Bible Verses About Psalms

Don't count past iniquities against us, but let your compassion come quickly to meet us, for we have been brought very low.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name. Deliver us, forgive our sins, for your name's sake.

Why should the nations ask, "Where is their God?" Let the vengeance taken on your servants' shed blood be known among the nations before our eyes.

Let the groaning of the captives come before you; by your great strength save those condemned to death.

Repay our neighbors sevenfold where they can feel it for the insults they inflicted on you, Adonai.

Then we, your people and the flock in your pasture, will give you thanks forever. From generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.

A psalm of Asaf: Elohim [God] stands in the divine assembly; there with the elohim [judges], he judges:

"How long will you go on judging unfairly, favoring the wicked? (Selah)

Give justice to the weak and fatherless! Uphold the rights of the wretched and poor!

Rescue the destitute and needy; deliver them from the power of the wicked!"

They don't know, they don't understand, they wander about in darkness; meanwhile, all the foundations of the earth are being undermined.

"My decree is: 'You are elohim [gods, judges], sons of the Most High all of you.

Nevertheless, you will die like mortals; like any prince, you will fall.'"

Rise up, Elohim, and judge the earth; for all the nations are yours.

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.

Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley, they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it with blessings.

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.