Study Desk

His see shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;

and as the moon that is established for ever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou turn away, for ever? shall thine anger flame out as fire?

Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it.

For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter.

For thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou, my soul, hast made the Most High thy refuge.

For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name.

For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work: and in the operations of thy hands will I exult.

When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.

For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honour: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved.