Psalms (memorable passages) Flashcards
there is none who does good, not even one.
Psalm 14:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
Psalm 16:3
You fill their womb with treasure;
Psalm 17:14
With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Psalm 18:25-26
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
Psalm 20:4
You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear.
Psalm 21:8
Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
Psalm 25:8
All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalm 25:10
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Psalm 25:18
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD, proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds.
Psalm 26:6-7
…in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
Psalm 26:10
My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
Psalm 26:12
One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 27:4
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.
Psalm 27:10
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
Psalm 27:13
Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!
Psalm 27:14
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Psalm 28:9
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
Psalm 29:2
The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters
Psalm 29:3
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalm 29:5
He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Psalm 29:6
he voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.
Psalm 29:7
The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
Psalm 29:9
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
Psalm 31:5
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.
Psalm 31:6
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Psalm 31:10
For I hear the whispering of many– terror on every side!– as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Psalm 31:13
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.
Psalm 31:21
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!
Psalm 31:24
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psalm 32:5
Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
Psalm 32:6
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Psalm 32:11
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 33:7
The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
Psalm 33:16-17
Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
Psalm 33:22
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Psalm 34:7
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Psalm 34:8
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Psalm 34:10
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Psalm 34:20
Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Psalm 35:5
Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
exulting in his salvation.
Psalm 35:9
Malicious[c] witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.
Psalm 35:11
But I, when they were sick—
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Psalm 35:13
like profane mockers at a feast,[f]
they gnash at me with their teeth.
Psalm 35:16
They open wide their mouths against me;
they say, “Aha, Aha!
Our eyes have seen it!”
Psalm 35:21
Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
and say evermore,
“Great is the Lord,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Psalm 35:27
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 36:5
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light do we see light.
Psalm 36:9
Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you,
and your righteousness to the upright of heart!
Psalm 36:10
Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of many wicked.
Psalm 37:16
they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 37:20 (c)
I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or his children begging for bread.
Psalm 37:25
My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness,
Psalm 38:5
My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
Psalm 38:10
I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.
Psalm 38:18
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue
Psalm 39:3
You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us
Psalm 40:5
Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
Psalm 40:7
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!
Psalm 40:13
Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
Psalm 40:15
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Psalm 41:9
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
Psalm 42:5 & 11 / Psalm 43:5
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Psalm 43:4
Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalm 44:22
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Psalm 45:6
ou have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Psalm 45:7
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 46:10
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
Psalm 47:6
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
Psalm 47:7
Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress.
Psalm 48:3
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Psalm 49:4
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
Psalm 49:7
Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 49:12
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 50:2
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalm 50:8
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalm 50:10
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
Psalm 50:11
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Psalm 50:16
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Psalm 52:4
The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
Psalm 52:6
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Psalm 52:8
There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
Psalm 53:5
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest”
Psalm 55:6
Destroy, O Lord, pdivide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Psalm 55:9
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.
Psalm 55:13-14
My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 55:20-21
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psalm 56:4
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. bAre they not in your book?
Psalm 56:8
In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalm 56:10-11
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts—
Psalm 57:4