A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, yo
A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects th
A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on th
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth.
Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So t
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter y
A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-nahar
A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not o
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin b
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. A
A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be a
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!