Study Desk

Come and listen, all who honor God, and I will tell you what he has done for me.

But God has indeed heard me; he has listened to my prayer.

I praise God, because he did not reject my prayer or keep back his constant love from me.

God, be merciful to us and bless us; look on us with kindness,

May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you!

May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you!

The land has produced its harvest; God, our God, has blessed us.

God has blessed us; may all people everywhere honor him.

God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat.

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; prepare a way for him who rides on the clouds. His name is the Lord —be glad in his presence!

God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

O God, when you led your people, when you marched across the desert,

the earth shook, and the sky poured down rain, because of the coming of the God of Sinai, the coming of the God of Israel.

When Almighty God scattered the kings on Mount Zalmon, he caused snow to fall there.

Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scorn on the mountain on which God chose to live? The Lord will live there forever!

He goes up to the heights, taking many captives with him; he receives gifts from rebellious people. The Lord God will live there.

Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.

Our God is a God who saves; he is the Lord , our Lord, who rescues us from death.

God will surely break the heads of his enemies, of those who persist in their sinful ways.

O God, your march of triumph is seen by all, the procession of God, my king, into his sanctuary.