One Year Bible.

Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame;

save me by Your righteousness.

²Incline Your ear to me;

come quickly to my rescue.

Be my rock of refuge,

the stronghold of my deliverance.

³For You are my rock and my fortress;

lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

⁴You free me from the net laid out for me,

for You are my refuge.

⁵Into Your hands I commit my spirit;

You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

⁶I hate those who cling to worthless idols,

but in the LORD I trust.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion,

for You have seen my affliction;

You have known the anguish of my soul.

⁸You have not delivered me to the enemy;

You have set my feet in the open.

⁹Be merciful to me, O LORD,

for I am in distress;

my eyes fail from sorrow,

my soul and body as well.

¹⁰For my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my iniquity has drained my strength,

and my bones are wasting away.

¹¹Among all my enemies I am a disgrace,

and among my neighbors even more.

I am dreaded by my friends —

they flee when they see me on the street.

¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind.

I am like a broken vessel.

¹³For I hear the slander of many;

there is terror on every side.

They conspire against me

and plot to take my life.

¹⁴But I trust in You, O LORD;

I say, “You are my God.”

¹⁵My times are in Your hands;

deliver me from my enemies

and from those who pursue me.

¹⁶Make Your face shine on Your servant;

save me by Your loving devotion.

¹⁷O LORD, let me not be ashamed,

for I have called on You.

Let the wicked be put to shame;

let them lie silent in Sheol.

¹⁸May lying lips be silenced —

lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous,

full of pride and contempt.

¹⁹How great is Your goodness

which You have laid up for those who fear You,

which You have bestowed before the sons of men

on those who take refuge in You!

²⁰You hide them in the secret place of Your presence

from the schemes of men.

You conceal them in Your shelter

from accusing tongues.

²¹Blessed be the LORD,

for He has shown me His loving devotion

in a city under siege.

²²In my alarm I said,

“I am cut off from Your sight!”

But You heard my plea for mercy

when I called to You for help.

²³Love the LORD, all His saints.

The LORD preserves the faithful,

but fully repays the arrogant.

²⁴Be strong and courageous,

all you who hope in the LORD.

Save Me by Your Name

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?”

Save me, O God, by Your name,

and vindicate me by Your might!

²Hear my prayer, O God;

listen to the words of my mouth.

³For strangers rise up against me,

and ruthless men seek my life —

men with no regard for God.

Selah

⁴Surely God is my helper;

the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

⁵He will reward my enemies with evil.

In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

⁶Freely I will sacrifice to You;

I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

⁷For He has delivered me from every trouble,

and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

Job: My Redeemer Lives

¹Then Job answered:

²“How long will you torment me

and crush me with your words?

³Ten times now you have reproached me;

you shamelessly mistreat me.

⁴Even if I have truly gone astray,

my error concerns me alone.

⁵If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me

and use my disgrace against me,

⁶then understand that it is God who has wronged me

and drawn His net around me.

⁷Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;

though I call for help, there is no justice.

⁸He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;

He has veiled my paths with darkness.

⁹He has stripped me of my honor

and removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰He tears me down on every side until I am gone;

He uproots my hope like a tree.

¹¹His anger burns against me,

and He counts me among His enemies.

¹²His troops advance together;

they construct a ramp against me

and encamp around my tent.

¹³He has removed my brothers from me;

my acquaintances have abandoned me.

¹⁴My kinsmen have failed me,

and my friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

¹⁶I call for my servant, but he does not answer,

though I implore him with my own mouth.

¹⁷My breath is repulsive to my wife,

and I am loathsome to my own family.

¹⁸Even little boys scorn me;

when I appear, they deride me.

¹⁹All my best friends despise me,

and those I love have turned against me.

²⁰My skin and flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,

for the hand of God has struck me.

²²Why do you persecute me as God does?

Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³I wish that my words were recorded

and inscribed in a book,

²⁴by an iron stylus on lead,

or chiseled in stone forever.

²⁵But I know that my Redeemer lives,

and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

²⁶Even after my skin has been destroyed,

yet in my flesh I will see God.

²⁷I will see Him for myself;

my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger.

How my heart yearns within me!

²⁸If you say, ‘Let us persecute him,

since the root of the matter lies with him,’

²⁹then you should fear the sword yourselves,

because wrath brings punishment by the sword,

so that you may know there is a judgment.”

A Psalm of Exodus

¹When Israel departed from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

²Judah became God’s sanctuary,

Israel His dominion.

³The sea observed and fled;

the Jordan turned back;

⁴the mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵Why was it, O sea, that you fled,

O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams,

O hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a fountain of water!