O God, you are my God-it is you I seek! For you my body yearns; for you my soul thirsts, In a land parched, lifeless, and without water. Psalms 63:1 NABRE This is a psalm in which the psalmist has a deep desire for God. The quoted verse speaks to…
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Bless the LORD, all you his hosts, his ministers who carry out his will. Psalms 103:21 NABRE Like many psalms, this psalm praises God, the speaker of the psalm is praising God for personal benefits. The psalmist recognizes God’s mercy toward all people, even sin cannot destroy God’s mercy toward…
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Healing the brokenhearted, and binding up their wounds. Psalms 147:3 NABRE This psalm proposes motives for praise, in particular God’s work in creation and all He has done in favor of Israel. In these ways it covers all the possible reasons for praise, including a mention that God takes care…
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The earth, LORD, is filled with your mercy; teach me your statutes. Psalms 119:64 NABRE We have a view that God created the word for the benefit of human kind. God speaks, “For I said, ‘My mercy is established forever;’” (Psalms 89:3) God’s mercy is given through His kindness and…
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Enter, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, we are the people he shepherds, the sheep in his hands. Psalms 95:6-7 NABRE Psalm ninety-five is possibly the most proclaimed psalm today of all the psalms. It is…
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