Category: Psalm Project
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The Psalm Project – Psalm 4
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!You have given me relief when I was in distress.Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? But know that…
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The Psalm Project – Psalm 3
O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.”But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.I will not be afraid…
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The Psalm Project – Psalm 2
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and…
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The Psalm Project – Psalm 1
Blessed is the manwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked,nor stands in the way of sinners,nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord,and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a treeplanted by streams of…
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The Psalm Project: The Psalms – The Hymnal of the Scriptures
What are the psalms? We get our English word psalm from the ancient Greek word psalmos which means “to pluck or play the harp.” In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for a psalm, mizmor, means “a poem set to music.” A psalm, then, is a poem which is set…
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