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Monday, September 13, 2021 (Day 100) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 100 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Shout out to the Lordall the earth,worship the Lord in rejoicing,come before God in glad song.Know that the Lord is God.God has made us, we are God's,God's people and the flock God tends...Acclaim the Lord,Bless God's name.For the Lord is good,forever God's kindness,and for all generations God's faithfulness.An Opening WordAs a final endcap [...]

Sunday, September 12, 2021(Day 99) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 99 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord reigns— people tremble, enthroned upon cherubim— the earth shakes. The Lord is great in Zion and exalted over all the peoples. They acclaim Your name: "Great and fearful, God is holy." An Opening Word Psalm 99 envisions God’s rule as so powerful that people tremble. God’s throne is so [...]

Saturday, September 11, 2021 (Day 98) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 98 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Sing to the Lord a new song, for wonders God has done... Let the sea and its fullness thunder, the world and those dwelling in it. Let the rivers clap hands, let the mountains together sing gladly before the Lord, for God comes to judge the earth. God judges the [...]

Friday, September 10, 2021(Day 96) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 97 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord reigns— Cloud and dense fog around God, justice and judgement the base of God's throne. Fire goes before the Lord, and all around burns God's foes. Lightening lit up the world; the earth saw and quaked. Mountains melted like wax before the Lord, before the Master of all the earth. [...]

Thursday, September 9, 2021 (Day 96) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 96 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless God's name, Bring tidings every day of God's rescue. Recount among the nations God's glory, among all the peoples God's wonders. For great is the Lord and most praised, awesome is [...]

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 (Day 95) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 95 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Come, let us sing gladly to the Lord, let us shout out to the Rock of our rescue. Let us Greet him in acclaim, in songs let us shout out to him. For a great god is the Lord and great king over all the gods. In Whose hand are [...]

Tuesday, September 7, 2021 (Day 94) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 94 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God of vengeance, O Lord, God of vengeance shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth, bring down on the proud requital. How long the wicked, O Lord, how long the wicked exult? They utter arrogance, speak it, all the wrongdoers bandy boasts. Your people, O Lord, they crush, and [...]

Monday, September 6, 2021(Day 93) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 93 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord reigns, in triumph clothed, clothed is the Lord, in strength God is girded. Yes, the world stands firm, not to be shaken. Your throne stands firm from of old, from forever You are. The streams lifted up, O Lord, the streams lifted up their voice, the streams lifted up their [...]

Sunday, September 5, 2021 (Day 92) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 92 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) It is good to acclaim the Lord and to hymn to Your name, Most High, to tell in the morning Your kindness, Your faithfulness in the nights, on ten-stringed instrument and on the lute, on the lyre with chanted sound. For You made me rejoice, Lord, through Your acts, of the [...]

Saturday, September 4, 2021 (Day 91) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 91 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) You shall not fear from the terror of the night nor from the arrow that flies by day, from the plague that stalks in darkness nor the scourge that rages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, you it will not reach… [...]

Friday, September 3, 2021(Day 90) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 90 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) O Master, You have been our abode in every generation. Before mountains were born, before You spawned earth and world, from forever to forever You are God… Let Your acts be seen by Your servants and Your glory by their children. And may the sweetness of the Master our God be upon [...]

Thursday, September 2, 2021 (Day 89) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 89 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Let me sing the Lord’s kindness forever. For all generations I shall make known with my mouth Your faithfulness. For I said: forever will kindness stand strong, in the heavens You set Your faithfulness firm… Blessed be the Lord forever, amen and amen. An Opening Word Psalm 89 is another long [...]

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 (Day 88) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 88 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, God of my rescue, by day I cried out, by night, in Your presence. May my prayer come before you. Incline Your ear to my song… My eyes ache from affliction. I called on You, Lord, every day. I stretched out to You my palms… You distanced lover and neighbor [...]

Tuesday, August 31, 2021 (Day 87) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 87 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Splendid things are spoken of you, O town of God… singers and dancers alike: “All my wellsprings are in you.”An Opening WordPsalm 87 is specifically addressed, not to God, but to Zion. The word Zion is used interchangeably with [...]

Monday, August 30, 2021 (Day 86) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 86 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Incline Your ear, Lord, answer me, for I am lowly and needy am I. Guard my life, for I am faithful. Rescue Your servant who trusts in You—You, my God. An Opening Word Psalm 86 is full of familiar phrases and lines of poetry. It is a recycling of sorts, a [...]

Sunday, August 29, 2021 (Day 85) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 85 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) You favored, O Lord, Your land, You restored the condition of Jacob. You forgave Your people’s crime, You covered all their offense. You laid aside all Your wrath, You turned back from Your blazing fury. Turn back, pray, God of our rescue and undo Your anger against us… Kindness and truth [...]

Saturday, August 28, 2021 (Day 84) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 84 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) How lovely Your dwellings, O Lord of armies! My being longed, even languished, for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh sing gladness to the living God. Even the bird has found a home, and the swallow a nest for itself, that puts its fledglings by Your altars, [...]

Friday, August 27, 2021 (Day 83) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 83 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) O God, no silence for You! Do not be mute and do not be quiet, God. For, look, Your enemies rage, and those who hate You lift their heads. Against Your people they devise cunning counsel and conspire against Your protected ones… For they conspired with a single heart, [...]

Thursday, August 26, 2021(Day 82) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 82 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God takes a stand in the divine assembly, in the midst of the gods the Lord renders judgement. How long will you judge dishonestly and show favor to the wicked? Do justice to the poor and orphan. Vindicate the lowly and wretched. Free the poor and needy... They do not know [...]

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (Day 81) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 81 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Sing gladly to God our strength, shout out to the God of Jacob. Lift your voices in song and beat the drum, the lyre is sweet with the lute. Blast the ram’s horn on the new moon, when the moon starts to wax, for our festival day. For it is [...]

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 (Day 80) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 80 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Shepherd of Israel, hearken, God Who drives Joseph like sheep, enthroned on the cherubim, shine forth…O God, bring us back, and light up Your face that we may be rescued. Lord, God of armies, how long will You smolder against Your people’s prayer? You fed them bread of tears and made [...]

Monday, August 23, 2021 (Day 79) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 79 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God, nations have come to Your estate, they have defiled your holy temple. They have turned Jerusalem to ruins. They have given Your servants’ corpses as food to the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of Your faithful to the beasts of the earth… How long, O Lord, will You rage forever, [...]

Sunday, August 22, 2021 (Day 78) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 78 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hearken, my people, to my teaching. Let your ear to the sayings of my mouth. Let me open my mouth in a rhapsody, let me voice the old verses, that we have heard, and we have known, and that our fathers recounted to us. An Opening Word Psalm 78 is a [...]

Saturday, August 21, 2021 (Day 77) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 77 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) My voice to God—let me cry out. My voice to God—and hearken to me. In the day of my straits I sought the master. My eye flows at night, it will not stop. I refused to be consoled. I call God to mind and I moan. I speak and my [...]

Friday, August 20, 2021 (Day 76) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 76 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) By Your roar, O God of Jacob, chariot and horse were stunned. You, O fearsome are You, and who can stand before You, in the strength of Your wrath? From the heavens You made judgement heard, the earth was afraid and fell silent, when God rose up for judgement to [...]

Thursday, August 19, 2021 (Day 75) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 75 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) When I seize the appointed time, I myself shall judge rightly. Earth and its dwellers would melt, had I not set fast its pillars. I said to the revelers, Do not revel, and to the wicked, lift not your horn. Lift not your horn on high. You would speak [...]

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 (Day 74) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 74 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Why, O God, have You abandoned us forever?... Why do You draw back Your hand, and Your right hand hold in Your bosom? Yet God is my king of old, worker of rescues in the midst of the earth. You shattered the sea-god with Your strength, You smashed the monsters' heads [...]

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (Day 73) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 73 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Only good to Israel is God, to the pure of heart. As for me, my feet had almost strayed, my steps had nearly tumbled... Yet I was always with You, You grasped my right hand. You guided me with Your counsel, a and toward glory You took me.... But I—God's closeness [...]

Monday, August 16, 2021 (Day 72) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 72 ( from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God, grant your judgements to the king. May the mountains bear peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. May he bring justice to the lowly of the people, may he rescue the sons of the needy and crush the oppressor. May they fear you as long as the sun [...]

Sunday, August 15, 2021 (Day 71) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 71 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) In You, O Lord, I shelter... For You are my hope, Master, O Lord, my refuge since youth. An Opening Word There is obviously much more to Psalm 71 than just the three lines above, but I think they are important words to hone in on in a week that, [...]

Saturday, August 14, 2021 (Day 70) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 70 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God, to save me, Lord, to my help, hasten!... As for me, I am lowly and needy. God, O hasten to me! My help, the one who frees me You are. Lord, do not delay. An Opening Word I agree with Psalm 70. Quickly come to my aide. When we are [...]

Friday, August 13, 2021 (Day 69) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 69 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Rescue me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I have sunk in the slime of the deep, and there is no place to stand. I have entered the watery depths, and the current has swept me away. I am exhausted from my calling out. My throat is [...]

Thursday, August 12, 2021 (Day 68) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 68 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Let God arise, let God's enemies scatter, and let God's foes flee before God. As smoke disperses may they disperse, as wax melts before fire, may the wicked perish before God. And may the righteous rejoice and exult before God, and be gladdened in joy. Sing to God, hymn God's [...]

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 (Day 67) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 67 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) May God grant us grace and bless us, may God shine his face upon us. To know the earth Your way, among all the nations Your rescue. Nations acclaim You, O God, all peoples acclaim You. Nations rejoice in song, for You rule peoples rightly, and nations on earth You lead... May [...]

Tuesday, August 10, 2021 (Day 66) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 66 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) ...Say to God, "How awesome Your deeds. Before Your great strength Your enemies quail." All the earth bows down to You, and they hymn to You, hymn Your name. Come and see the acts of God, awesome in works over humankind. God turned sea to dry land, the torrent they crossed on [...]

Monday, August 9, 2021(Day 65) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 65 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) To You silence is praise, God, in Zion,and to You a vow will be paid.O, Listener to prayer, unto You all flesh shall come.My deeds of mischief are too much for me.Our crimes but You atone...With awesome acts justly You answer us, our rescuing God,refuge of all the earth's ends and the far-flung sea,who [...]

Sunday, August 8, 2021(Day 64) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 64 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hear, God, my voice in my plea. From fear of the enemy guard my life. Conceal me from the counsel of evil men, from the hubbub of the wrongdoers, who whetted their tongue like a sword, pulled back their arrow—the bitter word— to shoot in concealment the innocent, in a flash shot him [...]

Saturday, August 7, 2021 (Day 63) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 63 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God, my God, for You I search. My throat thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You in a land waste and parched, with no water. So, in the sanctum I beheld You, seeing Your strength and Your glory. For your kindness is better than life. My lips praise You. [...]

Friday, August 6, 2021(Day 62) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 62 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Only in God is my being quiet. From God is my rescue. Only God is my rock and my rescue, my stronghold—I shall not stumble… Only in God be quiet, my being, for from God is my hope. Only God is my rock and my rescue, my fortress—I shall not stumble. [...]

Thursday, August 5, 2021 (Day 61) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 61 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hear, God, my song, listen close to my prayer.From the end of the earth I call You.When my heart faints, You lead me to a rock high above me.For You have been a shelter to me,a tower of strength in the face of the foe.Let me dwell in Your tent for all [...]

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 (Day 60) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 60 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God, You have abandoned us, breached us. You were incensed—restore us to life! You made the land quake, You cracked it. Heal its shards, for it has toppled. You sated Your people with harsh drink, You made us drink poison wine. You once gave to those who fear. You a banner for [...]

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 (Day 59) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 59 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Save me from my enemies, my God, over those who rise against me make me safe. Save me from the wrongdoers, and from men of bloodshed rescue me... They come back at evening, they mutter like dogs. They prowl around the town... My steadfast God will come to meet me, God will [...]

Monday, August 2, 2021 (Day 58) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 58 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Do you O chieftains, indeed speak justice, in rightness judge humankind? In your heart you work misdeeds on earth, weight a case with outrage in your hands. The wicked backslide from the very womb, the lie-mongers go astray from birth. They have venom akin to the serpent's venom, like the deaf viper [...]

Sunday, August 1, 2021(Day 57) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 57 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Grant me grace, God, grant me grace, for in You I have taken shelter, and in Your wings' shadow do I shelter until disasters pass. I call out to God the Most High, to the god who requiets me. The god who will send from the heavens and rescue me... God [...]

Saturday, July 31, 2021 (Day 56) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 56 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Grant me grace, God, for a man tramples me, all day long the assailant does press me. My attackers trample me all day long, for many assail me, O High One. When I fear, I trust in you, in God, Whose word I praise, in God I trust, I shall [...]

Friday, July 30, 2021 (Day 55) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 55 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hearken, O God, to my prayer, and do not ignore my plea. Listen well to me and answer me. In my complaint I sway and moan. From the sound of my enemy... fear and trembling enter me, and horror envelops me. And I say, "Would I had wings like a [...]

Thursday, July 29, 2021 (Day 54) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 54 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Look, God is about to help me, my Master—among those who support me. Let God pay back evil to my assailants. Demolish them through Your truth! With a freewill offering let me sacrifice to You. Let me acclaim Your name, Lord, for it is good. For from every strait God [...]

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (Day 53) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 53 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The scoundrel has said in his heart, "There is no God." They corrupt and do loathsome misdeeds. There is none who does good. The Lord from the heavens looked down on the sons of humankind to see, is there someone discerning, someone seeking God... There is none who does good. [...]

Thursday, July 22, 2021 (Day 52) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 52 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Why boast of evil, O hero?—God’s kindness is all day long... Look, the man who does not make God his stronghold and who trusts his great wealth, who would be strong in his disaster! But I am like a verdant olive tree in the house of our God. I trust [...]

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 (Day 51) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 51 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Grant me grace, God, as benefits your kindness, with Your great mercy wipe away my crimes. Thoroughly wash my transgressions away and cleanse me from my offense. For my crimes I know, and my offense is before me always. You alone have I offended, and what is evil in Your [...]

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 (Day 50) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 50 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) El the God Lord, spoke and called to the earth from the sun's rising-place to its setting. From Zion, the zenith of beauty God shone forth. Let our God come and not be silent. Before God fire consumes, and round about God—great storming. Let God call to the heavens above and to [...]

Monday, July 19, 2021 (Day 49) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 49 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hear this, all peoples, hearken, all who dwell in the world. You human creatures, you sons of man, together the rich and the needy. My mouth speaks wisdom, my heart's utterance, understanding. I incline my ear to a saying, I take up with the lyre my theme... God sees the [...]

Sunday, July 18, 2021 (Day 48) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 48 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Great is the Lord and highly praised in our God's town, God's holy mountain. Lovely in heights, all the earth's joy, Mount Zion, far end of Zaphon, the great King's city. God in its bastions is famed as a fortress. Look, for the kings have conspired, passed onward one and [...]

 Saturday, July 17, 2021 (Day 47) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 47 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) All peoples, clap hands, shout out to God with a sound of glad song. For the Lord is most high and fearsome, a great king over all the earth. God crushes people beneath us and nations beneath our feet. God chooses for us our estate, pride of Jacob whom God [...]

Friday, July 16, 2021(Day 46) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 46 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) God is a shelter and strength for us, a help in straits, readily found. Therefore we fear not when the earth breaks apart, when mountains collapse in the heart of the seas. Its waters roar and roil, mountains heave in its surge. A stream, its rivulets gladden God's down, the holy [...]

Thursday, July 15, 2021 (Day 45) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 45 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) My heart is astir with a goodly word. I speak what I've made to the king. My tongue is the pen of a rapid scribe. You are loveliest of the sons of man, grace flows from your lips. Therefore God blessed you forever. Gird your sword on your thigh, O [...]

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 (Day 44) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 44 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Awake, why sleep, O Master! Rouse up, neglect not forever. Why do You hide Your face, forget our affliction, our oppression? For our neck is bowed to the dust, our belly clings to the ground. Rise as a help to us and redeem us for the sake of Your kindness. [...]

Tuesday, July 13, 2021 (day 43) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 43 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) And let me come to God's altar, to God, my keenest joy. And let me acclaim You with the lyre, O God, my God. How bent, my being, how you moan for me. Hope in God, for yet I will acclaim the Lord, God's rescuing presence and my God. An [...]

Monday, July 12, 2021 (Day 42) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 42 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) As a deer yearns for streams of water, so I yearn for You, O God. My whole being thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and see the presence of God? My tears became my bread day and night as they said to me all day [...]

Sunday, July 11, 2021 (Day 41) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 41 (from Robert Alter’s 2007 translation) May the Lord sustain him on the couch of pain. You transformed his whole bed of illness. An Opening Word I can’t get over this phrase, “on the couch of pain.” It feels like a line out of a movie. Many English translations use the word “sickbed” instead of couch, [...]

Saturday, July 10, 2021 (Day 40) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 40 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) I urgently hoped for the Lord. The Lord bent down toward me and heard my voice, bought me up from the roiling pit, from the thickest mire. And set my feet on a crag, made my steps firm. And put in my mouth a new song—praise to our God. May [...]

Friday, July 9, 2021 (Day 39) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 39 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) ...I was mute—in silence. I kept still, deprived of good, and my pain was grievous. My heart was hot within me. In my thoughts a fire burned. I spoke with my tongue: Let me know, O Lord, my end and what is the measure of my days. I would know [...]

Thursday, July 8, 2021 (Day 38) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 38 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, do not rebuke me in Your fury nor chastise me in Your wrath... there is no whole place in my flesh through Your rage, no soundness in my limbs through my offense. For my crimes have welled over my head, like a heavy burden, too heavy for me... I [...]

Tuesday, July 7, 2021 (Day 37) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 37 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Do not be incensed by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wrong. For like grass they will quickly wither and like green grass they will fade. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and keep faith. Take pleasure in the Lord, that the Lord grant [...]

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 (day 36) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 36 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, in the heavens, Your kindness, and Your faithfulness to the skies. Your justice like the unending mountains, Your judgement, the great abyss, man and beast the Lord rescues. How dear is Your kindness, O God, and the sons of men in Your wings’ shadow shelter. They take their fill from the [...]

Monday, July 5, 2021 (day 35) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 35 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Unprovoked they set their net-trap for me, Unprovoked they dug a pit for my life. Let disaster come upon that one unwitting And the net that he set entrap him. May he fall into it in disaster. But I shall exult in the Lord. I shall be glad in God’s [...]

Sunday, July 4, 2021 (Day 34) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 34 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) When the lowly calls, God listens and from all straights rescues him. The Lord's messenger encamps round those who fear the Lord and sets them free. Taste and see that the Lord is good, happy is the one who shelters in God. An Opening Word “Taste and see that [...]

Saturday, July 3, 2021 (Day 33) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 33 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Sing gladly, O righteous, of the Lord,for the upright, praise is befitting.Acclaim the Lord with the lyre,with the ten-stringed lute hymn to God.Sing God a new song, play deftly with joyous shout.For the word of the Lord is upright,and all God's doings in good faith.God loves the right and the just.The Lord's kindness [...]

Friday, July 2, 2021 (Day 32) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 32 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Be not like a horse, a mule, without sense, the bit and the reins his adornment— to keep him from drawing near you. Many are the wicked's pains, but who trusts in the Lord kindness surrounds them. Rejoice in the Lord and exult, O you righteous, sing gladly, all upright [...]

Thursday, July 1, 2021 (Day 31) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 31 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Get me out of the net that they laid for me, for You are my stronghold. In Your hand I commend my spirit. You redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth. I hate those who look to vaporous lies. As for me, I trust in the Lord. Let me exult [...]

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (Day 30) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 30 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) I shall exalt You, Lord, for You drew me up, and You gave no joy to my enemies. Lord, my God, I cried to You and You healed me. Lord, You brought me up from Sheol, gave me life from those gone down to the Pit... At evening one beds [...]

Tuesday, June 29, 2021 (Day 29) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 29 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord’s voice is over the waters. The God of glory thunders. The Lord is over the mighty waters. The Lord’s voice in power, the Lord’s voice in majesty, the Lord’s voice breaking cedars, the Lord shatters the Lebanon cedars, and makes Lebanon dance like a calf, Sirion like a [...]

Monday, June 28, 2021 (Day 28) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 28 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) To You, O Lord, I call. My Rock, do not be deaf to me. Lest You be mute to me and I be like those gone down to the pit.... Rescue Your people and bless Your estate. Tend them, bear them up for all time. An Opening Word Psalm 28 [...]

Sunday, June 27, 2021 (Day 27) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 27 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord is my light and my rescue. Whom should I fear? The Lord is my life's stronghold. Of whom should I be afraid? ...Hear, O Lord, my voice when I call and grant me grace and answer me... Hope for the Lord! Let your heart be firm and bold, [...]

Saturday, June 26, 2021 (Day 26) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 26 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Judge me, O Lord. For I have walked in my wholeness, and the Lord I have trusted. I shall not stumble. Test me, O Lord, and try me. Burn pure my conscience and my heart. For your kindness is before my eyes and I shall walk in Your truth.... I [...]

Friday, June 25, 2021 (Day 25) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 25 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) To you, O Lord, I lift my heart My God, in You I trust… Turn to me and grant me grace, for alone and afflicted am I. The distress of my heart has grown great. From my straights bring me out. See my affliction and suffering and forgive all my [...]

Thursday, June 24, 2021 (Day 24) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 24 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord's is the earth and its fullness, The world and the dwellers within it. For the Lord on the seas did found it, and on the torrents set it firm. Who shall go up on the mount of the Lord, and who shall stand up in the Lord's [...]

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 (Day 23) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 23 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In grass meadows the Lord makes me lie down, by quiet waters guides me. My life the Lord brings back, leading me on pathways of justice for the Lord's name sake. Though I walk in the vale of death's shadow, I [...]

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (Day 22) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 22 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my rescue are the words that I roar. My God, I call out by day and you do not answer, by night —no stillness for me. And You, the Holy One —enthroned in Israel's praise. In You did our [...]

Monday, June 21, 2021 (Day 21) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 21 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, in Your strength the king rejoices, and in Your rescue how much the king exults! The king's heart's desire You gave to him, and his lips' entreaty You did not withhold. For you met him with blessing of bounty, You set on his head a crown of pure gold. [...]

Sunday, June 20, 2021 (Day 20) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 20 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) May the Lord answer you on the day of distress, the name of Jacob's God make you safe. May the Lord send help to you from the sanctum, and from Zion may the Lord sustain you. May the Lord recall all your grain-offerings, and your burnt-offerings may the Lord relish. [...]

Saturday, June 19, 2021 (Day 19) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 19 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The heavens tell God's glory, and God's handiwork sky declares. Day to day breathes utterance and night to night pronounces knowledge. There is no utterance and there are no words, their voice is never heard. Through all the earth their voice goes out, to the world's edge, their words…. The [...]

Friday, June 18, 2021 (Day 18) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 18 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) I am impassioned of You, Lord, my strength!The Lord is my crag and my bastion,and my deliverer, my God,my rock where I shelter,my shield and the horn of my rescue,my fortress...In my strait I called to the Lord,to my God I cried out.The Lord heard from God's palace my voice,and my outcry [...]

Thursday, June 17 2021 (Day 17) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 17 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hear, O Lord, a just thing. Listen well to my song. Hearken to my guileless prayer. An Opening Word I love these opening words to Psalm 17. They give us a glimpse of a person seeking God with genuine, sincere, simple, almost childlike posture. It is unpretentious, unsophisticated, asking simply, [...]

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 (Day 16) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 16 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Guard me, O God, for I shelter in You. I said to the Lord, "My Master You are. My good is only through You." ... I set the Lord always before me, on my right hand, that I not stumble So my heart rejoices and my pulse beats with joy, [...]

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (Day 15) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 15 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, who will sojourn in Your tent, Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? The one who walks blameless And does justice And speaks the truth in their heart. An Opening Word Who will sojourn to God’s tent? Nature lovers, camping enthusiasts, hikers, field scouts, campground hosts, wilderness guides, [...]

Monday, June 14, 2021 (Day 14) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 14 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The scoundrel has said in his heart, “There is no God.” The Lord from the heavens looked down on the sons of humankind to see, is there someone discerning, someone seeking out God. All turn astray, altogether befouled. There is none who does good. There is not even one… In [...]

Sunday, June 13, 2021 (Day 13) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 13 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) How long, O Lord, will You forget me always? How long hide Your face from me? ...But I in Your kindness do trust, my heart exults in Your rescue. Let me sing to the Lord, for God requited me. An Opening Word Again the psalmists return to their cry of [...]

Saturday, June 12, 2021 (Day 12) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 12 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Rescue, O Lord! For the faithful is gone, For vanished is trust from all generations. Falsehood everyone speaks to one another, Smooth talk, with two hearts they speak. The Lord will cut off all smooth-talking lips, The tongues that speak of big things, Those who said, “Let us make our [...]

Friday, June 11, 2021 (Day 11) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 11 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) In the Lord I sheltered. How could you say to me, “Off to the hills like a bird! For, look, the wicked bend back the bow, they fix to the string their arrow to shoot from the gloom at the upright....” The Lord in God’s holy place, The Lord [...]

Thursday, June 10, 2021 (Day 10) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 10 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Why do You stand far off, O Lord, Turn away in times of distress? In the wicked man’s pride he pursues the poor, But is caught in the schemes he devised… The desire of the poor You have heard, O Lord, You made their heart firm, Your ear listens. To [...]

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 (Day 9) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 9 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) I acclaim the Lord with all my heart, Let me tell of all God’s wonders. Let me rejoice and be glad in You, Let me hymn Your name, Most high, when my enemies turn back, when they stumble and perish before You. An Opening Word Carl McColeman defines saints as [...]

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 (Day 8) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 8 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, our Master, How majestic Your name in all the earth! Whose splendor was told over the heavens. When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars You fixed firm, “What is man that You should note him, And the human creature, that You [...]

Monday, June 7, 2021 (Day 7) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 7 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, my God, in You I sheltered.Rescue me from all my pursuers and save me.Lest like a lion they tear up my life—Rend me, with no one to save me.Lord, my God, if I have done this,If there be wrongdoing in my hands…May the enemy pursue and overtake meAnd trample to earth [...]

Sunday, June 6, 2021 (Day 6) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 6 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, do not chastise me in Your wrath, Do not punish me in Your fury. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am wretched. Heal me, for my limbs are stricken. And my life is hard stricken. And You, O Lord, how long? Come back, Lord, deliver my life, Rescue [...]

Saturday, June 5, 2021 (Day 5) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 5 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Harken to my speech, O Lord, Attend to my utterance Listen well to my voice crying out, my king and my God, For to you I pray. Lord, in the morning, You hear my voice, In the morning I lay it before You and wait… Let all who shelter in [...]

Friday, June 4, 2021 (Day 4) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 4 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) When I call out, answer me, my righteous God. In the straits, You set me free. Have mercy upon me and hear my prayer… You put joy in my heart… In peace, all whole, let me lie down and sleep. For You, Lord, alone, do set me down safely. An [...]

Thursday, June 3, 2021 (Day 3) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 3 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, how many are my foes, many, who rise up against me. Many who say of my life: No rescue for him through God. And you, Lord, a shield are for me, my glory, who lifts up my head. With my voice I cry out to the Lord; God answers [...]

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 (Day 2) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 2 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Why are the nations aroused And the peoples murmur vain things? Kings of the earth take their stand, and princes conspire together against the Lord and against God’s anointed...O you kings, pay mind, be chastened, you rulers of earth. Worship the Lord in fear, and exult in trembling. With purity [...]