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reading plan entry for July 2

Psalm 120 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
He answered me.
[2] Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
[3] What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
you deceitful tongue?
[4] Sharp arrows of the mighty,
with coals of juniper.
[5] Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
[6] My soul has had her dwelling too long
with him who hates peace.
[7] I am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
Where does my help come from?
[2] My help comes from Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.

[3] He will not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not slumber.
[4] Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
[5] Yahweh is your keeper.
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
[6] The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
[7] Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
He will keep your soul.
[8] Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,
from this time forward, and forever more.

Psalm 122 ()

A Song of Ascents. By David.

[1] I was glad when they said to me,
“Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
[2] Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!
[3] Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,
[4] where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,
according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.
[5] For there are set thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David’s house.
[6] Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.
[7] Peace be within your walls,
and prosperity within your palaces.
[8] For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
[9] For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.

Psalm 123 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] I lift up my eyes to you,
you who sit in the heavens.
[2] Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God,
until he has mercy on us.
[3] Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,
for we have endured much contempt.
[4] Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124 ()

A Song of Ascents. By David.

[1] If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
let Israel now say,
[2] if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
when men rose up against us,
[3] then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their wrath was kindled against us,
[4] then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
the stream would have gone over our soul.
[5] Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
[6] Blessed be Yahweh,
who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
[7] Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
[8] Our help is in Yahweh’s name,
who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 125 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,
which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
[2] As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
[3] For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous,
so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
[4] Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good,
to those who are upright in their hearts.
[5] But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways,
Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
Peace be on Israel.

Psalm 126 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion,
we were like those who dream.
[2] Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the nations,
“Yahweh has done great things for them.”
[3] Yahweh has done great things for us,
and we are glad.
[4] Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,
like the streams in the Negev.
[5] Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
[6] He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,
will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Psalm 127 ()

A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.

[1] Unless Yahweh builds the house,
they who build it labor in vain.
Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
the watchman guards it in vain.
[2] It is vain for you to rise up early,
to stay up late,
eating the bread of toil,
for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
[3] Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
The fruit of the womb is his reward.
[4] As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
so are the children of youth.
[5] Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Psalm 128 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.
[2] For you will eat the labor of your hands.
You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
[3] Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,
your children like olive shoots around your table.
[4] Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed.
[5] May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
[6] Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 129 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
Let Israel now say:
[2] many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
[3] The plowers plowed on my back.
They made their furrows long.
[4] Yahweh is righteous.
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
[5] Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion.
[6] Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
[7] with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
[8] Neither do those who go by say,
“The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”

Psalm 130 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
[2] Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
[3] If you, Yah, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
[4] But there is forgiveness with you,
therefore you are feared.
[5] I wait for Yahweh.
My soul waits.
I hope in his word.
[6] My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
[7] Israel, hope in Yahweh,
for there is loving kindness with Yahweh.
Abundant redemption is with him.
[8] He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Psalm 131 ()

A Song of Ascents. By David.

[1] Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty;
nor do I concern myself with great matters,
or things too wonderful for me.
[2] Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with his mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
[3] Israel, hope in Yahweh,
from this time forward and forever more.

Psalm 132 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
[2] how he swore to Yahweh,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
[3] “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
[4] I will not give sleep to my eyes,
or slumber to my eyelids,
[5] until I find out a place for Yahweh,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
[6] Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar.
[7] “We will go into his dwelling place.
We will worship at his footstool.”
[8] Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place,
you, and the ark of your strength.
[9] Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.
Let your saints shout for joy!
[10] For your servant David’s sake,
don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
[11] Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
[12] If your children will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
[13] For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his habitation.
[14] “This is my resting place forever.
I will live here, for I have desired it.
[15] I will abundantly bless her provision.
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
[16] I will also clothe her priests with salvation.
Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
[17] I will make the horn of David to bud there.
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
[18] I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but on himself, his crown will shine.”

Psalm 133 ()

A Song of Ascents. By David.

[1] See how good and how pleasant it is
for brothers to live together in unity!
[2] It is like the precious oil on the head,
that ran down on the beard,
even Aaron’s beard,
that came down on the edge of his robes,
[3] like the dew of Hermon,
that comes down on the hills of Zion;
for there Yahweh gives the blessing,
even life forever more.

Psalm 134 ()

A Song of Ascents.

[1] Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,
who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
[2] Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
Praise Yahweh!
[3] May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
even he who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 135 ()

[1] Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh’s name!
Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
[2] you who stand in Yahweh’s house,
in the courts of our God’s house.
[3] Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.
Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
[4] For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
[5] For I know that Yahweh is great,
that our Lord is above all gods.
[6] Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done,
in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
[7] He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightnings with the rain.
He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
[8] He struck the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and animal.
[9] He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt,
on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
[10] He struck many nations,
and killed mighty kings—
[11] Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
[12] and gave their land for a heritage,
a heritage to Israel, his people.
[13] Your name, Yahweh, endures forever;
your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
[14] For Yahweh will judge his people
and have compassion on his servants.

[15] The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.
[16] They have mouths, but they can’t speak.
They have eyes, but they can’t see.
[17] They have ears, but they can’t hear,
neither is there any breath in their mouths.
[18] Those who make them will be like them,
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
[19] House of Israel, praise Yahweh!
House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!
[20] House of Levi, praise Yahweh!
You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
[21] Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!