LORD loves Jerusalem as the city of Godverses 1-3
HIS foundation is in the holy mountains
the LORD loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob
glorious things are spoken of you
O city of God SELAH
Spiritual birth into citizenship in Jerusalemverses 4-6
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon
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Forgiveness of sinverses 1-2
LORD
YOU have been favorable to YOUR land
YOU have brought back the captivity of Jacob
YOU have FORGIVEN the iniquity of YOUR people
YOU have COVERED all their sin
SELAH
Chastening held backverses 3
YOU have TAKEN AWAY all YOUR wrath
YOU have turned YOURSELF
from the fierceness of YOUR anger
Revival needed… Read More
Strong desire to be with the LORDverses 1-4
How amiable are YOUR tabernacles – O LORD of hosts
my soul longs – yea – even faints for the courts of the LORD
my heart and my flesh cry out for the LIVING God
Yea – the sparrow hath found an house
and the swallow a nest for herself
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Psalmist questions the LORDverses 1-2
Keep not YOU silence – O God – hold not YOUR PEACE
and be not still – O God
FOR lo – YOUR enemies make a tumult
they that hate YOU have lifted up the head
Psalmist explains actions of the enemiesverses 3-4
They have taken crafty counsel against YOUR people
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God is the Judgeverses 1-2
God stands in the congregation of the mighty
HE judges among the gods
How long will you judge unjustly
and accept the persons of the wicked? SELAH
Request to help the poor and fatherlessverses 3-4
Defend the poor and fatherless
do justice to the afflicted and needy
deliver the poor and needy
rid … Read More
Prelude to a feast dayverses 1-3
Sing aloud to God our strength – make a joyful noise
to the God of Jacob
Take a psalm – and bring hither the timbrel
the pleasant harp with the psaltery
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon – in the time appointed
on our solemn feast day
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Prayer to the Shepherd of Israelverses 1-2
Give ear – O Shepherd of Israel – YOU that lead Joseph like a flock
YOU that dwell between the cherubim – shine forth
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up
YOUR strength and come – and save us
Chorusverse 3
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Description of defeated people of Israelverses 1-4
O God – the heathen are come into YOUR inheritance
YOUR holy temple have they defiled
They have laid Jerusalem on heaps – the dead bodies of YOUR servants
have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven
the flesh of YOUR saints to the beasts of the earth… Read More