God

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.

The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

…would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

You are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!

For God is King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise.

God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.

For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.

No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.

There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.

There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.

We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

…in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.