Psalms 3
Save Me, O My God
A Psalm of David, awhen he fled from Absalom his son.
1 O Lord, bhow many are my foes!Many are crising against me;
2many are saying of my soul,
d"There is no salvation for him in God." Selah ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew word Selah, used frequently in the Psalms, is uncertain. It may be a musical or liturgical direction
3 But you, O Lord, are fa shield gabout me,
my glory, and hthe lifter of my head.
4I icried aloud to the Lord,
and he janswered me from his kholy hill. Selah
5 I llay down and slept;
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
6I mwill not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have nset themselves against me all around.
7 oArise, O Lord!
Save me, O my God!
For you pstrike all my enemies on the cheek;
you qbreak the teeth of the wicked.
8 rSalvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people! Selah
Psalms 84
My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
To the choirmaster: according to sThe Gittith. ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term A Psalm of uthe Sons of Korah.
1 How vlovely is your wdwelling place,O Lord of hosts!
2My soul xlongs, yes, yfaints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to zthe living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
aamy King and my God.
4 abBlessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever acsinging your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
adin whose heart are the highways to Zion. ▼
▼Hebrew lacks to Zion
6As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
afthe early rain also covers it with agpools.
7They go ahfrom strength to strength;
each one aiappears before God in Zion.
8 O ajLord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 akBehold our alshield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day amin your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be ana doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11For the Lord God is aoa sun and apshield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
aqNo good thing does he withhold
from those who arwalk uprightly.
12O Lord of hosts,
asblessed is the one who trusts in you!
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