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I said...I go to Psalms when I feel troubled by those around me.

Psalms 57:1

Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,

    for in you I take refuge.

I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings

    until the disaster has passed.

Psalms 59:1-3

Deliver me from my enemies, O God;

    be my fortress against those who are attacking me.

Deliver me from evildoers

    and save me from those who are after my blood.

See how they lie in wait for me!

    Fierce men conspire against me

    for no offense or sin of mine, Lord.

Psalms 59:16

But I will sing of your strength,

    in the morning I will sing of your love;

for you are my fortress,

    my refuge in times of trouble.

Psalms 59:10

my God on whom I can rely.

God will go before me

    and will let me gloat over those who slander me.

Psalms 3:6

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people

Who have set themselves against me all around.

Psalms 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,

A broken and a contrite heart—

These, O God, You will not despise.

Psalm 71:10-16 

For my enemies speak against me;

And those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together,

Saying, “God has forsaken him;

Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, do not be far from me;

O my God, make haste to help me!

Let them be confounded and consumed

Who are adversaries of my life;

Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor

Who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually,

And will praise You yet more and more.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness

And Your salvation all the day,

For I do not know their limits.

I will go in the strength of the Lord God;

I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

Psalms 19:1

The Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. 

Psalms 50:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast Spirit in me.

Psalms 89:1

I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever, with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. 

Psalms 86

Hear me, Lord, and answer me,

    for I am poor and needy.

Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;

    save your servant who trusts in you.

You are my God; 

have mercy on me, Lord,

    for I call to you all day long.

Bring joy to your servant, Lord,

    for I put my trust in you.

You, Lord, are forgiving and good,

    abounding in love to all who call to you.

Hear my prayer, Lord;

    listen to my cry for mercy.

When I am in distress, I call to you,

    because you answer me.

Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;

    no deeds can compare with yours.

All the nations you have made

    will come and worship before you, Lord;

    they will bring glory to your name.

For you are great and do marvelous deeds;

    you alone are God.

Teach me your way, Lord,

    that I may rely on your faithfulness;

give me an undivided heart,

    that I may fear your name.

I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;

    I will glorify your name forever.

For great is your love toward me;

    you have delivered me from the depths,

    from the realm of the dead.

Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;

    ruthless people are trying to kill me—

    they have no regard for you.

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

    slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

Turn to me and have mercy on me;

    show your strength in behalf of your servant;

save me, because I serve you

    just as my mother did.

Give me a sign of your goodness,

    that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,

    for you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalms 119:84-88

How long must your servant wait?

    When will you punish my persecutors?

 The arrogant dig pits to trap me,

    contrary to your law.

All your commands are trustworthy;

    help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.

 They almost wiped me from the earth,

    but I have not forsaken your precepts.

In your unfailing love preserve my life,

    that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.

Psalm 119:92 

If your law had not been my delight,

    I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 119:74-77 

May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,

    for I have put my hope in your word.

 I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous,

    and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

May your unfailing love be my comfort,

    according to your promise to your servant.

 Let your compassion come to me that I may live,

    for your law is my delight.

Psalms 119:78

May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause;

    but I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalm 38:12

Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;

Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,

And plan deception all the day long.

Psalms 38:18-22 

For I will declare my iniquity;

I will be in anguish over my sin.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;

And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

Those also who render evil for good,

They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

Do not forsake me, O Lord;

O my God, be not far from me!

Make haste to help me,

O Lord, my salvation!

Psalms 26

Vindicate me, O Lord,

For I have walked in my integrity.

I have also trusted in the Lord;

I shall not slip.

Examine me, O Lord, and approve me;

Try my mind and my heart.

For Your loving kindness is before my eyes,

And I have walked in Your truth.

I have not sat with idolatrous mortals,

Nor will I go in with hypocrites.

I have hated the assembly of evildoers,

And will not sit with the wicked.

I will wash my hands in innocence;

So I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,

And tell of all Your wondrous works.

Lord, I have loved the habitation of Your house,

And the place where Your glory dwells.

Do not gather my soul with sinners,

Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

In whose hands is a sinister scheme,

And whose right hand is full of bribes.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;

Redeem me and be merciful to me.

My foot stands in an even place;

In the congregations I will bless the Lord.

Psalms 91

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler

And from the perilous pestilence.

He shall cover you with His feathers,

And under His wings you shall take refuge;

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side,

And ten thousand at your right hand;

But it shall not come near you.

Only with your eyes shall you look,

And see the reward of the wicked.

Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

No evil shall befall you,

Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

For He shall give His angels charge over you,

To keep you in all your ways.

In their hands they shall bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,

The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him and honor him.

With long life I will satisfy him,

And show him My salvation.”

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the one

    who does not walk in step with the wicked

or stand in the way that sinners take

    or sit in the company of mockers,

but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,

    and who meditates on his law day and night.

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,

    which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither—

    whatever they do prospers.

Psalms 8:3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars,

which you have set in place,

Psalms 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.

Psalms 92 5-7

How great are your works, Lord,

    how profound your thoughts!

Senseless people do not know,

    fools do not understand,

that though the wicked spring up like grass

    and all evildoers flourish,

    they will be destroyed forever.

Psalm 92:12-13 

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,

    they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

planted in the house of the Lord,

    they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Psalm 94:2 

Rise up, Judge of the earth;

    pay back to the proud what they deserve.

PSALM 112

Praise the Lord.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord,

    who find great delight in his commands.

Their children will be mighty in the land;

    the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Wealth and riches are in their houses,

    and their righteousness endures forever.

Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,

    for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.

Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,

    who conduct their affairs with justice.

Surely the righteous will never be shaken;

    they will be remembered forever.

They will have no fear of bad news;

    their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.

Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear;

    in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.

They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,

    their righteousness endures forever;

    their horn will be lifted high in honor.

The wicked will see and be vexed,

    they will gnash their teeth and waste away;

    the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.

Psalms 24:3-4

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?

    Who may stand in his holy place?

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,

    who does not trust in an idol

    or swear by a false god.

Psalm 149: 5-9

Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor

    and sing for joy on their beds.

May the praise of God be in their mouths

    and a double-edged sword in their hands,

 to inflict vengeance on the nations

    and punishment on the peoples,

 to bind their kings with fetters,

    their nobles with shackles of iron,

 to carry out the sentence written against them—

    this is the glory of all his faithful people.

Psalm 145:18-21

The Lord is near to all who call on him,

    to all who call on him in truth.

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;

    he hears their cry and saves them.

The Lord watches over all who love him,

    but all the wicked he will destroy.

My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord.

    Let every creature praise his holy name

    for ever and ever.

Psalm 143:3-5

The enemy pursues me,

    he crushes me to the ground;

he makes me dwell in the darkness

    like those long dead.

 So my spirit grows faint within me;

    my heart within me is dismayed.

 I remember the days of long ago;

    I meditate on all your works

    and consider what your hands have done.

Psalm 145:14

The Lord upholds all who fall

    and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Psalm 142

I cry aloud to the Lord;

    I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. 

I pour out before him my complaint;

    before him I tell my trouble.

When my spirit grows faint within me,

    it is you who watch over my way.

In the path where I walk

    people have hidden a snare for me.

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;

    no one is concerned for me.

I have no refuge;

    no one cares for my life.

 I cry to you, Lord;

    I say, “You are my refuge,

    my portion in the land of the living.”

 Listen to my cry,

    for I am in desperate need;

rescue me from those who pursue me,

    for they are too strong for me.

 Set me free from my prison,

    that I may praise your name.

Then the righteous will gather about me

    because of your goodness to me.

Psalm 139:5-7

You hem me in behind and before,

    and you lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

    too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

Psalm 140:12-13 

I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor

    and upholds the cause of the needy.

Surely the righteous will praise your name,

    and the upright will live in your presence.

Psalm 135:14 

For the Lord will vindicate his people

    and have compassion on his servants.

Psalm 138:7-8 

Though I walk in the midst of trouble,

    you preserve my life.

You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;

    with your right hand you save me.

The Lord will vindicate me;

    your love, Lord, endures forever—

    do not abandon the works of your hands.

Psalm 121:1-2

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

    where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord,

    the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 135:14-18

For the Lord will vindicate his people

    and have compassion on his servants.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold,

    made by human hands.

They have mouths, but cannot speak,

    eyes, but cannot see.

They have ears, but cannot hear,

    nor is there breath in their mouths.

Those who make them will be like them,

    and so will all who trust in them.

Psalm 119:150-151

Those who devise wicked schemes are near,

    but they are far from your law.

Yet you are near, Lord,

    and all your commands are true.

Psalm 119:157

Many are the foes who persecute me,

    but I have not turned from your statutes

Psalm 119:140-144

Your promises have been thoroughly tested,

    and your servant loves them.

Though I am lowly and despised,

    I do not forget your precepts.

Your righteousness is everlasting

    and your law is true.

Trouble and distress have come upon me,

    but your commands give me delight.

Your statutes are always righteous;

    give me understanding that I may live.

Psalm 119:97

Oh, how I love your law!

    I meditate on it all day long.

Psalm 119:107

I have suffered much;

    preserve my life, Lord, according to your word.

Psalm 119:110-112

The wicked have set a snare for me,

    but I have not strayed from your precepts.

Your statutes are my heritage forever;

    they are the joy of my heart.

My heart is set on keeping your decrees

    to the very end.

Psalm 119:49-52

Remember your word to your servant,

    for you have given me hope.

 My comfort in my suffering is this:

    Your promise preserves my life.

 The arrogant mock me unmercifully,

    but I do not turn from your law.

 I remember, Lord, your ancient laws,

    and I find comfort in them.

Psalm 119:69-70

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies,

    I keep your precepts with all my heart.

 Their hearts are callous and unfeeling,

    but I delight in your law.

Psalm 119:22-24

Remove from me their scorn and contempt,

    for I keep your statutes.

 Though rulers sit together and slander me,

    your servant will meditate on your decrees.

Your statutes are my delight;

    they are my counselors.

Psalm 119:30-32 

 I have chosen the way of faithfulness;

    I have set my heart on your laws.

 I hold fast to your statutes, Lord;

    do not let me be put to shame.

 I run in the path of your commands,

    for you have broadened my understanding.

Psalm 119: 1-8

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,

    who walk according to the law of the Lord.

 Blessed are those who keep his statutes

    and seek him with all their heart—

 they do no wrong

    but follow his ways.

You have laid down precepts

    that are to be fully obeyed.

 Oh, that my ways were steadfast

    in obeying your decrees!

 Then I would not be put to shame

    when I consider all your commands.

 I will praise you with an upright heart

    as I learn your righteous laws.

 I will obey your decrees;

    do not utterly forsake me.

Psalm 116:10-11

 I trusted in the Lord when I said,

    “I am greatly afflicted”;

 in my alarm I said,

    “Everyone is a liar.”

Psalm 118:4-7

Let those who fear the Lord say:

    “His love endures forever.”

When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord;

    he brought me into a spacious place.

 The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.

    What can mere mortals do to me?

 The Lord is with me; he is my helper.

    I look in triumph on my enemies.

Yep.

Go to psalms in times of trouble.

Been there a time or two.

And yes I read them all.

More than this actually last night.

And now these a minimum of 2x.

My challenge to all is this:

Do the same :-).