42:2 I thirst
for the living God.
I say,
42:3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night;
all day long they say to me,
42:4 I will remember and weep!
For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God,
shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
43:3 Reveal
They will lead me,
they will escort
and to the place where you live.
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
For the music director; according to the gittith style;
84:1 How lovely is the place where you live,
O Lord who rules over all!
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.
137:3 for there our captors ask us to compose songs;
those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying:
“Sing for us a song about Zion!”
137:4 How can we sing a song to the Lord
in a foreign land?
137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand be crippled!
137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
and do not give Jerusalem priority
over whatever gives me the most joy.
ד (Dalet)
1:4 The roads to Zion
because no one
All her city gates
her priests groan.
Her virgins grieve;
she is in bitter anguish!
ז (Zayin)
1:7 Jerusalem
when
all her treasures
that she owned in days of old.
When her people fell into an enemy’s grip,
none of her allies came to her rescue.
Her enemies
they sneered
ו (Vav)
2:6 He destroyed his temple
he destroyed his appointed meeting place.
The Lord has made those in Zion forget
both the festivals and the Sabbaths.
In his fierce anger
both king and priest.
ז (Zayin)
2:7 The Lord
and abhorred his temple.
He handed over to the enemy
her palace walls;
the enemy
as if it were a feast day.
9:5 So what will you do on the festival day,
on the festival days of the Lord?