Study Desk

I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause.

Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

O God, thy way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God?

Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast made known thy power among the nations.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and feared; and the depths were troubled.

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.

They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.

And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for thy name’s sake.

Lets haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servant’s blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.