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• Psalm 98Bible

  Psalm 98 is a nine-verse hymn of praise that summons the whole earth, the sea, and even the hills to celebrate with a new song the salvation the LORD has wrought. It closes in expectation of the LORD as King, who comes to judge the world with righteousness and equity.

• Psalm 115Bible

  Psalm 115 is a hymn of praise that contrasts the powerlessness of man-made idols with the LORD who is in heaven, calling God's people to give glory to God alone and to trust in the LORD. It is one of the Hallel psalms (Psalms 113–118).

• Psalm 112Bible

  Psalm 112 is a ten-verse wisdom psalm that celebrates the blessings of the person who fears the LORD and delights in His commandments. It describes that person's steadfast life and the righteousness shown in giving to the poor, and it closes with the perishing of the desire of the wicked.

• Psalm 114Bible

  Psalm 114 is a short hymn of praise celebrating Israel's exodus from Egypt and its journey through the wilderness. It portrays the sea, the Jordan, and the mountains retreating and leaping before God, and it calls on the whole earth to tremble in the presence of the Lord.

• Psalm 117Bible

  Psalm 117 is a two-verse hymn of praise that calls all nations and peoples to praise the LORD. It gives the LORD's merciful kindness and truth as the reasons for praise. It is the shortest chapter in the entire Bible.

• Psalm 138Bible

  Psalm 138 is an eight-verse psalm of thanksgiving bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." It gives wholehearted thanks to God for answering prayer, expresses the hope that the kings of the earth will also praise him, and asks him to care for the psalmist to the end.

• Psalm 144Bible

  Psalm 144 is a fifteen-verse psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." It praises God, who delivers in battle, and asks for rescue from the hand of strangers. It then celebrates the blessedness of the people whose God is the LORD.

• Psalm 141Bible

  Psalm 141 is a ten-verse psalm of lament whose superscription attributes it to David. The psalmist asks that his prayer be accepted like incense, that God guard his mouth and heart so that he does not join with the wicked, and that he be delivered from their snares.

• Job 11Bible

  Job 11 contains the first speech of Zophar the Naamathite, one of Job's three friends. Zophar rebukes Job for claiming to be righteous, appeals to the unsearchable wisdom of God, and urges Job to forsake his sin and return to God.

• Psalm 77Bible

  Psalm 77 is a lament and a psalm of Asaph. In a time of trouble, the psalmist asks whether God has cast him off, then takes heart again by remembering God's works of old, especially His leading of the people through the sea at the Exodus.

• Psalm 110Bible

  Psalm 110 is a seven-verse royal psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." In it the LORD seats "my Lord" at His right hand and establishes him as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. It is one of the psalms most frequently quoted in the New Testament.

• Psalm 142Bible

  Psalm 142 is an individual lament that its superscription introduces as a prayer of David "when he was in the cave." Isolated, with no one to care for him, the psalmist confesses that the LORD alone is his refuge and his portion, and he pleads for deliverance.

• Psalm 145Bible

  Psalm 145 is a twenty-one-verse psalm of praise bearing the superscription "David's Psalm of praise." It celebrates the greatness and grace of God the King, his everlasting kingdom, and his care for all creatures.

• Psalm 16Bible

  Psalm 16, titled "Michtam of David," is a psalm of trust confessing that the LORD alone is the psalmist's good and inheritance and that the LORD will not abandon him even in the face of death. The New Testament cites it as testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• Psalm 30Bible

  Psalm 30 is a psalm of thanksgiving whose superscription attributes it to David. Delivered from the brink of death, the psalmist confesses that God's anger endures but a moment while His favor lasts a lifetime, and he praises God for turning his mourning into dancing.

• Psalm 33Bible

  Psalm 33 is a hymn of praise that calls worshipers to praise the LORD, who created the world by his word and governs history. It urges hope not in armies and horses but in the LORD's mercy.

• Psalm 63Bible

  Psalm 63 is an eleven-verse prayer psalm whose superscription attributes it to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. In it the psalmist thirsts for God in a dry land and confesses that God's lovingkindness is better than life.

• Psalm 61Bible

  Psalm 61 is an eight-verse prayer psalm in which a psalmist whose heart is overwhelmed cries to God from the end of the earth, seeks refuge in Him, prays for the king's long life, and pledges to perform his vows daily.

• Psalm 91Bible

  Psalm 91 is a psalm of trust declaring that whoever makes God their refuge will be protected in the midst of pestilence and calamity. Verses 11–12 are known as the passage Satan quoted during the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness.

• Psalm 73:25–26Bible Verses

  Psalm 73:25–26 is the passage in which the psalmist, after being shaken by the prosperity of the wicked, confesses that God alone is the one he desires in heaven and on earth and that God is his "portion for ever." Because it confesses God himself as the greatest blessing, it is often cited as a text of comfort and devotion.