His Time – Scripture Studies: Psalm 28, Proverbs 2 & 3, Reading from John Chrysostom

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on the Psalm of the Day, Psalm 28.
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Psalm 28

The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield

Of David.

28 To you, O Lord, I call;
my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,
when I cry to you for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward your most holy sanctuary.[a]

3 Do not drag me off with the wicked,
with the workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while evil is in their hearts.
4 Give to them according to their work
and according to the evil of their deeds;
give to them according to the work of their hands;
render them their due reward.
5 Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
or the work of his hands,
he will tear them down and build them up no more.

6 Blessed be the Lord!
For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.

8 The Lord is the strength of his people;[b]
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
9 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

Footnotes:

Psalm 28:2 Hebrew your innermost sanctuary

Psalm 28:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts is their strength

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2. Meditation on Proverbs

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on Proverbs 2:10, 16-22 & 3:1-2.
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Proverbs 2:10, 16-22 & 3:1-2

10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

3 My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
2 for length of days and years of life
and peace they will add to you.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange

Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman

Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim

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3. Reading from John Chrysostom

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on the daily reading from the Treasury of Daily Prayer, written by John Chrysostom.