Study Desk

You cracked open the heads of leviathan; You gave him to be food for the people of the wilderness.

Look to Your covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full, the abodes of violence.

Arise, O God, contend for Your cause; remember Your reproach from the fool all the day.

To the chief musician. Do not destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We have given thanks to You, O God; we have given thanks; for Your name is near; Your wonderful works have been told.

For exaltations are not from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert;

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah; and the wine foams; it is fully mixed, and He pours out from it; surely all the wicked of the earth must drain its dregs and drink.

To the chief musician. For stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song of Praise. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

For the wrath of man thank You; You encircle Yourself with the wrath left over.

Is His mercy gone forever? Has His Word failed for all generations?

For He raised a Testimony in Jacob, and He set a Law in Israel; which He commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons;

And they tested God in their heart, by asking food for their souls.

Behold! He struck the rock and the waters gushed out, and the torrents were overflowing. Can He also give bread? Will He provide flesh for His people?

They ate and were filled full; for their own lust He brought to them.

When He killed them, then they sought Him; and they turned and searched for God.

For their heart was not steadfast with Him; and they were not faithful in His covenant.

But He being merciful, atoned for iniquity and did not destroy; and He added to turn away His anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.

For He remembered that they were flesh, a breath passing away, and not returning.

He leveled a path for His anger; He did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague.

For they enraged Him with their high places; and they provoked Him to jealousy with their molten images.

They have given the bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens; the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.