Psalms For The Holy Spirit

Psalm 24

A Psalm of David.

1 The earth is the Lord's and the

fullness thereof,

the world and those who dwell therein;

2 for He has founded it upon the seas,

and established it upon the rivers.

3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord

And who shall stand in His holy place?

4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to what is false,

and does not swear deceitfully.

5 He will receive blessing from the Lord,

and vindication from the God of his salvation.

6 Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek the face of the God of Jacob.

7 Lift up your heads, O gates!

and be lifted up, O ancient doors!

that the King of glory may come in.

8 Who is the King of glory?

The Lord, strong and mighty,

the Lord, mighty in battle!

9 Lift up your heads, O gates!

and be lifted up, O ancient doors!

that the King of glory may come in.

10 Who is this King of glory?

The Lord of hosts,

he is the King of glory!

Psalm42

To the choirmaster.

A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

1 As a hart longs

for flowing streams,

so longs my soul

for thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God.

When shall I come and behold

the face of God?

3 My tears have been my food

day and night,

while men say to me continually,

"Where is your God?"

4 These things I remember,

as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng,

and led them in procession to the house of God,

with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,

a multitude keeping festival.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

6 my help and my God.

My soul is cast down within me,

therefore I remember thee

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep

at the thunder of thy cataracts;

all thy waves and thy billows

have gone over me.

8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love;

and at night his song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God, my rock:

"Why hast thou forgotten me?

Why go I mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10 As with a deadly wound in my body,

my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me continually,

"Where is your God?"

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my help and my God.

Psalm 84

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.

A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 How lovely is thy dwelling place,

O Lord of the Hosts!

2 My soul longs, yea, faints

for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

3 Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at thy altars, O Lord of the Hosts,

my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in thy house,

ever singing thy praise!

5 Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee,

in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

6 As they go through the valley of Baca

they make it a place of springs;

the early rain also covers it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength;

the God of Gods will be seen in Zion.

8 O Lord God of the Hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob!

9 Behold our shield, O God;

look upon the face of thine anointed!

10 For a day in thy courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house

of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

he bestows favour and honour.

No good thing does the Lord withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of the Hosts,

blessed is the man who trusts in thee!