The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 180, is Psalms 141-150: The psalter ends with an orchestral finale: Psalm 150, a corporate psalm of praise. “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Hallelujah!”
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 179, is Psalms 134-140: “For his mercy endures forever” is the refrain of Psalm 136: the cause of every event is God’s mercy, which endures forever. Even when, as in Psalm 137, “By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept.”
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 178, is Psalms 120-133: Fourteen brief psalms of pilgrimage, including some favorites: “I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth” (120).
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 177, is Psalm 119: Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible (176 verses). It is an elaborate alphabetical psalm with 22 eight-verse stanzas that extol the Word of God.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 176, is Psalms 112-118: Psalm 112 is an alphabetical acrostic, in which each line begins with a successive letter in the Hebrew alphabet. These psalms are almost all hymns of praise.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 175, is Psalms 107-111: Psalm 107 begins Book 5 of the psalter, the final section. Psalm 110 is a messianic psalm, referring forward to Jesus, and is quoted in the New Testament more than any other verse in the Old Testament.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 174, is Psalms 104-106: Psalms 105 and 106 are historical, retelling the story of the Exodus as a way of illustrating God’s repeated deliverance of Israel and thus providing hope.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 173, is Psalms 95-103: A portion of Psalm 95, known as the Venite, has been a principal part of Morning Prayer in the Anglican tradition since the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 172, is Psalms 89-94: Psalm 90, which begins Book 4 of the psalter, is the oldest psalm, attributed to Moses.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 171, is Psalms 81-88: A diverse set of psalms: some from Asaph, some from David, others anonymous; some laments, others celebrations, moralism, or historical, or all three together. Ends with the mournful, “Darkness is my only companion.”
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