Psalms 31
Book of Psalms
Psalms
31:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do
I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock,
for an house of defence to save me.
3 For thou
art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's
sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou
art my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God
of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my
feet in a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
consumed with grief,
yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled
from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear
was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou
art my God.
15 My times
are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies'
sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the
wicked be ashamed,
and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great
is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up
for them that fear thee;
which thou hast wrought for them that trust in
thee before the sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of
man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed
be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
kindness in a strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints:
for the LORD preserveth the
faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that
hope in the LORD.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.