Tag: pray

Psalm 90 – Plaintive Prayer Concerning The Mortality Of Those Who Have Long Had The Lord As Their “Dwelling Place”
Psalm 91 – Assurances For Those Who Make The Most Hight Their “Dwelling” Place: “With Long Life I Will Satisfy” Them
Psalm 92 – Celebration Of Yahweh’s Righteous Rule And Its Result (What The “Senseless…Do Not Know”): “Evildoers…Will Be Destroyed Forever” But “The Righteous…Will Still Bear Fruit In Old Age”
Psalm 93 – Celebration Of The Invincible Reign Of Yahweh
Psalm 94 – Appeal To Yahweh To Deal Judicially With Those Who Perpetrate Injustices And Oppression: “Take Notice, You Senseless Ones Among The People”

Isaiah 61 – The Lord’s Favor
Isaiah 62:1–63:6 – Zion’s Restoration And Glory
Isaiah 63:7–64:12 – Prayer For Divine Deliverance
Isaiah 65 – The Lord’s Answer: Mercy And Judgment
Isaiah 66 – Judgment For False Worshipers And Blessing For True Worshipers

Psalm 84 – Expression Of Yearning For “The Courts Of The Lord” And Prayer For God To “Look With Favor” On “Our Shield,” “Your Anointed”
Psalm 85 – Prayer For God To “Restore” His People From Some Situation Of Distress
Psalm 86 – Individual Prayer For God’s Help When Under Attack By Enemies
Psalm 87 – Song Celebrating God’s Special Love For Zion And Care For Its Citizens
Psalm 88 – Individual Prayer For God To Remove His Wrath And Deliver From Death
Psalm 89 – Prayer For God To Rescue His People, To Remember His Covenant With David

Psalm 79 – Communal Prayer: When Invaded By Fierce Enemies
Psalm 80 – Prayer For God To Restore His People After They Have Been Ravaged By Enemies
Psalm 81 – Exhortation To Israel: “If Israel Would Only Follow My Ways, How Quickly I Would Subdue Their Enemies”
Psalm 82 – Prayer For God To Judge The Wicked Rulers Of The Earth
Psalm 83 – Communal Prayer: When Attacked By Coalition Of Enemies

Psalm 73 – Instruction based on individual experience
Psalm 74 – Communal prayer: God has “rejected” his people
Psalm 75 – Praise to God: His “Name is near” and he cuts off the horns of the wicked but causes the “horns of the righteous” to be “lifed up”
Psalm 76 – Celebration: God’s “name is great” in Israel; he “breaks the spirit of [enemy] rulers”
Psalm 77 – Individual prayer: God has rejected him
Psalm 78 – Instruction based on communal experience

Psalm 69 – A king’s prayer for deliverance when under vicious attack
Psalm 70 – A short prayer (repeat of Psalm 40)
Psalm 71 – A king’s prayer for God’s help in old age when under attack
Psalm 72 – A prayer that the king be specifically gifted to rule justly

Psalm 61 – Appeal for restoration to God’s presence
Psalm 62 – Appeal for deliverance from arrogant foes
Psalm 63 – Appeal for God’s refreshing presence when threatened by enemies
Psalm 64 – Appel for God’s protection against conspirators

Psalm 54 – Prayer of individual for help against enemies
Psalm 55 – Prayer for help: a conspiracy in Jerusalem (“they prowl about on its walls”)
Psalm 56 – Prayer for help against enemies
Psalm 57 – Prayer for deliverance from enemies
Psalm 58 – Prayer for the heavenly Judge to set right what human rulers have not
Psalm 59 – Prayer for help: enemies surround Jerusalem (“The…prowl about the city”)
Psalm 60 – Prayer of community for help after suffering devasting defeat

Psalm 49 – The folly of those who “trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches”
Psalm 50 – God call his people to account
Psalm 51 – Humle prayer for forgiveness and cleansing
Psalm 52 – The follow of the one who “trusted in his great wealth” and those who “boast of evil”
Psalm 53 – The folly of those who live as if there is no God (repeat of Psalm 14)

James 5:1-6 — Warning to the Rich
James 5:7-20 — Patience in Suffering, The Prayer of Faith