"What Thanksgiving Means to God"
Psalms 69 (NASB)
1 Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life.2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore.5 O God, it is You who knows my folly, And my wrongs are not hidden from You.6 May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face.8 I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mothers sons.9 For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards.13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth.14 Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.15 May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly.18 Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; All my adversaries are before You.20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.21 They also gave me gall for my food And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.22 May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.23 May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually.24 Pour out Your indignation on them, And may Your burning anger overtake them.25 May their camp be desolate; May none dwell in their tents.26 For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness.28 May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous.29 But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.30 I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving.31 And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.32 The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God, let your heart revive.33 For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it.
Psalms 50 (NASB)
1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.3 May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him.4 He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people:5 Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.9 I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds.10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.11 I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.12 If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.16 But to the wicked God says, What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth?17 For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you.18 When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers.19 You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit.20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mothers son.21 These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.22 Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.23 He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God.
Psalms 51 (NASB)
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities.10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.15 O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise.16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.18 By Your favor do good to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, In burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar.
1 Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life.2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore.5 O God, it is You who knows my folly, And my wrongs are not hidden from You.6 May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face.8 I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mothers sons.9 For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards.13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth.14 Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.15 May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly.18 Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; All my adversaries are before You.20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.21 They also gave me gall for my food And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.22 May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.23 May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually.24 Pour out Your indignation on them, And may Your burning anger overtake them.25 May their camp be desolate; May none dwell in their tents.26 For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness.28 May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous.29 But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.30 I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving.31 And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.32 The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God, let your heart revive.33 For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it.
Psalms 50 (NASB)
1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.3 May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him.4 He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people:5 Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.9 I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds.10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.11 I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.12 If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.16 But to the wicked God says, What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth?17 For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you.18 When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers.19 You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit.20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mothers son.21 These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.22 Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.23 He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God.
Psalms 51 (NASB)
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities.10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.15 O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise.16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.18 By Your favor do good to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, In burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar.