Study Desk

The Lord is my strength and my safe cover. My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. So my heart is full of joy. I will thank Him with my song.

Show me loving-kindness, O Lord, for I am in trouble. My eyes, my soul and my body are becoming weak from being sad.

I am forgotten like a dead man and they do not think about me. I am like a broken pot.

Take a spear and battle-ax against those who come to get me. Say to my soul, "I am the One Who saves you."

I have been young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the man who is right with God left alone, or his children begging for bread.

I am weak and broken. I cry because of the pain in my heart.

But like a deaf man, I do not hear. I am like one who cannot speak and does not open his mouth.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, and whose mouth does not argue.

For I am ready to fall. And my sorrow is always with me.

For I tell my wrong-doings. I am full of sorrow because of my sin.

Do not punish me any more. I am growing weak by the beatings of Your hand.

O Lord, hear my prayer, and listen to my cry. Do not be quiet when You see my tears. For I am a stranger with You, a visitor like all my fathers.

Look away from me, so I may have joy again before I go and am no more."

I am happy to do Your will, O my God. Your Law is within my heart."

Too many troubles gather around me. My sins have taken such a hold on me that I am not able to see. There are more of them than there are hairs on my head. And the strength of my heart has left me.

Because I suffer and am in need, let the Lord think of me. You are my help and the One Who sets me free. O my God, do not wait.

Be quiet and know that I am God. I will be honored among the nations. I will be honored in the earth.

"Listen, O My people, and I will speak. O Israel, I will speak against you. I am God, your God.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the loving-kindness of God forever and ever.

When I am afraid, I will trust in You.