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• Psalm 39Bible

  Psalm 39 is a thirteen-verse lament whose superscription attributes it to David. The psalmist, who had resolved to keep silent but finally speaks, confesses the brevity and transience of human life, places his hope in God, and pleads for restoration.

• Psalm 21Bible

  Psalm 21 is a royal psalm that thanks God for granting the king his desire and for giving him victory and long life. It anticipates the king's triumph over his enemies and praises the power of God.

• Psalm 25Bible

  Psalm 25 is a prayer psalm of twenty-two verses whose superscription attributes it to David. It asks God for protection from enemies and from shame, for instruction in his ways, and for the forgiveness of sins. The Hebrew original is known as an acrostic poem that follows the order of the alphabet.

• Psalm 29Bible

  Psalm 29 is a psalm of David that praises the glory and kingship of the LORD, celebrating seven times "the voice of the LORD" sounding in thunder and storm. It closes with the blessing of strength and peace that the LORD gives to his people.

• Psalm 38Bible

  Psalm 38 is a lament in which David, sick in body and soul because of his sin, forsaken by his friends, and harassed by his enemies, confesses his sin to God and pleads for help. It is counted among the seven Penitential Psalms.

• Psalm 51Bible

  Psalm 51 is a penitential psalm that its superscription attributes to David, written after the prophet Nathan rebuked him over the matter of Bathsheba. The psalmist confesses his sin and asks God to create a clean heart in him and restore the joy of salvation.

• Psalm 55Bible

  Psalm 55 is a lament psalm of David in which one betrayed by a close friend cries out to God amid an enemy's oppression and the terror of death, and finally arrives at the confession of trust, "Cast thy burden upon the LORD."

• Psalm 37Bible

  Psalm 37 is a wisdom psalm attributed to David. It urges readers not to fret because of the wicked who seem to prosper, but to trust in the LORD and wait for Him. It repeatedly contrasts the wicked, who wither like grass, with the meek and the righteous, who inherit the land.

• Psalm 56Bible

  Psalm 56 is a lament whose superscription attributes it to David when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Amid the threats of his enemies, the confession "In God I have put my trust; I will not fear" recurs as a refrain.

• Psalm 60Bible

  Psalm 60 is a communal prayer that laments military defeat and the anguish of seeming abandonment by God, then appeals for help by holding fast to God's promise to apportion the land.

• Psalm 54Bible

  Psalm 54 is a seven-verse individual lament of David, set at the time when the Ziphites informed Saul of David's hiding place. It opens with a prayer for deliverance, confesses God as the psalmist's helper, and closes with a vow to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving.

• Psalm 49Bible

  Psalm 49 is a wisdom psalm of the sons of Korah. It teaches that even those who trust in wealth cannot escape death or buy their own lives, and it confesses that God will redeem the psalmist's soul from the grave (Sheol).

• Psalm 79Bible

  Psalm 79 is a communal lament bearing the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." It lays before God the devastation wrought when the nations trampled Jerusalem and the temple, and it asks for forgiveness of sins, deliverance, and judgment on the enemies.

• Psalm 57Bible

  Psalm 57 is a lament whose superscription sets it at the time when David hid in a cave while fleeing from Saul. It opens with a prayer to take refuge in the shadow of God's wings and closes with a vow to awaken the dawn and praise the Lord among the nations.

• Psalm 80Bible

  Psalm 80 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal lament. Comparing Israel to a vine brought out of Egypt and planted, it implores God, the "Shepherd of Israel," to restore His devastated people.

• Psalm 87Bible

  Psalm 87 is a short, seven-verse psalm of the sons of Korah that celebrates Zion, the city God loves, and proclaims that Gentile nations such as Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush will also be spoken of as born in Zion.

• Psalm 65Bible

  Psalm 65 is a thirteen-verse psalm of praise and thanksgiving that extols God, who hears prayer in Zion and forgives sin; the Creator, who rules the mountains, the seas, and all peoples; and the God who sends rain upon the earth and grants an abundant harvest.

• Psalm 69Bible

  Psalm 69 is a lament in which the psalmist cries out to God for deliverance from suffering, as though sinking in deep waters and mire. It moves through imprecations against his enemies to a vow of praise, and the New Testament frequently cites it when speaking of the sufferings of Christ.

• Psalm 78Bible

  Psalm 78 is a didactic psalm (maschil) of Asaph that retraces Israel's history from the Exodus to the accession of David. It contrasts God's faithfulness with the people's repeated disobedience and urges that these things be passed on to the next generation.

• Psalm 85Bible

  Psalm 85 is a psalm of the sons of Korah that recalls God's past grace in bringing back the captives, pleads with Him to revive His people again, and portrays a restoration in which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace meet together.