Study Desk

And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;

And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.

He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.

And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket.

Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him; that glory may dwell in our land.

Yea, the LORD will give that which is good; and our land shall yield her produce. Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall make His footsteps a way.

A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

And I will beat to pieces his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.

But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him; and through My name shall his horn be exalted.

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

If his children forsake My law, and walk not in Mine ordinances;

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before Me.