Send us a text Waiting for the Redemption of Yehovah A Psalm of Ascent 1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Yehovah; 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 3 If You, Yehovah, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.

Send us a text Song of Victory over Zion's Enemies A Psalm of Ascent 1 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: 2 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. 3 My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. 4 But Yehovah is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. 5 May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. 6 May they...

Send us a text Blessings of Those Who Fear Yehovah A Psalm of Ascent 1 How joyful are those who fear Yehovah - all who follow His ways! 2 You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How joyful and prosperous you will be! 3. Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table. 4. That is Yehovah's blessing for those who fear him. 5 May Yehovah continually ...

Send us a text 1. Unless Yehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Yehovah guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Send us a text 5 Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Send us a text A song of Ascent 1 When Yehovah brought back his exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream! 2 We were filled with laughter, and we sang for joy. And the other nations said, "What amazing things Yehovah has done for them." 3 Yes, Yehovah has done amazing things for us! What joy! 4 Restore our fortunes, Yehovah, as streams renew the desert.

Send us a text Yehovah the Strength of His People A Song of Ascents 1 Those who trust in Yehovah are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yehovah surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. 3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity. 4 Do good, O Yehovah, to those who are good, and to those who are upright...

Send us a text Yehovah the Defense of His People A song of Ascents. Of David "Had it not been Yehovah who was on our side," Let Israel now say - 2 "If it had not been Yehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us, 3 then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us, 4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; 5 then the swollen waters would have gone over our soul." 6 Blessed be Yehovah, who has n...

Send us a text Prayer for Relief from Contempt A Song of Ascents. 1 Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yehovah our God, until He has mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Yehovah, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ...

Send us a text The Joy of Going to the House of Yehovah A Song of Ascent. Of David. 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go into the house of Yehovah." 2 Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! 3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together, 4 where the tribes go up, the tribes of Yehovah to the Testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yehovah. 5 For thrones are set there for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. ...

Send us a text A Song of Ascent / A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem I took my troubles to Yehovah; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer. 2 Rescue me, O Yehovah, from liars and from all deceitful people. 3 O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment? 4 You will be pierced with sharp arrows and burned with glowing coals. 5 How I suffer in far-off Meshech. It pains me to live in distant Kedar. 6&nbs...

Send us a text 5 Yehovah himself watches over you! Yehovah stands beside you as your protective shade. 6 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon at night. 7 Yehovah keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. 8 Yehovah keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.

Send us a text A Song of Ascents God the Help of Those Who Seek Him I will lift up my eyes to the hills - from whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from Yehovah, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Send us a text The Passion Translation: The Bridegroom and the Bride in Divine Duet: 14 Arise, my darling! Come quickly, my beloved. Come and be the graceful gazelle with me. Come be like a young stag with me. We will dance in the high place of the sky, yes, on the mountains of fragrant spice. Forever we shall be united as one!

The Passion Translation The Shulamite Bride ...11 My bridegroom-king has a vineyard of love made from a multitude of followers. His caretakers of this vineyard have given my beloved their best. 12 Bus as for my own vineyard of love, I give all the glory to you. And I will give double honor to those who serve my beloved and have watched over my soul. 13. My beloved, one with me in my garden, how marvelous that my friends, the brides-to-be, now hear your voice and song.&...

The Shulamite Bride: 8 My brothers said to me when I was young, "Our sister is so immature. What will we do to guard her for her wedding day?" The Bridegroom King: We will build a tower of redemption to protect her. Since she is vulnerable, we will enclose her with a wall of cedar boards. The Shulamite Bride: But now I have grown and become a bride, and my love for him has made me a tower of passion and contentment for my beloved. I am now a firm wall of protection for other...

Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.

5 Who is this one? She arises out of her desert, clinging to her beloved. When I awakened you under the apple tree, as you were feasting upon me, I awakened your innermost being with the travail of birth as you longed for more of me. 6 Fasten me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore. This living, consuming flame will seal you as my prisoner of love. My passion is stronger than the chains of death and the grave, all consuming as the very flashes of fire f...

1 If only I could show everyone this passionate desire I have for you. If only I could express it fully, no matter who was watching me, without shame or embarrassment. 2 I long to bring you to my innermost chamber - this holy sanctuary you have formed within me. O that I might carry you within me! I would give you the spiced wine of my love, this fully cup of bliss that we share. We would drink our fill until... 3 His left hand cradles my head while his right hol...

13 The love apples are in bloom, sending forth their fragrance of spring. The rarest of fruits are found at our doors - the new as well as the old. I have stored them for you, my lover-friend!