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Let me live forever in your sanctuary,
    safe beneath the shelter of your wings! Interlude

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He will cover you with his feathers.
    He will shelter you with his wings.
    His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

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The one thing I ask of the Lord
    the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
    delighting in the Lord’s perfections
    and meditating in his Temple.

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Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
    all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the Lord
    forever.

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Guard me as you would guard your own eyes.[a]
    Hide me in the shadow of your wings.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:8 Hebrew as the pupil of your eye.

Psalm 15

A psalm of David.

Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord?
    Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?

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12 All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of my God—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. And I will also write on them my new name.

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18 So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.

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Jesus Grieves over Jerusalem

37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me.

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I look for someone to come and help me,
    but no one gives me a passing thought!
No one will help me;
    no one cares a bit what happens to me.
Then I pray to you, O Lord.
    I say, “You are my place of refuge.
    You are all I really want in life.

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13 For they are transplanted to the Lord’s own house.
    They flourish in the courts of our God.

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Psalm 91

Those who live in the shelter of the Most High
    will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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Book four (Psalms 90–106)

Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses, the man of God.

Lord, through all the generations
    you have been our home!

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Because you are my helper,
    I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings.

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My victory and honor come from God alone.
    He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.

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May he reign under God’s protection forever.
    May your unfailing love and faithfulness watch over him.

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Psalm 57

For the choir director: A psalm[a] of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy!
    I look to you for protection.
I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings
    until the danger passes by.

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Footnotes

  1. 57:Title Hebrew miktam. This may be a literary or musical term.

12 May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully for what you have done.”

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