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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

(Music in The Bible)

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 23:4 Or the valley of the shadow of death

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My Second Grade teacher taught us this Psalm in the KJV. No matter what translation I read, my mind recites the KJV no matter what words my eyes see. Strange...

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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Oh LORD, You are Forever Holy and Righteous.
How Excellent is Your Name!
It is You Who Stretched out the Heavens,
And it is You Who laid the Foundations of the Earth.
You Alone Are Worthy of Praise,
and You Alone Are The One True God of Abraham!
Ancient of Days,
Rock of Ages,
Eternal, and Almighty,
We Can Do Nothing But
Fall On Our Faces Before You
in Endless Worship and Thanksgiving!
We Thank You For Your Mighty,
Exquisite, Holy, and Immutable Word!
We Thank You For Your Jewish People,
Who in Spite of Centuries of Exile and Persecution,
Have Kept Your Word Alive.
We Thank You For Giving Us a Glimpse
Into Your Eternal Mind,
And We Thank You For Your Provision
For Redemption and Wholeness,
Even Though None Of us deserve it!

For the Sake of Your Anointed,
and For The Sake of Your Name,
We pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,
For Israel,
According to Your Word,
and Your Promise.

We Pray For Our President,
And other Leaders of Our Beloved USA
May They Receive Wisdom from You
To do the Right Thing.
We Pray For The Swift and Sure Coming of Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Establish His Kingdom,
and Make All Things Right.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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I have three little stories that go with this awesome Psalm, so I will just go into it:

1. Miss Marcus Miss Marcus was my second-grade teacher. My school was in a majority-Jewish neighborhood, where the store signs were in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. Miss Marcus was Jewish, but she loved all the holidays and we celebrated them with all the decorations and lore. I first learned about Hanukah in her class, and found out that it had its own story, and was not just "the Jewish Christmas". Anyway, we would start every day with The Pledge of Allegiance, "America" and a Prayer. Miss Marcus taught us an awesome prayer, with a lot of "Thees and Thous" in it, so it sounded very holy. But it was about a shepherd and his sheep! It was very odd, because, growing up in the Inner City, we didn't really identify with farm animals! But it was a lovely prayer, and rolled off our tongues like a song, every morning until it was completely embedded in my subconscious.

One day, we arrived in class, and Miss Marcus was crying. She tearfully told us that we could no longer say "the prayer" because the US Supreme Court had made a ruling. She did, however, remark that The Pledge would be followed by "a moment of silence," which was still legal. And since we had all memorized Psalm 23 in the KJV, we 35 kids, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, were united in a silent Psalm 23, every day, till the end of the school year.

2. Ruthie's Prayer My late M-I-L Ruthie was awaiting results of a scan of her uterus. The first scan was not good, and she had been admitted to the hospital with the possibility of a complete hysterectomy. I called her to encourage her and pray for a successful outcome.

"I don't mind you praying for me," she said. "But I want something from the OLD Testament."

OK...so I started praying Psalm 23 from memory (Thank You, Miss Marcus!)

"No no no!" Ruthie cried out. "That's the prayer they say at JEWISH FUNERALS!"

Nevertheless, I finished the prayer and said that it was a prayer of LIFE, not death. I felt a little ashamed of my faux pas, though. Was I that insensitive?

Anyway, Ruthie called me the next day and told me that the second scan had absolutely NO cancer. The doctors were so confused by the change that they even suspected that the original scan had belonged to someone else.

3. Reading Glasses At my husband's funeral, I wanted my brother Tom to read the 23rd Psalm. I handed him my husband's Bible with the Psalm bookmarked. Tom started reading, but his eyes were not focused on the page. Then I realized that he was reciting the 23rd Psalm in the KJV, and by husband's Bible was the New American Standard! The differences are slight but I knew it. Finally, Tom asked for a pair of reading glasses and finished the Psalm in the NASB. The reading glasses were his wife's and they were ladies style in fluorescent purple. It's funny...the things you remember.

Psalm 23 is a "Psalm of David. There are no instructions for the music director, no musical directions, no instruments mentioned. It may be that David composed this as a shepherd boy, out in the fields, on his small portable harp called a "kinor".

It has two balanced stanzas of four couplets each, with a triplet "Bridge" in the middle. The Bridge changes the mode of address from the Third-Person Singular (The LORD is my Shepherd) to the Second-Person Singular (YOU prepare a table). The song is rich in metaphor, and very consistent with the Hebrew imagery of the "Shepherd-King". (see Psalms 28:9, 79:13, 80:1, 95:7, Is 44, and Jer 3)

This Psalm is part of our heritage, and has no "denomination".

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Hiskid]

Amen. I can’t recite it without thinking of the Amplified version! I especially like 2 He makes me lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still and restful waters.

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Thank You, Hiskid, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Isn’t it lovely that we can read this priceless gem in so many translations!

I really love this Psalm.

[NEWwoman]

Psalm 23 is most beloved.

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Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

[etabeta]

Joining in prayer. God bless.

(Thank you as always)

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Thank You, NEWwoman, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Maudeen]

Amen

Oh that we would have more teachers as in yesteryears . . . my third grade teacher invited our family to church (we were new in the community) and I was saved and baptized there. At the time I didn’t realize my Grandma and Aunt were really praying hard for us to attend that church.

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Thank You, Maudeen, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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I can’t even imagine what would happen to those wonderful teachers in today’s political environment.

[Maudeen]

It’s called Christian persecution. This article today shows how much things have changed in the schools. https://illinoisfamily.org/education/if-this-can-happen-in-a-wheaton-illinois-elementary-school-_/

[Jeanbl]

Thank you, Amen to this Psalm of Glory and Hope. Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem

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Thank You, Jeanbl, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. ...Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’” (2 Chronicles 20)

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS