Psalm
52 Prayed
Praising Christ for his victory over Satan
O Lord Jesus, why does Satan
boast of evil?
Why
does he boast all day long,
he
who is a disgrace in the eyes of God?
His tongue plots destruction;
it
is like a sharpened razor,
he
who practices deceit.
He loves evil rather than good,
falsehood
rather than speaking the truth.
He loves every harmful
word.
O
his deceitful tongue!
Surely you, O Jesus, have
brought him down to
everlasting
ruin:
You snatched him up and tore
him from his
tent;
you
uprooted him from the land of the
living.
When you sent out the seventy two to preach the
kingdom,
they
returned rejoicing, saying:
“Lord,
even the demons submit to us in your
name.”
You replied, “I saw Satan fall
like lightning from
heaven.”
Remember, O Lord, the loud
voice in heaven:
“Now
have come the salvation
and
the power and the kingdom of our God,
and
the authority of his Christ.
For the accuser of our
brothers,
who
accuses them before our God day and
night,
has
been hurled down.
They overcame him
by
the blood of the Lamb
and
by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives
so much
as
to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and
you who dwell in them!"
And I will rejoice, for God has made me alive
with
you, O Christ.
He
has forgiven me all my sins,
having
cancelled the written code,
with
its regulations,
that was against me
and
that stood opposed to me;
he took it away,
nailing
it to the cross.
And
having disarmed Satan and his demons,
you
made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing
over them by the cross.
Those made righteous by faith
in you
will
see and fear;
they
will laugh at him, saying,
“Here now is the one
who
did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
and
grew strong by destroying others!”
Since I have been justified
through faith,
I
have peace with God through you,
my
Lord Jesus Christ.
Through you I have gained
access by faith
into
this grace in which I now stand.
And
I rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
So praise be to you, my God and
the Father
of
our Lord Jesus Christ!
In your great mercy you have
given me new birth
into
a living hope
through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ
from
the dead,
and
into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
or
fade—
kept
in heaven for me,
Through faith I am shielded by
your power
until
the coming of the salvation
that
is ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this I greatly rejoice,
though
now for a little while,
I
may have to suffer all kinds of trials.
Therefore I am like an olive
tree
flourishing
in the house of God;
I trust in your unfailing love
for
ever and ever.
I will praise you forever for
what you have done;
in
your name I will hope,
for
your name is good.
I will praise you in the
presence of your saints,
both
in heaven and on earth,
for
all eternity.
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Psalm 52 Prayed
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