Study Desk

Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.

There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.