Study Desk

As for me, I am afflicted and needy,May the Lord think of me.You are my help and the One who rescues me;Do not delay, O my God.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,From everlasting to everlasting.Amen and Amen.

As the deer pants for the water brooks,So my soul pants for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night,While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,For the salvation of His presence.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;Therefore I remember You from the land of the JordanAnd the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness;And by night, His song will be with me,A prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me?Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,The salvation of my presence and my God.

Give justice to me, O God, and plead my case against an unholy nation;Oh protect me from the deceitful and unrighteous man!

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then I will go to the altar of God,To God my exceeding joy;And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,The salvation of my presence and my God.

O God, we have heard with our ears,Our fathers have recounted to usThe work that You did in their days,In the days of old.

You are my King, O God;Command salvation for Jacob.

In God we have boasted all day long,And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

If we had forgotten the name of our GodOr spread our hands to a strange god,