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• Penitential PsalmsBible

  The Penitential Psalms are seven psalms (Psalms 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143) that church tradition groups together because they give prominent expression to the confession of sin and the plea for God's forgiveness.

• Lament PsalmsBible

  Lament psalms are a type of psalm in which the psalmist cries out and appeals to God amid suffering, illness, persecution, or national disaster. They are among the most common types in the Book of Psalms.

• Psalm 11Bible

  Psalm 11 is a short, seven-verse psalm of trust in which the psalmist, threatened by the wicked, rejects the advice to "flee as a bird to your mountain" and declares that he takes refuge in the LORD, who from His heavenly throne examines humankind.

• Psalm 27Bible

  Psalm 27 is a fourteen-verse psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." A song of trust that confesses the LORD as light and salvation (vv. 1–6) gives way to a plea not to be forsaken (vv. 7–12), and the psalm closes with an exhortation to wait on the LORD.

• 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 50Bible

  Psalm 50 bears the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." In it God, acting as judge, summons his people, rebukes merely formal sacrifice and hypocritical living, and calls for the sacrifice of thanksgiving and upright conduct.

• Psalm 64Bible

  Psalm 64 is a psalm of David asking God for protection from enemies who secretly seek to do harm with wicked words. It closes with the confession that the tongue of the wicked turns against them, while the righteous rejoice in the LORD.

• Psalm 62Bible

  Psalm 62 is a psalm of trust in which the psalmist, amid the lies and attacks of others, confesses that his soul waits silently upon God alone. It closes with the declaration that power and mercy belong to God.

• 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 83Bible

  Psalm 83 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal prayer. It asks God to judge the surrounding nations that have allied to destroy Israel, as He did in the days of the judges, and prays that they may come to know that the LORD alone is the Most High over all the earth.

• 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 95Bible

  Psalm 95 calls the congregation to praise and worship before the LORD. It then holds up the wilderness generation, which hardened its heart at Meribah and Massah, as a warning and urges its hearers to hear God's voice today.

• 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.

• Psalm 104Bible

  Psalm 104 is a hymn of praise celebrating God as the one who made the heavens and the earth, the waters, and all living creatures, and who feeds and cares for them in due season. It has 35 verses.

• Psalm 106Bible

  Psalm 106 confesses Israel's repeated rebellion against God from the time of the Exodus onward and celebrates the steadfast love of God, who nevertheless remembered His covenant. The psalm concludes Book IV of the Psalms.

• Psalm 127:1Bible Verses

  A declaration that unless the LORD builds the house, the labor of those who build it is in vain. It is one of the verses most often cited at the beginning of a church building project, a new household, or a business venture, and it is read as raising the question of how human effort relates to the sovereignty of God.

• Psalm 1:1-2Bible Verses

  The opening verses of the Psalter, which declare blessed the person who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly but delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on it day and night. The passage opens the entire book of Psalms and is frequently cited to encourage meditation on Scripture.

• Psalm 51:5Bible Verses

  David's confession, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." The verse is cited as a leading Old Testament basis for the doctrine of original sin, and Christian traditions differ in how they understand the nature of the sin it describes.

• Psalm 111:10Bible Verses

  The final verse of Psalm 111, which declares that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Together with Proverbs 9:10 and Job 28:28, it is frequently cited as a representative expression of biblical wisdom thought.