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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're reading Psalms forty five and

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Speaker 1: forty six, and we'll be reading from the New American

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Speaker 1: Standard Bible for the choir director. According to the Shoshaneme,

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Speaker 1: a mas skille of the Sons of Cora a song

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Speaker 1: of love. My heart overflows with a good theme. I

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Speaker 1: address my verses to the King. My tongue is the

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Speaker 1: pen of a ready writer. You are fairer than the

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Speaker 1: sons of men. Grace is poured upon your lips. Therefore

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Speaker 1: God has blessed you forever. Gird your sword on your thigh,

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Speaker 1: Mighty One, in your splendor and your majesty. And in

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Speaker 1: your majesty, ride on victoriously for the cause of truth

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Speaker 1: and meekness and righteousness. Let your right hand teach you

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Speaker 1: awesome things. Your arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under you.

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Speaker 1: Your arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.

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Speaker 1: Your throne o God is forever and ever. A scepter

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Speaker 1: of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have

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Speaker 1: loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God, your God, has

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Speaker 1: anointed you with the oil of joy. Above your fellows.

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Speaker 1: All your garments are fragrant with mr and aloes and cassia.

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Speaker 1: Out of ivory palaces, stringed instruments have made you glad.

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Speaker 1: King's daughters are among your noble ladies. At your right

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Speaker 1: hand stands the in gold from O fear. Listen, O daughter,

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Speaker 1: give attention and incline your ear. Forget your people and

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Speaker 1: your father's house. Then the king will desire your beauty,

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Speaker 1: because he is your lord. Bow down to him. The

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Speaker 1: daughter of Tire will come with a gift. The rich

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Speaker 1: among the people will seek your favor. The king's daughter

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Speaker 1: is all glorious. Within her clothing is interwoven with gold.

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Speaker 1: She will be led to the king in embroidered work.

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Speaker 1: The virgins her companions who follow her, will be brought

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Speaker 1: to you. They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing.

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Speaker 1: They will enter into the king's palace in place of

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Speaker 1: your father's. Will be your sons. You shall make them

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Speaker 1: princes in all the earth. I will cause your name

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Speaker 1: to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples will

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Speaker 1: give you thanks forever and ever. Psalm forty six for

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Speaker 1: the choir director, a psalm of the Suns of Corah

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Speaker 1: set to Alamoth a song. God is our refuge and strength,

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Speaker 1: very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear,

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Speaker 1: though the earth should change, and though the mountains slip

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Speaker 1: and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride Selah,

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Speaker 1: there is a river whose streams make glad. The City

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Speaker 1: of God, the holy dwelling places of the Most High God,

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Speaker 1: is in the midst of her. She will not be moved.

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Speaker 1: God will help her. When morning dawns, the nations made

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Speaker 1: an uproar, the kingdoms tottered. He raised his the earth melted.

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Speaker 1: The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of

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Speaker 1: Jacob is our stronghold, Selah. Come behold the works of

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Speaker 1: the Lord who has wrought desolations in the earth. He

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Speaker 1: makes wars to cease to the end of the earth.

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Speaker 1: He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two.

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Speaker 1: He burns the chariots with fire. Cease striving, and know

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Speaker 1: that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations.

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Speaker 1: I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of

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Speaker 1: Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our

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Speaker 1: stronghold Selah. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you for the privilege to be able

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Speaker 1: to look at it together today. And we thank you

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Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at these

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Speaker 1: psalms as they anticipate the rule and the reign of

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Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ, the ultimate King, the lion of

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Speaker 1: the tribe of Judah, the one who is spoken of

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Speaker 1: throne that is forever and ever, who is described as

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Speaker 1: being God himself, one who rules with the scepter of uprightness,

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Speaker 1: one who loves righteousness and hates wickedness. Lord, we're grateful

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Speaker 1: to have the privilege to be able to look at

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Speaker 1: this portion of scripture, and we're grateful for the fact

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Speaker 1: that your entire word points us to your son Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: We see him all over the psalms, and we see

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Speaker 1: him in particular in the psalms that we're looking at today.

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Speaker 1: So Lord, thank you for these reminders. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: things that point our hearts to Jesus and thank you

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Speaker 1: for your love and your presence with us today. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we commit this day to your care, and we just

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Speaker 1: thank you for your presence with us in all things.

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Speaker 1: And we pray this all in Jesus's name, Amen,