Posts from 2024 (Page 2)

A PSALM OF DAVID.O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to you!Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;keep watch over the door of my lips!Do not let my heart incline to any evil,to busy myself with wicked deedsin company with men who work iniquity,and let me not eat of their delicacies!Let a…

TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.O LORD, you have searched me and known me!You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.Even before a word is on my tongue,behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it.Where…

OF DAVID.I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart;before the gods I sing your praise;I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your namefor your steadfast love and your faithfulness,for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.On the day I called, you answered me;my strength of soul you increased.All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O LORD,for they have heard the words of your mouth,and they shall sing…

By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,when we remembered Zion.On the willows there we hung up our lyres.For there our captors required of us songs,and our tormentors, mirth, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?If I forget you, O Jerusalem,let my right hand forget its skill!Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,if I do not remember you,if I do not set Jerusalem above…

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of gods,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the Lord of lords,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who alone does great wonders;for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who by understanding made the heavens,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who spread out the earth above the waters,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who made the great lights,for his…

Praise the LORD!Praise the name of the LORD,give praise, O servants of the LORD,who stand in the house of the LORD,in the courts of the house of our God!Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;sing to his name, for it is pleasant!For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,Israel as his own possession.For I know that the LORD is great,and that our Lord is above all gods.Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,in heaven and on earth,in the seas and…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,who stand by night in the house of the LORD!Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! Gracious God and Heavenly Father, We are urged to bless you; to speak well of you and to praise you. We confess we often fail at this. We complain and we are tempted to say…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Remember, O LORD, in David’s favour, all the hardships he endured,how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelidsuntil I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.“Let us…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.O Israel,…