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My Voice in the Morning
Psalm 5:1-12
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My voice will rise in the morning;
I will order my prayer and look above.
You do not delight in wickedness,
And evil cannot dwell beside Your love.
The proud cannot stand before You.
Falsehood cannot hide within Your sight.
Yet through the abundance of Your mercy
I will bow before Your holy place.
Lead me, Lord, in Your righteousness;
Make the road before me straight.
Let every trusting heart rejoice,
For Your favor surrounds them like a shield.
Their mouths are empty of faithfulness;
Their words conceal a grave within.
Let their own counsel fall around them,
For rebellion ripens into sin.
Lead me, Lord, in Your righteousness;
Make the road before me straight.
Let all who love Your name rejoice;
Your favor guards them like a shield.
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Psalms 5: Morning prayer before a dangerous tongue
Psalm 5 arranges the day around competing forms of speech. Morning begins with words, meditation, crying, and deliberate prayer directed to “my King, and my God.” The psalm then contrasts that ordered appeal with mouths marked by falsehood, flattery, and violence. Access to worship is not claimed as a personal entitlement; the speaker comes in “the multitude” of God’s mercy and asks to be led in a straight way because enemies make the path dangerous. Their speech is pictured as an open grave, giving words the weight of lethal action. The ending answers hostile enclosure with another kind of surrounding presence: divine favor compasses the righteous like a shield, and joy belongs to those whose trust rests there.
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