Study Desk

Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast.

They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!

In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Arise to help me; look on my plight!

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;

Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord :

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.