Quotes About Faith

May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,

A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—

many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.

A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.

Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.