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   Bible Reading for April 24   
      
      
   Psalms 40   
   [1] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.   
   [2] He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and   
   set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. [3] And he hath put a new   
   song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and   
   shall trust in the LORD. [4] Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his   
   trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. [5] Many,   
   O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts   
   which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I   
   would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.   
   [6] Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened:   
   burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. [7] Then said I, Lo, I   
   come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, [8] I delight to do thy   
   will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. [9] I have preached   
   righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O   
   LORD, thou knowest. [10] I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I   
   have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy   
   lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. [11] Withhold not   
   thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth   
   continually preserve me. [12] For innumerable evils have compassed me about:   
   mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;   
   they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. [13]   
   Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. [14] Let   
   them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it;   
   let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. [15] Let them   
   be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.   
   [16] Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as   
   love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. [17] But I am poor   
   and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer;   
   make no tarrying, O my God.   
      
   Psalms 41   
   [1] Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time   
   of trouble.   
   [2] The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed   
   upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.   
   [3] The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make   
   all his bed in his sickness.   
   [4] I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against   
   thee.   
   [5] Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? [6]   
   And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to   
   itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. [7] All that hate me whisper   
   together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.   
   [8] An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth   
   he shall rise up no more.   
   [9] Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my   
   bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. [10] But thou, O LORD, be merciful   
   unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.   
   [11] By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not   
   triumph over me.   
   [12] And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before   
   thy face for ever.   
   [13] Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting.   
   Amen, and Amen.   
      
   Psalms 42   
   [1] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,   
   O God.   
   [2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and   
   appear before God?   
   [3] My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto   
   me, Where is thy God?   
   [4] When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone   
   with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of   
   joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. [5] Why art thou cast   
   down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I   
   shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.   
   [6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee   
   from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. [7] Deep   
   calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy   
   billows are gone over me.   
   [8] Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the   
   night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. [9] I   
   will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning   
   because of the oppression of the enemy? [10] As with a sword in my bones, mine   
   enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?   
   [11] Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?   
   hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my   
   countenance, and my God.   
      
      
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