Psalms 55:1

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob.

Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.