Psalm 139:19-24 O that You would slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. 20 For they speak against You wickedly, and Your enemies take Your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? 22 I hate them with the utmost hatred; they have become my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and kn...

Psalm 139:14-15 I am fearfully and wonderfully made… skillfully wrought…What if you were to stumble upon a wristwatch in an open field? Would you conclude that it naturally grew there? Or would you conclude that there was a watchmaker and that someone dropped it there? This is an illustration that drives the question of God’s existence by design.Observational evidence teaches that intricate design...

Psalm 139:13-18 You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written...

Psalm 139:7-12 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, 10 even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the lig...

Psalm 139:1-6 (For the choir director. A Psalm of David.) 1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it all. 5 You have enclosed me behind and before, an...

Psalm 13:1, 3, 6 How long O Lord? Will You forget me forever… Consider, answer me, or I will sleep the sleep of death. But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness… I will sing to the Lord. When we address Yahweh in prayer we are addressing the One and Only, the Eternal God, the Creator of time and everything that ever has or will happen in time. Yahweh is thus sovereign over all things. As to time, ...

Psalm 13:5-6 But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. 6 I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.            David began his psalm by expressing his pain (vv. 1-2), then he offered up his petition to God (vv. 3-4). Now in vv. 5-6 he begins to praise God. He complained, he sought an answer, then he expressed his trust in God. No e...

Psalm 13:3-4 Consider, answer me, O Lord my God; enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep death, 4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken. The first two verses of Psalm 13 express David’s anguish and the recognition that God is in control of his painful circumstances. Now in vv. 3-4 David begins his prayer of petition. He has come to the throne of grac...

Psalm 13:1-2 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? This psalm is “for the choir director,” a verbal participle in Hebrew, referring to an overseer of a group of people. In this case ...

Psalm 32:1-2 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!            We note here three words for sin and three words for forgiveness of those sins. First, David speaks of his “transgression” (Heb. peshah). This term means “going away; departure.” In this context ...

Psalm 32:8-11 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. 9 Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they will not come near to you. 10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him. 1...

Psalm 32:6-7 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. 7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.            “Therefore” is a marker of conclusion, summing up what was previously said. The previous context concerns the blessedness that f...

Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.Reflecting upon his past, David...

Psalm 32:1-2 A Psalm of David. A Maskil. 1 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!            King David was the king in Israel from 1010 to 970 BC. He was a godly man in that he sought the Lord and followed Him, though not all the time. Though faithful, Davi...

Ezekiel 39:11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea. It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes” (NLT).            In the aftermath of Gog’s defeat, along with his Muslim allies who surrounded Israel from the east, west, and south who will also be d...