Study Desk

I opened my mouth and panted [with anticipation], Because I longed for Your commandments.

I rise before dawn and cry [in prayer] for help; I wait for Your word.

Look upon my agony and rescue me, For I do not forget Your law.

Salvation is far from the wicked, For they do not seek Your statutes.

I hope and wait [with complete confidence] for Your salvation, O LORD, And I do Your commandments.

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are [fully known] before You.

Let my lips speak praise [with thanksgiving], For You teach me Your statutes.

Let my tongue sing [praise for the fulfillment] of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteous.

Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, And Your law is my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.

Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech, and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!

I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, [As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks to the name of the LORD.

For there the thrones of judgment were set, The thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you [holy city].

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, "May peace be within you."

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God [which is Jerusalem], I will seek your (the city's) good.

Be gracious to us, O LORD, be gracious and favorable toward us, For we are greatly filled with contempt.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.