Study Desk

Lord , I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me.

until I provide a place for the Lord , a home for the Mighty God of Jacob."

May your priests do always what is right; may your people shout for joy!

If your sons are true to my covenant and to the commands I give them, their sons, also, will succeed you for all time as kings."

I will bless her priests in all they do, and her people will sing and shout for joy.

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God's people to live together in harmony!

He chose Jacob for himself, the people of Israel for his own.

He brings storm clouds from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the storms, and he brings out the wind from his storeroom.

Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy are those who pay you back for what you have done to us—

Even though you are so high above, you care for the lowly, and the proud cannot hide from you.

but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.

I say to the Lord , "You are my God." Hear my cry for help, Lord !

Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.

I call to the Lord for help; I plead with him.

When I am ready to give up, he knows what I should do. In the path where I walk, my enemies have hidden a trap for me.

When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.

Lord , I cry to you for help; you, Lord , are my protector; you are all I want in this life.

Listen to my cry for help, for I am sunk in despair. Save me from my enemies; they are too strong for me.

I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you.