Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Psalms.
Man, God, & The Natural World Quotes
What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them domini...
The Royal House of Israel Quotes
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 'I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.' (NRSV 2:...
God's Protection Quotes
You, O Lord, will protect us; you will guard us from this generation for ever. On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind. (NRSV 12:7-8)Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, tho...
Self-Destruction Quotes
For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction;their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues. Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own cou...
Death Quotes
Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human. (NRSV 9:20)Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. (KJV 9:20)
Destruction Quotes
The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. (NRSV 9:6)O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou ha...