Study Desk

For the music director. A psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion, and to you the vow shall be fulfilled.

Iniquities prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will forgive them.

so that the inhabitants of the farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.

You care for the land and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God is filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it.

For the music director. A song. A psalm. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me.

For the music director, with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah

For the music director. Of David. A psalm. A song. God will arise; his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee from before him.

A father to orphans and a judge for widows is God in his holy habitation.

Your community dwelled in it. You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.

Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.

so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies."

Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us.

For the music director, according to The Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God, because waters have come up to my neck.

I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.

Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.

because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.

When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.