I Will Praise Thee O Lord Among the People
And I Will Sing Praises to Thee Among the Nations
by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2014, all rights reserved.
Chapter 1
The title is from Psalm 108, verse 3, King James Version.
Here are Psalms 108 and 109 from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version--
___Psalm 108
1 O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will wake up early.
3 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth,
6 So that your beloved will receive deliverance, save with your right hand, and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim also is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,
9 Moab is my wash pot, over Edom I'll empty my shoe, I'll triumph over Philistia.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?
11 Won't you, O God, who had thrown us away? And won't you, O God, go out with our armies?
12 Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
___Psalm 109
1 Don't be silent, O God of my praise,
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me, they've spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They surrounded me also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a reason.
4 For my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.
5 And they've rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg, let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortionist catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor let there be anyone to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his descendants be cut off, and in the generation following, let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the sin of his fathers be remembered with the Lord, and don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continually, so that he'll cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because he didn't remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, so that he could kill the broken hearted.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him, as he didn't delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him like the garment that covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But do for me, O God the Lord, for your name's sake, because your mercy is good, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded inside me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines, I'm tossed up and down like the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh has lost its fatness.
25 I became also a reproach to them, when they looked at me they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my God, O save me according to your mercy,
27 So that they'll know that this is your hand, that you, Lord, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but you bless, when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, like with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth, yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Chapter 2
From Psalm 108--
1 O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will wake up early.
3 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises to you among the nations.
Psalm 108, verses 1—3 talk about worshiping the Lord, and then verse 4 tells us why.
4 For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds.
And another Psalm talks about the Lord's wonderful works to the children of men.
Look at how many varieties of foods are available to us. If you happen to be a vegetarian, there are still many, many choices. If you're not a vegetarian, there are so many kinds of meat and fish.
We have wheat bread, rye bread, French rolls, dinner rolls, potato bread, Ezekiel bread, pita bread, bolillos, tortillas, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, saltine crackers, Ritz crackers, bagels of all kinds.
Can you count the different kinds of trees? Some trees give us fruit. Some give us nuts. Some are just used for wood to build with, and to burn for heat in the winter, unless you live where you burn natural gas, or have electric heat, or propane, or butane, or coal, or fuel oil.
God has abundantly provided for mankind.
However, there are places where people are starving.
Generally speaking, I think they are starving mostly where they don't have Jesus.
Not that America is entirely Christian.
But we do have many Christians.
There was a man who went from the U.S. to Mexico to attend a wedding.
He said there was a mostly empty swimming pool, except for some very dirty, stagnant water, and a Mariachi band was playing music from the mostly empty swimming pool.
He was negatively impressed with the squalor around there. He said the Lord told him it's because of idolatry.
Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought not to be worshiped. One thing that ought not to be worshiped is Mary, who was the mother of Jesus' earthly body that he had during his life on earth of about 33 years.
But, you see, there are people praying to Mary, as though she were part of the Godhead, which she surely is not.
You have God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost.
God is a three-in-one God, and notice that Mary is not part of that.
In the Ten Commandments of Exodus chapter 20, God says, “You shall have no other Gods before me.”
Why then are people praying to Mary? Because their priest told them to do so? Find a different priest who doesn't tell you to commit the sin of idolatry.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth,
6 So that your beloved will receive deliverance, save with your right hand, and answer me.
Verses 5 & 6 are worship, but also a prayer.
Jesus said, “When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you shall have them.” (Mark 11:24)
12 Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless.
Verse 12 is another prayer.
Psalm 109:26 is another prayer,
26 Help me, O Lord my God, O save me according to your mercy,
27 So that they'll know that this is your hand, that you, Lord, have done it.
Now here is more worship.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth, yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Dr. Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him, “My people don't worship me enough, and you don't either, son. You tell the people that if they'll spend time worshiping me, they can have anything they want.”
Anything you want. Does that appeal to you? It appeals to me.
Trust in the Lord and do good, so you'll live in the land, and truly you'll be fed.
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart. (Psa 37:3,4)
In Joshua 1:8, God tells Joshua,
“This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, so that you'll observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you'll make your way prosperous, and then you'll have good success.”
The Lord wants us to speak the word and meditate in it so that we will do the word, and have good success.
There is another, fleeting king of success, that many in the world have, temporarily, because they didn't build on the foundation of Jesus' words.
From the Sermon on the Mount (Matt chapters 5 & 6 & 7)--
24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock,
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it didn't fall, because it was founded on a rock.
26 And everyone that hears these sayings of mine, and doesn't do them, is like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand,
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it fell, and it was a big disaster." (Matt chapt 7)
No one desires to have a big disaster in their lives. But if they haven't built their houses and their lives on a foundation of the words of Jesus, then they've built on the sand, and they will crash, says Jesus.
And Jesus doesn't tell lies.
___James chapter 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
___James chapter 2
1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
___James chapter 3
1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be.
11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.
___James chapter 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
___James chapter 5
1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.
14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.