You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
The praise song describes patience, compassion, and support for those who are bowed down.
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Anonymous. Largely a farewell address placed in Moses' mouth by a narrator who goes on to describe his death.
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Anonymous. Tells Joshua's story in the third person.
Psalms6 verses →
Many hands over centuries. Superscriptions assign a number to David; those are ancient editorial notes, not signatures.
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A collection headed as Solomon's, which elsewhere names other compilers.
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Written in the voice of 'the Preacher, the son of David' — a role rather than a name.
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Spans centuries of material and has long been read as the work of more than one hand.
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Anonymous. Tradition assigns it to Jeremiah; the text does not.
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Anonymous. The name is a second-century attribution.
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Anonymous. Names its own source only as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'.
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Named by the text and widely accepted — the clearest authorship in the Bible. Several letters bearing his name are disputed and are marked as such.
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Names its author only as James, a very common name. Which James is disputed.
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Names Peter. Its polished Greek has made that contested since antiquity.
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Names its author as John. Which John has been disputed since the third century.
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View all filters →Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
A praise psalm describes God's goodness and nearness to those who call.
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
The praise song describes patience, compassion, and support for those who are bowed down.
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
A praise psalm describes God's goodness and nearness to those who call.
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
The psalm grounds hope in faithful care for people who are vulnerable or burdened.
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
The psalm grounds hope in faithful care for people who are vulnerable or burdened.
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
A song of deliverance recalls crying out in distress and receiving strength and light.
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
A song of deliverance recalls crying out in distress and receiving strength and light.
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
A song of deliverance recalls crying out in distress and receiving strength and light.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
After a cry of abandonment, the psalm affirms that the afflicted person's cry is heard.
Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
A psalm describes God's care using the images of a shepherd and a welcoming host.
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
A psalm describes God's care using the images of a shepherd and a welcoming host.