Study Desk

"He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

many are saying of my soul, "There is no salvation for him in God." Selah

Arise, O Lord ! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Arise, O Lord ; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.

Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, "You will not call to account"?

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.