Psalm 80-85

Today, I have a special guest reading with me, Daniel Del Russo.


Psalm 80
Asaph is praying to God that He restore Israel.

Psalm 81
Asaph appeals for Israel to repent.

Psalm 82
Asaph asks God to judge the wicked.

Psalm 83
Asaph asks the Lord to crush those who conspire against Israel.

Psalm 84
"My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God."
"For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand."

Psalm 85
Prayer that the Lord will bless the land once again.

Psalm 78-79

Psalm 78
Asaph recalls God’s kindness to a rebelling Israel.

Psalm 79
Asaph prays for Israel who was destroyed by its enemies.

Psalm 74-77

Psalm 74
Asaph prays for relief from his oppressors.

Psalm 75
Asaph thanks God for His righteous judgements.

Psalm 76
Asaph speaks of God and His majesty.

Psalm 77
Asaph remembers how God has redeemed.

Psalm 70-73

Psalm 70
“You are my help and my deliverer.”
Pray to God for help.

Psalm 71
“In You, O Lord, I put my trust.”
God is our Rock.

Psalm 72
God will do all that is right,
This ends the prayers of David.

Psalm 73
Put your trust in God.

Psalm 66-69

Psalm 66
Praise God for all He has done for you.
“If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear."

Psalm 67
God has been merciful and has blessed us.
Let all the people praise You.

Psalm 68
God is glorified in all that He does.

Psalm 69
David pleas with the Lord to deliver him in his time of trouble.

Psalm 58-65

Psalm 58
There will be just judgement of the wicked.

Psalm 59
David asks for deliverance from his enemies.

Psalm 60
David prays urgently for restoration of the favor of God.

Psalm 61
God will protect.

Psalm 62
“He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.”
Wait upon the Lord.

Psalm 63
Fellowship with the Lord.

Psalm 64
Rejoice in the Lord, during times of oppression.

Psalm 65
Praise be to God.

Psalm 51-57

Psalm 51
Have mercy on us God.
Acknowledge your sins.
Ask to be washed by the blood of the Lamb.
"Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew a steadfast spirit within me."

Psalm 52
“The goodness of God endures continually.”
The wicked will be destroyed.

Psalm 53
God, help me not to be a fool.

Psalm 54
Pray to the Lord for deliverance and He will deliver you.

Psalm 55
“Cast your your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you."

Psalm 56
David prays for relief from enemies.
“…God is for me.”

Psalm 57
David prays for safety from his enemies.

Psalm 46-50

Psalm 46
“God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble.”
“The God of Jacob is our refuge."

Psalm 47
Praise God.

Psalm 48
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.”
“He will be our guide..."

Psalm 49
The foolish will perish.

Psalm 50
God is a righteous judge.

Psalm 40-45

Psalm 40
Have faith in trials.
The Lord will provide.
“He brought me out of the miry clay, he set my feet on the Rock to stay."

Psalm 41
"Blessed is the man who considers the poor."

Psalm 42
Book 2
“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”

Psalm 43
Pray, pray, pray.
There is “hope in God."

Psalm 44
Bad things may happen, but God will always be there.
Ask God for help.

Psalm 45
The Lord will protect.

Psalm 36-39

Psalm 36
God is perfect.
“You’re love, oh Lord, reaches to the heavens. You’re faithfulness stretches to the skies."

Psalm 37
“For evil doers will be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”

Psalm 38
Pray in hard times.

Psalm 39
David prays for wisdom and forgiveness.

Psalm 32-35

Psalm 32
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.”

Psalm 33
God is sovereign in everything.

Psalm 34
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.”
“But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing."

Psalm 35
The Lord is an avenger of His people.

Psalm 26-31

Psalm 26
David asks the Lord to challenge him so that in his trials he will glorify the Lord.

Psalm 27
“Wait on the Lord.”
Have faith.
Seek Him.

Psalm 28
David is thankful for answered pray.
“The Lord is my strength and my shield."

Psalm 29
“Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”

Psalm 30
David thanks the Lord for answered prayer.

Psalm 31
The Lord is our strength in times of trouble.

Psalm 21-25

Psalm 21
There is Joy in the Lord’s Salvation.

Psalm 22
David speaks about the suffering and future of the Messiah.

Psalm 23
The Lord is the Shepherd of His people.

Psalm 24
The Lord, His Kingdom and His Glory.

Psalm 25
David pleas for forgiveness and deliverance from the Lord.

Psalm 17-20

Psalm 17
Pray with confidence.
Pray BIG!

Psalm 18
God is our Sovereign Savior.

Psalm 19
God is Mighty, Powerful, Righteous, Strong and my Redeemer.

Psalm 20
“May the name of the God of Jacob defend you.”
We have assurance of God’s saving power.
[As I read, I notice so many lyrics to songs and hymns.]

Psalm 9-16

Psalm 9
David thanks the Lord for his righteous judgements.

Psalm 10
David sings in the confidence of his Lord over evil.

Psalm 11
David speaks of his faith in the Lord’s righteousness.

Psalm 12
Man is sinful, yet God is constant.

Psalm 13
Trust in the Salvation of the Lord.

Psalm 14
The Lord will triumph.

Psalm 15
Those who are and do right may dwell with the Lord.

Psalm 16
There is hope is faith.

Psalm 1-8

Psalm 1
The ways of the righteous and ungodly are listed.
The Lord knows the ways of the righteous, but the ungodly will perish.

Psalm 2
"Blessed are those who put their trust in Him."

Psalm 3
David writes about when being chased by Absolom.
The Lord protects his people in times of trouble.

Psalm 4
God will give peace to those who are faithful.

Psalm 5
A prayer for guidance.

Psalm 6
A prayer of faith in a time of distress.

Psalm 7
David sings prayer and praise about being delivered from enemies.

Psalm 8
“What is man that You are mindful of him?’
“How excellent is Your name in all the earth!”
There is glory in the Lord’s creation.

Job 40-42

Job 40-41
Job tell the Lord he is vile.
The Lord answered Job in a whirlwind saying He will question him and he shall answer.
The Lord then poses many questions to Job.

Job 42
Job answers the Lord and say he did not do right and said things he knew nothing about.
Job pleads for mercy and repents.
The Lord grew angry and Job’s 3 friends.
The Lord tells them to bring a sacrifice to Job for him to pray to God, otherwise the Lord will deal directly for speaking against Him.
The Lord restores Job and all his possessions doubly.
Job lived 140 years.

Job 38-39

Job 38-39
God reveals His omnipotence, His never ending power, to Job.

Job 35-37

Job 35
Elihu condemns self-righteousness.

Job 36
Elihu speaks of God’s goodness.

Job 37
Elihu speaks of God’s majesty.

Job 32-34

Job 32
Job’s friends stop answering Job.
Elihu grew angry with Job and his friends.
Elihu contradicts Job’s friends.

Job 33
Elihu contradicts Job.
He tells him to please listen to him so that he may teach him wisdom.

Job 34
Elihu speaks of God’s justice.

Job 29-31

Job 29-31
Job gives a summary of his defense after all that has been said.
The will not forsake you.

Job 24-28

Job 24
Job complains about the violence on the earth.

Job 25
Bildad questions if man can be righteous.

Job 26
Job points out man’s weakness and frailty and God’s majesty and sovereignty.

Job 27
Job stays true to God.

Job 28
Job talks about wisdom and where it comes from.
Wisdom is not of this world, but given from God.

Job 21-23

Job 21
Job talks about the wicked.

Job 22
Eliphaz accuses Job of wickedness.

Job 23
Job talks about God’s righteous judgements.
[If my Bible did not have subtitles, I would have no clue what was going on.  Even with them, I am lost.  Job is a very confusing book.]

Job 17-20

Job 17
Job prays for relief.
He says his spirit is broken.

Job 18
Bildad says that the wicked will be punished.

Job 19
Job asks how long will his suffering last.
Job says that he knows his Redeemer and God is in control.

Job 20
Zophar preaches on the wicked man and the consequences that come with being wicked.

Job 14-16

Job 14
Job continues praying.

Job 15
Eliphaz talks to Job again and accuses him of folly.

Job 16
Job criticizes his friends and how they are terrible comforters.

Job 11-13

Job 11
Zophar tells Job to repent.

Job 12
Job answers all who spoke to him.

Job 13
Job speaks more and pray to God.

Job 8-10

Job 8
Bildab speaks to Job and asks how long is he going to complain.
Bildab says Job should repent.

Job 9
Job says Bildad is right.
Job states how there is no mediator between him and God.

Job 10
Job pleads with God asking many questions.

Job 5-7

Job 5
Eliphaz talks to Job saying many things like how God corrects and not to despise it.

Job 6
Job say how that is complaining is just.

Job 7
Job says that is pain and suffering is comfortless.
Job says he loathes his life and to leave him alone.

Job 1-4

Job 1
Job is a man from Uz who was blameless, upright, feared God and shunned evil.
Job had 7 sons and 3 daughters.
Job regularly sacrificed to the Lord for the sins of his sons.
The Lord takes pride in Job when talking to Satan.
Satan says Job is only blameless because you have only blessed him.
The Lord allows Satan to try Job, but is not allowed to hurt Job’s body.
Job looses his possessions and this sons and daughters.
“The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away."
Job does not blame God nor sin.
Job worships the Lord.

Job 2
The Lord takes pride in Job when talking to Satan.
Satan says he is blameless because he still has his health.
The Lord allows Satan to harm his body but cannot kill him.
Satan gives Job painful boils all over his body.
Job’s wife says to “curse God and die”.
Job will not.
Job’s 3 friends hear of his situation and confront him the best they can.

Job 3
Job is angry that he was ever born.

Job 4
Eliphaz, Job’s friend, speaks to him.