Study the Bible with the Psalm of the day (Basic English Bible BBE)

Psalms 143 1. <A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness; 2. Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes. 3. The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who ha...

Psalms 142 1. <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord. 2. I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble. 3. When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go. 4. Looking to my right side,...

Psalms 141 1. <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you. 2. Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering. 3. O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4. Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in t...

Psalms 140 1. <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man: 2. For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. 3. Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.) 4. O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; ke...

Psalms 139 1. <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2. You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3. You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4. For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord. 5. I am shut in by y...

Psalms 138 1. <Of David.> I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods. 2. I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name. 3. When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul. 4. All the kin...

Psalms 137 1. By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion, 2. Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. 3. For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. 4. How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? 5. If I keep...

Psalms 136 1. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 2. O give praise to the God of gods: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 3. O give praise to the Lord of lords: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 4. To him who only does great wonders: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 5. To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ev...

Psalms 135 1. Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord. 2. You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God, 3. Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing. 4. For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property. 5. I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lo...

Psalms 134 1. <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night. 2. Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place. 3. May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion, ; AB Lausanne church

Psalms 133 1. <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony! 2. It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe; 3. Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life fo...

Psalms 132 1. <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles; 2. How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying, 3. Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed, 4. I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs, 5. Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob. ; AB La...

Psalms 131 1. <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me. 2. See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast. 3. O Israel, have hope in the Lord, from this time and for ever. ; A...

Psalms 130 1. <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord. 2. Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer. 3. O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free? 4. But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared. 5. I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word....

Psalms 129 1. <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say); 2. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. 3. The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made. 4. The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two. 5. Let all the haters of Zio...

Psalms 128 1. <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways. 2. You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you. 3. Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. 4. See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of th...

Psalms 127 1. <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing. 2. It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep. 3. See, sons are...

Psalms 126 1. <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream. 2. Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them. 3. The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad. 4. Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the Sout...

Psalms 125 1. <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever. 2. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever. 3. For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their ha...

Psalms 124 1. <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say); 2. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us; 3. They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us: 4. We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul; 5. Yes, t...

Psalms 123 1. <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens. 2. See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us. 3. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us. 4. For lo...

Psalms 122 1. <A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord. 2. At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem. 3. O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together; 4. To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord. 5. For there seats...

Psalms 121 1. <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from? 2. Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3. May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you. 4. See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep. 5. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ; AB Lausanne...

Psalms 120 1. <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer. 2. O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit. 3. What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue? 4. Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire. 5. Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the...

Psalms 119 1. <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord. 2. Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart. 3. They do no evil; they go in his ways. 4. You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care. 5. If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! ; AB Lausan...