Psalm for those who are distressed: 5 options to calm the heart

Do you feel restless, insecure and anxious? Do you find life heavy and tiring? O psalm for those who are distressed It can serve as an aid to promote spiritual cleansing, reinforcing faith and protection. Reading can be done at any time and day of the week, always with gratitude.

What is the psalm of the afflicted?

It is believed that reading any psalm has the power to bring peace of mind. But each of the texts is usually related to a specific topic in life. O Psalm 102 It is highly recommended for those who feel anguish and are going through a difficult time in their lives:

1. LORD, hear my prayer, and my cry may come to you.
2. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble, incline your ear to me; in the day that I cry, hear me quickly.
3. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones burn like wood.
4. My heart is wounded and dry as grass, so I forget to eat my bread.
5. Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6. I am like a pelican in the desert; I am like an owl in solitude.
7. I watch, I’m like the lonely sparrow on the roof.
8. My enemies insult me ​​all day long; those who rage against me have sworn against me.
9. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
10. Because of your anger and your indignation, because you lifted me up and threw me down.
11. My days are like a receding shadow, and like grass I dry up.
12. But you, Lord, will remain forever, your memory from generation to generation.
13. You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to have compassion on her, the determined time, has arrived.
14. For thy servants delight in their stones, and pity their dust.
15. Then the Gentiles will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16. When the Lord builds Zion, he will appear in his glory.
17. He will answer the prayer of the helpless, and will not despise their prayer.
18. This will be written for the future generation; and the people that are created will praise the Lord.
19. For he looked down from the height of his sanctuary, from the heavens the Lord looked down on the earth,
20. To hear the groaning of the prisoners, to release those sentenced to death;
21. To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
22. When the peoples come together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
23. He took away my strength on the way; shortened my days.
24. I said: My God, do not take me in the midst of my days, your years are for all generations.
25. You founded the earth of old, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all grow old like a garment; you will change them like clothes, and they will remain changed.
27. But you are the same, and your years will never end.
28. The children of your servants will continue, and their seed will be established before you.

Psalm 116

1. I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my prayer.
2. Because he inclined his ear to me; therefore I will call upon him as long as I live.
3. The cords of death surrounded me, and anguish of hell took hold of me; I found tightness and sadness.
4. Then I called on the name of the Lord, saying: O Lord, deliver my soul.
5. The Lord is merciful and just; our God has mercy.
6. The Lord keeps the simple; I was struck down, but he delivered me.
7. Return, my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has done you good.
8. Because you saved my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9. I will walk before the face of the Lord in the land of the living.
10. Cri, that’s why I spoke. I was very distressed.
11. I said in my haste: All men are liars.
12. What will I give to the Lord for all the benefits he has given me?
13. I will take the cup of salvation, and I will call on the name of the Lord.
14. I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
16. O Lord, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your servant; you loosened my bonds.
17. I will offer you sacrifices of praise, and I will call on the name of the Lord.
18. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all my people,
19. In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the lord.

Psalm 77 to calm the heart

1. I cried out to God with my voice, I lifted up my voice to God, and he inclined his ear to me.
2. In the day of my distress I sought the Lord; my hand stretched out in the night, and did not cease; my soul refused to be consoled.
3. I remembered God, and I was troubled; she complained to me, and my spirit failed. (Saddle.)
4. You kept my eyes awake; I’m so upset I can’t speak.
5. He considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6. In the night I called to remembrance my song; I meditated in my heart, and my spirit searched.
7. Will he reject the Lord forever and not be favorable again?
8. Has his kindness ceased forever? Is the promise from generation to generation over?
9. Did God forget to have mercy? Or has he shut up his mercies in his wrath? (Saddle.)
10. And I said: This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
11. I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember your wonders of old.
12. I will also meditate on all your works, and I will talk about your deeds.
13. Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary. Who is a God as great as our God?
14. You are the God who works wonders; you have made your strength known among the people.
15. With your arm you redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)
16. The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and trembled; the abysses also shook.
17. The clouds released water, the heavens gave a sound; your arrows ran from one place to another.
18. The voice of your thunder was in the sky; lightning lit up the world; the earth shook and trembled.
19. Your way is in the sea, and your paths in the wide waters, and your steps are not known.
20. You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 41

1. Blessed is he who serves the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
2. The Lord will deliver him, and keep him alive; he will be blessed on earth, and you will not hand him over to the will of his enemies.
3. The Lord will sustain him on his bed of illness; you will restore him from his sick bed.
4. I said: Lord, have mercy on me; heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.
5. My enemies speak evil of me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6. And if any of them come to see me, they speak empty things; in his heart he heaps evil; going outside, that’s what it talks about.
7. All who hate me murmur against me together; against me they imagine evil, saying:
8. A bad disease has clung to him; and now that he is lying down, he will never get up again.
9. Even my own intimate friend, in whom I trusted so much, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.
10. But you, Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up, so that I can pay them back.
11. By this I know that you favor me: that my enemy does not triumph over me.
12. As for me, you upheld me in my sincerity, and set me before your face forever.
13. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from age to age. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 121 to calm the heart

1. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where my help comes.
2. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
3. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
4. Behold, the guard of Israel will not slumber nor sleep.
5. The Lord is the one who keeps you; the Lord is your shadow at your right hand.
6. The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will guard your soul.
8. The Lord will guard your entrance and your exit, from now on and forever.

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