Simple Trust in the LORD

LORD, my heart is not haughty,

Nor my eyes lofty.

Neither do I concern myself with great matters,

Nor with things too profund for me.

Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,

Like a weaned child with his mother;

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, hope in the LORD

From this time forth and forever.

The LORD the strength of his people

THOSE who trust in the LORD

Are like Mount Zion,

Which cannot be moved , but abides forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

So the LORD surronuds His people

From this time forth and forever .

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest

On the land allotted to the righteous,

Lest the righteous reach out their 

hands to inquity.

Do good , O LORD, to those who are good,

And to those who are upright in their hearts.

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways,

The LORD shall lead them away 

With the workers of inquity.

Peace be upon Israel!

The LORD the Defense of His People

" IF it had not been the LORD who was on our side, "

Let Israel now say - 

" If it had not been the LORD who 

was on our side,

When men rose up against us,

Then they would have swallowed us  alive,

When their wrath was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,

The stream would have gone over our soul;

Then the swollen waters

Would have gone over soul."

Blessed be the LORD,

Who has not given us as prey to  their teeth.

Our soul has escaped as a bird from 

the snare of the fowlers;

The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Our help is in the name of the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.