What this is about . . .

Hello Fellow Travelers!

This blog has been set up to provide a place - either anonymously or signed - us ladies from the Liberty Church Beth Moore Stepping Up Bible study can share our personal versions of the Psalms of Ascents. I don't know about you but I'm very eager (curious) to read others' psalms.

I will post each Psalms of Ascents in the HSCB version as its own post. To share your personal version, click on the "comment" button and leave your version as a comment. I've ventured out on a limb and left my versions as comments as an example. Please only leave your psalm version as a comment for the corresponding Psalm.

If anyone wants to participate in this but still has questions or doesn't understand how to use this, please feel free to email me at kristylynna@bellsouth.net

Enjoy!!!

Kristy Anderson

P.S. This blog is only intended for the purpose listed above. Please do not use this blog other than what is listed above. Any inappropriate or unrelated comments will be deleted. =)

Psalm 120

A Cry for Truth and Peace

A • song of ascents.

1 In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me:
2 “Lord, deliver me from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.”
3 What will He give you, and what will He do to you, you deceitful tongue?
4 A warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning charcoal!
5 What misery that I have stayed in Meshech, that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!
6 I have lived too long with those who hate peace.
7 I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121

The Lord Our Protector

A song of ascents.

1 I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
4 Indeed, the Protector of Israel does not slumber or sleep.
5 The Lord protects you; the Lord is a shelter right by your side.
6 The sun will not strike you by day, or the moon by night.
7 The Lord will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life.
8 The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever.

Psalm 122

A Prayer for Jerusalem

A Davidic song of ascents.

1 I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem—
3 Jerusalem, built as a city [should be] , solidly joined together,
4 where the tribes, the tribes of the Lord, go up to give thanks to the name of the Lord. (This is an ordinance for Israel.)
5 There, thrones for judgment are placed, thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper;
7 may there be peace within your walls, prosperity within your fortresses.”
8 Because of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be with you.”
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

Day 5, page 32 - sixfold alliteration

Beth Moore's:
Give praise to the God of glory whose greatness brings grandeur and whose goodness brings gladness.

Psalm 123

Looking for God’s Favor

A song of ascents.

1 I lift my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
2 Like a servant’s eyes on His master’s hand, like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand, so our eyes are on the Lord our God until He shows us favor.
3 Show us favor, Lord, show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt.
4 We’ve had more than enough scorn from the arrogant [and] contempt from the proud.

Psalm 124

The Lord Is on Our Side

A Davidic song of ascents.

1 If the Lord had not been on our side— let Israel say—
2 If the Lord had not been on our side when men attacked us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.
4 Then the waters would have engulfed us; the torrent would have swept over us;
5 the raging waters would have swept over us.
6 Praise the Lord, who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net; the net is torn, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.