Study Desk

Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs.

They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.

Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. A psalm of Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told.

For it is not from the east or the west and not from the south that lifting up comes,

For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh with wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land will quaff it down to its dregs.

But as for me, I will proclaim forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

For the music director, with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel.

when God rose for justice, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah

For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on the remnant of anger.

For the music director, on Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children,

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

Yes, he struck the rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, but can he also give food or provide meat for his people?"

For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.

for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return.

He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.

And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.