Study Desk

All Your commandments are faithful; They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!

I have seen a limit to all perfection; Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

The wicked have set a trap for me, Yet I have not wandered from Your precepts.

Be a guarantor for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Seven times a day I praise You Because of Your righteous judgments.

I have wandered about like a lost sheep; search for Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

Rescue my soul, LORD, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.

Jerusalem, that has been built As a city that is firmly joined together;

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a female servant to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He is gracious to us.

Our souls have escaped like a bird from the trapper's snare; The snare is broken and we have escaped.

One who goes here and there weeping, carrying his bag of seed, Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Unless the LORD builds a house, They who build it labor in vain; Unless the LORD guards a city, The watchman stays awake in vain.

Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.

Behold, for so shall a man Who fears the LORD be blessed.

I have certainly soothed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child resting against his mother, My soul within me is like a weaned child.

Until I find a place for the LORD, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

The LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: "I will set upon your throne one from the fruit of your body.