5:11 But may all who take shelter in you be happy!
May they continually shout for joy!
Shelter them so that those who are loyal to you may rejoice!
8:2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies
you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries,
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.
10:4 The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks,
“God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”
28:3 Do not drag me away with evil men,
with those who behave wickedly,
who talk so friendly to their neighbors,
while they plan to harm them!
30:12 So now my heart will sing to you and not be silent;
O Lord my God, I will always give thanks to you.
Book 2
(Psalms 42-72)
For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites.
42:1 As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for you, O God!
42:6 I am depressed,
so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan,
from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
50:21 When you did these things, I was silent,
so you thought I was exactly like you.
But now I will condemn you
and state my case against you!
56:13 when you deliver my life from death.
You keep my feet from stumbling,
so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
59:12 They speak sinful words.
So let them be trapped by their own pride
and by the curses and lies they speak!
59:13 Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish!
Let them know that God rules
in Jacob and to the ends of the earth! (Selah)
73:12 Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like,
those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.
74:2 Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times,
whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation,
as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!
78:6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born,
might know about them.
They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.
83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation!
Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
89:50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted,
and of how I must bear so many insults from people!
95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,
‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
103:12 As far as the eastern horizon is from the west,
so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.
104:9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,
so that they would not cover the earth again.
106:5 so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,
and boast along with the people who belong to you.
107:26 They reached up to the sky,
then dropped into the depths.
The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.
109:18 He made cursing a way of life,
so curses poured into his stomach like water
and seeped into his bones like oil.