Bible Verses About Psalms

Who is like ADONAI our God, seated in the heights,

humbling himself to look on heaven and on earth.

He raises the poor from the dust, lifts the needy from the rubbish heap,

in order to give him a place among princes, among the princes of his people.

He causes the childless woman to live at home happily as a mother of children. Halleluyah!

When Isra'el came out of Egypt, the house of Ya'akov from a people of foreign speech,

Y'hudah became [God's] sanctuary, Isra'el his domain.

The sea saw this and fled; the Yarden turned back;

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

Why is it, sea, that you flee? Why, Yarden, do you turn back?

Why, mountains, do you skip like rams; and you hills like young sheep?

Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Ya'akov,

who turned the rock into a pool of water, flint into flowing spring.

A song of ascents: I called to ADONAI in my distress, and he answered me.

Rescue me, ADONAI, from lips that tell lies, from a tongue full of deceit.

What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue? What more will he do to you?

A warrior's sharp arrows, with red-hot coals from a broom tree.

How wretched I am, that I'm an alien in Meshekh, that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

I have had to live far too long with those who hate peace.

I am all for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

A song of ascents: If I raise my eyes to the hills, from where will my help come?

My help comes from ADONAI, the maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip -your guardian is not asleep.

No, the guardian of Isra'el never slumbers or sleeps.

ADONAI is your guardian; at your right hand ADONAI provides you with shade