faithful ones to me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice the heavens
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proclaim his righteousness, for God is the judge.
Say law. Listen, my people, and I will
speak. I will testify against you,
Israel. I am God, your God.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or for your burnt
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offerings which are continually before me.
I will not accept a bull from your household or male goats
from your pens, for every animalof the forest is mine.
The cattle on 1000 hills I know every bird of the mountains, and
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the creatures of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and
everything in it is mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or
drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice, I think, offering to
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God, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in a day of trouble. I will rescue you and you will
honor me. But God says to the wicked, what
right do you have to recite my statutes and take my covenant on
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your lips? You hate instruction and turn
your back on my words. When you see a thief, you make
friends with him and you associate with adulterers.
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for
deceit. You sit, aligning your brother
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and slandering your mother's son.
You have done these things and Ikept silent.
You thought I was just like you,but I will rebuke you and layout
the case before you understand this.
You who forget God or I will tear you apart, and there will
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be no one to rescue you. Whoever sacrifices a thank
offering honors me, and whoever orders his conduct, I will show
him the salvation of God. Psalms 51 for the choir director
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A tobetic Psalm. Be gracious to me, God,
according to your faithful love,according to your abundant
compassion. Blot out my rebellion, wash away
my guilt and cleanse me from my sin, For I am conscious of my
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rebellion and my sin is always before me against you.
You alone, I have sinned and done this evil in your sight.
So you are right when you pass sentence.
You are blameless when you judge.
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Indeed, I was guilty when I was born.
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me
wisdom deep within. Purify me with hyssop and I will
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be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter
than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness.
Let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
Turn Your face away from my sinsand blot out my guilt.
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God, create a clean heart for meand renew a steadfast spirit
within me. Do not banish me from Your
presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore the joy of Your salvation to me and give me a
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willing spirit. Then I will teach the rebellious
Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, the God of my
salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips, and my mouthwill declare Your praise.
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You do not want to sacrifice or I would give it.
You are not pleased with a burntoffering.
The sacrifice pleasing to God isbroken.
The sacrifice pleasing to God isa broken spirit God.
You will not despise a broken and humbled heart in your good
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pleasure. Cause Zion to prosper.
Build the walls of Jerusalem, then you will delight in
righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings, then bowls will
be offered on your altar. Psalms 52 for the choir Director
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Davidic. Why brag about evil, you hero?
God's faithful love is constant.Like a sharpened razor, your
tongue devises destruction. Working treachery.
You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking
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truthfully. Say Law, you love any words that
destroy you treacherous tongue. This is why God will bring you
down forever. He will take you, ripping you
out of your tent. He will uproot you from the
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lands of living. Say Law, the righteous will look
on with all and will ridicule him.
Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted
in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive
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behavior. But I am like a flourishing
olive tree in the House of God. I trust in God's faithful love
forever and ever. I will praise you forever for
what you have done in the presence of your faithful
people. I will put my hope in your name,
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for it is good. Psalms 53 for the choir director
Davidic The Fool says in his heart, God does not exist.
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They are corrupt and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on
the human race to see if there is one who is wise, one who
seeks God. All have turned away.
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All alike have become corrupt. There is no one who does good,
not even one will. Evil doers never understand.
They consume my people as they consume bread.
They do not call on God. Then they will be filled with
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terror, terror like no other, because God will scatter the
bones of those who besiege you. You will put them to shame, for
God has rejected them. Oh, that Israel's deliverance
would come from Zion. When God restores the fortunes
of his people, Jacob will rejoice.
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Israel will be glad. Psalms 54 for the choir director
with stringed instruments. Davidic, God save me by your
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name, and vindicate me by your might.
God, hear my prayer, listen to the words of my mouth, for
strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God, Saylaw.
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God is my helper. The Lord is the sustainer of my
life. He will repay my adversaries for
their evil. Because of your faithfulness,
annihilate them. I will sacrifice a free will
offering to you. I will praise Your name, Yahweh,
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because it is good, for He has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked down on myenemies.
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Psalms 55 for the choir directorwith strained instruments.
Davidic God, listen to my prayerand do not ignore my plea for
help. Pay attention to me and answer
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me. I am restless and turmoil with
my complaint because of the enemy's voice, because of the
pressure of the wicked, for theybring down disaster on me and
harass me and anger. My heart shudders within me.
Terrors of death sweep over me. Fear and trembling grip me.
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Horror has overwhelmed me. I said if only I had wings like
a dove, I would fly away and find rest.
How far I would flee. I would stay in the wilderness,
say law. I would hurry to my shelter from
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the raging wind and the storm. Lord confuse and confound their
speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they make the rounds on its walls.
Crime and trouble are within it.Destruction is inside it.
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Oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.
Now it is not an enemy who insults me, otherwise I could
bear it. It is not a foe who rises up
against me, otherwise I could hide from him.
But it is you, a man who is my peer, my companion and good
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friend. We used to have close
fellowship. We walked with the crowd into
the House of God. Let death take them by surprise.
Let them go down to she all alive, because evil is in their
homes and within them. But I call to God, and the Lord
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will save me. I complain and groan morning,
noon and night, and He hears my voice, though many are against
me. He will redeem me from my battle
unharmed. God, the one enthroned from long
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ago, will hear and will humiliate them.
Say law because they do not change and do not fear.
God, my friend acts violently against those at peace with him.
He violates his covenant. His buttery words are smooth,
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but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil,
for they are drawn swords. Cast your burden on the Lord,
and He will sustain you. He will never allow the
righteous to be shaken. God, you will bring them down to
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the pit of destruction. Men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
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Psalms 56 for the choir director, according to a silent
dove far away. Davidic, be gracious to me.
God for man tramples me. He fights and oppresses me all
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day long. My adversaries trample me all
day. For many arrogantly fight
against me when I am afraid I will trust in you, in God whose
word I praise, In God I trust I will not fear.
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What can man do to me? They twist my words all day
long. All their thoughts against me
are evil. They stir up strife.
They lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
Will they escape in spite of such sin?
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God, bring down the nations in wrath.
You yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your records?
Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call this I know
God is for me. In God whose word I praise, in
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the Lord whose word I praise, InGod I trust I will not fear.
What can man do to me? I am obligated by vows to you.
God, I will make my thank offerings to you.
For You delivered me from death,and even my feet from stumbling,
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to walk before God in the light of life.
And now we pray a prayer from Augustine of Hippo, a 5th
century North African Bishop. Watch, O Lord, with those who
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wake or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over
those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord
Jesus Christ, rest your weary ones.
Bless your dying ones, soothe your suffering ones, pity your
afflicted ones, shield your joyous ones, And for all your
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Love's sake, Amen. The.
Welcome to abide in slumber, where we rest in His Word and
sleep in His peace. This is your time to unwind, to
let go, and to enter into God's presence with stillness and
(00:26):
trust. Before we begin tonight's
scripture meditation, let's takea moment to quiet our hearts
using the rhythm of prey. Pause, reflect, ask and yield.
(00:49):
Pause. Take a deep breath in and slowly
exhale. Release the weight of the day.
Let your body soften, your mind quiet, and your spirit rest in
(01:11):
His presence. Reflect.
Consider God's faithfulness today.
Where did you see His goodness? What small moments of grace can
(01:33):
you hold on to as you rest? Ask.
Whisper a prayer to God, whetherfor peace, comfort, or simply
the ability to let go and trust Him as you sleep.
(02:01):
Yield now, surrender, release control.
Know that you are held, loved and watched over by the One who
never sleeps. Father, comfort us now as we
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drift into sleep. Calm our hearts, our minds, our
bodies, and our spirits as we meditate on Your Word tonight.
Give us deep rest so we can wakeup tomorrow.
(02:52):
Refresh and ready to glorify youin all that we do.
Let's now rest in His word together as we journey through
Psalms. Psalms 42 for the choir
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director. As a deer longs for streams of
water, So I long for you God. I thirst for God, the living
God. When can I come and appear
before God? My tears have been food day and
(03:51):
night while all day long people say to me, Where is your God?
I remember this as I pour out myheart how I walked with many
leading the festive procession to the House of God with joyful
and thankful shouts. Why am I so depressed?
(04:16):
Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will
still praise Him, my Savior and my God.
I am deeply depressed. Therefore I remember you from
the land of Jordan and the peaksof Herman, from Mount Mizar.
(04:41):
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls.
All your Breakers and your billows have swept over me.
The Lord will send His faithful love by day.
His song will be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my
(05:02):
life. I will say to God, My rock, Why
have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow
Because of the enemy's oppression?
My adversaries taunt me as if crushing my bones, while all day
(05:24):
long they say to me, where is your God?
Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I willstill praise Him, my Savior and
my God. Psalms 43 Vindicate me, God, and
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defend my cause against an ungodly nation.
Rescue me from the deceitful andunjust man, for you are the God
of my refuge. Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow? Because of the enemy's
(06:21):
oppression? Send your light and your truth.
Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy
mountain, to your dwelling place.
Then I will come to the altar ofmy God.
(06:42):
To God, my greatest joy. I will praise you with a liar.
God, my God, why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will
still praise Him, my Savior, andmy God.
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Psalms 44 for the choir director.
God, we have heard with our ears, our ancestors have told
us, the work you accomplished intheir days, in days long ago, to
plant them. You drove out the nations with
(07:37):
your hand to settle them, you crushed the peoples, for they
did not take the land by their sword.
Their arm did not bring them victory, but by your right hand,
your arm, and the light of your face, for you were pleased with
them. You are my king, my God, who
(08:02):
ordains victories for Jacob. Through you we drive back our
foes, Through your name we trample our enemies.
For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword does not bring me
victory. But you give us victory over our
(08:25):
foes and let those who hate us be disgraced.
We boast in God all day long. We will praise your name
forever, say law. But you have rejected and
humiliated us. You do not March out with our
(08:47):
enemies. You make us retreat from the
foe. And those who hate us have taken
plunder for themselves. You hand us over to be eaten
like sheep and scatter us among the nations.
You sell your people for nothing.
You make no profit from selling them.
(09:10):
You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a
source of mockery and ridicule those around us.
You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among
the peoples. My disgrace is before me all day
(09:31):
long, and shame has covered my face because of the voice of the
Scorner and Reviler, because of the enemy and Avenger.
All this has happened to us, butwe have not forgotten you or
betrayed your covenant. Our hearts have not turned back,
(09:54):
our steps have not strayed from your path, but you have crushed
us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest
darkness. If we had forgotten the name of
our God and spread out our handsto a foreign God, wouldn't God
have found this out since He knows the secrets of the heart?
(10:19):
Because of you we are slain all day long.
We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
Wake up Lord, why are you sleeping?
Get up, Don't reject us forever.Why do you hide yourself and
forget our affliction and oppression?
(10:40):
For we have sunk down to the dust.
Our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up, help us, redeem us,
because of your faithful love. Psalms 45 for the choir director
(11:08):
A love song. My heart is moved by a noble
theme as I recite my verses to the King.
My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
You are the most handsome of men.
Grace flows from your lips. Therefore God has blessed you
(11:30):
forever, mighty warrior. Strap your sword at your side in
your majesty, in splendor, in your splendor.
Ride triumphantly in the cause of truth, humility and justice.
May your right hand show your awe inspiring acts.
(11:55):
Your arrows Pierce the hearts ofthe King's enemies.
The peoples fall under you. Your throne, God, is forever and
ever. The scepter of your Kingdom is a
scepter of justice. You love righteousness and hate
wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has
(12:20):
anointed you with the oil of joymore than your companions.
Myrrh, aloes and cassia perfume all your garments from ivory
palaces. Harps bring you joy.
King's daughters are among your honored women.
(12:41):
The Queen, adorned with gold from Ophir, stands at your right
hand. Listen, daughter, pay attention
and consider. Forget your people and your
father's house, and the King will desire your beauty.
Bow down to him, for he is your Lord, the daughter of Tyre.
(13:07):
The wealthy people will seek your favor with gifts in her
chamber. The royal daughter is all
glorious, her clothing embroidered with gold in
colorful garments. She's led to the king.
After her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.
(13:30):
They are LED in with gladness and rejoicing.
They enter the King's palace. Your sons will succeed your
ancestors. You will make them Princess
throughout the land. I will cause your name to be
remembered for all generations. Therefore the peoples will
(13:51):
praise you forever and ever. Psalms 46 for the choir
director. God is our refuge and strength,
(14:13):
a helper who is always found in times of trouble.
Therefore, we will not be afraid.
Though the earth trembles and the mountains topple into the
depths of the Seas. There was waters roar and foam
in the mountains quake with its turmoil.
(14:35):
Sayla, there is a river. It streams.
Delight in the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most
High. God is within her.
She will not be toppled. God will help her.
When the morning dawns. Nation's rage, kingdom's topple.
(15:01):
The earth melts when he lifts his voice.
The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our
stronghold. Say law.
Come see the works of the Lord who brings devastation on the
earth. He makes war cease throughout
(15:25):
the earth. He shatters, bows and cuts
Spears to pieces. He burns up the Chariots.
Stop your fighting and know thatI am God, exalted among the
nations, exalted on the earth. Yahweh of hosts is with us.
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The God of Jacob is our stronghold.
Say Law. Psalms 47 for the choir
director. Clap your hands all you peoples.
(16:12):
Shout to God with a jubilant cryfor Yahweh.
The Most High is awe inspiring. A great King over all the earth,
He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet.
He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob
(16:36):
whom he loves. Say law.
God ascends among shouts of joy,the Lord among the sound of
trumpets. Sing praise to God.
Sing praise. Sing praise to our king.
(16:56):
Sing praise, sing a song of wisdom, for God is king of all
the earth. God reigns over the nations.
God is seated on His holy throne.
The nobles of peoples have assembled with the people of the
(17:21):
God of Abraham, for the leaders of the earth belong to God.
He is greatly exalted. Psalms 48 A song.
(17:46):
The Lord is great and highly praised in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, rising splendidly, is the joy of the
whole earth. Mount Zion, on the slopes of the
north, is the city of the great King.
(18:08):
God is known as a stronghold in its citadels.
Look the kings assembled. They advanced together.
They looked and froze with fear.They fled in terror.
Trembling seized them there. Agony like that of a woman in
(18:31):
labor, as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.
Just as we heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of
hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.
(18:52):
Say law God, within your temple we contemplate your faithful
love. Your name.
God, like your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with justice.
(19:14):
Mount Zion is glad. The towns of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments. Go around Zion and circle it and
count its towers. Note its ramparts tore its
citadels, so that you can tell the future generation this God,
(19:38):
our God, forever and ever, He will always lead us.
Psalms 49 for the choir director.
(20:01):
Hear this all you peoples, listen all who inhabit the
world, both low and high, rich and poor, together.
My mouth speaks wisdom. My heart's meditation brings
understanding. I turn my ear to a proverb.
(20:26):
I explain my Riddle with a liar.Why should I fear in times of
trouble? The iniquity of my foes
surrounds me. They trust in their wealth and
boast of their abundant riches. Yet these cannot redeem a person
(20:49):
or pay his ransom to God. Since the price of redeeming him
is too costly. One should forever stop trying
so that he may live forever and not see the pit.
For one can see that wise men die.
Foolish and stupid men also passaway, then they leave their
(21:15):
wealth to others. Their graves are their eternal
homes, their homes from generation to generation, though
they have named estates after themselves.
But despite his assets, man willnot last.
(21:36):
He is like the animals that perish.
This is the way of those who arearrogant and of those followers
who approve of their words. Say law.
Like sheep who are headed for Sheol, Death will shepherd them.
(21:58):
The upright will rule over them in the morning, and their form
will waste away, and she'll far from their lofty abode.
But God will redeem my life, forHe will take me, say law.
(22:18):
Do not be afraid when a man getsrich, when the wealth of his
house increases, For when he dies he will take nothing at
all. His wealth will not follow him
down, though he praises himself during his lifetime, and people
(22:39):
praise you and you do well for yourself.
He will go to the generation of his father's.
They will never see the light. A man with valuable possessions
but without understanding is like the animals that perish.
(23:07):
Psalms 50. Yahweh, the God of God speaks.
He summons the earth from east to West, from Zion, the
perfection of beauty. God appears in radiance.
Our God is coming. He will not be silent.
(23:32):
Devouring fire precedes him, anda storm rages around him.
On high he summons heaven and earth in order to judge His
people. Gather my faithful ones to me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice the heavens
(23:53):
proclaim his righteousness, for God is the judge.
Say law. Listen, my people, and I will
speak. I will testify against you,
Israel. I am God, your God.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or for your burnt
(24:16):
offerings which are continually before me.
I will not accept a bull from your household or male goats
from your pens, for every animalof the forest is mine.
The cattle on 1000 hills I know every bird of the mountains, and
(24:39):
the creatures of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and
everything in it is mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or
drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice, I think, offering to
(24:59):
God, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in a day of trouble. I will rescue you and you will
honor me. But God says to the wicked, what
right do you have to recite my statutes and take my covenant on
(25:21):
your lips? You hate instruction and turn
your back on my words. When you see a thief, you make
friends with him and you associate with adulterers.
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for
deceit. You sit, aligning your brother
(25:45):
and slandering your mother's son.
You have done these things and Ikept silent.
You thought I was just like you,but I will rebuke you and layout
the case before you understand this.
You who forget God or I will tear you apart, and there will
(26:10):
be no one to rescue you. Whoever sacrifices a thank
offering honors me, and whoever orders his conduct, I will show
him the salvation of God. Psalms 51 for the choir director
(26:39):
A tobetic Psalm. Be gracious to me, God,
according to your faithful love,according to your abundant
compassion. Blot out my rebellion, wash away
my guilt and cleanse me from my sin, For I am conscious of my
(27:03):
rebellion and my sin is always before me against you.
You alone, I have sinned and done this evil in your sight.
So you are right when you pass sentence.
You are blameless when you judge.
(27:25):
Indeed, I was guilty when I was born.
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me
wisdom deep within. Purify me with hyssop and I will
(27:46):
be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter
than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness.
Let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
Turn Your face away from my sinsand blot out my guilt.
(28:07):
God, create a clean heart for meand renew a steadfast spirit
within me. Do not banish me from Your
presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore the joy of Your salvation to me and give me a
(28:28):
willing spirit. Then I will teach the rebellious
Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, the God of my
salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips, and my mouthwill declare Your praise.
(28:54):
You do not want to sacrifice or I would give it.
You are not pleased with a burntoffering.
The sacrifice pleasing to God isbroken.
The sacrifice pleasing to God isa broken spirit God.
You will not despise a broken and humbled heart in your good
(29:17):
pleasure. Cause Zion to prosper.
Build the walls of Jerusalem, then you will delight in
righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings, then bowls will
be offered on your altar. Psalms 52 for the choir Director
(29:50):
Davidic. Why brag about evil, you hero?
God's faithful love is constant.Like a sharpened razor, your
tongue devises destruction. Working treachery.
You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking
(30:15):
truthfully. Say Law, you love any words that
destroy you treacherous tongue. This is why God will bring you
down forever. He will take you, ripping you
out of your tent. He will uproot you from the
(30:36):
lands of living. Say Law, the righteous will look
on with all and will ridicule him.
Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted
in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive
(30:57):
behavior. But I am like a flourishing
olive tree in the House of God. I trust in God's faithful love
forever and ever. I will praise you forever for
what you have done in the presence of your faithful
people. I will put my hope in your name,
(31:19):
for it is good. Psalms 53 for the choir director
Davidic The Fool says in his heart, God does not exist.
(31:45):
They are corrupt and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on
the human race to see if there is one who is wise, one who
seeks God. All have turned away.
(32:06):
All alike have become corrupt. There is no one who does good,
not even one will. Evil doers never understand.
They consume my people as they consume bread.
They do not call on God. Then they will be filled with
(32:27):
terror, terror like no other, because God will scatter the
bones of those who besiege you. You will put them to shame, for
God has rejected them. Oh, that Israel's deliverance
would come from Zion. When God restores the fortunes
of his people, Jacob will rejoice.
(32:49):
Israel will be glad. Psalms 54 for the choir director
with stringed instruments. Davidic, God save me by your
(33:13):
name, and vindicate me by your might.
God, hear my prayer, listen to the words of my mouth, for
strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God, Saylaw.
(33:35):
God is my helper. The Lord is the sustainer of my
life. He will repay my adversaries for
their evil. Because of your faithfulness,
annihilate them. I will sacrifice a free will
offering to you. I will praise Your name, Yahweh,
(33:58):
because it is good, for He has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked down on myenemies.
(34:18):
Psalms 55 for the choir directorwith strained instruments.
Davidic God, listen to my prayerand do not ignore my plea for
help. Pay attention to me and answer
(34:38):
me. I am restless and turmoil with
my complaint because of the enemy's voice, because of the
pressure of the wicked, for theybring down disaster on me and
harass me and anger. My heart shudders within me.
Terrors of death sweep over me. Fear and trembling grip me.
(35:04):
Horror has overwhelmed me. I said if only I had wings like
a dove, I would fly away and find rest.
How far I would flee. I would stay in the wilderness,
say law. I would hurry to my shelter from
(35:25):
the raging wind and the storm. Lord confuse and confound their
speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they make the rounds on its walls.
Crime and trouble are within it.Destruction is inside it.
(35:49):
Oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.
Now it is not an enemy who insults me, otherwise I could
bear it. It is not a foe who rises up
against me, otherwise I could hide from him.
But it is you, a man who is my peer, my companion and good
(36:15):
friend. We used to have close
fellowship. We walked with the crowd into
the House of God. Let death take them by surprise.
Let them go down to she all alive, because evil is in their
homes and within them. But I call to God, and the Lord
(36:39):
will save me. I complain and groan morning,
noon and night, and He hears my voice, though many are against
me. He will redeem me from my battle
unharmed. God, the one enthroned from long
(37:00):
ago, will hear and will humiliate them.
Say law because they do not change and do not fear.
God, my friend acts violently against those at peace with him.
He violates his covenant. His buttery words are smooth,
(37:21):
but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil,
for they are drawn swords. Cast your burden on the Lord,
and He will sustain you. He will never allow the
righteous to be shaken. God, you will bring them down to
(37:41):
the pit of destruction. Men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
(38:02):
Psalms 56 for the choir director, according to a silent
dove far away. Davidic, be gracious to me.
God for man tramples me. He fights and oppresses me all
(38:23):
day long. My adversaries trample me all
day. For many arrogantly fight
against me when I am afraid I will trust in you, in God whose
word I praise, In God I trust I will not fear.
(38:45):
What can man do to me? They twist my words all day
long. All their thoughts against me
are evil. They stir up strife.
They lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
Will they escape in spite of such sin?
(39:08):
God, bring down the nations in wrath.
You yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your records?
Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call this I know
God is for me. In God whose word I praise, in
(39:34):
the Lord whose word I praise, InGod I trust I will not fear.
What can man do to me? I am obligated by vows to you.
God, I will make my thank offerings to you.
For You delivered me from death,and even my feet from stumbling,
(39:58):
to walk before God in the light of life.
And now we pray a prayer from Augustine of Hippo, a 5th
century North African Bishop. Watch, O Lord, with those who
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wake or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over
those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord
Jesus Christ, rest your weary ones.
Bless your dying ones, soothe your suffering ones, pity your
afflicted ones, shield your joyous ones, And for all your
(40:49):
Love's sake, Amen. The.
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