Category: Psalm

A Prayer for Help

1 When I was in trouble, I called to theLord,

and he answered me.

2 Save me,Lord,

from liars and deceivers.

3 You liars, what will God do to you?

How will he punish you?

4 With a soldier’s sharp arrows,

with red-hot coals!

5 Living among you is as bad as living in Meshech

or among the people of Kedar.

6 I have lived too long

with people who hate peace!

7 When I speak of peace,

they are for war.

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The Lord Our Protector

1 I look to the mountains;

where will my help come from?

2 My help will come from theLord,

who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let you fall;

your protector is always awake.

4 The protector of Israel

never dozes or sleeps.

5 TheLordwill guard you;

he is by your side to protect you.

6 The sun will not hurt you during the day,

nor the moon during the night.

7 TheLordwill protect you from all danger;

he will keep you safe.

8 He will protect you as you come and go

now and forever.

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In Praise of Jerusalem

1 I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us go to theLord’s house.”

2 And now we are here,

standing inside the gates of Jerusalem!

3 Jerusalem is a city restored

in beautiful order and harmony.

4 This is where the tribes come,

the tribes of Israel,

to give thanks to theLord

according to his command.

5 Here the kings of Israel

sat to judge their people.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

“May those who love you prosper.

7 May there be peace inside your walls

and safety in your palaces.”

8 For the sake of my relatives and friends

I say to Jerusalem, “Peace be with you!”

9 For the sake of the house of theLordour God

I pray for your prosperity.

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A Prayer for Mercy

1 Lord, I look up to you,

up to heaven, where you rule.

2 As a servant depends on his master,

as a maid depends on her mistress,

so we will keep looking to you, OLordour God,

until you have mercy on us.

3 Be merciful to us,Lord, be merciful;

we have been treated with so much contempt.

4 We have been mocked too long by the rich

and scorned by proud oppressors.

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God the Protector of His People

1 What if theLordhad not been on our side?

Answer, O Israel!

2 “If theLordhad not been on our side

when our enemies attacked us,

3 then they would have swallowed us alive

in their furious anger against us;

4 then the flood would have carried us away,

the water would have covered us,

5 the raging torrent would have drowned us.”

6 Let us thank theLord,

who has not let our enemies destroy us.

7 We have escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap;

the trap is broken, and we are free!

8 Our help comes from theLord,

who made heaven and earth.

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The Security of God’s People

1 Those who trust in theLordare like Mount Zion,

which can never be shaken, never be moved.

2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

so theLordsurrounds his people,

now and forever.

3 The wicked will not always rule over the land of the righteous;

if they did, the righteous themselves might do evil.

4 Lord, do good to those who are good,

to those who obey your commands.

5 But when you punish the wicked,

punish also those who abandon your ways.

Peace be with Israel!

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A Prayer for Deliverance

1 When theLordbrought us back to Jerusalem,

it was like a dream!

2 How we laughed, how we sang for joy!

Then the other nations said about us,

“TheLorddid great things for them.”

3 Indeed he did great things for us;

how happy we were!

4 Lord, make us prosperous again,

just as the rain brings water back to dry riverbeds.

5 Let those who wept as they planted their crops,

gather the harvest with joy!

6 Those who wept as they went out carrying the seed

will come back singing for joy,

as they bring in the harvest.

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In Praise of God’s Goodness

1 If theLorddoes not build the house,

the work of the builders is useless;

if theLorddoes not protect the city,

it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.

2 It is useless to work so hard for a living,

getting up early and going to bed late.

For theLordprovides for those he loves,

while they are asleep.

3 Children are a gift from theLord;

they are a real blessing.

4 The sons a man has when he is young

are like arrows in a soldier’s hand.

5 Happy is the man who has many such arrows.

He will never be defeated

when he meets his enemies in the place of judgment.

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The Reward of Obedience to the Lord

1 Happy are those who obey theLord,

who live by his commands.

2 Your work will provide for your needs;

you will be happy and prosperous.

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your home,

and your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

4 A man who obeys theLord

will surely be blessed like this.

5 May theLordbless you from Zion!

May you see Jerusalem prosper

all the days of your life!

6 May you live to see your grandchildren!

Peace be with Israel!

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A Prayer against Israel’s Enemies

1 Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you

ever since you were young.

2 “Ever since I was young,

my enemies have persecuted me cruelly,

but they have not overcome me.

3 They cut deep wounds in my back

and made it like a plowed field.

4 But theLord, the righteous one,

has freed me from slavery.”

5 May everyone who hates Zion

be defeated and driven back.

6 May they all be like grass growing on the housetops,

which dries up before it can grow;

7 no one gathers it up

or carries it away in bundles.

8 No one who passes by will say,

“May theLordbless you!

We bless you in the name of theLord.”

—https://api-cdn.youversionapi.com/audio-bible-youversionapi/363/32k/PSA/129-ec975a8ae4cd46f6fa62b8ff3cd2af71.mp3?version_id=68—