Monday the 31st: Psalm 30

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

 I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
    and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
    you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.

Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
    and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
    a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
    but with the dawn, rejoicing.

“Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
    O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
    O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

 (Pinterest, no source given on picture; scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033125.cfm)

Friday the 28th: Psalm 81

I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.

An unfamiliar speech I hear:
"I relieved his shoulder of the burden;
his hands were freed from the basket.
In distress you called, and I rescued you."

"Unseen, I answered you in thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Hear, my people, and I will admonish you;
O Israel, will you not hear me?"

"There shall be no strange god among you
 nor shall you worship any alien god.
I, the LORD, am your God
who led you forth from the land of Egypt."

"If only my people would hear me,
and Israel walk in my ways,
I would feed them with the best of wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would fill them."

(Psalm from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032825.cfm; picture from Pinterest from http://www.prophecydepotministries.net/2015/the-fig-tree-parable-for-the-final-generation/)

Thursday the 27th: Psalm 95

 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."

 (Scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032725.cfm; Picture found on Pinterest)

Wednesday the 26th: Psalm 147

 Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.

He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
He spreads snow like wool;
frost he strews like ashes.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them.

(Scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032625.cfm; https://alittleperspective.com/psalms-1-30-scripture-pictures/)

 

Tuesday the 25th: Annunciation, Psalm 40

 Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. 

Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, “Behold I come.”

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
To do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!”

I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.

Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;
your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;
I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth
in the vast assembly.

 

 (Scripture https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032525.cfm; Pinterest, no source, Kym Nguyen)

Monday the 24th: Psalm 42

 Athirst is my soul for the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?

As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.

Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?

Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling-place.

Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!

(Word https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032425.cfm)

 (Picture on Aquinas and More Pinterest board with no citation)

Friday the 21st: Psalm 105

 

 Most of the psalms in Lent are penitential or lament oriented: this psalm is different but related; it asks the reader to trust that the marvelous things God has done in the past, he will continue to do now and in the future, even if current events would seem to deny that possibility.

Psalm found at https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032125.cfm

 Remember the marvels the Lord has done. 

When the LORD called down a famine on the land
and ruined the crop that sustained them,
He sent a man before them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.

They had weighed him down with fetters,
and he was bound with chains,
Till his prediction came to pass
and the word of the LORD proved him true.

The king sent and released him,
the ruler of the peoples set him free.
He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions.
 

 

(Picture found at Pinterest and traced to https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/33414806312)

Thursday the 20th: Psalm 1

 (Scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032025.cfm; refrain from Psalm 40)

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.

He is like a tree
planted near running water,
That yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.

Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

(Pinterest, Franciscan Mission Services)

 

Wednesday the 19th: Psalm 89

 The son of David will live for ever. 

The promises of the LORD I will sing forever;
through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness,
For you have said, "My kindness is established forever";
in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David my servant:
Forever will I confirm your posterity
and establish your throne for all generations."

"He shall say of me, 'You are my father,
my God, the Rock, my savior.'
Forever I will maintain my kindness toward him,
and my covenant with him stands firm."

 (Picture found on Pinterest, no longer traces back to active site)

Tuesday the 18th: Psalm 50

 To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

"Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
for your burnt offerings are before me always.
I take from your house no bullock,
no goats out of your fold."

"Why do you recite my statutes,
and profess my covenant with your mouth,
Though you hate discipline
and cast my words behind you?"

"When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?
Or do you think that I am like yourself?
I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.
He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;
and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God."

 (Psalm from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031825.cfm; Picture found on Pinterest with no source)

Monday the 17th: Psalm 79

 (see 103:10a)  Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us,
for we are brought very low.

Help us, O God our savior,
because of the glory of your name;
Deliver us and pardon our sins
for your name’s sake.

Let the prisoners’ sighing come before you;
with your great power free those doomed to death.
Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
through all generations we will declare your praise.

(Reading found at https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031725.cfm; picture on Pinterest from https://small-leavedshamrock.blogspot.com/2010/03/3rd-annual-st-patricks-day-blog-parade.html)

Friday the 14th: Psalm 130

 If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand? 

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
    LORD, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
    to my voice in supplication.

If you, O LORD, mark iniquities,
    LORD, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
    that you may be revered. 

I trust in the LORD;
    my soul trusts in his word.
My soul waits for the LORD
    more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
    Let Israel wait for the LORD.

For with the LORD is kindness
    and with him is plenteous redemption;
And he will redeem Israel
    from all their iniquities.

 (Picture found on Pinterest with no source; Scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031425.cfm)

Thursday the 13th: Psalm 138

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple
and give thanks to your name.

Because of your kindness and your truth;
for you have made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called, you answered me;
you built up strength within me.

Your right hand saves me.
The LORD will complete what he has done for me;
your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
forsake not the work of your hands.

(Scripture from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031325.cfm)

 (Picture from Pinterest traced to https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/exhibit-highlights-women-scriptures?cid=social_20140925_32297666)

Wednesday the 12th: Psalm 51

A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.

A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

 (Psalm from https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031225.cfm; Pinterest to https://smconner-acreativelife.blogspot.com/2011/03/last-nights-ash-wednesday-witness.html)

Tuesday the 11th: Psalm 34

 From daily readings, found at https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031125.cfm

From all their distress God rescues the just.

 Glorify the LORD with me,
let us together extol his name.
I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.

Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.

The LORD has eyes for the just,
and ears for their cry.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.

When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.

 (From Pinterest: Gospel 1st Sunday of Lent C; Mount of Temptation. As recorded in the Gospels of Matthew (4:1-11) and Luke (4:1-13) — and fleetingly in Mark (1:12-13))