Psalm 17 - Hear a Just Cause, O Lord - Page 4 of 4 (series: Lessons on Psalms)

by John Lowe
(Woodruff, S.C.)

SCRIPTURE REFERENCE AND SPECIAL NOTES
{1] (Ps. 16.7) I will bless the LORD who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me.
{2] (Ex. 15:11) "Who else among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is glorious in holiness like you—so awesome in splendor, performing such wonders?
{3](Ex. 15:13) With unfailing love you will lead this people whom you have ransomed. You will guide them in your strength to the place where your holiness dwells.
{4](Ex. 15:12) You raised up your hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
{5] (Ps. 4:3) You can be sure of this: The LORD has set apart the godly for himself. The LORD will answer when I call to him.
{6] (Ps. 36:7-8) How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your rivers of delight.
{7] (Ps. 57:1) A psalm of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune "Do Not Destroy!" Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until this violent storm is past.
{8] (Ps. 61:4) Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings!
{9](Ps. 63:7) I think how much you have helped me; I sing for joy in the shadow of your protecting wings.
{10] (Ruth 2:12) May the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully.
{11] (Ps. 119:70) Their hearts are dull and stupid, but I delight in your law.
{12] (Isa. 6:10) Harden the hearts of these people. Close their ears, and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn to me for healing."
{13] (1 Tim. 4:2) Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron:
{14] (1 Sam. 23:26) And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
{15] (Luke 6:8, 25) And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 25And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
{16] (James 5:5) Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
{17] (Matt. 23:32) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
{18] (1 Thess. 2:16) Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
{19] (Ex. 34:7) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
{20] (Num. 14:18) The LORD is longsuffering , and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
{21] (Job 20:20) Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
{22] (Proverbs 20:30) The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
{23] (Ps. 16:11) Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
{24] (Ps. 73:23-26) Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.