Psalms

David questions the LORD                                 verse 1

Why stand YOU afar off – O LORD?

Why hide YOU YOURSELF in times of trouble?

David describes the wicked as cursing God        verse 2- 3

The wicked in his pride does persecute the POOR

let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined

      for the wicked boast of his … Read More

David gives continual praise to the LORD                             verse 1- 2 

I will praise YOU – O LORD – with my whole heart

I will show forth all YOUR marvelous works

      I will be glad and rejoice in YOU

I will sing praise to YOUR name O YOU most High 

David praises LORD for his judgment of enemies                 verse 3- 6… Read More

God’s glory teaches all of his Sovereignty                              verse 1- 2 

O LORD our Lord – how excellent is YOUR name in all the earth

Who has set YOUR glory above the heavens

      out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have YOU

ordained strength because of YOUR enemies

that YOU might still the enemy and the avenger 

God’s creation … Read More

David wants the LORD to rescue him                 verse 1- 2

O LORD my God in YOU do I put my trust

save me from all them that persecute me – deliver me

      lest he tear my soul like a lion – rending it in pieces

                  while there is none to deliver

David comments on his … Read More

David wants to be restored by the LORD           verse 1- 3 

O LORD – rebuke me not in YOUR anger

neither CHASTEN me in YOUR hot displeasure

have mercy upon me O LORD – for I am weak

O LORD – heal me for my bones are vexed

            My soul is also sore vexed

                        BUT … Read More

      David prays exclusively to the LORD                                    verse 1- 3 

              Give ear to my words – O LORD – consider my mediation

  hearken unto the voice of my cry – my King  and my God

      for unto YOU will I pray

            My voice shall YOU hear in the MORNING – O LORD

in the MORNING will I direct my prayer unto … Read More

David wants the LORD to answer his prayer                         verse 1 

Hear me when I call – O God of my righteousness

YOU have enlarged me when I was in distress

      have mercy on me – and hear my prayer 

David accuses those around him of lying about him              verse 2 

O you sons of … Read More

David’s son Absalom rebelled against him                             verse 1- 2 

LORD – how are they increased that trouble me

many are they that rise up against me

      many there be which say of my soul

There is NO HELP for him in God    Selah 

David prays to the LORD for help                                         verse 3- 4 

BUT YOU – O LORD – are … Read More

Humanity doesn’t want to be under control of LORD verse 1- 3

Why do the heathen rage

and the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth set themselves

and the rulers take counsel together

      against the LORD – and against HIS anointed

saying

Let us break THEIR bands asunder

and cast away THEIR cords from us

LORD … Read More

Life of the righteous                                                               verse 1- 3

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the UNGODLY

nor stands in the way of SINNERS

      nor sits in the seats of the SCORNFUL

                  BUT his delight is in the law of the LORD

                              and in HIS law does he MEDITATE day and night

And he shall be like … Read More