How precious is your gracious love, God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.

How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you.

How blessed is that strong person who places his trust in the LORD, and who has not acknowledged the proud nor resorted to lies.

As for the wicked, God says, "How dare you recite my statutes or speak about my covenant with your lips!

How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

How blessed is the one you choose, the one you cause to live in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, yes, even with the holiness of your Temple.

Say to God: "How awesome are your works! Because of your great strength your enemies cringe before you."

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

"How long will you judge partially by showing favor on the wicked? Interlude

How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

How happy are those who live in your Temple, for they can praise you continuously. Interlude

How happy are those whose strength is in you, whose heart is on your path.

LORD of Heavenly Armies, how happy are those who trust in you. To the Director: A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.

How happy are the people who can worship joyfully! LORD, they walk in the light of your presence.

How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back.

How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are unfathomable.

How long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked continue to triumph?

How blessed is the man whom you instruct, LORD, whom you teach from your Law,

As distant as the east is from the west, that is how far he has removed our sins from us.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.

How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time.

Hallelujah! How happy is the person who fears the LORD, who truly delights in his commandments.

How blessed are those whose life is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD!

How blessed are those who observe his decrees, who seek him with all of their heart,

How can a young man keep his behavior pure? By guarding it in accordance with your word.

Help me understand how your precepts function, and I will meditate on your wondrous acts.

How many days must your servant endure this? When will you judge those who persecute me?

How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation.

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

Look how I love your precepts, LORD; revive me according to your gracious love.

How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar!

How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. A Song of Ascents

How blessed are all who fear the LORD as they follow in his ways.

See how the man will be blessed who fears the LORD.

how he swore an oath to the LORD, vowing to the Mighty One of Jacob,

Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?

Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.

How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!

How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!

"You naive ones, how long will you love naivety And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?"

This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,

and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

How long will you lie down, lazy man? When will you get up from your sleep?

He will not consider any payment, nor will he be willing to accept it, no matter how large the bribe.

"I, wisdom, am related to prudence. I know how to be discreet.

If the righteous receive what they are due here on earth, how much more will the wicked and the sinner.

The wisdom of the prudent helps him know how to live, but a fool's stupidity deceives him.

Since Sheol and Abaddon lie open in the LORD's presence, how much more the hearts of human beings!

How much better than gaining gold is the acquisition of wisdom, the attainment of wisdom better than silver!

The road of the upright circumvents evil, and whoever watches how he lives preserves his life.

Appropriate speech is inconsistent with the fool; how much more are deceitful statements with a prince!

All the relatives of a poor person shun him how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he runs after them pleading, they aren't around.

A man's steps are directed by the LORD; how then can anyone understand his own way?

What the wicked person sacrifices is detestable how much more when he offers it with vile motives!

"Senseless," said I concerning laughter and pleasure, "How practical is this?"

Again, if two lie close together, they will keep warm, but how can only one stay warm?

For what advantage has the wise person over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have in knowing how to face life?

Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?

since you also know how often you have cursed others.

Who is really wise? Who knows how to interpret this saying: "A person's wisdom improves his appearance, softening a harsh countenance."

How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone's eyes to behold the sunshine!

Look at you! You are handsome, my beloved, truly lovely. How lush is our couch.

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, noble lady. The curves of your thighs are like ornaments, the work of a skilled artist's hands.

How beautiful and lovely you are, you are love with its exquisite delights.

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

"How the faithful city has become a whore, she who used to be filled with justice! Righteousness used to reside within her, but now only murderers live there.

"The expressions on their faces give them away. They parade their sin around like Sodom; they don't even try to hide it. How horrible it will be for them, because they have brought disaster on themselves!"

"How terrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster is headed their way, because what they did with their hand will be repaid to them.

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

"How terrible it will be for you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you have settled yourselves alone in the middle of the land!"

"How terrible it will be for those who rise at dawn in order to grab a stiff drink, for those who stay up late at night as wine inflames them!

"How terrible it will be for those who parade iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin along as with a cart rope;

"How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter!"

"How terrible it will be for those who are wise in their own opinion, and clever in their own reckoning!

"How terrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine, and champions in mixing strong drink,

The LORD will signal for nations far away, whistling for them to come from the ends of the earth. Look how quickly and how swiftly they come!

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.

for before the young lad knows how to call out to his father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

"How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!

Hyenas will howl in its strongholds, and jackals will make their dens in its citadels. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be extended any further.

you will lift up this song of mockery against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has come to an end! How the attacker has ceased!

"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!

How will they answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in it the afflicted among his people will find refuge."

"How terrible it will be for many nations, who rage like the roaring sea! Oh, how the uproar of nations is like the sound of rushing, mighty water How they roar!

Zoan's princes are nothing but fools; the wisest advisors of Pharaoh give stupid advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I'm a descendant of wise men, a descendant of ancient kings"?