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Psalm 119:105-112

What was the first thing Noah did when he came out of the ark (Genesis 8:20)? Read the verse and ask whether God told him to build that altar, or whether he went to it of his own heart. Then ask why God had told him to take the clean beasts "by sevens" (Genesis 7:2), long before the flood came. "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." (Genesis 8:20)

David calls upon the people of God to sing in petition and praise to God, for the vindication of His character in the future redemption of His people and recompense of His enemies, in light of His past redemption and recompense.

Psalms 42–43 portray a downcast soul that thirsts for the living God amid tears, enemies' taunts ("Where is your God?"), and a sense of abandonment, yet repeatedly commands itself to hope in Him because it will yet praise Him as its salvation and help. These two psalms function as a single literary unit (one psalm in some Hebrew manuscripts), structured in three stanzas that each close with the same refrain (Ps 42:5, 11; 43:5). The psalmist moves from intense longing and lament to a petition for God's light and truth to restore him to worship, all while refusing to let despair have the final word.