Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

He said, “This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence.”

“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord’s proclamation to my lord: “Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, “This one was born there.”

Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

Then I say, “Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.

Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue.

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

“O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!