Rejoicing in Answered Prayer
A Psalm of David.
1 To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock:
Ps. 35:22; 39:12; 83:1Do not be silent to me,
Ps. 88:4; 143:7; Prov. 1:12Lest, if You are silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
Ps. 5:7When I lift up my hands Ps. 138:2toward Your holy sanctuary.
3 Do not take me away with the wicked
And with the workers of iniquity,
Ps. 12:2; 55:21; 62:4; Jer. 9:8Who speak peace to their neighbors,
But evil is in their hearts.
4 (Ps. 62:12); 2 Tim. 4:14; (Rev. 18:6; 22:12)Give them according to their deeds,
And according to the wickedness of their endeavors;
Give them according to the work of their hands;
Render to them what they deserve.
5 Because Is. 5:12they do not regard the works of the Lord,
Nor the operation of His hands,
He shall destroy them
And not build them up.
6 Blessed be the Lord,
Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!
7 The LordisPs. 18:2; 59:17my strength and my shield;
My heart Ps. 13:5; 112:7trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.
8 The Lordis their strength,
And He is the Ps. 20:6saving refuge of His anointed.
9 Save Your people,
And bless (Deut. 9:29; 32:9; 1 Kin. 8:51; Ps. 33:12); 106:40Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
Deut. 1:31; Is. 63:9And bear them up forever.