'God' in the Bible

Many say about me,“There is no help for him in God.”Selah

Rise up, Lord!Save me, my God!You strike all my enemies on the cheek;You break the teeth of the wicked.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic psalm.Answer me when I call,God, who vindicates me.You freed me from affliction;be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Pay attention to the sound of my cry,my King and my God,for I pray to You.

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;evil cannot dwell with You.

Punish them, God;let them fall by their own schemes.Drive them out because of their many crimes,for they rebel against You.

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.Yahweh my God, I seek refuge in You;save me from all my pursuers and rescue me

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,if there is injustice on my hands,

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,but establish the righteous.The One who examines the thoughts and emotionsis a righteous God.

My shield is with God,who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judgeand a God who shows His wrath every day.

If anyone does not repent,God will sharpen His sword;He has strung His bow and made it ready.

You made him little less than Godand crowned him with glory and honor.

The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations that forget God.

In all his scheming,the wicked arrogantly thinks:“There is no accountability,since God does not exist.”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;He hides His face and will never see.”

Rise up, Lord God! Lift up Your hand.Do not forget the afflicted.

Why has the wicked person despised God?He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

Consider me and answer, Lord my God.Restore brightness to my eyes;otherwise, I will sleep in death.

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.There is no one who does good.

The Lord looks down from heaven on the human raceto see if there is one who is wise,one who seeks God.

Then they will be filled with terror,for God is with those who are righteous.

A Davidic Miktam.Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You.

The sorrows of those who take another godfor themselves will multiply;I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,and I will not speak their names with my lips.

I call on You, God,because You will answer me;listen closely to me; hear what I say.

The Lord is my rock,my fortress, and my deliverer,my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,my shield and the horn of my salvation,my stronghold.

I called to the Lord in my distress,and I cried to my God for help.From His temple He heard my voice,and my cry to Him reached His ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lordand have not turned from my God to wickedness.

Lord, You light my lamp;my God illuminates my darkness.

With You I can attack a barrier,and with my God I can leap over a wall.

God—His way is perfect;the word of the Lord is pure.He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

For who is God besides Yahweh?And who is a rock? Only our God.

God—He clothes me with strengthand makes my way perfect.

The Lord lives—may my rock be praised!The God of my salvation is exalted.

God—He gives me vengeanceand subdues peoples under me.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.The heavens declare the glory of God,and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble;may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Let us shout for joy at your victoryand lift the banner in the name of our God.May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.

Some take pride in chariots, and others in horses,but we take pride in the name of Yahweh our God.

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?Why are You so far from my deliveranceand from my words of groaning?

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,by night, yet I have no rest.

I was given over to You at birth;You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

He will receive blessing from the Lord,and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Such is the generation of those who seek Him,who seek the face of the God of Jacob.Selah

My God, I trust in You.Do not let me be disgraced;do not let my enemies gloat over me.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,for You are the God of my salvation;I wait for You all day long.

God, redeem Israel, from all its distresses.

Do not hide Your face from me;do not turn Your servant away in anger.You have been my helper;do not leave me or abandon me,God of my salvation.

The voice of the Lord is above the waters.The God of glory thunders—the Lord, above vast waters,

Lord my God,I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

so that I can sing to You and not be silent.Lord my God, I will praise You forever.

Into Your hand I entrust my spirit;You redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

But I trust in You, Lord;I say, “You are my God.”

Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh—the people He has chosen to be His own possession!

Wake up and rise to my defense,to my cause, my God and my Lord!

Vindicate me, Lord my God,in keeping with Your righteousness,and do not let them rejoice over me.

For the choir director. A psalm of David, the Lord’s servant.An oracle within my heartconcerning the transgression of the wicked person:There is no dread of God before his eyes,

God, Your faithful love is so valuablethat people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

The instruction of his God is in his heart;his steps do not falter.

I put my hope in You, Lord;You will answer, Lord my God.

Lord, do not abandon me;my God, do not be far from me.

He put a new song in my mouth,a hymn of praise to our God.Many will see and fearand put their trust in the Lord.

Lord my God, You have done many things—Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;none can compare with You.If I were to report and speak of them,they are more than can be told.

I delight to do Your will, my God;Your instruction lives within me.”

I am afflicted and needy;the Lord thinks of me.You are my helper and my deliverer;my God, do not delay.

May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praisedfrom everlasting to everlasting.Amen and amen.

BOOK II(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,so I long for You, God.

I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me,“Where is your God?”

I remember this as I pour out my heart:how I walked with many,leading the festive procession to the house of God,with joyful and thankful shouts.

Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God.

The Lord will send His faithful love by day;His song will be with me in the night—a prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God, my rock,“Why have You forgotten me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression?”

My adversaries taunt me,as if crushing my bones,while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God.

Vindicate me, God, and defend my causeagainst an ungodly nation;rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For You are the God of my refuge.Why have You rejected me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression?

Then I will come to the altar of God,to God, my greatest joy.I will praise You with the lyre,God, my God.

Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.God, we have heard with our ears—our ancestors have told us—the work You accomplished in their days,in days long ago:

You are my King, my God,who ordains victories for Jacob.

We boast in God all day long;we will praise Your name forever.Selah

If we had forgotten the name of our Godand spread out our hands to a foreign god,

wouldn’t God have found this out,since He knows the secrets of the heart?

You are the most handsome of men;grace flows from your lips.Therefore God has blessed you forever.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever;the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness;therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joymore than your companions.

For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.God is our refuge and strength,a helper who is always foundin times of trouble.

There is a river—its streams delight the city of God,the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

God is within her; she will not be toppled.God will help her when the morning dawns.

The Lord of Hosts is with us;the God of Jacob is our stronghold.Selah

“Stop your fighting—and know that I am God,exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”

Yahweh of Hosts is with us;the God of Jacob is our stronghold.Selah

For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.Clap your hands, all you peoples;shout to God with a jubilant cry.

God ascends among shouts of joy,the Lord, among the sound of trumpets.

Sing praise to God, sing praise;sing praise to our King, sing praise!

Sing a song of wisdom,for God is King of all the earth.

God reigns over the nations;God is seated on His holy throne.

The nobles of the peoples have assembledwith the people of the God of Abraham.For the leaders of the earth belong to God;He is greatly exalted.

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.The Lord is great and highly praisedin the city of our God.His holy mountain,