Study Desk

Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live, for your instructions are my delight.

I have refused to walk on any evil path, so that I may remain obedient to your word.

The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand.

Guide my steps by your word, so I will not be overcome by evil.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested; that is why I love them so much.

Your laws are always right; help me to understand them so I may live.

I long for your rescue, Lord , so I have obeyed your commands.

Let me live so I can praise you, and may your regulations help me.

Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, both now and forever.

It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully. His faithful love endures forever.

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you are good to me."

Open the heavens, Lord , and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.

"I called you so often, but you wouldn't come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.

So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—

So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous.

So now, my sons, listen to me. Never stray from what I am about to say:

So it is with the man who sleeps with another man's wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.

So she seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery.