Daily Bible GNT October 28 Verses

Thanksgiving to God for His Justice

Psalm 9 I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart;

I will tell of all the wonderful things you have done.

²I will sing with joy because of you.

I will sing praise to you, Almighty God.

³My enemies turn back when you appear;

they fall down and die.

⁴You are fair and honest in your judgments,

and you have judged in my favor.

⁵You have condemned the heathen

and destroyed the wicked;

they will be remembered no more.

⁶Our enemies are finished forever;

you have destroyed their cities,

and they are completely forgotten.

⁷But the LORD is king forever;

he has set up his throne for judgment.

⁸He rules the world with righteousness;

he judges the nations with justice.

⁹The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,

a place of safety in times of trouble.

¹⁰Those who know you, LORD, will trust you;

you do not abandon anyone who comes to you.

¹¹Sing praise to the LORD, who rules in Zion!

Tell every nation what he has done!

¹²God remembers those who suffer;

he does not forget their cry,

and he punishes those who wrong them.

¹³Be merciful to me, O LORD!

See the sufferings my enemies cause me!

Rescue me from death, O LORD,

¹⁴

that I may stand before the people of Jerusalem

and tell them all the things for which I praise you.

I will rejoice because you saved me.

¹⁵The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in;

they have been caught in their own trap.

¹⁶The LORD has revealed himself by his righteous judgments,

and the wicked are trapped by their own deeds.

¹⁷Death is the destiny of all the wicked,

of all those who reject God.

¹⁸The needy will not always be neglected;

the hope of the poor will not be crushed forever.

¹⁹Come, LORD! Do not let anyone defy you!

Bring the heathen before you

and pronounce judgment on them.

²⁰Make them afraid, O LORD;

make them know that they are only mortal beings.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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