Study Desk

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.