Study Desk

To the chief musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry; my voice is to God, and He gave ear to me.

I remember God and am troubled; I meditate and my spirit faints. Selah.

Has God forgotten to be gracious; has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

O God, your way is in holiness; who is a god, great like God?

You are the God who does wonders; You have revealed Your strength among the peoples.

The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You; they were afraid; yea, the deeps trembled.

so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.

And they shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not its heart; yea, whose spirit was not faithful with God.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His Law.

And they tested God in their heart, by asking food for their souls.

And they spoke against God, saying, Shall God be able to set a table in the wilderness?

because they did not believe in God and trusted not in His salvation.

When He killed them, then they sought Him; and they turned and searched for God.

So they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer.

Yea, they turned back and tested God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God; and they did not keep His testimonies;

When God heard, and He passed over, and He utterly rejected Israel.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the matter of the glory of Your name; and deliver us and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake.

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes, the avenging of the blood of Your servants that has been poured out.