Psalm 120 – Save me Lord from liars and deceivers. David speaks of the people around him as people who hate peace. Just imagine what it would be like to be a ruler in these days with attacks coming from all sides and having to deal with them. If you loved God and wanted to live in peace, how torturous would that be.

Psalm 121 – Famous words: “I look to the mountains where will my help come from? My help will come from the Lord who made heaven and…

Psalm 119:89-176 - The word of the Lord, His faithfulness, His law - while never experienced without sufferings and doubts - are the most precious things the psalmist - thought by many to have been King David - has in his life. God is our teacher, and "how sweet is the taste" of all He imparts to us. Again, as I said yesterday, this psalm sounds to me as if it were really written by a king or political leader who wants so badly to be faithful, obedient and appreciative of…

Psalm 118 - "Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good, and his love is eternal" (118:1). Everyone should have these words on their lips. "It is better to trust in the Lord than to depend on people. . . on human leaders" (118:8-9). The very famous words that Jesus repeats in Matthew are here: "The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all"(118:22).



I wasn't sure what the psalmist was talking about here, so I…

Psalm 114 - The liberation of God's people from slavery and their dedication to Him made all of nature change - the sea "ran" from them, the river stopped flowing, the mountains "skipped like goats." Transformative - that is a word that captures what commitment to God's "leadings" in one's soul is like.

Psalm 115 - Trust in the Lord - trust. Do not be afraid of anything. That is not a problem for me, mostly. There are times when I go through turmoil,…

Things have gotten a little too complicated trying to do a scripture blog on Quaker Quaker AND  a separate one on my Catholic-Quaker blog AND on the one I do for our Westbury Monthly Meeting blog, which I call the Narrative of Scripture. I'm on blog overload. Plus there is the Thursday Bible Study my husband and I have going on here at home. We will probably start doing some extra-biblical readings from the early church "fathers" or other more contemporary commentaries. Too many going in too…

If you would like to have some organized schedule for reading scripture, I found this years ago and it has been a great resource. It will take three posts to get it all up but I hope some find it useful. This is OT - Year One.

Old Testament Readings

Year One [You can jump to January]

December:

1  – Isaiah 1

2  – Isaiah 2-4

3  – Isaiah 5

4  – Isaiah 6-7

5  – Isaiah 8-9

6  – Isaiah 10

7  – Isaiah…

Old Testament Readings - 

Year Two

December:

1  – Psalms 1-5

2  – Psalms 6-8

3  – Psalms 9-11

4  – Psalms 12-16

5  – Psalms 17-18

6  – Psalms 19-22

7  – Psalms 23-25

8  – Psalms 26-29

9  – Psalms 30-32

10 – Psalms 33-34

11 – Psalms 35-36

12 – Psalms 37-39

13 – Psalms 40-42

14 – Psalms 43-45

15 – Psalms 46-49

16 – Psalms 50-53

17 – Psalms…