Study Desk

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you prosper.

For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat-for He gives sleep to His beloved.

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

O LORD, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning-more than watchmen waiting for the morning.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

A Song of Ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great matters or things too lofty for me.

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

May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.