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  Bible Reading for May 07  
    
    
  Psalms 79  
  [1] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have  
  they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. [2] The dead bodies of thy  
  servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh  
  of  
  thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. [3] Their blood have they shed like  
  water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.  
  [4] We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them  
  that are round about us.  
  [5] How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn  
  like  
  fire?  
  [6] Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon  
  the  
  kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. [7] For they have devoured  
  Jacob,  
  and laid waste his dwelling place. [8] O remember not against us former  
  iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought  
  very low. [9] Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name:  
  and  
  deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. [10] Wherefore  
  should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the  
  heathen  
  in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.  
  [11] Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the  
  greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; [12]  
  And  
  render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,  
  wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. [13] So we thy people and sheep  
  of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise  
  to all generations.  
    
  Psalms 80  
  [1] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;  
  thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. [2] Before Ephraim  
  and  
  Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.  
  [3] Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be  
  saved.  
  [4] O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of  
  thy  
  people?  
  [5] Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to  
  drink  
  in great measure.  
  [6] Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among  
  themselves.  
  [7] Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall  
  be saved.  
  [8] Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen,  
  and  
  planted it.  
  [9] Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root,  
  and  
  it filled the land.  
  [10] The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof  
  were  
  like the goodly cedars.  
  [11] She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.  
  [12] Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass  
  by  
  the way do pluck her?  
  [13] The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field  
  doth devour it.  
  [14] Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and  
  behold, and visit this vine;  
  [15] And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that  
  thou madest strong for thyself.  
  [16] It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of  
  thy  
  countenance.  
  [17] Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man  
  whom  
  thou madest strong for thyself. [18] So will not we go back from thee:  
  quicken  
  us, and we will call upon thy name.  
  [19] Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we  
  shall  
  be saved.  
    
  Psalms 81  
  [1] Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of  
  Jacob.  
  [2] Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the  
  psaltery.  
  [3] Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our  
  solemn  
  feast day.  
  [4] For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. [5]  
  This  
  he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of  
  Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. [6] I removed his  
  shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.  
  [7] Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the  
  secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. [8]  
  Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt  
  hearken unto me;  
  [9] There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any  
  strange god.  
  [10] I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:  
  open  
  thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. [11] But my people would not hearken to  
  my  
  voice; and Israel would none of me.  
  [12] So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their  
  own counsels.  
  [13] Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my  
  ways!  
  [14] I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against  
  their adversaries.  
  [15] The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but  
  their time should have endured for ever. [16] He should have fed them also  
  with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have  
  satisfied thee.  
    
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