Relax as we continue our meditative journey through the Psalms. Allow the soothing background music and lulling narrative take you along your spiritual path to peace as Steve reads to you from Psalms forty-one through fifty. Listen using the audio player below.
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Psalm Forty One
| 1: Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. |
| 2: The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. |
| 3: The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. |
| 4: I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. |
| 5: Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? |
| 6: And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |
| 7: All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. |
| 8: An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. |
| 9: Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. |
| 10: But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. |
| 11: By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. |
| 12: And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. |
| 13: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. |
Psalm Forty Two
| 1: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
| 2: My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? |
| 3: My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? |
| 4: When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. |
| 5: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. |
| 6: O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. |
| 7: :Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. |
| 8: Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. |
| 9: I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| 10: As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? |
| 11: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
Psalm Forty Three
| 1: Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. |
| 2: For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| 3: O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. |
| 4: Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. |
| 5: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
Psalm Forty Four
| 1: We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. |
| 2: How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
| 3: For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
| 4: Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
| 5: Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6: For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7: :But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
| 8: In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
| 9: But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
| 10: Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
| 11: Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
| 12: Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
| 13: Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| 14: Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| 15: My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16: For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| 17: All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18: Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
| 19: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
| 20: If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
| 21: Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
| 22: Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| 23: Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
| 24: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25: For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. |
| 26: Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake. |
Psalm Forty Five
| 1: My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. |
| 2: Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. |
| 3: Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. |
| 4: And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
| 5: Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. |
| 6: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. |
| 7: :Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
| 8: All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. |
| 9: Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. |
| 10: Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; |
| 11: So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. |
| 12: And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. |
| 13: The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. |
| 14: She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. |
| 15: With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. |
| 16: Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. |
| 17: I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. |
Psalm Forty Six
| 1: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. |
| 2: Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; |
| 3: Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. |
| 4: There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. |
| 5: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. |
| 6: The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. |
| 7: :The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
| 8: Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. |
| 9: He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. |
| 10: Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
| 11: The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
Psalm Forty Seven
| 1: O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. |
| 2: For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. |
| 3: He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. |
| 4: He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. |
| 5: God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. |
| 6: Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. |
| 7: :For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. |
| 8: God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. |
| 9: The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. |
Psalm Forty Eight
| 1: Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. |
| 2: Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. |
| 3: God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
| 4: For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. |
| 5: They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. |
| 6: Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. |
| 7: :Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. |
| 8: As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. |
| 9: We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. |
| 10: According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
| 11: Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. |
| 12: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. |
| 13: Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. |
| 14: For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. |
Psalm Forty Nine
| 1: Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: |
| 2: Both low and high, rich and poor, together. |
| 3: My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. |
| 4: I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. |
| 5: Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? |
| 6: They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; |
| 7: :None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: |
| 8: (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) |
| 9: That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. |
| 10: For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. |
| 11: Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. |
| 12: Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. |
| 13: This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. |
| 14: Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. |
| 15: But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. |
| 16: Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; |
| 17: For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. |
| 18: Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. |
| 19: He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. |
| 20: Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
Psalm Fifty
| 1: The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
| 2: Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
| 3: Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. |
| 4: He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
| 5: Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
| 6: And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. |
| 7: :Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. |
| 8: I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. |
| 9: I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
| 10: For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
| 11: I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
| 12: If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. |
| 13: Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14: Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: |
| 15: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
| 16: But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
| 17: Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
| 18: When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
| 19: Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
| 20: Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. |
| 21: These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. |
| 22: Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
| 23: Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. |