Category: Psalms

The Lord the Keeper of Israel.

1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;

From where shall my help come?

2 My helpcomesfrom the Lord,

Who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not allow your foot to slip;

He who keeps you will not slumber.

4 Behold, He who keeps Israel

Will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lordis your keeper;

The Lordis your shade on your right hand.

6 The sun will not smite you by day,

Nor the moon by night.

7 The Lordwillprotect you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

8 The Lordwillguard your going out and your coming in

From this time forth and forever.

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Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

1 I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

2 Our feet are standing

Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

3 Jerusalem, that is built

As a city that is compact together;

4 To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—

An ordinance for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

5 For there thrones were set for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who love you.

7 May peace be within your walls,

And prosperity within your palaces.”

8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

9 For the sake of the house of the Lordour God,

I will seek your good.

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Prayer for the Lord’s Help.

1 To You I lift up my eyes,

O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

2 Behold, as the eyes of servantslookto the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyeslookto the Lordour God,

Until He is gracious to us.

3 Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly filled with contempt.

4 Our soul is greatly filled

With the scoffing of those who are at ease,

Andwith the contempt of the proud.

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Praise for Rescue from Enemies.

1 “Had it not been the Lordwho was on our side,”

Let Israel now say,

2 “Had it not been the Lordwho was on our side

When men rose up against us,

3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,

When their anger was kindled against us;

4 Then the waters would have engulfed us,

The stream would have swept over our soul;

5 Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

6 Blessed be the Lord,

Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;

The snare is broken and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,

Who made heaven and earth.

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The Lord Surrounds His People.

1 Those who trust in the Lord

Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

So the Lordsurrounds His people

From this time forth and forever.

3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous,

So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.

4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good

And to those who are upright in their hearts.

5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,

The Lordwill lead them away with the doers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel.

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Thanksgiving for Return from Captivity.

1 When the Lordbrought back the captive ones of Zion,

We were like those who dream.

2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter

And our tongue with joyful shouting;

Then they said among the nations,

“The Lordhas done great things for them.”

3 The Lordhas done great things for us;

We are glad.

4 Restore our captivity, O Lord,

As the streams in the South.

5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

6 He who goes to and fro weeping, carryinghisbag of seed,

Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaveswith him.

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Prosperity Comes from the Lord.

1 Unless the Lordbuilds the house,

They labor in vain who build it;

Unless the Lordguards the city,

The watchman keeps awake in vain.

2 It is vain for you to rise up early,

To retire late,

To eat the bread of painful labors;

For He gives to His belovedeven in hissleep.

3 Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

So are the children of one’s youth.

5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;

They will not be ashamed

When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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Blessedness of the Fear of the Lord.

1 How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,

Who walks in His ways.

2 When you shall eat of thefruit of your hands,

You will be happy and it will be well with you.

3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

Within your house,

Your children like olive plants

Around your table.

4 Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed

Who fears the Lord.

5 The Lordbless you from Zion,

And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

6 Indeed, may you see your children’s children.

Peace be upon Israel!

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Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies.

1 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”

Let Israel now say,

2 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back;

They lengthened their furrows.”

4 The Lordis righteous;

He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

5 May all who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned backward;

6 Let them be like grass upon the housetops,

Which withers before it grows up;

7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,

Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

8 Nor do those who pass by say,

“The blessing of the Lordbe upon you;

We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

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Hope in the Lord’s Forgiving Love.

1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord.

2 Lord, hear my voice!

Let Your ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.

3 If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

4 But there is forgiveness with You,

That You may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait,

And in His word do I hope.

6 My soulwaitsfor the Lord

More than the watchmen for the morning;

Indeed, more thanthe watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord;

For with the Lordthere is lovingkindness,

And with Him is abundant redemption.

8 And He will redeem Israel

From all his iniquities.

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