Comfort from the Word – Day 25

₄My God, rescue me from the wicked,

from the power of those who are cruel and evil.

₅Sovereign LORD, I put my hope in you;

I have trusted in you since I was young.

₆I have relied on you all my life;

you have protected me since the day I was born.

I will always praise you.

₇My life has been an example to many,

because you have been my strong defender.

₈All day long I praise you

and proclaim your glory.

₉Do not reject me now that I am old;

do not abandon me now that I am feeble.

₁₂The righteous will flourish like palm trees;

they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon.

₁₃They are like trees planted in the house of the LORD,

that flourish in the Temple of our God,

₁₄that still bear fruit in old age

and are always green and strong.

₁₅This shows that the LORD is just,

that there is no wrong in my protector.

₁₆I will go in the strength of the LORD God;

I will proclaim your goodness, yours alone.

₁₇You have taught me ever since I was young,

and I still tell of your wonderful acts.

₁₈Now that I am old and my hair is grey,

do not abandon me, O God!

Be with me while I proclaim your power and might

to all generations to come.

₁₉Your righteousness, God, reaches the skies.

You have done great things;

there is no one like you.

₂₀You have sent troubles and suffering on me,

but you will restore my strength;

you will keep me from the grave.

₁O Lord, you have always been our home.

₂Before you created the hills

or brought the world into being,

you were eternally God,

and will be God for ever.

₃You tell us to return to what we were;

you change us back to dust.

₄A thousand years to you are like one day;

they are like yesterday, already gone,

like a short hour in the night.

₅You carry us away like a flood;

we last no longer than a dream.

We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

₆that grow and burst into bloom,

then dry up and die in the evening.

₇We are destroyed by your anger;

we are terrified by your fury.

₈You place our sins before you,

our secret sins where you can see them.

₉Our life is cut short by your anger;

it fades away like a whisper.

₁₀Seventy years is all we have —

eighty years, if we are strong;

yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;

life is soon over, and we are gone.

₁₁Who has felt the full power of your anger?

Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

₁₂Teach us how short our life is,

so that we may become wise.

₁₃How much longer will your anger last?

Have pity, O LORD, on your servants!

₁₄Fill us each morning with your constant love,

so that we may sing and be glad all our life.

₁₅Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us

during all our years of misery.

₁₆Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;

let our descendants see your glorious might.

₁₇LORD our God, may your blessings be with us.

Give us success in all we do!