Psalms 60; Psalms 61; Psalms 62; Romans 5

1 God, you have rejected us and scattered us. You have been angry, but please come back to us.

2 You made the earth shake and crack. Heal its breaks because it is shaking.

3 You have given your people trouble. You made us unable to walk straight, like people drunk with wine.

4 You have raised a banner to gather those who fear you. Now they can stand up against the enemy.Selah

5 Answer us and save us by your power so the people you love will be rescued.

6 God has said from his Temple, "When I win, I will divide Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.

7 Gilead and Manasseh are mine. Ephraim is like my helmet. Judah holds my royal scepter.

8 Moab is like my washbowl. I throw my sandals at Edom. I shout at Philistia."

9 Who will bring me to the strong, walled city?

10 God, surely you have rejected us; you do not go out with our armies.

11 Help us fight the enemy. Human help is useless,

12 but we can win with God's help. He will defeat our enemies.

1 God, hear my cry; listen to my prayer.

2 I call to you from the ends of the earth when I am afraid. Carry me away to a high mountain.

3 You have been my protection, like a strong tower against my enemies.

4 Let me live in your Holy Tent forever. Let me find safety in the shelter of your wings. Selah

5 God, you have heard my promises. You have given me what belongs to those who fear you.

6 Give the king a long life; let him live many years.

7 Let him rule in the presence of God forever. Protect him with your love and truth.

8 Then I will praise your name forever, and every day I will keep my promises.

1 I find rest in God; only he can save me.

2 He is my rock and my salvation. He is my defender; I will not be defeated.

3 How long will you attack someone? Will all of you kill that person? Who is like a leaning wall, like a fence ready to fall?

4 They are planning to make that person fall. They enjoy telling lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse.Selah

5 I find rest in God; only he gives me hope.

6 He is my rock and my salvation. He is my defender; I will not be defeated.

7 My honor and salvation come from God. He is my mighty rock and my protection.

8 People, trust God all the time. Tell him all your problems, because God is our protection.Selah

9 The least of people are only a breath, and even the greatest are just a lie. On the scales, they weigh nothing; together they are only a breath.

10 Do not trust in force. Stealing is of no use. Even if you gain more riches, don't put your trust in them.

11 God has said this, and I have heard it over and over: God is strong.

12 The Lord is loving. You reward people for what they have done. A psalm of David when he was in the desert of Judah.

1 Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 who has brought us into that blessing of God's grace that we now enjoy. And we are happy because of the hope we have of sharing God's glory.

3 We also have joy with our troubles, because we know that these troubles produce patience.

4 And patience produces character, and character produces hope.

5 And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

6 When we were unable to help ourselves, at the moment of our need, Christ died for us, although we were living against God.

7 Very few people will die to save the life of someone else. Although perhaps for a good person someone might possibly die.

8 But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

9 So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger, because we have been made right with God by the blood of Christ's death.

10 While we were God's enemies, he made friends with us through the death of his Son. Surely, now that we are his friends, he will save us through his Son's life.

11 And not only that, but now we are also very happy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we are now God's friends again.

12 Sin came into the world because of what one man did, and with sin came death. This is why everyone must die -- because everyone sinned.

13 Sin was in the world before the law of Moses, but sin is not counted against us as breaking a command when there is no law.

14 But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, everyone had to die, even those who had not sinned by breaking a command, as Adam had. Adam was like the One who was coming in the future.

15 But God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. Many people died because of the sin of that one man. But the grace from God was much greater; many people received God's gift of life by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

16 After Adam sinned once, he was judged guilty. But the gift of God is different. God's free gift came after many sins, and it makes people right with God.

17 One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now those people who accept God's full grace and the great gift of being made right with him will surely have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ.

18 So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God. And that brings true life for all.

19 One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.

20 The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God's grace increased.

21 Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.