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Psalm 28 | King James Audio Bible
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Psalm 28 is a heartfelt cry to the Lord God. The psalm is a plea for divine intervention, and a declaration of unwavering trust in God’s strength and protection. The psalm resonates with themes of supplication, of contrast between the righteous and the wicked, and acknowledgment of God as the ultimate source of strength and salvation.
At its outset, the psalmist expresses a deep need to cry out to the Lord, his rock, imploring God not to remain silent and to hear his supplications. This sets the tone for a heartfelt and earnest conversation with God.
The psalmist’s cry for divine intervention is marked by recognition of the consequences of silence from God, likening this to descending into the pit. This underscores the urgency and intensity of the prayer.
Through the psalm, there is a stark contrast drawn between the psalmist, who seeks righteousness and divine guidance, and the wicked, who engage in deceitful actions and harbor malice in their hearts. The psalmist implores God to mete out justice to the wicked, asking that they receive the consequences of their deeds.
A central theme of Psalm 28 is acknowledgment of God’s strength and protective shield. The psalmist’s heart finds trust and help in the Lord, leading to great rejoicing and the promise to praise God with a song.
At the psalm’s conclusion, God is recognized as strength of His anointed ones, further emphasizing divine protection and salvation. The psalmist prays for the salvation and blessing of God’s people and inheritance, seeking God’s provision and everlasting support.
Psalm 26 | King James Audio Bible KJV
Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Key Themes Of The Psalm For Reflection | Love Revealed By Jesus Christ
- Supplication and Crying Out: The psalmist earnestly cries out to the Lord, seeking divine intervention and guidance.
- Divine Silence and Consequences: There is a plea for God not to remain silent, as silence is likened to descending into the pit, emphasizing the urgency of the psalmist’s prayer.
- Contrast between Righteous and Wicked: The psalmist distinguishes between the righteous who seek God’s guidance and the wicked who engage in deceit and malice, invoking a plea for justice.
- Trust in God’s Strength and Protection: God is recognized as the source of strength and a protective shield, leading to rejoicing and praise.
- Salvation and Blessing: The psalmist prays for the salvation and blessing of God’s people and inheritance, seeking God’s ongoing provision and support.
Easter! Today we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus has conquered death and sin. This is the proof of our salvation in Jesus Christ. We know that Jesus lived. We have his teachings and the clear evidence of the miracles he worked. We know he died. Now we have the proof of our faith in Jesus. He lives again. He did not know corruption. He raised himself from the dead to be near us always and to sit, as he promised, at the right hand of his Father in heaven. We have passed through darkness and the light of our lives is with us now and always [ … ]
On Tuesday, His Grace turns to the theme of Jesus’ hidden years. His Grace asks the students to consider questions concerning what really happened: ‘Who, for instance, was Joseph? Was he indeed a carpenter, or has Joseph’s true role in the society in which he lived been misconstrued and forgotten to us? Though it be a beautiful, simplifying image to grasp, which offers to us much that is of value in Catholic faith… ‘A wise elder, which carpenter could mean, or a great engineer, an architekton, which in the Greek does not mean carpenter. But carpenter in the Hebrew could mean a wise man…’ His Grace turns the pages of his Bible back and forth, as if to itemize the paucity of information. Then he says: ‘What I think I can say to you with confidence is that it is of profound significance that we simply don’t know what Jesus was doing for most of his earthly life. There are some very different possibilities. One idea cherished by the Church is that Jesus worked with his father Joseph as a carpenter. Another possibility is that Jesus lived and prayed and studied closely with John the Baptist. They were cousins, and very close, almost the same, in age. Luke’s Gospel tells us clearly that Jesus and John knew each other from within the womb before they were born. So there may have been something quite important happening there. You see, we don’t know – it is an impossible mystery to us – just how much Jesus had to learn. This is because, if Jesus knew everything, humanly speaking, even as a tiny baby, then how can we say he is fully human? We simply can’t probe too far into this mystery, but we can draw extraordinary truth and healing from this thought, which becomes of immense relevance in our own lives. Jesus came to know and to understand himself not merely as a son of God, but as God the Son, and so as self-identical with his Father. It is not an adoptive relationship. Jesus is God. Now so much is hidden here. But this is a great gift. If you think about it, how do we come to know that we are loved by God, that we have our relationship with God? What are we born with in here’ – his chest – ‘and what do we have to learn? This is to say, what is gifted to us by other Christians at our baptism? ‘Jesus must have studied, and experienced profound revelation about who and what he truly was, and, so it seems to be, these studies cannot have been confined to the Semitic world. But this is the important point: there is a hiddenness about all of this. No matter which schools and which sects our Lord might have encountered all these years, this to us is as a desert space. What this means is that we can enter into the hidden life of Jesus, and there we can discover our own being with God, our own sonship. Our own particular being loved by God can come to us, if we can enter within this great unknown – into this desert space, where we are loved by Jesus. I firmly believe that there may be a great Lenten mystery in this period of our Lord’s life.’ A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 1 A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 2 A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 3 A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 4 | King James Audio Bible | KJV A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 5 A Bishop’s Lenten Homily | Holy Week | Extracted From The Gospel According To Tomàs | Faith And Hope And Love And Sexuality | Part 6
In his Letter to the Trallians, Saint Ignatius of Antioch offers both affection and warning to a Christian community he deeply admires. Writing on his journey to Rome, where he would face martyrdom around the year 107, Ignatius uses his correspondence to affirm unity, humility, and fidelity to the structure of the Church. His tone is that of a spiritual father who encourages steadfastness in faith while defending the young Church against division and false teaching [ … ]
