Bible Verses About Select Readings

He who sits in heaven laughs; Adonai looks at them in derision.

Then in his anger he rebukes them, terrifies them in his fury.

"I myself have installed my king on Tziyon, my holy mountain."

"I will proclaim the decree: ADONAI said to me, 'You are my son; today I became your father.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance; the whole wide world will be your possession.

You will break them with an iron rod, shatter them like a clay pot.'"

Therefore, kings, be wise; be warned, you judges of the earth.

Serve ADONAI with fear; rejoice, but with trembling.

Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish along the way, when suddenly his anger blazes. How blessed are all who take refuge in him.

For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of David: ADONAI! Our Lord! How glorious is your name throughout the earth! The fame of your majesty spreads even above the heavens!

From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast you established strength because of your foes, in order that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place -

what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them; humans, that you watch over them with such care?

You made him but little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor,

you had him rule what your hands made, you put everything under his feet -

sheep and oxen, all of them, also the animals in the wilds,

the birds in the air, the fish in the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

ADONAI! Our Lord! How glorious is your name throughout the earth!

For the leader. By David the servant of ADONAI, who addressed the words of this song to ADONAI on the day when ADONAI delivered him from the power of all his enemies, including from the power of Sha'ul. He said: "I love you, ADONAI, my strength!

"ADONAI is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold.

I call on ADONAI, who is worthy of praise; and I am saved from my enemies.

"For the cords of death surrounded me, the floods of B'liya'al terrified me,

the ropes of Sh'ol were wrapped around me, the snares of death lay there before me.

In my distress I called to ADONAI; I cried out to my God. Out of his temple he heard my voice; my cry reached his ears.

"Then the earth quaked and shook, the foundations of the mountains trembled. They were shaken because he was angry.