My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

Deliver me from my distress; rescue me from my suffering!

Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.

I will give you sincere thanks, when I learn your just regulations.

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

May he grant your heart’s desire; may he bring all your plans to pass!

Be strong and confident, all you who wait on the Lord!

The oppressed look on – let them rejoice! You who seek God, may you be encouraged!

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!