LHC Midday Word

Thursday, 11 December 2025

PSALM Fifty Two

For the director of music. A maskil of David.

When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: ‘David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.’
1
Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?
    Why do you boast all day long,
    you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
2
You who practise deceit,
    your tongue plots destruction;
    it is like a sharpened razor.
3
You love evil rather than good,
    falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
4
You love every harmful word,
    you deceitful tongue!
5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
    he will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from the land of the living.
6
The righteous will see and fear;
    they will laugh at you, saying,
7
‘Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
    and grew strong by destroying others!’
8
But I am like an olive tree
    flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
    for ever and ever.
9
For what you have done I will always praise you
    in the presence of your faithful people.
And I will hope in your name,
    for your name is good.

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READING

Psalm FiftyTwo

Read by David Suchet

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OVERVIEWS

Psalms - Overviews

(The Bible Project)

The Book of Psalms

(The Bible Project)

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STUDY - LINKS

How Should You Read the Psalms?

- John Piper -

Prayer in the Psalms:

Discovering How to Pray

Timothy Keller

Psalm 51 | Create in Me a Clean Heart |

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Psalms part 1

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/qB3QV713xm0

Psalms Part 2

-Study by David Pawson

https://youtu.be/hQJNMgIHVKwSONGS

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Psalm 51 - R C Sproul

https://www.youtube.com/@ligonier/search?query=psalm 51

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Psalm 52 | Two Ways of Life |

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SONGS

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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

PSALM Fifty One

For the director of music.

A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.
1
Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
    blot out my transgressions.
2
Wash away all my iniquity
    and cleanse me from my sin.
3
For I know my transgressions,
    and my sin is always before me.
4
Against you, you only, have I sinned
    and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
    and justified when you judge.
5
Surely I was sinful at birth,
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
    you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
    wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8
Let me hear joy and gladness;
    let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9
Hide your face from my sins
    and blot out all my iniquity.
10
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11
Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
13
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
    so that sinners will turn back to you.
14
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
    you who are God my Saviour,
    and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15
Open my lips, Lord,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
16
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart
    you, God, will not despise.
18
May it please you to prosper Zion,
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
19
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
    in burnt offerings offered whole;
    then bulls will be offered on your altar.