Great Plains Daily Devotional for 06/23/2014

2nd Sunday after Pentecost/in
Kingdomtide – Green

Genesis 21:8-21
Psalm 86:1-10,16-17 or Psalm 17
Romans 6:1b-11
Matthew 10:24-39
 
 

Psalm 55

Complaint about a Friend’s Treachery

To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
¹ Give ear to my prayer, O God;
do not hide yourself from my supplication.
² Attend to me, and answer me;
I am troubled in my complaint.
I am distraught ³by the noise of the enemy,
because of the clamour of the wicked.
For they bring^* trouble upon me,
and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

⁴ My heart is in anguish within me,
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
⁵ Fear and trembling come upon me,
and horror overwhelms me.
⁶ And I say, ‘O that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
⁷ truly, I would flee far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness;
Selah
⁸ I would hurry to find a shelter for myself
from the raging wind and tempest.’