Praying the Psalms

Archive for May, 2011

Tehillim/Psalms 42.12

Why so downcast, my soul,

why disquieted within me?

Have hope in G-d;

I will yet praise Him

my ever-present help, my G-d.

Tehillim/Psalms 42.12


Tehillim/Psalms 147.5

Great is our Lord, and full of power;

His wisdom is beyond reckoning.

Tehillim/Psalms 147.5

Proverbs 11.30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life . . .

Proverbs 11.30

Shir Hashirim/Song of Songs 2.11-12a

For now the winter is past,

The rains are over and gone.

The blossoms have appeared in the land,

The time of pruning has come.

Shir haShirim/Song of Songs 2.11-12a

Tehillim/Psalms 135.19-21

O house of Israel, bless the Lord;

O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

O house of Levi, bless the Lord;

you who fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

Blessed is the Lord from Zion,

He who dwells in Jerusalem.


Tehillim/Psalms 135.19-21

Tehillim/Psalms 72.6

of Solomon. . .

Let him be like rain that falls on a mown field,

like a downpour of rain on the ground,

that the righteous may flourish in his time,

and well-being abound, till the moon is no more

Tehillim/Psalms 72.6

Tehillim/Psalms 16.8

I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence;

He is at my right hand; I shall never be shaken.

Tehillim/Psalms 16.8