Bible Verses About Psalms

Be exalted, God, above heaven! May your glory be over all the earth!

They prepared a snare for my feet, but I am bending over [to avoid it]. They dug a pit ahead of me, but they fell into it themselves. (Selah)

My heart is steadfast, God, steadfast. I will sing and make music.

Awake, my glory! Awake, lyre and lute! I will awaken the dawn.

I will thank you, Adonai, among the peoples; I will make music to you among the nations.

For your grace is great, all the way to heaven, and your truth, all the way to the skies.

Be exalted, God, above heaven! May your glory be over all the earth!

For the leader. Set to "Do Not Destroy." By David, a mikhtam: [Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice? Are you judging people fairly?

[No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs, your hands dispense violence in the land.

From the womb, the wicked are estranged, liars on the wrong path since birth.

Their venom is like snake's venom; they are like a serpent that stops its ears,

so as not to hear the voice of the charmer, no matter how well he plays.

God, break their teeth in their mouth! Shatter the fangs of these lions, ADONAI!

May they vanish like water that drains away. May their arrows be blunted when they aim their bows.

May they be like a slug that melts as it moves, like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.

Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns, may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.

The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done, they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;

and people will say, "Yes, the righteous are rewarded; there is, after all, a God who judges the earth."

For the leader. Set to "Lily of Testimony."A mikhtam of David for teaching about when he fought with Aram-Naharayim and with Aram-Tzovah, and Yo'av returned and killed 12,000 from Edom in the Salt Valley: God, you rejected us; you crushed us; you were angry; but now revive us.

You made the land shake, split it apart; now repair the rifts, for it is collapsing.

You made your people suffer hard times, had us drink a wine that made us stagger.

To those who fear you because of the truth you gave a banner to rally around, (Selah)

so that those you love could be rescued; so save with your right hand, and answer us!

God in his holiness spoke, and I took joy [in his promise]: "I will divide Sh'khem and determine the shares in the Sukkot Valley.

Gil'ad is mine and M'nasheh mine, Efrayim my helmet, Y'hudah my scepter.