Daily Text and Bible Reading: Wednesday, June 26 [Press play below]

To the director; of Jeduthun. A melody of David.
39.1 I said: “I will guard my step To avoid sinning with my tongue. I will guard my mouth with a muzzle As long as anyone wicked is in my presence.”
39.2 I was speechless and silent; I kept quiet even about what is good, But my pain was intense.
39.3 My heart smoldered inside me. As I pondered, the fire kept burning. Then my tongue spoke:
39.4 “O Jehovah, help me to know what my end will be, And the measure of my days, So that I may know how short my life is.
39.5 Indeed, you have made my days just a few; And my life span is as nothing before you. Surely every man, though he seems secure, is nothing but a mere breath.
(Selah)
39.6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow. He rushes around for nothing. He piles up wealth, not knowing who will enjoy it.
39.7 What, then, can I hope for, O Jehovah? You are my only hope.
39.8 Save me from all my transgressions. Do not let the foolish one make me an object of contempt.
39.9 I remained speechless; I could not open my mouth, Because this was your doing.
39.10 Remove your plague from me. I am worn down because your hand strikes me.
39.11 You correct man with punishment for his error; You consume the things he treasures just as a moth does. Surely every man is but a mere breath.
(Selah)
39.12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, Listen to my cry for help. Do not ignore my tears. For I am but a foreign resident to you, A traveler passing through, just like all my forefathers.
39.13 Turn your harsh gaze away from me so that I may cheer up Before I pass away and I am gone.”
To the director. Of David. A melody.
40.1 I earnestly hoped in Jehovah, And he inclined his ear to me and heard my cry for help.
40.2 He brought me up out of a roaring pit, Out of the slimy mire. And he set my feet upon a crag; He made my footing secure.
40.3 Then he put a new song in my mouth, Praise to our God. Many will look on in awe And put their trust in Jehovah.
40.4 Happy is the man who trusts in Jehovah And who does not look to the defiant or to those who are false.
40.5 How many things you have done, O Jehovah my God, Your wonderful works and your thoughts toward us. None can compare to you; If I were to try to tell and speak of them, They would be too numerous to recount!
40.6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, But you opened up my ears to hear. You did not ask for burnt offerings and sin offerings.
40.7 Then I said: “Look, I have come. In the scroll it is written about me.
40.8 To do your will, O my God, is my delight, And your law is deep within me.
40.9 I proclaim the good news of righteousness in the great congregation. Look! I do not restrain my lips, O Jehovah, as you well know.
40.10 I do not cover over your righteousness in my heart. I declare your faithfulness and salvation. I do not hide your loyal love and your truth in the great congregation.”
40.11 O Jehovah, do not withhold your mercy from me. May your loyal love and your truth constantly safeguard me.
40.12 The calamities surrounding me are too many to count. So many of my errors overwhelm me that I cannot see my way; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And I have lost heart.
40.13 Please be willing, O Jehovah, to save me. O Jehovah, hurry to help me.
40.14 May all those seeking to take my life Be put to shame and disgraced. May those who delight in my calamity Retreat in humiliation.
40.15 May those who are saying to me: “Aha! Aha!” Be appalled because of their own shame.
40.16 But let those seeking you Exult and rejoice in you. May those who love your acts of salvation always say: “May Jehovah be magnified.”
40.17 But I am helpless and poor; May Jehovah pay attention to me. You are my helper and my rescuer; My God, do not delay.
To the director. A melody of David.
41.1 Happy is anyone who shows consideration to the lowly one; Jehovah will rescue him in the day of calamity.
41.2 Jehovah will guard him and keep him alive. He will be pronounced happy in the earth; You will never turn him over to the will of his enemies.
41.3 Jehovah will sustain him on his sickbed; During his sickness you will completely change his bed.
41.4 For I said: “O Jehovah, show me favor. Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
41.5 But my enemies speak evil about me: “When will he die and his name perish?”
41.6 If one of them comes to see me, his heart speaks falsely. He gathers something harmful to say; Then he goes out and spreads it abroad.
41.7 All those who hate me whisper to one another; They are scheming something bad against me:
41.8 “A dreadful thing has overtaken him; Now that he is down, he will not rise again.”
41.9 Even the man at peace with me, one whom I trusted, Who was eating my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
41.10 But you, O Jehovah, show me favor and raise me up, So that I may repay them.
41.11 By this I will know that you are pleased with me: When my enemy cannot shout in triumph over me.
41.12 As for me, you uphold me because of my integrity; You will keep me in your presence forever.
41.13 May Jehovah, the God of Israel, be praised Throughout all eternity. Amen and Amen.
To the director. Maskil of the sons of Korah.
42.1 As a deer that longs for streams of water, So I long for you, O God.
42.2 I do thirst for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear before God?
42.3 My tears are my food day and night; All day long people taunt me: “Where is your God?”
42.4 These things I remember, and I pour out my soul, For I once walked along with the multitude; I used to walk solemnly before them to the house of God, With sounds of rejoicing and thanksgiving, Those of a crowd celebrating a festival.
42.5 Why am I in despair? Why is this turmoil within me? Wait for God, For I will yet praise him as my Grand Savior.
42.6 My God, I am in despair. That is why I remember you, From the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, From Mount Mizar.
42.7 Deep waters call to deep waters At the sound of your waterfalls. All your surging waves have overwhelmed me.
42.8 By day Jehovah will grant me his loyal love, And by night his song will be with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
42.9 I will say to God, my crag: “Why have you forgotten me? Why should I walk about sad because of the oppression by my enemy?”
42.10 With murderous hostility my enemies taunt me; All day long they taunt me: “Where is your God?”
42.11 Why am I in despair? Why is this turmoil within me? Wait for God, For I will yet praise him as my Grand Savior and my God.