LHC Midday Word

Monday, 25 May 2026

PSALM Eighty Four

For the director of music.
According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah.
A psalm.
1
How lovely is your dwelling-place,
    Lord Almighty!
2
My soul yearns, even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.
3
Even the sparrow has found a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may have her young –
a place near your altar,
    Lord Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
    they are ever praising you.
5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6
As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
    they make it a place of springs;
    the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7
They go from strength to strength,
    till each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty;
    listen to me, God of Jacob.
9
Look on our shield, O God;
    look with favour on your anointed one.
10
Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    the Lord bestows favour and honour;
no good thing does he withhold
    from those whose way of life is blameless.
12
Lord Almighty,
    blessed is the one who trusts in you.

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READINGS

PSALM 84

Read by Sir David Suchet

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OVERVIEW

Psalms

- Overview -

The Bible Project

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STUDY - LINKS

PSALMS

David Pawson

Part 1

Part 2

God's Dwelling Place - Alistair Begg

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SONGS

Sunday, 24 May 2026

PSALM Eighty Three

A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1
O God, do not remain silent;
    do not turn a deaf ear,
    do not stand aloof, O God.
2
See how your enemies growl,
    how your foes rear their heads.
3
With cunning they conspire against your people;
    they plot against those you cherish.
4
‘Come,’ they say, ‘let us destroy them as a nation,
    so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.’
5
With one mind they plot together;
    they form an alliance against you –
6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab and the Hagrites,
7
Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
    Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8
Even Assyria has joined them
    to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
9
Do to them as you did to Midian,
    as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
10
who perished at Endor
    and became like dung on the ground.
11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12
who said, ‘Let us take possession
    of the pasture-lands of God.’
13
Make them like tumble-weed, my God,
    like chaff before the wind.
14
As fire consumes the forest
    or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15
so pursue them with your tempest
    and terrify them with your storm.
16
Cover their faces with shame, Lord,
    so that they will seek your name.
17
May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
    may they perish in disgrace.
18
Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord –
    that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.