Study Desk

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.

For the choir director: A psalm of David. O Lord , rescue me from evil people. Protect me from those who are violent,

O Lord , keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.

I said to the Lord , "You are my God!" Listen, O Lord , to my cries for mercy!

Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.

A psalm of David. O Lord , I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!

I look to you for help, O Sovereign Lord . You are my refuge; don't let them kill me.

Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.

A psalm of David, regarding his experience in the cave. A prayer. I cry out to the Lord ; I plead for the Lord 's mercy.

When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.

I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me.

Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you are good to me."

Don't put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.

I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude

Come quickly, Lord , and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don't turn away from me, or I will die.

Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.