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Psalm 5: The Morning Voice
If Psalm 4 is an evening prayer, Psalm 5 is its dawn counterpart — the first words of a soul that has learned where to turn before turning anywhere else. "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." That final phrase is everything: "and will look up." Not merely speaking words into the dark, but lifting the eyes in expectation, like a watchman scanning the horizon for the first streak of light. The psalm is bracingly honest about the world David wakes into — a world of flattery and open graves, of tongues as smooth as oil and hearts full of destruction. And yet the response is not despair but worship. "I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy." David does not wait until the world improves to pray; he prays because the world is precisely as broken as it is. The psalm ends with a promise that feels like sunrise itself: God will bless the righteous and surround them with favour as with a shield. The morning belongs to those who look up.
00:00 Give Ear to My Words
00:12 The Morning Prayer
00:25 No Pleasure in Wickedness
00:38 Into Thy House in Mercy
00:50 The Open Sepulchre
00:58 Joy for Those Who Trust
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0:00Psalm 5, give ears to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Harkin unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God, for unto thee will I pray. My voice shall thou hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure and wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with thee. The fool is shall not stand in thy sight, thou hathest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing. The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man, but as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy. In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Lead me O Lord in thy righteousness because of my enemies, make thy weight straight before my face. For there is no faithfulness in their mouth, their inward part is very wickedness.
1:01Their throat is an open supple curve, they flatter with their tongue. Destroy thou them O God, let them fall by their own counsels, cast them out of the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee. But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them. Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou, Lord, will bless the righteous, with favor wilt thou compass him as with the shield.
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