Psalms

LORD provides David with power to win                     verse 1- 2 

Blessed be the LORD my strength – which teaches my hands to war

            and my fingers to fight – my goodness – my fortress

my high tower – my deliverer – my shield

and HE in WHOM I trust

                                                WHO subdues my people under me 

David states the frailty of … Read More

Psalmist prayer non-judgement                          verse 1- 2 

Hear my prayer O LORD – give ear to my supplication

in YOUR faithfulness answer me

and in YOUR righteousness

and enter not into judgment with YOUR servant

      for in YOUR sight shall no man living be justified 

Psalmist reveals effects of enemy on him             verse 3- 4 

For the enemy has persecuted … Read More

Psalmist complaint to the LORD                        verse 1- 2

I cried to the LORD with my voice

with my voice to the LORD

did I make my supplication

I poured out my complaint before HIM

I showed before HIM my trouble

Psalmist friends were too few                              verse 3- 4

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me

THEN YOU knew my path … Read More

Emergency prayer                                               verse 1- 2 

LORD – I cry to YOU – make haste to me

give ear unto my voice – when I cry to YOU

Let my prayer be set forth before YOU as incense

and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice 

Language can be an avenue of sin                       verse … Read More

Psalmist wants to be preserved from violent men         verse 1- 3 

Deliver me – O LORD – from the evil man

preserve me from the violent man

      which imagine mischiefs in their heart continually

are they gathered together for war

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent

            adders’ poison is under their lips        SELAH… Read More

Omniscience of God                                            verse 1- 6 

O LORD – YOU have searched me, and known me

YOU know my down sitting and mine uprising

YOU understand my thought afar off

YOU compass my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways

For there is not a word in my tongue – BUT – lo – O … Read More

Individual thankfulness to the LORD                 verse 1- 3

I will praise YOU with my whole heart

before the gods will I sing praise to YOU

I will worship toward YOUR holy temple

and praise YOUR name for YOUR loving-kindness

and for YOUR truth

for YOU have magnified YOUR word

above all YOUR name

In the day when I cried YOU… Read More

Prayer regarding captivity                                        verse 1- 6

By the rivers of Babylon – there we sat down – yea – we wept

when we remembered Zion

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof

for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song

and they that wasted us required of us mirth

saying

Sing … Read More

Mercy of the Sovereign of the Universe                        verse 1- 3

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good

for HIS mercy endures for ever

O give thanks unto the God of gods

for HIS mercy endures for ever

O give thanks to the Lord of lords

for HIS mercy endures forever

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Priest and Levites are to praise the LORD                   verse 1- 2 

Praise you the LORD

Praise you the name of the LORD

Praise HIM – O you servants of the LORD

You that stand in the house of the LORD

in the courts of the house of our God 

Israel is to praise the LORD

as HIS peculiar treasure                                      verse … Read More