This book presents a collection of 150 inspiring spiritual songs, poems, and prayers.
1:1-3 Blessed are those who do not walk in the counsel of the ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful. 2 But their delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law do they meditate day and night. 3 They shall be like trees planted by the rivers of water that bring forth fruit in their season. Their leaves shall not wither, and whatever they do shall prosper.
1:4-6 The ungodly are not like that, but rather they are like chaff that the wind blows+ away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor shall sinners stand in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the Lord knows the ways of the righteous, but the ways of the ungodly shall perish.
2:7 The Lord has said to me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
2:11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity ...
7:11 God judges the righteous and He is angry with the wicked ...
8:4-6 What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that you visit him? 5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels and have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet.
14:1-2 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God ... 2 The Lord looked down from heaven ... to see if there were any who did understand and seek God.
16:8-11 I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh shall rest in hope. 10 For you will not leave my soul in hell, nor will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress, my deliverer, my God and my strength in whom I will trust. He is my buckler, the horn of my salvation and my high tower.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
19:12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse you me from secret faults.
19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
22:1 To the chief Musician on Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
22:7 All those who see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
22:8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
22:13 They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleft to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots on my vesture.
22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.
23:1-4 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 4 Yes, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff comfort me.
23:5-6 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows+. 6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and those who dwell therein.
26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass your altar, Lord:
27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.
27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:14 Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and He will strengthen your heart.
28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
31:23 Love the Lord, all you His saints, for the Lord preserves the faithful ...
32:1 A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
34:3 O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together.
34:4 Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.
34:12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
34:16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
34:20 He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I did not know.
35:19 Let not those who are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
36:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
37:1 A Psalm of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
37:11 The meek shall inherit the earth and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
37:34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
40:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; mine ears have you opened: burned offering and sin offering have you not required.
40:7 Then said I, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
40:8 I delight to do your will, my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
41:9 Yes, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
44:22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
45:6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
45:7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
46:1-11 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song on Alamoth.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains shake with swelling. Selah.
4 There is a river, where the streams shall make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God will help her early.
6 The heathen raged and the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice and the earth melted.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord and what desolation He has made in the earth.
9 He makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in half+. He burns the chariot with fire.
10 Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted on the earth.
11 The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
49:15 God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
50:23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conduct aright will I show the salvation of God.
51:4 Against you and you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight, that you might be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me.
51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
52:8 I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
61:2 From the ends of the earth, when my heart is overwhelmed, I will cry out to you: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
62:5 My soul waits only upon God, for my expectation is from Him.
62:11 God has spoken once and twice I have heard this: that all power belongs to God.
68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: those who would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached you are fallen on me.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
73:23-24 I am continually with you. You have held me by my right hand. You shall guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old.
78:69 He built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.
81:10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
82:6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
84:5 Blessed are all+ whose strength is in God ...
84:11 The Lord God is a sun and a shield. He gives grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
85:6 Will you not revive us again so that your people may rejoice in you?
91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
91:12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, they shall be destroyed forever.
94:11 The Lord knew the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
95:8 Do not harden your heart as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.
95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that does err in their heart and they have not known my ways.
95:11 I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
102:25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.
102:26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
102:27 you art the same, and your years shall have no end.
104:4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
104:12 By them shall the birds of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
104:23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.
105:3 Glory you in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
107:9 He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
109:5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
109:25 I became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.
110:1 A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
110:4 The Lord has sworn, and will not repent, You art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
117:1 Praise the Lord, all you nations: praise him, all you people.
118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?
118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
118:24 This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
118:26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
119:11 I have hid your Word in my heart so that I might not sin against you.
119:18 Open you mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.
119:105 Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
132:11 The Lord has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set on your throne.
139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
139:24 See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
145:10 All your works shall praise you, Lord; and your saints shall bless you.
145:20 The Lord preserves all who love Him, but He will destroy all the wicked.
147:3-5 He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. 4 He tells the number of the stars. He calls them all by name. 5 Great is our Lord and of great power. His understanding is infinite.
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