His Time - Scripture Studies: Psalm 28, Proverbs 2 & 3, Reading from John Chrysostom

1. Meditation on the Day’s Psalm

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on the Psalm of the Day, Psalm 28.

Psalm 28

The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield

Of David.

28 To you, O Lord, I call;
    my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
    I become like those who go down to the pit.
²Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,
    when I cry to you for help,
when I lift up my hands
    toward your most holy sanctuary.^[a]

³Do not drag me off with the wicked,
    with the workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
    while evil is in their hearts.
⁴Give to them according to their work
    and according to the evil of their deeds;
give to them according to the work of their hands;
    render them their due reward.
⁵Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
    or the work of his hands,
he will tear them down and build them up no more.

⁶Blessed be the Lord!
    For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.

⁸The Lord is the strength of his people;^[b]
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
⁹Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

Footnotes:

Psalm 28:2 Hebrew your innermost sanctuary
Psalm 28:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts is their strength

2. Meditation on Proverbs

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on Proverbs 2:10, 16-22 & 3:1-2.

Proverbs 2:10, 16-22 & 3:1-2

¹⁰for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

¹⁶So you will be delivered from the forbidden^[a] woman,
    from the adulteress^[b] with her smooth words,
¹⁷who forsakes the companion of her youth
    and forgets the covenant of her God;
¹⁸for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;^[c]
¹⁹none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹For the upright will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.