Study Desk

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun]; And as for me, I wither away like grass.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion, For it is time to be gracious and show favor to her; Yes, the appointed time [the moment designated] has come.

For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] And feel pity for her dust.

For the LORD has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory and brilliance;

Let this be recorded for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created will praise the LORD.

For He looked down from His holy height [of His sanctuary], From heaven the LORD gazed on the earth,

The LORD executes righteousness And justice for all the oppressed.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].

For He knows our [mortal] frame; He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

As for man, his days are like grass; Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

For the wind passes over it and it is no more, And its place knows it no longer.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down To the place which You established for them.

You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.

He causes grass to grow for the cattle, And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man, So that he may bring food from the earth—

Where the birds make their nests; As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the shephanim.

He made the moon for the seasons; The sun knows the [exact] place of its setting.

They all wait for You To give them their food in its appointed season.

May my meditation be sweet and pleasing to Him; As for me, I will rejoice and be glad in the LORD.