Reading note: pronounce יהוה as “Adonai” once. Seasonal alternatives apply only in their proper season and are not recited together. Headings and directions are explanatory and are not part of the recited text.
Parts index
Song of the Day
Sunday — Psalm 24
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the LORD? And who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not taken My name in vain, and hath not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is the generation of them that seek after Him, that seek Thy face, even Jacob. Selah Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in. 'Who is the King of glory?' 'The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.' Lift up your heads, O ye gates, Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors; That the King of glory may come in. 'Who then is the King of glory?' 'The LORD of hosts; He is the King of glory.' Selah
Monday — Psalm 48
A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain, Fair in situation, the joy of the whole earth; Even mount Zion, the uttermost parts of the north, The city of the great King. God in her palaces Hath made Himself known for a stronghold. For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They came onward together. They saw, straightway they were amazed; They were affrighted, they hasted away. Trembling took hold of them there, Pangs, as of a woman in travail. With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God— God establish it for ever. Selah We have thought on Thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Thy temple. As is Thy name, O God, So is Thy praise unto the ends of the earth; Thy right hand is full of righteousness. Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of Thy judgments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Count the towers thereof. Mark ye well her ramparts, Traverse her palaces; That ye may tell it to the generation following. . For such is God, our God, for ever and ever; He will guide us eternally.
Tuesday — Psalm 82
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of God; in the midst of the judges He judgeth: 'How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the poor and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are moved. I said: Ye are godlike beings, and all of you sons of the Most High. Nevertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.' Arise, O God, judge the earth; for Thou shalt possess all the nations.
Wednesday — Psalm 94
O LORD, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth. Lift up Thyself, Thou Judge of the earth; Render to the proud their recompense. LORD, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked exult? They gush out, they speak arrogancy; All the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily. They crush Thy people, O LORD, And afflict Thy heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. And they say: 'The LORD will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob give heed.' Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye understand? He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see? He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? Even He that teacheth man knowledge? The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity. Happy is the man whom Thou instructest, O LORD, And teachest out of Thy law; That Thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, Until the pit be digged for the wicked. For the LORD will not cast off His people, Neither will He forsake His inheritance. For right shall return unto justice, And all the upright in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Unless the LORD had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence. If I say: 'My foot slippeth', Thy mercy, O LORD, holdeth me up. When my cares are many within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, Which frameth mischief by statute? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood. But the LORD hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge. And He hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own evil; The LORD our God will cut them off.
O come, let us sing unto the LORD; Let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout for joy unto Him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, And a great King above all gods;
Thursday — Psalm 81
For the Leader; upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery. Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast-day. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt. The speech of one that I knew not did I hear: 'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket. Thou didst call in trouble, and I rescued thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me! There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But My people hearkened not to My voice; And Israel would none of Me. So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should dwindle away before Him; And their punishment should endure for ever. They should also be fed with the fat of wheat; and with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.'
Friday — Psalm 93
The LORD reigneth; He is clothed in majesty; The LORD is clothed, He hath girded Himself with strength; Yea, the world is established, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old; Thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring. Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, The LORD on high is mighty. Thy testimonies are very sure, Holiness becometh Thy house, O LORD, for evermore.
Shabbat — Psalm 92
A Psalm, a Song. For the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, And to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High; To declare Thy lovingkindness in the morning, And Thy faithfulness in the night seasons, With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp. For Thou, LORD, hast made me glad through Thy work; I will exult in the works of Thy hands. How great are Thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not, Neither doth a fool understand this. When the wicked spring up as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they may be destroyed for ever. But Thou, O LORD, art on high for evermore. For, lo, Thine enemies, O LORD, For, lo, Thine enemies shall perish: All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn hast Thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox; I am anointed with rich oil. Mine eye also hath gazed on them that lie in wait for me, Mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me. The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the LORD, They shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and richness; To declare that the LORD is upright, My Rock, in whom there is no unrighteousness.
