Poets & Saints

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Psalm 139

1 

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.

2 

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

    you discern my thoughts from far away.

3 

You search out my path and my lying down,

    and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 

Even before a word is on my tongue,

    O Lord, you know it completely.

5 

You hem me in, behind and before,

    and lay your hand upon me.

6 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

    it is so high that I cannot attain it.

7 

Where can I go from your spirit?

    Or where can I flee from your presence?

8 

If I ascend to heaven, you are there;

    if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

9 

If I take the wings of the morning

    and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

10 

even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me fast.

11 

If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me,

    and the light around me become night’,

12 

even the darkness is not dark to you;

    the night is as bright as the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

13 

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

    Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

15 

    My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16 

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.

In your book were written

    all the days that were formed for me,

    when none of them as yet existed.

17 

How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

18 

I try to count them—they are more than the sand;

    I come to the end—I am still with you.

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Psalm 131

1

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,

    my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

    too great and too marvellous for me.

2 

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

    like a weaned child with its mother;

    my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.[a]

3 

O Israel, hope in the Lord

    from this time on and for evermore.

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1 

I rejoiced with those who said to me,

    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

2 

Our feet are standing

    in your gates, Jerusalem.

3 

Jerusalem is built like a city

    that is closely compacted together.

4 

That is where the tribes go up—

    the tribes of the Lord—

to praise the name of the Lord

    according to the statute given to Israel.

5 

There stand the thrones for judgment,

    the thrones of the house of David.

6 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

    “May those who love you be secure.

7 

May there be peace within your walls

    and security within your citadels.”

8 

For the sake of my family and friends,

    I will say, “Peace be within you.”

9 

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

    I will seek your prosperity.

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Psalm 121:1-8 (NIV)

• "I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?
• My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
• He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber;
• indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
• The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
• the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
• The Lord will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life;
• the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore."

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35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

40 He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

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