Study Desk

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say, "All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God]."

O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

[God has said] "I have made a covenant with My chosen one; I have sworn to David My servant,

A God greatly feared and reverently worshiped in the council of the holy [angelic] ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him?

O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds You [as an intrinsic, unchangeable part of Your very being].

"He will cry to Me, 'You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

Before the mountains were born Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us; Confirm for us the work of our hands— Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust [with great confidence, and on whom I rely]!"

Planted in the house of the LORD, They will flourish in the courts of our God.

O LORD God, You to whom vengeance belongs, O God, You to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth [in judgment]!

Yet they say, "The LORD does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob (Israel) notice it."

But the LORD has become my high tower and defense, And my God the rock of my refuge.

He has turned back their own wickedness upon them And will destroy them by means of their own evil; The LORD our God will wipe them out.

For the LORD is a great God And a great King above all gods,

For He is our God And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous ones [those whose moral and spiritual integrity places them in right standing with God], And praise and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.

He has [graciously] remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have witnessed the salvation of our God.

Exalt the LORD our God And worship at His footstool; Holy is He.

You answered them, O LORD our God; You were a forgiving God to them, And yet an avenger of their evil practices.