Psalm 90 One of my Study Bibles calls today’s Psalm 90 a lament. I see it more as a reflection. If the psalmist is Moses as the header suggests it seems like he is reflecting on his life, possibly near the end of his life as the Israelites are nearing the Promised Land. He sees …
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August 14 / Psalm 89:46-52
Psalm 89:46-52 In today’s reading the psalmist softens his words substantially from yesterday’s diatribe. He begins very pleadingly, How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? (v. 46a), but in the next half-verse he is back to charging God for His wrath. In verse 49 he links back to our readings from the last three …
August 13 / Psalm 89:38-45
Psalm 89:38-45 Two days ago we saw the psalmist praising God for His creation, for His power, for His righteousness and justice. Then yesterday the psalmist recounted God’s covenant with David: My faithfulness and My steadfast love shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted. (v. 24) But today the …
August 12 / Psalm 89:19-37
Psalm 89:19-37 So I will establish his descendants forever and his throne as the days of heaven. (v. 29) His descendants shall endure forever… (v. 36a) I see these verses fulfilled in Jesus, with His church as His forever descendants. That’s us, folks!!
August 11 / Psalm 89:1-18
Psalm 89:1-18 We will be reading Psalm 89 for the next four days. The break for each day is intentional, although the third and fourth day could have been combined. Actually though, as you read the entire psalm you can see that Ps 89:1-18 and Ps 89:19-37 almost stand alone as their own psalms. Then …
August 10 / Psalm 88
Psalm 88 A lament – frankly, as lamentable as any lament that we have read. There’s not a shred of hope in any of what the psalmist writes. He calls out to God for help (vv. 1, 2, 9, 13), yet he blames God for his condition (vv. 6-8, 14-16). And unlike any other lament …
August 9 / Psalm 87
Psalm 87 To me there’s not a lot to reflect on in today’s psalm. The psalmist is extolling the glory of Jerusalem and Mount Zion, established/ordained by God Himself. The psalmist pays particular attention to the special “citizenship” of those who were born there – in contrast to those who were born in the other …
August 8 / Psalm 86
Psalm 86 All the nations You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. (v. 9) Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on …
August 7 / Psalm 85
Psalm 85 Today’s Psalm 85 looks to be a psalm of confession, although confession is only implied, not fully stated. And while the psalmist seems to be confessing for the whole nation, it would be a good exercise for us to look at the psalm as a model for individual confession. Here are those elements …
August 6 / Psalm 84
Psalm 84 I am not the Bible memory person that John would like for me/us to be, but there have been quite a few verses in my life for which I can call “chapter and verse”, mostly verbatim. Today’s reading has one of those, one of the earliest in my “list” that I can recall: …