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1 I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I will be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me and the torrents of wickness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.
6 I called upon Jehovah in my distress and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry before him came into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He also bowed the heavens and came down and thick darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub and flew. Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion all around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. 14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them, Yes, lightnings shot out and confused them.
15 Then the channels of waters appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too mighty for me.
18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my support. 19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
20 Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. 23 I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 You will show yourself merciful with the merciful. You will show yourself perfect with the perfect man. 26 You will show yourself pure with the pure.And with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.
27 Because you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 28 Because you will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness. 29 Because by you I run upon a troop and by my God I leap over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 Because who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, 32 the God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? 33 He makes my feet like the feet of female-deers and sets me upon my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation and your right hand has held me up and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me and my feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will kill* them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They will fall under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.
42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mud of the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strifes of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me. 45 The foreigners will fade away and will come trembling out of their borders.
46 Jehovah lives and my rock is blessed and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me and subdues peoples under me. 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles and will sing praises to your name. 50 He gives great deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, until everlasting.
19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God and the expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech and night to night shows knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language in which their voice is not heard.
4 Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. He has set a tabernacle for the sun in them, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens and his circuit to the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat of it.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making a simple man wise. 8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether. 10 They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them your servant is warned. There is great reward in keeping them.
12 Who can discern his errors? Acquit me from hidden sins. 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Do not let them have dominion over me. Then I will be upright and I will acquit him from great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.
20 1 Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, 2 send you help from the sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion, 3 remember all your offerings and accept your burnt-sacrifice (Selah), 4 grant your heart's desire and fulfill all your counsel.
5 We will triumph in your salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now I know that Jehovah saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God. 8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.
9 Save, Jehovah! Let the King answer us when we call.
21 1 The king will joy in your strength, O Jehovah. And in your salvation how greatly he will rejoice! 2 You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
3 Because you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head. 4 He asked life from you. You gave it him, even length of days everlasting and forever.
5 His glory is great in your salvation. Honor and majesty you lay upon him. 6 Because you make him to be blessing forever. You rejoiced over him with joy in your presence.
7 Because the king trusts in Jehovah. And through the loving kindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.
8 Your hand will find out all your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath and the fire will devour them. 10 You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from among the sons of men. 11 Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. 12 Because you will make them turn their back. You will make ready with your bowstrings against their face.
13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in your strength. We will sing and praise your power.
22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, far from helping me and the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; and in the night, and there is no silence for me. 3 But you are holy, O you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted and you delivered them. 5 They cried to you and were delivered. They trusted in you and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people. 7 All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on Jehovah. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, because he delights in him.
9 Because you are he who took me out of the womb. You made me trust upon my mother's breasts. 10 I was cast upon you from the womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
11 Do not be far from me, because trouble is near, because there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have encompassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around. 13 They opened wide their mouth upon me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like an earthen vessel and my tongue clings to my jaws and you have set me into the dust of death.
16 Because dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them and they cast a lot upon my raiment.
19 But be not far off, O Jehovah. O you my helper, you hasten to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, the only one of me from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth, yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen. You have answered me.
22 I will declare your name to my brothers. I will praise you in the midst of the congregation. 23 You* who fear Jehovah, praise him. All you* the seed of Jacob, glorify him and stand in awe of him, all you* the seed of Israel.
24 Because he has not despised nor made abominable the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.
25 From you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. 26 The meek will eat and be satisfied. They will praise Jehovah who seek after him. Let your* heart live forever.
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Jehovah and all the kinfolk of the nations will worship before you. 28 Because the kingdom is Jehovah's and he is the ruler over the nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth will eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust will bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. 30 A seed will serve him. It will be told of the Lord to the next generation. 31 They will come and will declare his righteousness to a people that will be born, that he has done it.
23 1 Jehovah is my shepherd, I will not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Even, because I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah forever.
24 1 The earth is Jehovah's and the fullness of it, the world and those who dwell in it. 2 Because he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.
3 Who will ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who will stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.
5 He will receive a blessing from Jehovah and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your* heads, O you* gates and be lifted up, you* doors everlasting and the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty; Jehovah mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your* heads, O you* gates. Yes, lift them up, you* everlasting doors and the King of glory will come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.
25 1 To you, O Jehovah, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I have trusted. Do not let me be put to shame. Do not let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Yes, none who wait for you will be put to shame. They will be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause.
4 Show me your ways, O Jehovah. Teach me your paths. 5 Guide me in your truth and teach me. Because you are the God of my salvation. I wait all the day on you.
6 Remember, O Jehovah, your tender mercies and your loving kindness. Because they are from everlasting.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to your loving kindness you remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Jehovah. 8 Good and upright is Jehovah. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 9 The meek he will guide in justice and the meek he will teach his way. 10 All the paths of Jehovah are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity, because it is great.
12 What man is he who fears Jehovah? Him he will instruct in the way that he will choose. 13 His soul will dwell at ease and his seed will inherit the land.
14 The friendship of Jehovah is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant. 15 My eyes are ever toward Jehovah, because he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn to me and have mercy upon me, because I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. O bring me out of my distresses. 18 Consider my affliction and my travail and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies, because they are many. And they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul and deliver me. Do not let me be put to shame, because I take refuge in you. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all of his troubles.
26 1 Judge me, O Jehovah, because I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in Jehovah without wavering. 2 Examine me, O Jehovah and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. 3 Because your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.
4 I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with pretenders. 5 I hate the assembly of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass your altar, O Jehovah, 7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous works. 8 Jehovah, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.
9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood, 10 in whose hands is wickedness and their right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be merciful to me. 12 My foot stands in an even place. I will praise Jehovah in the congregations.
27 1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
4 One thing I have asked of Jehovah, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah and to inquire in his temple.
5 Because in the day of trouble he will hide me in his shelter. He will hide me in the covering of his tabernacle He will lift me up upon a rock.
6 And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies all around me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Jehovah.
7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me and answer me. 8 My heart said to you, I have sought your face. O Jehovah, I will seek your face.
9 Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 Because my father and my mother forsake me, then Jehovah will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O Jehovah and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. Because false witnesses have risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I believe that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living. 14 Wait for Jehovah. Be strong and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Jehovah.
28 1 To you, O Jehovah, I will call. My rock, do not be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of wickedness, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their work and according to the wickedness of their practices. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense, 5 because they do not regard the works of Jehovah, nor the operation of his hands. He will break them down and not build them up.
6 Praise Jehovah, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. 7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices and with my song I will praise him.
8 Jehovah is their strength and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. 9 Save your people and bless your inheritance. Be also their shepherd and bear them up everlasting.
29 1 Give to Jehovah, O you* sons of the mighty, give to Jehovah glory and strength. 2 Give to Jehovah the glory due to his name. Worship Jehovah in holy array.
3 The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Jehovah upon many waters.
4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful. The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
5 The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars. Yes, Jehovah breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
7 The voice of Jehovah splits the flames of fire.
8 The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness. Jehovah shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of Jehovah makes the female-deers to birth-calves and strips the forests bare. And in his temple everything says, Glory.
10 Jehovah sat as King at the Flood. Yes, Jehovah sits as King everlasting. 11 Jehovah will give strength to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace.
30 1 I will lift you up, O Jehovah, because you have raised me up and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. 2 O Jehovah my God, I cried to you and you have healed me.
3 O Jehovah, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing praise to Jehovah, O you* his holy ones and give thanks to his holy memorial. 5 Because his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may abide for the night, but joy is in the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I will not be shaken everlasting. 7 You, Jehovah, had made my mountain to stand strong from your favor. You hid your face; I was troubled. 8 I cried to you, O Jehovah and I made supplication to Jehovah.
9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 10 Hear, O Jehovah and have mercy upon me. Jehovah, be my helper. 11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, 12 to the end that my glory may sing praise to you and not be silent.
O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks to you everlasting.
3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I will be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me and the torrents of wickness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.
6 I called upon Jehovah in my distress and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry before him came into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He also bowed the heavens and came down and thick darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub and flew. Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion all around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. 14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them, Yes, lightnings shot out and confused them.
15 Then the channels of waters appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too mighty for me.
18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my support. 19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
20 Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. 23 I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 You will show yourself merciful with the merciful. You will show yourself perfect with the perfect man. 26 You will show yourself pure with the pure.And with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.
27 Because you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 28 Because you will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness. 29 Because by you I run upon a troop and by my God I leap over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 Because who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, 32 the God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? 33 He makes my feet like the feet of female-deers and sets me upon my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation and your right hand has held me up and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me and my feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will kill* them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They will fall under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.
42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mud of the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strifes of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me. 45 The foreigners will fade away and will come trembling out of their borders.
46 Jehovah lives and my rock is blessed and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me and subdues peoples under me. 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles and will sing praises to your name. 50 He gives great deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, until everlasting.
19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God and the expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech and night to night shows knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language in which their voice is not heard.
4 Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. He has set a tabernacle for the sun in them, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens and his circuit to the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat of it.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making a simple man wise. 8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether. 10 They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them your servant is warned. There is great reward in keeping them.
12 Who can discern his errors? Acquit me from hidden sins. 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Do not let them have dominion over me. Then I will be upright and I will acquit him from great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.
20 1 Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, 2 send you help from the sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion, 3 remember all your offerings and accept your burnt-sacrifice (Selah), 4 grant your heart's desire and fulfill all your counsel.
5 We will triumph in your salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now I know that Jehovah saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God. 8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.
9 Save, Jehovah! Let the King answer us when we call.
21 1 The king will joy in your strength, O Jehovah. And in your salvation how greatly he will rejoice! 2 You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
3 Because you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head. 4 He asked life from you. You gave it him, even length of days everlasting and forever.
5 His glory is great in your salvation. Honor and majesty you lay upon him. 6 Because you make him to be blessing forever. You rejoiced over him with joy in your presence.
7 Because the king trusts in Jehovah. And through the loving kindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.
8 Your hand will find out all your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath and the fire will devour them. 10 You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from among the sons of men. 11 Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. 12 Because you will make them turn their back. You will make ready with your bowstrings against their face.
13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in your strength. We will sing and praise your power.
22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, far from helping me and the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; and in the night, and there is no silence for me. 3 But you are holy, O you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted and you delivered them. 5 They cried to you and were delivered. They trusted in you and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people. 7 All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on Jehovah. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, because he delights in him.
9 Because you are he who took me out of the womb. You made me trust upon my mother's breasts. 10 I was cast upon you from the womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
11 Do not be far from me, because trouble is near, because there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have encompassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around. 13 They opened wide their mouth upon me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like an earthen vessel and my tongue clings to my jaws and you have set me into the dust of death.
16 Because dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them and they cast a lot upon my raiment.
19 But be not far off, O Jehovah. O you my helper, you hasten to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, the only one of me from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth, yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen. You have answered me.
22 I will declare your name to my brothers. I will praise you in the midst of the congregation. 23 You* who fear Jehovah, praise him. All you* the seed of Jacob, glorify him and stand in awe of him, all you* the seed of Israel.
24 Because he has not despised nor made abominable the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.
25 From you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. 26 The meek will eat and be satisfied. They will praise Jehovah who seek after him. Let your* heart live forever.
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Jehovah and all the kinfolk of the nations will worship before you. 28 Because the kingdom is Jehovah's and he is the ruler over the nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth will eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust will bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. 30 A seed will serve him. It will be told of the Lord to the next generation. 31 They will come and will declare his righteousness to a people that will be born, that he has done it.
23 1 Jehovah is my shepherd, I will not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Even, because I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah forever.
24 1 The earth is Jehovah's and the fullness of it, the world and those who dwell in it. 2 Because he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.
3 Who will ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who will stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.
5 He will receive a blessing from Jehovah and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your* heads, O you* gates and be lifted up, you* doors everlasting and the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty; Jehovah mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your* heads, O you* gates. Yes, lift them up, you* everlasting doors and the King of glory will come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.
25 1 To you, O Jehovah, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I have trusted. Do not let me be put to shame. Do not let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Yes, none who wait for you will be put to shame. They will be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause.
4 Show me your ways, O Jehovah. Teach me your paths. 5 Guide me in your truth and teach me. Because you are the God of my salvation. I wait all the day on you.
6 Remember, O Jehovah, your tender mercies and your loving kindness. Because they are from everlasting.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to your loving kindness you remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Jehovah. 8 Good and upright is Jehovah. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 9 The meek he will guide in justice and the meek he will teach his way. 10 All the paths of Jehovah are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity, because it is great.
12 What man is he who fears Jehovah? Him he will instruct in the way that he will choose. 13 His soul will dwell at ease and his seed will inherit the land.
14 The friendship of Jehovah is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant. 15 My eyes are ever toward Jehovah, because he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn to me and have mercy upon me, because I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. O bring me out of my distresses. 18 Consider my affliction and my travail and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies, because they are many. And they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul and deliver me. Do not let me be put to shame, because I take refuge in you. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all of his troubles.
26 1 Judge me, O Jehovah, because I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in Jehovah without wavering. 2 Examine me, O Jehovah and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. 3 Because your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.
4 I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with pretenders. 5 I hate the assembly of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass your altar, O Jehovah, 7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous works. 8 Jehovah, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.
9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood, 10 in whose hands is wickedness and their right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be merciful to me. 12 My foot stands in an even place. I will praise Jehovah in the congregations.
27 1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
4 One thing I have asked of Jehovah, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah and to inquire in his temple.
5 Because in the day of trouble he will hide me in his shelter. He will hide me in the covering of his tabernacle He will lift me up upon a rock.
6 And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies all around me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Jehovah.
7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me and answer me. 8 My heart said to you, I have sought your face. O Jehovah, I will seek your face.
9 Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 Because my father and my mother forsake me, then Jehovah will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O Jehovah and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. Because false witnesses have risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I believe that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living. 14 Wait for Jehovah. Be strong and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Jehovah.
28 1 To you, O Jehovah, I will call. My rock, do not be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of wickedness, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their work and according to the wickedness of their practices. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense, 5 because they do not regard the works of Jehovah, nor the operation of his hands. He will break them down and not build them up.
6 Praise Jehovah, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. 7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices and with my song I will praise him.
8 Jehovah is their strength and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. 9 Save your people and bless your inheritance. Be also their shepherd and bear them up everlasting.
29 1 Give to Jehovah, O you* sons of the mighty, give to Jehovah glory and strength. 2 Give to Jehovah the glory due to his name. Worship Jehovah in holy array.
3 The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Jehovah upon many waters.
4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful. The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
5 The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars. Yes, Jehovah breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
7 The voice of Jehovah splits the flames of fire.
8 The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness. Jehovah shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of Jehovah makes the female-deers to birth-calves and strips the forests bare. And in his temple everything says, Glory.
10 Jehovah sat as King at the Flood. Yes, Jehovah sits as King everlasting. 11 Jehovah will give strength to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace.
30 1 I will lift you up, O Jehovah, because you have raised me up and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. 2 O Jehovah my God, I cried to you and you have healed me.
3 O Jehovah, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing praise to Jehovah, O you* his holy ones and give thanks to his holy memorial. 5 Because his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may abide for the night, but joy is in the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I will not be shaken everlasting. 7 You, Jehovah, had made my mountain to stand strong from your favor. You hid your face; I was troubled. 8 I cried to you, O Jehovah and I made supplication to Jehovah.
9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 10 Hear, O Jehovah and have mercy upon me. Jehovah, be my helper. 11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, 12 to the end that my glory may sing praise to you and not be silent.
O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks to you everlasting.