Study Desk

Our God is coming and not staying silent. With a fire devouring ahead of him and a great storm raging around him,

The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)

"Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra'el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God.

Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,

But to the wicked God says: "What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips,

Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to save you.

"Whoever offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; and to him who goes the right way I will show the salvation of God."

God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes.

Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.

Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness —

My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won't spurn a broken, chastened heart. In your good pleasure, make Tziyon prosper; rebuild the walls of Yerushalayim. Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then they will offer bulls on your altar.

This is why God will strike you down, seize you, pluck you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

"This fellow would not make God his refuge, but trusted in his own great wealth, relying on his evil plots." But I am like a leafy olive tree in the house of God; I put my trust in the grace of God forever and ever. I will praise you forever for what you have done, and I will put my hope in your name; for this is what is good in the presence of your faithful.

A brutish fool tells himself, "There isn't any God." Such people are depraved, all their deeds are vile, not one of them does what is good.

God looks out from heaven upon the human race to see if even one is wise, if even one seeks God.

Won't these evildoers ever learn? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, and they never call on God!

They will be gripped with terror, even though now they are not afraid; for God will scatter the bones of him who is besieging you. You are putting them to shame, because God has rejected them. If only salvation for Isra'el would come out of Tziyon! When God restores his people's fortunes, what joy for Ya‘akov! what gladness for Isra'el!

God, deliver me by your name; in your power, vindicate me.

God, hear my prayer; listen to the words from my mouth.

For foreigners are rising against me, violent men are seeking my life; they give no thought to God. (Selah)