July 3rd Psalm 21
A Psalm of David
Praise
for Victory
1:
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice! 2:
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the
request of his lips. Selah. 3:
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest
a crown of pure gold on his head. 4:
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days
for ever and ever. 5:
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou
laid upon him. 6:
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him
exceeding glad with thy countenance. 7:
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most
High he shall not be moved. 8:
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall
find out those that hate thee. 9:
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the
LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour
them. 10:
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from
among the children of men. 11:
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous
device, which they are not able to perform. 12:
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make
ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. 13:
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and
praise thy power.
To the chief
musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,
Psalm 22
A Psalm of David
Anguish
and Praise
1:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from
helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2:
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the
night season, and am not silent. 3:
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4:
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver
them. 5:
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and
were not confounded. 6:
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the
people. 7:
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head saying, 8:
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver
him, seeing he delighted in him. 9:
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope
when I was upon my mother's breasts. 10:
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's
belly. 11:
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12:
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
round. 13:
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring
lion. 14:
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my
heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15:
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my
jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16:
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed
me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17:
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18:
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19:
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to
help me. 20:
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21:
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns
of the unicorns. 22:
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee. 23:
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify
him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 24:
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried
unto him, he heard. 25:
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my
vows before them that fear him. 26:
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that
seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27:
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and
all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28:
For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the
nations. 29:
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that
go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his
own soul. 30:
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation. 31:
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people
that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Today we come to
two more Psalms of David, 21 & 22. The first Psalm No 21 speaks
of the joy of living in the presence of the Lords blessing. He says
you have given me all that l could possibly wish for. And therefore
he will rejoice in the salvation of the Lord. He says you have
encouraged me with all your blessings of goodness. He asked that you
would spare his life and you gave him a long life. You have blessed
him for ever and made his exceedingly happy. My enemies you will
completely destroy. Even their children will be totally destroyed,
because they seek revenge against me. The next Psalm No 22 is a
Messianic Psalm, because although it records the feelings of distress
of David yet it also points forward to the feelings and experiences
of the Messiah – Christ. He begins with the words that Christ
uttered on the cross, My God my God why have you forsaken me? He adds
why are you so far away from helping me? I cry to you in the day and
in the night. He reminds the LORD that he is holy and that he is the
object of Israel’s worship. He says our fathers trusted in you and
you delivered them. They called and you answered. But who am l? I am
like a worm and not a man. I am despised of all the people. They
laugh at me. They say he trusted in God so let’s watch to see if he
will deliver him. But you took me out of the womb and you gave me
hope when l fed me on my mother. I belonged to you from my mother’s
belly. So therefore do not be far from me because trouble is near and
l can turn to no one else. They surround me like a herd of wild
bulls. They snarl at me like hungry lions. And l am poured out like
water. All my bones are out of joint and my mind is melted like wax
by a fire. My strength is dried up like a clay pot and my tongue
sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have humbled me into the dust of
the grave. The wild dogs surround me and the congregation of the
wicked enclose me around. (This is where David describes something of
the crucifixion of Christ) He says they pierce my hands and my feet
and l can see all my bones. They look and stare at me. They divide my
garments and for my tunic, they throw dice for it. Do not be far away
from me. O LORD my strength. Come quickly to help me. Deliver my
soul. Save me from the lion’s mouth. If you save me then l will
tell my brethren of your name. And in the middle of the congregation
l will praise you. Then David calls on the righteous to praise the
name of the Lord and to fear him, because he is a God that does not
despise the suffering of the afflicted. Nor will he hide his face and
when he cries to the Lord the Lord will hear him. David knew his God
very well. David says I will praise you in the great congregation of
Israel. I will pay my vows in front of those who fear the Lord. The
meek will eat and be satisfied and they will praise the LORD those of
you that seek him. And your heart will live forever. Then we have a
prophetic part in which David looks far into the kingdom, he says,
all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD and all
peoples of all the nations shall worship before you. In that day the
kingdom will belong to the LORD and he will be the governor of all
the nations. All the people of the earth will be fat from the
blessing of the Lord and they will eat and worship the Lord. And all
those that die in that day will die in submission to the Lord none of
them will be able to prevent themselves from coming under the
judgment of the Lord. A whole generation of men will serve the Lord.
They will come to see the Messiah and declare the righteousness of
the Lord to those that are their children.
- In Psa 20 what does David ask for?
- Where is Psa 24 quoted in the NT?
- Describe Davids distress?
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