Psalm 51

(as read by Anne A)

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

51:1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

51:3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

51:4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

51:11 Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

51:13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

51:15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

51:16 For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

51:18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

51:19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

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Baptism Testimony.

(Sunday 21^st. June, 2009 at 6:30 pm)

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Hello my name is Richard. I have been asked to record the words of my testimony as I read them out at my Baptism in June 2009. Before I read my testimony at my Baptism, I said a short prayer. I shall start by saying the same prayer now.

Heavenly Father, Almighty God, please hear my prayer. Please give me now the strength, ability, and most of all, the humility, through your Holy Spirit, to say what I want to read out to this congregation, as you would want me to read and say it Lord. Please allow me to keep control of myself, and my emotions, whilst doing so. I stand humbly before you Lord God, and before your beloved Son, Christ Jesus.

Amen.

Before I speak out my Testimony to you, I wish to thank “all of you” for coming here this evening.

I especially wish to thank the fellowship of Poulner Baptist Chapel ( The Church On The Hill ) for all their prayers, kindness and care shown to me over the past months, of what has been, for me, a difficult time.

I praise the Lord for Dave Roberts, for his help and support, and his World Wide connections through ParTake Ministries and his wonderful Web-Site. Because of Dave and his Web-Site, I have received, e-mail prayers from Christians all over the world, which have given me great heart and comfort. So much so, that they have made me cry with joy. I think whenever I re-read them they will always do so.

It is due and down to Dave Roberts, that I am standing here today being Baptised.

I wish to give a special thanks to Jeremy Andrews ” Pastor ” Jeremy from my previous chapel who, through kindness and no small sacrifice to himself, and to his own Church and Fellowship, has come here this evening to Baptise me with Adam. Thank you my Christian friend Jeremy.

As I have said, my name is Richard. I am 62 years of age. For 59 years of my life, I lived with faith ” only in myself “.I was at best a Sceptic, at worst an Atheist. I would go right out of my way to test and very strongly argue against anyone I met, who professed to have a faith, in any sort of God. I needed nothing, but my own free will. All my faith was “only” in myself. In 2002 / 2003 my world fell apart. I was left alone to myself. All my lifelong responsibilities disappeared. I became for 2 years a solitary hermit, living in my house, completely alone. It was during this time, alone, that I started to question, :- What my life was about. What was I here for. What was the reason for my being, if there even was one. I wanted, and so needed contact with other people. I needed to talk, to be listened to, and to listen to others. We are not meant to be solitary beings we are social creatures. We so need fellowship with others, like we need food.

After over 2 years of self imposed solitary confinement, I was becoming worried about losing my ability to communicate with others. It was back just before Christmas 2005, I received through my door the usual annual programme of all the Churches in my area, listing all their events, over the Christmas period. I decided to systematically visit all of them. Not to seek faith, Oh No‘, I’m a Sceptic, an Atheist. I just want to have communication with others.

I visited most of the local Churches over the coming months, and always found people to speak and listen to, but none of the Churches somehow felt right for me, until I visited ” Verwood Road Evangelical Chapel “, just up the road from where I live, in Three Legged Cross.

Here I felt good, ” well better “. I liked the way they did things. It was not a liberal church. It was more leaning towards, a Brethren sort of fellowship, but not too hard line. There was no pomp or high ceremony, no fancy clothes or precious things to see or worship. These were ordinary people, just like me.

Over the next 10 months I visited V.R.C. ” on and off ” at first, maybe once or twice a month and found that I liked it more and more, so I went more and more. By October 2006, I found that I was wanting to go not only every Sunday but twice on Sundays.

It was at this time that I seriously decided to the best of my ability, to very fully investigate just what this Christianity was really all about. How could so many intelligent, thinking people, believe in it? For the next 6 months, I lived in the single minded state of total study of the Christian faith. I devoted all of my time to the study of the Bible and many, many books, both for and against the Christian faith.

I prayed and prayed so very hard to God to give me a definite sign – a proof that God was out there and not something made-up in my own mind. I was in heartfelt tears, many, many times, asking for some proof, a miracle even, a certain sign, anything, but no sign or proof came. I was God’s for the taking, but both He, and my heart, wasn’t ready.

In late March 2007, something happened to turn me completely off Christianity. I went from very serious ” single minded seeking ” with all my heart and soul, TO – ” This Christianity is certainly not for me “.

It is not ” at all ” important what ” event ” occurred to cause this absolute turn around. It is only important to understand that it was very strongly driven by ” My Own Self Pride “. God knew that it had to be, for Him to use it, to turn this 60 year old Atheist into a Christian. It was during my very powerful, and emotional efforts, to try and take a wrong, and turn it into a right, No matter what the cost, that my eyes were turned back into myself. To see, or to start to see, that all I hated and despised in others, was also, very present in myself. I was no better, than all those that I felt the very strong need to ” bring to rights ” in my life. It was at this moment in time, of now seeing, just what ” I Am “, that my life changed forever.

I was born on Easter Friday, Good Friday, the 4^th. April.

In 2007, Three days after my 60^th. Birthday, at exactly 12:32 p.m. lunch-time on Easter Saturday, the 7^th. April, I at last discovered, that I was nothing, undeserving of my life, A Sinner that so needed the forgiveness of God. This opened my heart to God, and at that very moment, He Came In. It was at this time, that I understood, for the very first time, the Amazing events of Easter, and that Jesus died for me, that I may have life, and live life, to the full.

The next day, Easter Sunday, 2007, I took my first communion with my God.

I would now like to say, that I am not a writer, I agree with ” Winnie The Pooh Bear “, when he said.:- “Yes’ I know all my letters, but my spelling is wobbly. It’s good spelling, but it wobbles, and my letters get into the wrong places!”

I’m not a poet either. I’m a practical man, an engineer. In the early hours of Easter Monday morning, 2007, at 1:30 a.m. whilst I was sat in my back porch thinking ” in a daze ” about what had happened to me on Easter Saturday, I picked up a pen and without thinking, wrote out the following poem. It is un-referenced, original and un-edited. It is just as it came down to me, 37 hours after finding my faith. This poem is called :-

The Fellowship – ( Revealed )

I don’t know where I’m going,

I don’t know where I’ve been,

I don’t know what’s in store for me,

But God has hold, to let me see.

For he will surely show my way,

My guide, to lead, to change each day.

To give me life, I’ve never seen,

To serve, to try, to make life clean,

To hold me close, to let me go,

To understand, To love me so.

My God is One, with saviour Christ,

He gave for me, The Total Price.

My heart is found, the Ghost within,

Salvation sealed, Forgiven Sin.

My past remains, but all washed clean,

My future comes, like it’s never been.

I cannot say the words I feel,

Of things that are, to me so real.

My sad, sad past, is gone, my futures clean,

For with my eyes, new life I’ve seen.

This gift of love, that has been given,

Shall remain with me, right through to Heaven.

The Fellowship – ( Revealed )

Easter Monday, 9^th. April, 2007. @ 1:30 a.m.

Written & Composed by Richard, – With God’s Help…..

I believe that this poem was written with God’s help. There is nothing good that can come out of me, from my own self, Self. Any good that may come from me, comes through me, from God. So please just Praise the Lord. ( Thank you.)

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Psalm 49

(as read by Anne A)

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

49:1 Hear this, all you peoples.
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

49:2 both low and high,
rich and poor together.

49:3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
My heart shall utter understanding.

49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb.
I will open my riddle on the harp.

49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

49:6 Those who trust in their wealth,
and boast in the multitude of their riches—

49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother,
nor give God a ransom for him.

49:8 For the redemption of their life is costly,
no payment is ever enough,

49:9 That he should live on forever,
that he should not see corruption.

49:10 For he sees that wise men die;
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
and leave their wealth to others.

49:11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations.
They name their lands after themselves.

49:12 But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.
He is like the animals that perish.

49:13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
and of those who approve their sayings.

Selah.

49:14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.
Death shall be their shepherd.
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.

49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me.

Selah.

49:16 Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased.

49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after him.

49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul—
and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

49:19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers.
They shall never see the light.

49:20 A man who has riches without understanding,
is like the animals that perish.

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Psalm 22

(as read by Katherine D)

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For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David.

22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

22:2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;
in the night season, and am not silent.

22:3 But you are holy,
you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

22:4 Our fathers trusted in you.
They trusted, and you delivered them.

22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered.
They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

22:6 But I am a worm, and no man;
a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

22:7 All those who see me mock me.
They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

22:8 “He trusts in Yahweh;
let him deliver him.
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

22:9 But you brought me out of the womb.
You made me trust at my mother’s breasts.

22:10 I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.
You are my God since my mother bore me.

22:11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.
For there is none to help.

22:12 Many bulls have surrounded me.
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

22:13 They open their mouths wide against me,
lions tearing prey and roaring.

22:14 I am poured out like water.
All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
it is melted within me.

22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have brought me into the dust of death.

22:16 For dogs have surrounded me.
A company of evildoers have enclosed me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.

22:17 I can count all of my bones.
They look and stare at me.

22:18 They divide my garments among them.
They cast lots for my clothing.

22:19 But don’t be far off, Yahweh.
You are my help: hurry to help me.

22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dog.

22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth!
Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers.
In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

22:23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,
Neither has he hidden his face from him;
but when he cried to him, he heard.

22:25 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly.
I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

22:26 The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him.
Let your hearts live forever.

22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

22:28 For the kingdom is Yahweh’s.
He is the ruler over the nations.

22:29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.
All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

22:30 Posterity shall serve him.
Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

22:31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,
for he has done it.

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Psalm 21

(as read by Richard A)

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

21:1 The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh!
How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

21:2 You have given him his heart’s desire,
and have not withheld the request of his lips.

Selah.

21:3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

21:4 He asked life of you, you gave it to him,
even length of days forever and ever.

21:5 His glory is great in your salvation.
You lay honor and majesty on him.

21:6 For you make him most blessed forever.
You make him glad with joy in your presence.

21:7 For the king trusts in Yahweh.
Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

21:8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies.
Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

21:9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath.
The fire shall devour them.

21:10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
their posterity from among the children of men.

21:11 For they intended evil against you.
They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

21:12 For you will make them turn their back,
when you aim drawn bows at their face.

21:13 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength,
so we will sing and praise your power.

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How not to be a Chocolate Christian

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How to change Ch-rch to Church!

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Have you ever noticed that chocolate melts under pressure & heat? If you haven’t, take a piece of chocolate and hold it between your fingers! It will soon melt! If you are a Christian, you need to be active in your local church so that you don’t melt under pressure and you will remain firm in your faith! Otherwise you will be a chocolate Christian who easily gives up under the stress and pressure of every day life!

At a church local to where you live, you are needed regardless of who you are!

Perhaps this is you?

• Interested observer but not a committed Christian
• Not bothered
• Not good enough
• Just want to be left alone
• Don’t know how to be involved
• Don’t know why being involved is important
• Too busy

But why should you be involved?

Why? You have talents to be used!!

When Jesus said to His apostles “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14v12), it was through the promised Holy Spirit (John 14v17), and the impartation of Spiritual Gifts that His words were fulfilled.

The reason that the Holy Spirit imparts spiritual gifts to Christians is so that the body of Christ is built up (Ephesians 4v12), for the common good of the church (1Corinthians 12v7, 14v12) and “so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 4v12). These three reasons signify that God wants Christians to be active in service and not still like stagnant water. That is why we have been given gifts and if these gifts are not used for God’s purposes, then they are utterly useless and meaningless. And the gifts are not just the supposedly spectacular gifts but also the supposedly mundane! Cleaning is as much a spiritual gift as preaching is!

As we are not to neglect our gifts, or let other Christians neglect their gifts, we are to fan the gifts into flame (2 Timothy1v6). Much like blowing on embers and stirring them up will restart the flames of a fire! To do this, as Christians, we are to employ the gifts faithfully and by asking God to continue their development, strengthening and for opportunities to use them! Seek gifts that build up others, commands Paul (1 Corinthians 14v1-12). Ask God faithfully for gifts that give opportunity for service to God and others!

Why? We are dependent on each other

As Christians, we are dependent upon each other, just as one part of the human body has dependence on another part. That is why we serve each other and use the gifts generously given by God. As all Christians have gifts, we have a responsibility to discover and develop them (1 Timothy 4v14)! God has called Christians and equipped them with spiritual gifts, and they are not to be neglected! You are a member of the body of Jesus Christ the church! If you are not being active that means the Church body is affected aversely! Its like a part of your body failing to do as it should!

Why? Improve your serve!

They are opportunities for Christians to serve other people. Some gifts like teaching, helping or leadership quite possibly are enhancements of natural abilities whilst others like faith, healing and miracles are from the Spirit’s empowerment alone.

In the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), Jesus intimates that those who follow Him, will be judged according to all that they have been given stewardship of! This includes things such as Spiritual Gifts (1 Corinthians 12v1-10), acts of service (Galatians 5v13) and material possessions (2 Corinthians 9v6-8)! These are used to accomplish three other items of Stewardship: mission, message and people.

Why? To follow Jesus

The Christian life is not to be static or inactive – it was never meant to be! The Christian life is to be dynamic! It is to be active. The word servant is key in Scripture. It is used at least 500 times in its various derivatives. When a Christian serves, God’s honour is released. This is done because service shows the beauty and glory of Jesus Christ to those being served and to those watching. That is to be our motive for service. Serving is never to be about what you and I can get out of it. When that is the motive, God is not glorified. God’s glory, honour and supremacy are to be the goal of a Christian’s life. Spiritual growth comes from serving rather than being served. This is because what ever is given in service of God and others, your faith grows and Jesus Christ gives back even more.

Jesus speaking in Matthew 25v15-30 tells of the rewards for faithful service and the penalties for being faithless. Serving others is a sign that you are trusting in and having faith in God. It’s a visible aspect of your invisible faith. Service is the outward expression of your inner beliefs. Serving is an outward expression of your inner faith – an external working out of your inner salvation. Serving God and others is the mark of a spiritually mature (or spiritually maturing) Christian and through service, the greatest servant of all, Jesus Christ, is reflected in our lives. “For Jesus Christ, came to serve and give his very life for others” (Mark 10v45). As Christians we are to be as Jesus Christ (Romans 8v28; Philippians 2v5) and to serve. Yet if we are honest, we sometimes feel incapable, just as Moses did (Exodus 3). When the church is built up, unity will inevitably prevail and be built up.

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So if you find you are currently inactive in your local church, then please go and make yourself available to serve there! Ask your pastor or church leader how you can help out! By doing so, and submitting yourself to the Holy Spirit who indwells you, the lives of other people could be changed for God’s greater glory because of your acts of service and worship.

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Psalm 7

(as read by Richard A)

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A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

7:1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

7:2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

7:3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
if there is iniquity in my hands,

7:4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
(yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
and lay my glory in the dust.

Selah.

7:6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

7:7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
Rule over them on high.

7:8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
and to my integrity that is in me.

7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous;
their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

7:10 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.

7:11 God is a righteous judge,
yes, a God who has indignation every day.

7:12 If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow.

7:13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
He makes ready his flaming arrows.

7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity.
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought forth falsehood.

7:15 He has dug a hole,
and has fallen into the pit which he made.

7:16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

7:17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

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Psalm 12

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For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

12:1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

12:2 Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that boasts,

12:4 who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”

12:5 “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
I will now arise,” says Yahweh;
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

12:6 The words of Yahweh are flawless words,
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

12:7 You will keep them, Yahweh.
You will preserve them from this generation forever.

12:8 The wicked walk on every side,
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

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Psalm 9

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9:1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart.
I will tell of all your marvelous works.

9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you.
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

9:3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish in your presence.

9:4 For you have maintained my just cause.
You sit on the throne judging righteously.

9:5 You have rebuked the nations.
You have destroyed the wicked.
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

9:7 But Yahweh reigns forever.
He has prepared his throne for judgment.

9:8 He will judge the world in righteousness.
He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

9:9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed;
a high tower in times of trouble.

9:10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion,
and declare among the people what he has done.

9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers them.
He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

9:13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh.
See my affliction by those who hate me,
and lift me up from the gates of death;

9:14 that I may show forth all your praise.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.
In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

9:16 Yahweh has made himself known.
He has executed judgment.
The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

Meditation. Selah.

9:17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,
even all the nations that forget God.

9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

9:19 Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail.
Let the nations be judged in your sight.

9:20 Put them in fear, Yahweh.
Let the nations know that they are only men.

Selah.

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Psalm 49

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49:1 Hear this, all you peoples.
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

49:2 both low and high,
rich and poor together.

49:3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
My heart shall utter understanding.

49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb.
I will open my riddle on the harp.

49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

49:6 Those who trust in their wealth,
and boast in the multitude of their riches—

49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother,
nor give God a ransom for him.

49:8 For the redemption of their life is costly,
no payment is ever enough,

49:9 That he should live on forever,
that he should not see corruption.

49:10 For he sees that wise men die;
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
and leave their wealth to others.

49:11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations.
They name their lands after themselves.

49:12 But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.
He is like the animals that perish.

49:13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
and of those who approve their sayings.

Selah.

49:14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.
Death shall be their shepherd.
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.

49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me.

Selah.

49:16 Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased.

49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after him.

49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul—
and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

49:19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers.
They shall never see the light.

49:20 A man who has riches without understanding,
is like the animals that perish.

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