23:5 My dynasty is approved by God,
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition.
For the music director; a psalm of David.
13:1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me?
How long will you pay no attention to me?
13:2 How long must I worry,
and suffer in broad daylight?
How long will my enemy gloat over me?
A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness.
63:1 O God, you are my God! I long for you!
My soul thirsts
my flesh yearns for you,
in a dry and parched
63:2 Yes,
and witnessed
63:3 Because
my lips will praise you.
73:25 Whom do I have in heaven but you?
I desire no one but you on earth.
77:10 Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought
that the sovereign One
77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord.
Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago!
77:12 I will think about all you have done;
I will reflect upon your deeds!”
84:2 I desperately want to be
in the courts of the Lord’s temple.
My heart and my entire being
to the living God.
143:5 I recall the old days;
I meditate on all you have done;
I reflect on your accomplishments.
143:6 I spread my hands out to you in prayer;
my soul thirsts for you in a parched
The Beloved to Her Lover:
1:2 Oh, how I wish you
For your lovemaking
1:3 The fragrance
your name
No wonder the young women
1:4 Draw me
May the king
The Maidens
We will
we will praise
The Beloved to Her Lover:
How rightly
The Beloved about Her Lover:
2:3 Like
so is my beloved among the young men.
I delight
and his fruit
The Beloved about Her Lover:
2:4 He brought me
and he looked
2:5 Sustain
refresh me with apples,
for I am faint with love.
The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
The Beloved to the Maidens:
5:8 O maidens of Jerusalem, I command you –
If you find my beloved, what will you tell him?
Tell him that I am lovesick!