Psalms (memorable passages) Flashcards
(233 cards)
1
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there is none who does good, not even one.
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Psalm 14:3
2
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As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
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Psalm 16:3
3
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You fill their womb with treasure;
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Psalm 17:14
4
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With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
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Psalm 18:25-26
5
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May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
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Psalm 20:4
6
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You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear.
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Psalm 21:8
7
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Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
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Psalm 25:8
8
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All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
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Psalm 25:10
9
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Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
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Psalm 25:18
10
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I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD, proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds.
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Psalm 26:6-7
11
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…in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
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Psalm 26:10
12
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My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
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Psalm 26:12
13
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One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.
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Psalm 27:4
14
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For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.
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Psalm 27:10
15
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I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
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Psalm 27:13
16
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Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!
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Psalm 27:14
17
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Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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Psalm 28:9
18
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Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
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Psalm 29:2
19
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The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters
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Psalm 29:3
20
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The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
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Psalm 29:5
21
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He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
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Psalm 29:6
22
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he voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.
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Psalm 29:7
23
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The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
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Psalm 29:9
24
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For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
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Psalm 30:5
25
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
Psalm 31:5
26
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.
Psalm 31:6
27
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Psalm 31:10
28
For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Psalm 31:13
29
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.
Psalm 31:21
30
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!
Psalm 31:24
31
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psalm 32:5
32
Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
Psalm 32:6
33
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Psalm 32:11
34
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 33:7
35
The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
Psalm 33:16-17
36
Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
Psalm 33:22
37
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Psalm 34:7
38
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Psalm 34:8
39
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Psalm 34:10
40
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
41
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Psalm 34:20
42
Let them be like chaff before the wind,
| with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Psalm 35:5
43
Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
| exulting in his salvation.
Psalm 35:9
44
Malicious[c] witnesses rise up;
| they ask me of things that I do not know.
Psalm 35:11
45
But I, when they were sick—
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Psalm 35:13
46
like profane mockers at a feast,[f]
| they gnash at me with their teeth.
Psalm 35:16
47
They open wide their mouths against me;
they say, “Aha, Aha!
Our eyes have seen it!”
Psalm 35:21
48
Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
and say evermore,
“Great is the Lord,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Psalm 35:27
49
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
| your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 36:5
50
For with you is the fountain of life;
| in your light do we see light.
Psalm 36:9
51
Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you,
| and your righteousness to the upright of heart!
Psalm 36:10
52
Delight yourself in the Lord,
| and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
53
Better is the little that the righteous has
| than the abundance of many wicked.
Psalm 37:16
54
they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 37:20 (c)
55
I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or his children begging for bread.
Psalm 37:25
56
My wounds stink and fester
| because of my foolishness,
Psalm 38:5
57
My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
| and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
Psalm 38:10
58
I confess my iniquity;
| I am sorry for my sin.
Psalm 38:18
59
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue
Psalm 39:3
60
You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us
Psalm 40:5
61
Then I said, "Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
Psalm 40:7
62
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!
Psalm 40:13
63
Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"
Psalm 40:15
64
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Psalm 41:9
65
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
Psalm 42:5 & 11 / Psalm 43:5
66
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Psalm 43:4
67
Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalm 44:22
68
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Psalm 45:6
69
ou have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Psalm 45:7
70
"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Psalm 46:10
71
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
Psalm 47:6
72
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
Psalm 47:7
73
Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress.
Psalm 48:3
74
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Psalm 49:4
75
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
Psalm 49:7
76
Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 49:12
77
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 50:2
78
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalm 50:8
79
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalm 50:10
80
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
Psalm 50:11
81
But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Psalm 50:16
82
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Psalm 52:4
83
The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
Psalm 52:6
84
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Psalm 52:8
85
There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
Psalm 53:5
86
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest"
Psalm 55:6
87
Destroy, O Lord, pdivide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Psalm 55:9
88
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.
Psalm 55:13-14
89
My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 55:20-21
90
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psalm 56:4
91
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. bAre they not in your book?
Psalm 56:8
92
In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalm 56:10-11
93
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts—
Psalm 57:4
94
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!
Psalm 57:5 / 11
95
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
Psalm 57:8
96
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Psalm 58:4-5
97
O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
Psalm 58:6
98
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Psalm 58:7
99
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
Psalm 58:9
100
Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
Psalm 59:6 / 14
101
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
Psalm 59:7
102
Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Psalm 59:11
103
You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow.
Psalm 60:4
104
God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
Psalm 60:6
105
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
Psalm 60:7
106
Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
Psalm 60:8
107
...Lead me to the rock
| that is higher than I,
Psalm 61:2
108
Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!
Psalm 61:6
109
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 62:2 (5-6)
110
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
Psalm 62:11
111
My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
Psalm 63:6
112
when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
Psalm 63:7
113
They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”...
Psalm 64:6
114
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 64:11
115
Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be hear
Psalm 66:8
116
Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
Psalm 67:3/5
117
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!
Psalm 68:4
118
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:5
119
The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host
Psalm 68:11
120
“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil—
Psalm 68:12
121
though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.
Psalm 68:13
122
When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon.
Psalm 68:14
123
O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
Psalm 68:15
124
You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men
Psalm 68:18
125
But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
Psalm 68:21
126
that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”
Psalm 68:23
127
to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
Psalm 68:33
128
I sink in deep mire,
| where there is no foothold;
Psalm 69:2
129
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause;
Psalm 69:4
130
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
Psalm 69:21
131
Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”
Psalm 70:3
132
May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”
Psalm 70:4
133
Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Psalm 71:3
134
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
Psalm 71:6
135
I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Psalm 71:7
136
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
Psalm 71:12
137
May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Psalm 72:11
138
From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.
Psalm 72:14
139
Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory!
Amen and Amen!
Psalm 72:19
140
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 73:3
141
For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
Psalm 73:4
142
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
Psalm 73:16
143
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Psalm 73:24
144
Whom have I in heaven but you?
Psalm 73:25
145
Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
Psalm 74:3
146
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Psalm 74:14
147
Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Psalm 74:20
148
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
Psalm 75:8
149
There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.
Selah
Psalm 76:3
150
Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains full of prey.
Psalm 76:4
151
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
Psalm 76:10
152
Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalm 77:10
153
I will open my mouth kin a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old
Psalm 78:2
154
In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
Psalm 78:12
155
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Psalm 78:19
156
He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”
Psalm 78:20
157
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Psalm 78:25
158
he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
Psalm 78:27
159
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
Psalm 78:30
160
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
Psalm 78:49
161
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
Psalm 78:54
162
from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
Psalm 78:71
163
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Psalm 79:6
164
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Psalm 79:10
165
Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Psalm 80:3 / 7 / 19
166
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Psalm 80:8
167
Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
Psalm 80:14
168
But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
Psalm 80:17
169
He made it ma decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
Psalm 81:5
170
I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalm 81:10
171
I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
Psalm 82:6
172
Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.
Selah
Psalm 83:8
173
who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
Psalm 83:10
174
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Psalm 84:2
175
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
Psalm 84:3
176
As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
Psalm 84:6
177
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalm 84:10
178
For the LORD God is ja sun and shield; the LORD bestows favour and honour. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
179
Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.
Psalm 85:7
180
Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
Psalm 85:8
181
Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Psalm 85:10
182
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
Psalm 86:8
183
Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
Psalm 86:11
184
O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them
Psalm 86:14
185
Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.
Psalm 87:4
186
And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.
Psalm 87:5
187
Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Psalm 88:11
188
‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’”
Selah
Psalm 89:4
189
For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
Psalm 89:6
190
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
Psalm 89:9
191
The north and the south, you have created them; hTabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
Psalm 89:12
192
Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,
Psalm 89:15
193
For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 89:18
194
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
Psalm 89:19
195
And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalm 89:27
196
Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Psalm 89:35
197
...you have defiled his crown in the dust.
Psalm 89:39
198
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Psalm 90:4
199
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Psalm 93:3
200
and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
Psalm 94:7
201
Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
Psalm 94:8
202
The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalm 95:5
203
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
Psalm 95:6
204
do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness
Psalm 95:8
205
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
Psalm 96:2
206
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above fall gods.
Psalm 96:4
207
For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalm 96:5
208
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring lan offering, and come into his courts!
Psalm 96:8
209
Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!
Psalm 96:9
210
Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
Psalm 96:10
211
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
Psalm 96:11
212
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Psalm 97:2
213
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Psalm 97:5
214
All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!
Psalm 97:7
215
O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10
216
Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Psalm 97:11
217
Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!
Psalm 98:7
218
Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he!
Psalm 99:3
219
Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the LORD, and he answered them.
Psalm 99:6
220
O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but man avenger of their wrongdoings.
Psalm 99:8
221
Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalm 100:3
222
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
Psalm 101:3
223
I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
Psalm 102:6
224
I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
Psalm 102:7
225
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
Psalm 102:9
226
You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
Psalm 102:13
227
Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that ha people yet to be created may praise the LORD:
Psalm 102:18
228
He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.
Psalm 102:23
229
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Psalm 102:25
230
who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:5
231
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12
232
for the wind passes over it, and wit is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Psalm 103:16
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Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!
Psalm 103:21
