Save O Lord, for the godly one is gone
For the faithful, have vanished from among the children of man
Everybody utters lies unto his neighbor
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that makes great boasts
Those that way “with our tongues we will prevail. Our lips are with us, who is master over us?”

The words of the Lord are pure words
Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground
Purified seven times 

You O Lord will keep them, you will guard us from this generation forever
As vileness is exalted
Among the children of men

Psalm 12

Thank you to my daughter Caledonia for playing the harmonica on this song and to Audrianna for dancing and falling over 🤣

Psalm 13 ESV (& NIV very sparingly for lyrical flow purposes)

How long, O Lord Will you forget me forever? 
How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? 
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, 
lest I sleep the sleep of death, 
lest my enemy they say, “I have overcome him,” 
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. 

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 
I will sing praise to the Lord, because he has been good to me.”

Psalm 13

The fool says in his heart “there is no God”
They are corrupt and they do abdominal deeds
There is no one who does good

The Lord looks down from Heaven on the sons of man
To see if there are any who understand 
Any who seek God, they have all turned aside
There is no one who does good
Not even one (not even one)

Will evil doers never learn 
Those who devour my people as men eat bread
And who do not call on the Lord
There they are overwhelmed with dread
For God is with the generation of the righteous￼
You would shame the plans of the poor but the Lord is his refuge

Oh that salvation for Israel would come up out of Zion
When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people
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Let Jacob rejoice
Let Israel be glad￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼

Psalm 14

Oh Lord who will sojourn in your tent
Who shall dwell on your holy hill
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
And speaks the truth in his heart
 
He who does not slander with his tongue
And does no evil to his neighbor
Nor takes up reproach against his friend
And who is eyes a vile person is despised￼￼

❤️ 🎶 🎵 ❤️ 

But who honors those who fear the Lord
Who swears to his own hurt and does not change
He who does not put his money out at interest
He who does not take a bribe against the innocent
He who does these things shall never be moved￼￼￼￼￼
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Psalm 15

“Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! 
From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, 
you have tested me, and you will find nothing; 
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips 
I have avoided the ways of the violent. 
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped. 
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words. Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand. 
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly. 
They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground. 
He is like a lion eager to tear, 
as a young lion lurking in ambush. 
Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, from men by your hand, O Lord, 
from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants. 
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭17 ESV

Psalm 17

Preserve me o God, for in you I take refuge
I say to the Lord, you are my Lord
I have no good apart from you

As for the saints of the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight
The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply
Their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup, you hold my lot
The lines have fallen for me on pleasant places 
Indeed I have a beautiful inheritance
I bless the Lord who gives me counsel in the night, also my heart instructs me
I’ve set the Lord always before me because He’s at my right hand I will not be shaken

Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices, my flesh also dwells secure 
You won’t abandon my soul to Sheol 
Or let your holy One see corruption 

You make known to me the paths of life
In your presence there is fullness of joy
At your right hand are pleasures, forever more

-ESV

Psalm 16

The author of this poem is unknown.
Thank you brother Joe Kirb @offthekirbministries

Thank you for your encouragement through your ministry and thank you Emma for all the sacrifices you both make behind the scenes.

Talking Friend Blues

I’m 500+ characters above what I’m allowed but as this is a word for word musical format of Psalm 18 I’ll just provide a link to this psalm on the Bible app

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭18:1-50‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.18.1-50.ESV

Psalm 18

Therefore since we have been justified by faith
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 
Through him we’ve also obtained 
Access by faith into this grace 
In which we stand and rejoice 
In hope of the glory of God 

Not only that 
But we rejoice in our sufferings
Knowing that 
Suffering produces endurance 
Endurance produces character 
Character produces hope
And hope does not put us to shame 

Because Gods love has been poured in our hearts 
Through the Holy Ghost who’s been given to us
For while we were weak
At the right time Christ died for the ungodly

Justified by Faith (Romans 5:1-6)

Alive to God in Jesus Christ (Romans 6: 1-14)

Lyrics are my rendition of Psalm 22 blended from ESV, KJV, NASB, LSB to avoid copyright infringement 

Lyrics won’t fit here and I do urge you to read along in your Bible. 
This song is intended as a memory aid to memorize psalm 22.
Intro was from 1 Peter 2:21-25 as it was fitting. 

Now if you would indulge me.. imagine you know this verse by heart, you’ve just ordered Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified and as He begins quoting this psalm, beginning with My God my God why have you forsaken me, moving into they have pierced my hands and feet, and seeing the Psalm being fulfilled before your eyes… you stand a gasp..
But you know another prophecy, not a bone shall be broken.. so Satan puts it into your heart to have His legs broken, because if they are broken, then He can’t possibly be the Messiah.. 
So you go to Pilate and suddenly take issue with leaving Him on the cross because of your holy day, when just a few hours before you didn’t seem to care as you demanded He be crucified..
Pilate gives you what you ask of him, and the Roman soldiers approach the 3 on the crosses..
They break the one thief’s legs and he screams in pain and begins to suffocate..
They break the legs of the other thief and he likewise follows suit.. it all comes down to this moment… you are holding your breath in anticipation, but then.. something unexpected..
Christ already said It is finished. He replaced the words “he has done it” with the words “it is done” 

The Roman soldiers seeing He is already dead, pierce His side and out flows blood and water. 
And in that moment not only was not a single bone broken.. but another prophecy springs to mind..

“When they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”
‭‭Zechariah‬ ‭12‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Think about it..

Psalm 22

I have no clue what I'm doing. I used to play in bars and as a street performer in Chicago paying bums from my tips because they claimed it was their corner. I got born again during a rough time in my life, hadn't touched my guitar in maybe a decade or so. 
Put Psalm 23 to music as I had memorized it as a kid, the next night I was alone with no tv, no nothing so I put Psalm 1 to guitar, then a few days later I decided I'd the rest of the Psalms to music. Somewhere around Psalm 3 I realized there were 150 of them and this might take longer than I thought. 

I just wanted to memorize the Psalms so I was writing a song and then listening to it until I learned the words, which I know how backwards that sounds lol
Got tired of having to click my audio file in the iPhone note recorder so I started uploading them on Soundcloud for my own sake. 
One night as I lay in bed, somewhere around psalm 6, I realized I still had my 7 notebooks jam packed with all my secular music and it was sitting there as a trophy of my past accomplishments so I woke up and first thing in the morning I burned them all. That afternoon I put Mary's song of Praise to a rap beat which was really outside of my musical style, though perfectly in line with my tastes. Since then I use whatever genre I feel best would help me complete a song. Seeing as the scope is the 150 psalms, the other 38 or so other songs in the Bible plus any other verses I want to memorize I think this is a good idea for preventing everything from sounding the same. Very glad I burnt my secular music. 
When I write a song, I play it for my girls. If they start dancing and running around in circles, then I keep it, otherwise I go a different direction. Ultimately the whole goal is for me and my daughters to eventually memorize all 150 Psalms without hurting our brains with arduous and laborious studying.

While I would PREFER keep these songs 110% word for word, that would get me in trouble with copyright infringement so for each song I sit down with 5 different translations of the Bible and rework them all together into my own  singing Buti "translation"

Psalm 22

Songs of Psalms