Daily Bible Verses

1 May the Lord answer you when you are in distress;
    may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
2 May he send you help from the sanctuary
    and grant you support from Zion.
3 May he remember all your sacrifices
    and accept your burnt offerings.[b]

4 May he give you the desire of your heart

    and make all your plans…

¹May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
²     send you help and ³ remember all your offerings and sacrifices.
⁴ May He grant you your heart’s desire

⁵ We will triumph in your salvation.
    In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.
    May Yahweh grant all your requests.…

¹ I rejoice in your strength and your salvation, Yahweh!
² You have given me my heart’s desire,

³ For you meet me with the blessings of goodness.
⁴ I asked life of you, you gave it to me, even length of days forever and ever.
⁶ You make me glad with joy in your presence, ⁷ for I trust in Yahweh.
Through the loving kindness of the Most…

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  Why are you so far from helping me?
² My God, I cry, but you don’t answer

³ But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of your people.
⁴ Our fathers trusted in you, and you delivered them.

⁶ But I am despised by people
⁷ …

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
    He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
    he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff…

¹ Yahweh is my shepherd:
    I shall lack nothing.
² He makes me lie down in green pastures.
    He leads me beside still waters.
³ He restores my soul.
    He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
   …

¹ The earth is Yahweh’s, and those who dwell therein.
⁴ Those with a pure heart who have not lifted up their soul to falsehood, ⁵ shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, ⁶ whom they seek

The next bit was probably about  lifting out of the way the heavy doors in the temple so that the Arc of the Covenant might enter.  For me it is about lifting out of the way the…

1 The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness;
    the world, and those who dwell in it.
2 For he has founded it on the seas,
    and established it on the floods.

…

¹ To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

⁴ Show me your ways and ⁵ Guide me in your truth,
    For you are the God of my salvation.

⁸ Good and upright is Yahweh,
    therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
⁹ He will guide the humble in justice.
¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth
¹¹ For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
¹⁴ The…

¹ Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
    I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
² Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me.
    Try my heart and my mind.
³ For your loving kindness is before my eyes.
    I have walked in your truth.
⁴ I have not sat with deceitful men,
   …

¹ Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
    Whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
    Of whom shall I be afraid?

³ Though an army should encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise against me,
    even then I will be confident.

⁴ One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after,
  …

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked advance against me
    to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
    who will stumble and fall.
3 Though an army besiege me,
    my…

¹ To you, Yahweh, I call.
    My rock, don’t be deaf to me;
    lest, if you are silent to me,
    I would become like those who go down into the pit.
³ Don’t draw me away with the wicked, who speak peace with their neighbours,
    but mischief is in their hearts.

⁶ Blessed be Yahweh,
…

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-02-5-psalm-29-r25 

1 Ascribe to the Lord, you heavenly beings,
    ascribe to the Lord…

¹ Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
    ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
    Worship Yahweh in holy array.

⁴ Yahweh’s voice is powerful.
    Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
⁷ Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
⁸     Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness.
⁹In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

^10…

¹ I will extol you, ² Yahweh my God, for I cried to you,
    and you healed me ³ and raised me up
⁴ Sing praise to Yahweh, and give thanks to his holy name.
⁵ For his anger is but for a moment.
    His favour is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    but joy comes in the morning.
⁷  Yahweh, when…

¹ In you, Yahweh, I take refuge, ³ for you are my rock and my fortress,
    therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
    ⁴ Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
    ⁵ Into your hand I commend my spirit.
⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities,
    but I trust in Yahweh ¹⁴  for “You are my God.”
⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in your loving…

¹ Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
    whose sin is covered ²  and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
³ When I kept silence before you
    ⁴  your hand was heavy on me and my strength was sapped. (Pause).
 

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you…

¹ Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
    ² Give thanks to Yahweh  and sing praises to him.
⁴ For Yahweh’s word is right.
    All his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵ He loves righteousness and justice.…

¹⁰ Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
    He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
¹¹ The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever,
    the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
    the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

¹⁶ There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
    A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
¹⁸ Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his loving kindness,
¹⁹     to deliver their soul from death,
    to keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ Our soul has waited for…

¹⁸ Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his loving kindness,
¹⁹     to deliver their soul from death,
    …

¹  I will bless Yahweh at all times.
⁴ I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁶ This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
    and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁸ Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good.
    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,
    but…

1 I will extol the Lord at all times;
    his praise will always be on my lips.
2 I will glory in the Lord;
    let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
3 Glorify the Lord with me;
    let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
    he delivered me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant;
    their faces…

¹ Fight, Yahweh,  against those who fight against me.
³  Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
⁴ Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed
⁷ For without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁹ My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
    It shall rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you,
  …

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up who ¹²  reward me evil for good,
¹³     for when they were sick,
¹⁴     I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁵ But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
    They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

¹⁷ Lord,…

¹⁹ Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
    ²⁰  they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
²² You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent.
    Lord, don’t be far from me.

²³ Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! ²⁴  according to your righteousness.
 

²⁶ Let them be…

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
    and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
    and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared…

God is our refuge and strength,
    a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
    though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
3…

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God.
    I will be exalted among the nations.
    I will be exalted in the earth.”
¹¹ Yahweh of Armies is with us.
    The God of Jacob is our refuge. 

‘Be still, and know that I am God; (Psalm 46:10) 

The journey of life is absolutely a sacred journey, but we don’t know that when we’re younger. We don’t want to think about life in terms of a sacred journey, because we don’t know for certain where we came from, and we don’t know for certain where we’re going…. 

In the everyday maelstrom of life, people don’t want to think about any of that. They just want to get through their day…. But when we get to the halfway point in our lives, we begin to realize that all the things that we have accumulated don’t…

Clap your hands, all you nations;
shout to God with cries of joy.
For the LORD Most High is awesome,
the great King over all the earth.

Awe is the sensation of being completely overwhelmed, by the sheer magnitude and magnificence of something or someone that we turn our attention towards, so give us grace today to pay attention today in such a way that we glimpse something of your glory.

1 Clap your hands, all you nations;
    shout to God with cries of joy.

2 For the Lord Most High is awesome,
    the great King over all the earth.
3 He subdued nations under us,
    peoples under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us,
    the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.[b]

5 God has ascended …

¹ Listen to my prayer, God.
    Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
² Attend to me, and answer me.
    I am restless in my complaint,
and moan ³     because of the voice of the enemy,
    because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they bring suffering on me.
    In anger they hold a grudge against me.
⁴ …

6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
7 I would flee far away and stay in the desert;
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”

[This is a lament, when we pour out our visceral feelings to our God who understands, but waits for us to be enveloped in his mercy so that we can show mercy to others]]

⁹ Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,
    for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰     Malice and abuse  and ¹¹ destructive forces are within her.
    Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
^12…

¹⁶ As for me, I will call on God.
    Yahweh will save me.
¹⁷ Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress.
    He will hear my voice.
¹⁸ He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me,
    although there are many who oppose me.
¹⁹ God, who is enthroned forever,
    will hear and answer them. Selah.

[looking at those who turn from God]
¹⁹ They never change
    and don’t fear God.

[looking at a particular individual who turns from God]
²⁰ He raises his hands against his friends.
    He has violated his covenant.
²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter,
    but his heart was war.
His words were softer than oil,
    yet they were drawn swords.

[and…

¹ Be merciful to me, God, for ² my enemies want to swallow me up all day long,
    for they are many who fight proudly against me.
³ When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
    ⁴ In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust.
   I will not be afraid.  What can flesh do to me?
⁵ All day long they twist my words.
    All their thoughts are against me for evil.
^6 …

⁸ You count my wanderings.
    You put my tears into your container.
    Aren’t they in your book?
⁹ Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
    I know this: that God is for me.
¹⁰ In God, I will praise his word.
    In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
¹¹ I have put my trust in God.
    I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?
…