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• Psalm 12

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  Psalm 12 is a lament that seeks the LORD's help in a world where the godly have vanished and falsehood and flattery have spread. It continues with the LORD's response and a confession of the purity of His words.

• Psalm 10

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  Psalm 10 is a lament over the reality that the wicked oppress the poor and powerless while God seems far away, and a plea for God to arise and judge on behalf of the fatherless and the oppressed.

• Psalm 13

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  Psalm 13 is an individual lament bearing the name of David. In anguish, feeling abandoned by God, the psalmist asks again and again, "How long?" By the end, his lament turns into a confession of trust in the LORD's mercy and a vow to sing His praise.

• Psalm 35

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  Psalm 35 is an individual lament bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." The psalmist appeals to the LORD for deliverance from enemies who hate him without cause and accuse him falsely, and he vows to give praise once he has been delivered.

• Psalm 21

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  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 25

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  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 29

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  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 38

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  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 51

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  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 55

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  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 37

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  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 56

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  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 60

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  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 54

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  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 49

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  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 79

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  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 57

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  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 74

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  Psalm 74 is a lament in which, after enemies have burned and defiled the sanctuary, the community asks God why he has cast them off. It pleads with God, the King who has worked salvation from of old, to remember his covenant and arise.

• Psalm 65

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  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 69

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  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.