Study Desk

You are the God of great wonders! You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations.

When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths.

So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.

Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

They even spoke against God himself, saying, "God can't give us food in the wilderness.

for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.

They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold.

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel's young men.

When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously.

Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.

But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws.

They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.

A psalm of Asaph. O God, pagan nations have conquered your land, your special possession. They have defiled your holy Temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.

Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name. Save us and forgive our sins for the honor of your name.

Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff, asking, "Where is their God?" Show us your vengeance against the nations, for they have spilled the blood of your servants.

For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune "Lilies of the Covenant." Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph's descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory

Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.

O Lord God of Heaven's Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?