Study Desk

I am thirsty for God, for the living God! When can I come and appear before God?

My tears are my food, day and night, while all day people ask me, "Where is your God?"

I recall, as my feelings well up within me, how I'd go with the crowd to the house of God, with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs observing the festival.

My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for the salvation that comes from his presence.

My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

By day Adonai commands his grace, and at night his song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?

My adversaries' taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, ‘Where is your God?' " My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for being my Savior and God.

Judge me, God, and plead my cause against a faithless nation. Rescue me from those who deceive and from those who are unjust.

For you are the God of my strength; why have you thrust me aside? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight; I will praise you on the lyre, God, my God.

My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for being my Savior and God.

God, we heard it with our ears; our fathers told us about it — a deed which you did in their days, back in days of old.

God, you are my king; command complete victory for Ya‘akov.

We will boast in our God all day and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

wouldn't God have discovered this, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

You are the most handsome of men; gracious speech flows from your lips. For God has blessed you forever.

Your throne, God, will last forever and ever; you rule your kingdom with a scepter of equity.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy in preference to your companions.