Study Desk

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

Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.

For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.

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

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee 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,

Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.

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

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

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

Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

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

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

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

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand; forget not the afflicted.

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

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten 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 that does good.

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.