WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.880 in a year. Today we're continuing with the Psalms 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.400 of Lament, and today's readings are from Psalms 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:17.600 11 -14, 16, 17, and 22. Psalm 11, Inscription 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.960 to the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David. In the 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.760 Lord I put my trust. How can you say to my soul, 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:26.440 flee as a bird to your mountain? For look, the 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.539 wicked bend their bow. They make ready their 00:00:28.539 --> 00:00:31.530 arrow on the string. that they may shoot secretly 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:34.109 at the upright in heart. If the foundations are 00:00:34.109 --> 00:00:36.969 destroyed, what can the righteous do? The Lord 00:00:36.969 --> 00:00:39.570 is in His holy temple. The Lord's throne is in 00:00:39.570 --> 00:00:42.570 heaven. His eyes behold. His eyelids test the 00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:45.170 sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous. But 00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:47.189 the wicked and the one who loves violence His 00:00:47.189 --> 00:00:50.189 soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain coals. 00:00:50.270 --> 00:00:53.070 Fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall be 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:55.409 the portion of their cup. For the Lord is righteous. 00:00:55.609 --> 00:00:58.270 He loves righteousness. His countenance beholds 00:00:58.270 --> 00:01:01.960 the upright. Psalm 12, inscription, to the chief 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.799 musician, on an eight -stringed harp, a psalm 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:08.079 of David. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases, 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.640 for the faithful disappear from among the sons 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.480 of men. They speak idly, everyone, with his neighbor. 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:16.140 With flattering lips and a double heart they 00:01:16.140 --> 00:01:19.040 speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.640 and a tongue that speaks proud things, who have 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.420 said, With our tongue we will prevail, our lips 00:01:24.420 --> 00:01:27.579 are our own. Who is Lord over us? For the oppression 00:01:27.579 --> 00:01:30.250 of the poor for the sighing of the needy, now 00:01:30.250 --> 00:01:33.069 I will arise, says the Lord. I will set him in 00:01:33.069 --> 00:01:35.629 the safety for which he yearns. The words of 00:01:35.629 --> 00:01:38.290 the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in 00:01:38.290 --> 00:01:41.109 a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You 00:01:41.109 --> 00:01:43.310 shall keep them, O Lord. You shall preserve them 00:01:43.310 --> 00:01:46.269 from this generation forever. The wicked prowl 00:01:46.269 --> 00:01:49.150 on every side, when vileness is exalted among 00:01:49.150 --> 00:01:53.670 the sons of men. Psalm 13, Inscription To the 00:01:53.670 --> 00:01:56.750 Chief Musician, a Psalm of David How long, O 00:01:56.750 --> 00:01:59.500 Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:02.120 you hide your face from me? How long shall I 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.439 take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.939 heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:09.699 over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord my God. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.560 Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.360 death. Lest my enemy say I have prevailed against 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.020 him. Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:20.979 am moved. But I have trusted in your mercy. My 00:02:20.979 --> 00:02:23.580 heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:26.120 sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.180 with me. Psalm 14, inscription, to the chief 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:33.020 musician, a psalm of David. The fool has said 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:35.500 in his heart, there is no God, they are corrupt, 00:02:35.740 --> 00:02:38.300 they have done abominable works, there is none 00:02:38.300 --> 00:02:40.819 who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven 00:02:40.819 --> 00:02:43.240 upon the children of men, to see if there are 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.479 any who understand, who seek God. They have all 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.740 turned aside, they have together become corrupt. 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:52.250 There is none who does good, no, not one. Have 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:54.509 all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who 00:02:54.509 --> 00:02:56.949 eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not 00:02:56.949 --> 00:02:59.590 call on the Lord? There they are in great fear, 00:02:59.750 --> 00:03:02.050 for God is with the generation of the righteous. 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:04.569 You shame the counsel of the poor, but the Lord 00:03:04.569 --> 00:03:07.349 is his refuge. Oh, that the salvation of Israel 00:03:07.349 --> 00:03:09.689 would come out of Zion, when the Lord brings 00:03:09.689 --> 00:03:12.490 back the captivity of his people. Let Jacob rejoice, 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:17.409 and Israel be glad. Psalm 16, inscription, a 00:03:17.409 --> 00:03:20.729 miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you 00:03:20.729 --> 00:03:23.229 I put my trust. My soul, you have said to the 00:03:23.229 --> 00:03:25.830 Lord, you are my Lord. My goodness is nothing 00:03:25.830 --> 00:03:28.229 apart from you. As for the saints who are on 00:03:28.229 --> 00:03:30.629 the earth, they are the excellent ones, in whom 00:03:30.629 --> 00:03:33.389 is all my delight. Their sorrows shall be multiplied 00:03:33.389 --> 00:03:36.750 who hasten after another God. Their drink offerings 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:39.389 of blood I will not offer, nor take up their 00:03:39.389 --> 00:03:41.930 names on my lips. O Lord, you are the portion 00:03:41.930 --> 00:03:44.770 of my inheritance and my cup. You maintain my 00:03:44.770 --> 00:03:47.250 lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant 00:03:47.250 --> 00:03:50.409 places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. I will 00:03:50.409 --> 00:03:52.949 bless the Lord who has given me counsel. My heart 00:03:52.949 --> 00:03:55.789 also instructs me in the night seasons. I have 00:03:55.789 --> 00:03:58.150 set the Lord always before me. Because he is 00:03:58.150 --> 00:04:01.069 at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore 00:04:01.069 --> 00:04:04.430 my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:07.050 also will rest in hope. For you will not leave 00:04:07.050 --> 00:04:09.710 my soul in Sheol. Nor will you allow your Holy 00:04:09.710 --> 00:04:12.490 One to see corruption. You will show me the path 00:04:12.490 --> 00:04:15.009 of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. 00:04:15.210 --> 00:04:17.930 At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 00:04:18.949 --> 00:04:22.829 Psalm 17, Inscription A Prayer of David Hear 00:04:22.829 --> 00:04:25.709 a just cause, O Lord. Attend to my cry. Give 00:04:25.709 --> 00:04:28.189 ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful 00:04:28.189 --> 00:04:30.649 lips. Let my vindication come from your presence. 00:04:30.910 --> 00:04:33.389 Let your eyes look on the things that are upright. 00:04:33.689 --> 00:04:35.889 You have tested my heart. You have visited me 00:04:35.889 --> 00:04:38.050 in the night. You have tried me and have found 00:04:38.050 --> 00:04:40.350 nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall 00:04:40.350 --> 00:04:42.730 not transgress. Concerning the works of men, 00:04:42.870 --> 00:04:45.490 by the word of your lips, I have kept away from 00:04:45.490 --> 00:04:48.360 the path of the destroyer. uphold my steps in 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.980 your path, that my footsteps may not slip. I 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:52.959 have called upon you, for you will hear me, O 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.579 God. Incline your ear to me and hear my speech. 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.560 Show your marvelous loving kindness by your right 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.019 hand, O you who save those who trust in you, 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.339 from those who rise up against them. Keep me 00:05:03.339 --> 00:05:05.899 as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow 00:05:05.899 --> 00:05:08.279 of your wings, from the wicked who oppress me, 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.639 from my deadly enemies who surround me. They 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.220 have closed up their fat hearts. With their mouth 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:15.689 they speak proudly. they have now surrounded 00:05:15.689 --> 00:05:19.009 us in our steps they have set their eyes crouching 00:05:19.009 --> 00:05:21.870 down to the earth as a lion is eager to tear 00:05:21.870 --> 00:05:24.670 his prey and like a young lion lurking in secret 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:28.250 places arise o lord confront him cast him down 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:30.750 deliver my life from the wicked with your sword 00:05:30.750 --> 00:05:34.209 with your hand from men o lord from men of the 00:05:34.209 --> 00:05:36.970 world who have their portion in this life and 00:05:36.970 --> 00:05:38.829 whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure 00:05:38.829 --> 00:05:41.410 they are satisfied with children and leave the 00:05:41.410 --> 00:05:43.959 rest of their possession for their babes. As 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:45.879 for me, I will see your face in righteousness. 00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:49.220 I shall be satisfied when I awake in your likeness. 00:05:50.139 --> 00:05:53.240 Psalm 22, Inscription To the chief musician, 00:05:53.459 --> 00:05:56.560 said to the deer of the dawn, a psalm of David. 00:05:57.019 --> 00:06:00.300 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:02.660 are you so far from helping me, and from the 00:06:02.660 --> 00:06:05.959 words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.459 daytime, but you do not hear, and in the night 00:06:08.459 --> 00:06:11.139 season, and am not silent. But you are holy, 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.899 enthroned in the praises of Israel. Our fathers 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:16.300 trusted in you, they trusted and you delivered 00:06:16.300 --> 00:06:18.920 them. They cried to you and were delivered, they 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.819 trusted in you and were not ashamed. But I am 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:24.839 a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.500 by the people. All those who see me ridicule 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.319 me. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.040 saying, He trusted in the Lord, let him rescue 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.699 him, let him deliver him, since he delights in 00:06:35.699 --> 00:06:38.560 him. But you are he who took me out of the womb. 00:06:38.939 --> 00:06:41.319 You made me trust while on my mother's breasts. 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:44.540 I was cast upon you from birth, from my mother's 00:06:44.540 --> 00:06:47.579 womb. You have been my God. Be not far from me, 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.300 for trouble is near, for there is none to help. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.259 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of 00:06:53.259 --> 00:06:56.060 Bashan have encircled me. They gape at me with 00:06:56.060 --> 00:06:58.259 their mouth, like a raging and roaring lion. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.000 I am poured out like water, and all my bones 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.839 are out of joint. My heart is like wax, it has 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.240 melted within me. My strength is dried up like 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.470 a potsherd. And my tongue clings to my jaws. 00:07:08.709 --> 00:07:11.410 You have brought me to the dust of death. For 00:07:11.410 --> 00:07:13.709 dogs have surrounded me. The congregation of 00:07:13.709 --> 00:07:16.230 the wicked has enclosed me. They pierced my hands 00:07:16.230 --> 00:07:19.189 and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look 00:07:19.189 --> 00:07:21.670 and stare at me. They divide my garments among 00:07:21.670 --> 00:07:24.670 them. And for my clothing they cast lots. But 00:07:24.670 --> 00:07:27.689 you, O Lord, do not be far from me. O my strength, 00:07:27.850 --> 00:07:30.470 hasten to help me. Deliver me from the sword. 00:07:30.889 --> 00:07:33.910 My precious life from the power of the dog. Save 00:07:33.910 --> 00:07:36.089 me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of 00:07:36.089 --> 00:07:39.029 the wild oxen. You have answered me. I will declare 00:07:39.029 --> 00:07:41.029 your name to my brethren. In the midst of the 00:07:41.029 --> 00:07:43.649 assembly, I will praise you. You who fear the 00:07:43.649 --> 00:07:46.110 Lord, praise him. All you descendants of Jacob, 00:07:46.290 --> 00:07:48.949 glorify him. And fear him, all you offspring 00:07:48.949 --> 00:07:51.910 of Israel. For he has not despised nor abhorred 00:07:51.910 --> 00:07:54.230 the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden 00:07:54.230 --> 00:07:56.610 his face from him. But when he cried to him, 00:07:56.649 --> 00:07:59.850 he heard. My praise shall be of you in the great 00:07:59.850 --> 00:08:02.500 assembly. I will pay my vows before those who 00:08:02.500 --> 00:08:04.720 fear him. The poor shall eat and be satisfied. 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.500 Those who seek him will praise the Lord. Let 00:08:07.500 --> 00:08:09.779 your heart live forever. All the ends of the 00:08:09.779 --> 00:08:12.000 world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:13.819 all the families of the nations shall worship 00:08:13.819 --> 00:08:16.560 before him. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.879 he rules over the nations. All the prosperous 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.399 of the earth shall eat and worship. All those 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.740 who go down to the dust shall bow before him, 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:27.259 even he who cannot keep himself alive. A posterity 00:08:27.259 --> 00:08:29.660 shall serve him. it will be recounted of the 00:08:29.660 --> 00:08:32.019 Lord to the next generation. They will come and 00:08:32.019 --> 00:08:34.460 declare His righteousness to a people who will 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:42.639 be born that He has done this. I hope you enjoyed 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:44.960 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.919 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.120 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:49.360 day.