Your favorite Psalm?
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@Addy There is indeed such a precious wealth of challenging and comforting truth in the Psalms, for the believer. :)
Psalm 145
New American Standard Bible 1995
The Lord Extolled for His Goodness.
A Psalm of Praise, of David.
145 I will extol You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
5 On the glorious splendor of Your majesty
And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
6 Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And I will tell of Your greatness.
7 They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
9 The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works.
10 All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord,
And Your godly ones shall bless You.
11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom
And talk of Your power;
12 To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts
And the glory of the majesty of Your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14 The Lord sustains all who fall
And raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all look to You,
And You give them their food in due time.
16 You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways
And kind in all His deeds.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He will also hear their cry and will save them.
20 The Lord keeps all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will destroy. (Consider Leviticus 26)
21 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,
And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.
New American Standard Bible 1995
The Lord Extolled for His Goodness.
A Psalm of Praise, of David.
145 I will extol You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
5 On the glorious splendor of Your majesty
And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
6 Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And I will tell of Your greatness.
7 They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
9 The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works.
10 All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord,
And Your godly ones shall bless You.
11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom
And talk of Your power;
12 To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts
And the glory of the majesty of Your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14 The Lord sustains all who fall
And raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all look to You,
And You give them their food in due time.
16 You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways
And kind in all His deeds.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He will also hear their cry and will save them.
20 The Lord keeps all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will destroy. (Consider Leviticus 26)
21 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,
And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.
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Thank you. My favorite changes a lot but currently might be Psalms 1-3. The reason being they speak of Christ and it's beautiful to read it like that. As a Church Father said (and many others have said) the Psalms show the life of Christ.
Psalm 1: "Blessed is the Man," that is the Incarnate Man the Lord Jesus, where the Law of God is His delight and He dwells therein and kept it whole and entire, His fruit is the righteousness He produces in all for He is the source of it, and so on. It is easy to see it as Christological.
Psalm 2: It has "You are my Son this day I have begotten You" which is quoted as dealing with Christ in the NT (Hebrews I believe), so it is easy to see the whole Psalm as having to do with this.
Psalm 3: This one deals with the Passion and Resurrection, and Jesus speaks in this Psalm in His own Person, for where else did people say to Him "there is no hope for Him in God" and so on? But He remains fearless and then says "I lay down and slept, then I rose again" which is the Resurrection. This is also the first Psalm for the morning to pray because "those rising against me" can be applied to our enemies, the flesh, the world, the devil, which immediately get at us in the morning and so this Psalm is a declaration of war against them in the morning. The "I lay down and slept" can also be applied to us literally for waking in the morning, so this is the first Psalm to say in the morning.
Those are my favorites right now, and they go together when speaking of Christ. Here is a chanting of these Psalms which is beautiful and helps one to consider Christ in them:
@Abaxvahl I love how part of Psalm 2 is incorporated in a quote centred on the Saviour in Hebrews 1 (verse 5):
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
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Amen. I need to become more disciplined in my daily study of it, for a lot of things had to be exactly right in the world for me to have access to it and God gave me and all of us this blessing, neglect of it is a shame.
@Abaxvahl Indeed, Job could say: "I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food." (Job 23.12). The Lord Jesus Himself said: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (John 17.17)
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