55:6 I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and settle in a safe place!
94:17 If the Lord had not helped me,
I would have laid down in the silence of death.
95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority,
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
105:44 He handed the territory of nations over to them,
and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
106:43 Many times he delivered them,
but they had a rebellious attitude,
and degraded themselves by their sin.
107:11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands,
and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king.
123:3 Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor!
For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
123:4 We have had our fill
of the taunts of the self-assured,
of the contempt of the proud.
A song of ascents, by David.
124:1 “If the Lord had not been on our side” –
let Israel say this! –