Psalms as Prayers: How to Pray When You Can't Find Words Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made humanity only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority— the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

How to Pray when the Words Don't Come: Psalm 3

Psalm 3 

Thank you O LORD, for being a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high. 

When I cry out to you LORD, you answer me from your holy mountain. 

When I lay down and sleep I wake up because you keep me safe 
for you LORD are watching over me.

 I am not afraid even if ten thousand enemies surround me on every side.

Arise, O LORD! 

Rescue me, my God! 

Slap all my enemies in the face!

Shatter the teeth of the wicked! 

Victory comes from you, O LORD. 

May you bless your people.