God

Fill their faces with shame, so that they will seek your name, ADONAI.

Let them know that you alone, whose name is ADONAI, are the Most High over all the earth.

For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach: How deeply loved are your dwelling-places, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!

My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of ADONAI; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.

As the sparrow finds herself a home and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young, [so my resting-place is] by your altars, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, my king and my God.

How happy are those who live in your house; they never cease to praise you! (Selah)

How happy the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.

They go from strength to strength and appear before God in Tziyon.

ADONAI, God of armies, hear my prayer; listen, God of Ya'akov. (Selah)

God, see our shield [the king]; look at the face of your anointed.

Better a day in your courtyards than a thousand [days elsewhere]. Better just standing at the door of my God's house than living in the tents of the wicked.

For ADONAI, God, is a sun and a shield; ADONAI bestows favor and honor; he will not withhold anything good from those whose lives are pure.

ADONAI-Tzva'ot, how happy is anyone who trusts in you!

For the leader. A psalm of the sons of Korach: ADONAI, you have shown favor to your land; you have restored the fortunes of Ya'akov,

taken away the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sin, (Selah)

withdrawn all your wrath, turned from your fierce anger.

Restore us, God of our salvation, renounce your displeasure with us.

Are you to stay angry with us forever? Will your fury last through all generations?

Won't you revive us again, so your people can rejoice in you?

Show us your grace, ADONAI; grant us your salvation.

I am listening. What will God, ADONAI, say? For he will speak peace to his people, to his holy ones -but only if they don't relapse into folly.

His salvation is near for those who fear him, so that glory will be in our land.

ADONAI will also grant prosperity; our land will yield its harvest.

Justice will walk before him and make his footsteps a path.

A prayer of David: Listen, ADONAI, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.