To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us. You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters. You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

Lord, Your Church is a laughingstock among the ungodly, a source of derision for those who reject You. Yet we have no one to blame but ourselves—we are unfaithful, we seek to blend in with the crowd, we pick and choose those parts of Your Word to obey and those to ignore or blunt through our sophistry, we are a disobedient and rebellious people. Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! (Psalms 80:3 )

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 30

Mid-day: 119:169-176

Evening: Psalm 105

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