Study Desk

because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

For the music director. Of David. To bring to remembrance. O God, make haste to deliver me. O Yahweh, make haste to help me.

Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "God is great!" those who love your salvation.

But I am poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You are my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.

My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the evildoer and the oppressor,

saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."

O God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your strength to this generation, your power to every one that comes after.

And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, and your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Of Solomon. O God, give your judgments to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son.

Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things.

A song of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate.

My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.

But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

A maskil of Asaph. Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

They have said in their heart, "We will completely oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.