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Ask a QuestionAs is Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness and justice).
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they watch my steps, even as they have [expectantly] waited for my life.
Iniquities and much varied guilt prevail against me; [yet] as for our transgressions, You forgive and purge them away [make atonement for them and cover them out of Your sight]!
The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they smitten and plagued like other men.
A Psalm of Asaph.GOD STANDS in the assembly [of the representatives] of God; in the midst of the magistrates or judges He gives judgment [as] among the gods.
Clouds and darkness are round about Him [as at Sinai]; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
My adversaries taunt and reproach me all the day; and they who are angry with me use my name as a curse.
Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity].
I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.
Let my adversaries be clothed with shame and dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace and confusion as with a robe.
I am Yours, therefore save me [Your own]; for I have sought (inquired of and for) Your precepts and required them [as my urgent need].
Turn to freedom our captivity and restore our fortunes, O Lord, as the streams in the South (the Negeb) [are restored by the torrents].
[The Lord] gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to Israel His people.
Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.
Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is [so vast and deep as to be] unsearchable.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant doe [tender, gentle, attractive]--let her bosom satisfy you at all times, and always be transported with delight in her love.
He who walks [as a companion] with wise men is wise, but he who associates with [self-confident] fools is [a fool himself and] shall smart for it.
He who shuts his eyes to devise perverse things and who compresses his lips [as if in concealment] brings evil to pass.
The beginning of strife is as when water first trickles [from a crack in a dam]; therefore stop contention before it becomes worse and quarreling breaks out.