Category Archives: Psalm

1-3 I run for dear life toGod, I’ll never live to regret it. Do what you do so well: get me out of this mess and up on my feet. Put your ear to the ground and listen, give me space for salvation. Be a guest room where I can retreat; you said your door […]

A Solomon Psalm 1-8 Give the gift of wise rule to the king, O God, the gift of just rule to the crown prince. May he judge your people rightly, be honorable to your meek and lowly. Let the mountains give exuberant witness; shape the hills with the contours of right living. Please stand up […]

An Asaph Psalm 1-5 No doubt about it! God is good— good to good people, good to the good-hearted. But I nearly missed it, missed seeing his goodness. I was looking the other way, looking up to the people At the top, envying the wicked who have it made, Who have nothing to worry about, […]

An Asaph Psalm 1 You walked off and left us, and never looked back. God, how could you do that? We’re your very own sheep; how can you stomp off in anger? 2-3 Refresh your memory of us—you bought us a long time ago. Your most precious tribe—you paid a good price for us! Your […]

An Asaph Psalm 1 We thank you, God, we thank you— your Name is our favorite word; your mighty works are all we talk about. 2-4 You say, “I’m calling this meeting to order, I’m ready to set things right. When the earth goes topsy-turvy And nobody knows which end is up, I nail it […]

An Asaph Psalm 1-3 God is well-known in Judah; in Israel, he’s a household name. He keeps a house in Salem, his own suite of rooms in Zion. That’s where, using arrows for kindling, he made a bonfire of weapons of war. 4-6 Oh, how bright you shine! Outshining their huge piles of loot! The […]

An Asaph Psalm 1 I yell out to my God, I yell with all my might, I yell at the top of my lungs. He listens. 2-6 I found myself in trouble and went looking for my Lord; my life was an open wound that wouldn’t heal. When friends said, “Everything will turn out all […]

An Asaph Psalm 1-4 Listen, dear friends, to God’s truth, bend your ears to what I tell you. I’m chewing on the morsel of a proverb; I’ll let you in on the sweet old truths, Stories we heard from our fathers, counsel we learned at our mother’s knee. We’re not keeping this to ourselves, we’re […]

An Asaph Psalm 1-4 God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble! They’ve served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on. They dumped out their […]

An Asaph Psalm 1-2 Listen, Shepherd, Israel’s Shepherd— get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne So Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh can see where they’re going. Get out of bed—you’ve slept long enough! Come on the run before it’s too late. 3 God, come back! Smile your blessing smile: […]