Study Desk

But You, O GOD, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;

Help me, O LORD my God; Save me according to Your lovingkindness—

Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who fears the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with obedience], Who delights greatly in His commandments.

Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).

Who is like the LORD our God, Who is enthroned on high,

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob (Israel),

Why should the nations say, "Where, now, is their God?"

But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

Gracious is the LORD, and [consistently] righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.

I believed [and clung to my God] when I said, "I am greatly afflicted."

This [day in which God has saved me] is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The LORD is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy]. Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

You are my God, and I give thanks to You; [You are] my God, I extol You.

How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless [those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless], Who walk in the law [and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will] of the LORD.

Blessed and favored by God are those who keep His testimonies, And who [consistently] seek Him and long for Him with all their heart.

Leave me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God [honoring and obeying them].

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God [which is Jerusalem], I will seek your (the city's) good.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, And as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He is gracious and favorable toward us.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God], The LORD will lead them away with those who do evil. Peace be upon Israel.

You who stand in the house of the LORD, In the courts of the house of our God,