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   Bible Reading for May 05   
      
   Psalms 73   
   [1] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. [2] But   
   as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. [3] For I   
   was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.   
   [4] For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. [5]   
   They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.   
   [6] Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them   
   as a garment.   
   [7] Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.   
   [8] They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak   
   loftily.   
   [9] They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through   
   the earth.   
   [10] Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung   
   out to them.   
   [11] And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?   
   [12] Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in   
   riches.   
   [13] Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.   
   [14] For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.   
   [15] If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the   
   generation of thy children.   
   [16] When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; [17] Until I went   
   into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. [18] Surely thou didst   
   set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.   
   [19] How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly   
   consumed with terrors.   
   [20] As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt   
   despise their image.   
   [21] Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. [22] So foolish   
   was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. [23] Nevertheless I am   
   continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.   
   [24] Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.   
   [25] Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I   
   desire beside thee.   
   [26] My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and   
   my portion for ever.   
   [27] For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed   
   all them that go a whoring from thee. [28] But it is good for me to draw near   
   to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.   
      
   Psalms 74   
   [1] O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke   
   against the sheep of thy pasture?   
   [2] Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of   
   thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou   
   hast dwelt.   
   [3] Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy   
   hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. [4] Thine enemies roar in the midst of   
   thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.   
   [5] A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.   
   [6] But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and   
   hammers.   
   [7] They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down   
   the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. [8] They said in their hearts,   
   Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in   
   the land. [9] We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is   
   there among us any that knoweth how long. [10] O God, how long shall the   
   adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?   
   [11] Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy   
   bosom.   
   [12] For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.   
   [13] Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the   
   dragons in the waters.   
   [14] Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat   
   to the people inhabiting the wilderness. [15] Thou didst cleave the fountain   
   and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.   
   [16] The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light   
   and the sun.   
   [17] Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and   
   winter.   
   [18] Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the   
   foolish people have blasphemed thy name. [19] O deliver not the soul of thy   
   turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of   
   thy poor for ever. [20] Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of   
   the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. [21] O let not the oppressed   
   return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.   
   [22] Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man   
   reproacheth thee daily.   
   [23] Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up   
   against thee increaseth continually.   
      
   Psalms 75   
   [1] Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that   
   thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. [2] When I shall receive the   
   congregation I will judge uprightly. [3] The earth and all the inhabitants   
   thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.   
   [4] I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up   
   the horn:   
   [5] Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. [6] For   
   promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.   
   [7] But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. [8] For   
   in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of   
   mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked   
   of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. [9] But I will declare for   
   ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. [10] All the horns of the   
   wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.   
      
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