Study Desk

Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset and distressed, I am beside myself,

when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth! (Selah)

You have given your loyal followers a rallying flag, so that they might seek safety from the bow. (Selah)

Deliver by your power and answer me, so that the ones you love may be safe.

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies' corpses."

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

I say to the proud, "Do not be proud," and to the wicked, "Do not be so confident of victory!

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord .

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.