A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the Lord: Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. (Psalm 102:1) As we begin, let us first take note of the heading given to this particular psalm, which tradition says was...

He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not continue in my presence. Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord. (Psalm 101:7-8) In the words of one Jewish...

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; the one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, him I will not endure. (Psalm 101:5) In the previous devotion, David declared that he had no interest in following in the ways of the wicked lest their...

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. (Psalm 101:3) At some point during their sojourn in Egypt, the people of Israel began to stray away from the faith of their fathers and embrace the ways of the...

I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. (Psalm 101:2) When the patriarch Abraham was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to him and changed his name from Abram to Abraham. It was on this...

I will sing of mercy and justice; to You, O Lord, I will sing praises. (Psalm 101:1) It is said that David, flawed as he was, loved justice and despised evil. As one who had suffered much at the hands of evil men, it is not surprising in the least that David would...

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations. (Psalm 100:4-5) In Judaism it is widely accepted that, in the...

Know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. (Psalm 100:3) It is noted by Jewish commentators that the Hebrew spelling of the phrase, “it is He who has made us and not we ourselves,”...

Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. (Psalm 100:1-2) When Messiah went preaching throughout the Galilee and Judea, He often encountered and confronted the religious elite of whom He said,...

A Psalm of Thanksgiving. (Psalm 100) This last in a series of eleven psalms, said to have been composed by Moses, is introduced to us as a psalm of thanksgiving. Tradition says that this particular psalm was sung in the Temple when worshipers would come before the...

You answered them, O Lord our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, though You took vengeance on their deeds. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy. (Psalm 99:8-9) The Scripture recounts that as Israel journeyed through...

He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance He gave them. (Psalm 99:7) In this verse, the psalmist obviously refers to the unique and powerful way God made His Presence known to His people as they journeyed through the...