Study Desk

For those blessed by God will [at last] inherit the land, But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.

The law of his God is in his heart; Not one of his steps will slip.

For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will answer, O Lord my God.

Do not abandon me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me.

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear [with great reverence] And will trust confidently in the LORD.

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not regard the proud nor those who lapse into lies.

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of your wonders, They would be too many to count.

"I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."

Even though I am afflicted and needy, Still the Lord takes thought and is mindful of me. You are my help and my rescuer. O my God, do not delay.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]. Amen and Amen (so be it).

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

My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of 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 [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear]; Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness 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 forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, While they say continually to me, "Where is your God?"