Study Desk

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.

Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.