Bible Verses About Psalms

How blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them; he will not have to be embarrassed when contending with foes at the city gate.

A song of ascents: How happy is everyone who fears ADONAI, who lives by his ways.

You will eat what your hands have produced; you will be happy and prosperous.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house. Your children around the table will be like shoots from an olive tree.

This is the kind of blessing that will fall on him who fears ADONAI.

May ADONAI bless you from Tziyon! May you see Yerushalayim prosper all the days of your life,

and may you live to see your children's children! Shalom on Isra'el.

A song of ascents: Since I was young they have often attacked me -let Isra'el repeat it

since I was young they have often attacked me, but they haven't overcome me.

The plowmen plowed on my back; wounding me with long furrows.

But ADONAI is righteous; he cuts me free from the yoke of the wicked.

Let all who hate Tziyon be thrown back in confusion.

Let them be like grass on the roof, which dries out before it grows up

and never fills the reaper's hands or the arms of the one who binds sheaves,

so that no passer-by says, "ADONAI's blessing on you! We bless you in the name of ADONAI!"

A song of ascents. By David: ADONAI, I call to you from the depths;

hear my cry, Adonai! Let your ears pay attention to the sound of my pleading.

Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness, so that you will be feared.

I wait longingly for ADONAI; I put my hope in his word.

Everything in me waits for Adonai more than guards on watch wait for morning, more than guards on watch wait for morning.

Isra'el, put your hope in ADONAI! For grace is found with ADONAI, and with him is unlimited redemption.

He will redeem Isra'el from all their wrongdoings.

A song of ascents. By David: ADONAI, my heart isn't proud; I don't set my sight too high, I don't take part in great affairs or in wonders far beyond me.

No, I keep myself calm and quiet, like a little child on its mother's lap -I keep myself like a little child.