Study Desk

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil. When the Ziphites went and said to Saul, "Is David not hiding among us?"^(a)

God, save me by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!^(b)

God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth.^(c)

For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God.^[a](d) Selah

God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life.^[b](e)

He will repay my adversaries for their evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.^(f)

I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You.^(g) I will praise Your name, Yahweh, because it is good.^(h)

For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked down on my enemies.⁽ⁱ⁾

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.^(a)

God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You. I thirst for You; my body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.^(b)

So I gaze on You in the sanctuary to see Your strength and Your glory.^(c)

My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life.^(d)

So I will praise You as long as I live; at Your name, I will lift up my hands.^(e)

You satisfy me as with rich food;^[a](f) my mouth will praise You with joyful lips.^(g)

When I think of You as I lie on my bed, I meditate on You during the night watches^(h)

because You are my helper;⁽ⁱ⁾ I will rejoice in the shadow of Your wings.^(j)

I follow close to You; Your right hand holds on to me.^(k)

But those who seek to destroy my life will go into the depths of the earth.^(l)

They will be given over to the power of the sword;^(m) they will become the jackals' prey.

But the king will rejoice in God;⁽ⁿ⁾ all who swear by Him^[b] will boast, for the mouths of liars will be shut.^(o)