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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.
31 1 I take refuge in you, O Jehovah. Do not let me be put to shame everlasting. Deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
3 Because you are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me. 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, because you are my stronghold.
5 I commend my spirit into your hand. You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, you, God of truth.
6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Jehovah.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities, 8 and you have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, yes, my soul and my body. 10 Because my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity and my bones are wasted away.
11 I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yes, to my neighbors exceedingly and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 Because I have heard the slander of many. Terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O Jehovah. I said, You are my God. 15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. 17 Do not let me be put to shame, O Jehovah, because I have called upon you.
Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. 18 Let the lying lips be dumb, which arrogantly speak against the righteous man, with pride and contempt.
19 O how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you before the sons of men!
20 In the covert of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Praise Jehovah, because he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. 22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes. Nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
23 O love Jehovah, all you*, his holy ones. Jehovah preserves the faithful and plentifully repays he who deals proudly. 24 Be strong and let your* heart take courage, all you* who hope in Jehovah.
32 1 Those whose transgression is forgiven are fortunate, whose sin is covered. 2 The man to whom Jehovah does not reckon sin and in whose spirit there is no deceit is fortunate.
3 Because I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. 4 Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 On this, let everyone who is devout pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they will not reach to him. 7 You are my hiding-place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will encompass me around with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9 Do not become as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be a bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near to you.
10 Many sorrows will be to the wicked, but he who trusts in Jehovah, loving kindness will encompass him around.
11 Be glad in Jehovah and rejoice, you*, righteous ones. And shout for joy, all you* who are upright in heart.
33 1 Rejoice in Jehovah, O you* righteous ones. Praise is becoming for the upright. 2 Give thanks to Jehovah with the harp. Sing praises to him with the psaltery of ten strings. 3 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
4 Because the word of Jehovah is right and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Jehovah.
6 The heavens made were by the word of Jehovah and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the depths in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 Because he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.
10 Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 11 The counsel of Jehovah stands fast everlasting, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12 The nation whose God is Jehovah is fortunate, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
13 Jehovah looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looks forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth; 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all, who considers all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, nor does he deliver any by his great power.
18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his loving kindness, 19 to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul has waited for Jehovah. He is our help and our shield. 21 Because our heart will rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name.
22 Let your loving kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, just-as we have hoped in you.
34 1 I will praise Jehovah at all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul will make its boast in Jehovah. The humble will hear of it and be glad. 3 O magnify Jehovah with me and let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought Jehovah and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to him and were radiant and their faces will never be confounded.
6 This poor man cried and Jehovah heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The messenger of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear him and delivers them.
8 O taste and see that Jehovah is good. The man who takes refuge in him is fortunate. 9 O fear Jehovah, you* his, holy ones, because there is no want to those who fear him.
10 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek Jehovah will not want any good thing.
11 Come, you* children, listen to me. I will teach you* the fear of Jehovah. 12 What man is he who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. 16 (The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)
17 They cried and Jehovah heard and delivered them out of all their troubles. 18 Jehovah is near to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a crushed spirit.
19 The afflictions of the righteous are many, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all. 20 He keeps all his bones. Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil will kill the wicked and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 Jehovah redeems the soul of his servants and none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
35 1 Contend, O Jehovah, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for my help. 3 Draw out the spear also and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind and the messenger of Jehovah driving them on. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them.
7 Because without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him, he will not know and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
9 And my soul will be joyful in Jehovah. It will rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones will say, Jehovah, who is like you, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yes, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I do not know. 12 They reward me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into my own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who weeps for his mother.
15 But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The slayers gathered themselves together against me and I did not know it. They tore me and ceased not. 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the lions. 18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
19 Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
20 Because they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
22 You have seen it, O Jehovah. Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me. 23 Stir up yourself and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to your righteousness and do not let them rejoice over me.
25 Do not let them say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who have become great against me.
27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, Jehovah become great, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And my tongue will talk of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
36 1 The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.
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.
31 1 I take refuge in you, O Jehovah. Do not let me be put to shame everlasting. Deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
3 Because you are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me. 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, because you are my stronghold.
5 I commend my spirit into your hand. You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, you, God of truth.
6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Jehovah.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities, 8 and you have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, yes, my soul and my body. 10 Because my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity and my bones are wasted away.
11 I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yes, to my neighbors exceedingly and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 Because I have heard the slander of many. Terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O Jehovah. I said, You are my God. 15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. 17 Do not let me be put to shame, O Jehovah, because I have called upon you.
Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. 18 Let the lying lips be dumb, which arrogantly speak against the righteous man, with pride and contempt.
19 O how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you before the sons of men!
20 In the covert of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Praise Jehovah, because he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. 22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes. Nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
23 O love Jehovah, all you*, his holy ones. Jehovah preserves the faithful and plentifully repays he who deals proudly. 24 Be strong and let your* heart take courage, all you* who hope in Jehovah.
32 1 Those whose transgression is forgiven are fortunate, whose sin is covered. 2 The man to whom Jehovah does not reckon sin and in whose spirit there is no deceit is fortunate.
3 Because I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. 4 Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 On this, let everyone who is devout pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they will not reach to him. 7 You are my hiding-place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will encompass me around with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9 Do not become as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be a bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near to you.
10 Many sorrows will be to the wicked, but he who trusts in Jehovah, loving kindness will encompass him around.
11 Be glad in Jehovah and rejoice, you*, righteous ones. And shout for joy, all you* who are upright in heart.
33 1 Rejoice in Jehovah, O you* righteous ones. Praise is becoming for the upright. 2 Give thanks to Jehovah with the harp. Sing praises to him with the psaltery of ten strings. 3 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
4 Because the word of Jehovah is right and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Jehovah.
6 The heavens made were by the word of Jehovah and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the depths in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 Because he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.
10 Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 11 The counsel of Jehovah stands fast everlasting, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12 The nation whose God is Jehovah is fortunate, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
13 Jehovah looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looks forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth; 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all, who considers all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, nor does he deliver any by his great power.
18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his loving kindness, 19 to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul has waited for Jehovah. He is our help and our shield. 21 Because our heart will rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name.
22 Let your loving kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, just-as we have hoped in you.
34 1 I will praise Jehovah at all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul will make its boast in Jehovah. The humble will hear of it and be glad. 3 O magnify Jehovah with me and let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought Jehovah and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to him and were radiant and their faces will never be confounded.
6 This poor man cried and Jehovah heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The messenger of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear him and delivers them.
8 O taste and see that Jehovah is good. The man who takes refuge in him is fortunate. 9 O fear Jehovah, you* his, holy ones, because there is no want to those who fear him.
10 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek Jehovah will not want any good thing.
11 Come, you* children, listen to me. I will teach you* the fear of Jehovah. 12 What man is he who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. 16 (The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)
17 They cried and Jehovah heard and delivered them out of all their troubles. 18 Jehovah is near to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a crushed spirit.
19 The afflictions of the righteous are many, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all. 20 He keeps all his bones. Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil will kill the wicked and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 Jehovah redeems the soul of his servants and none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
35 1 Contend, O Jehovah, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for my help. 3 Draw out the spear also and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind and the messenger of Jehovah driving them on. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them.
7 Because without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him, he will not know and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
9 And my soul will be joyful in Jehovah. It will rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones will say, Jehovah, who is like you, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yes, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I do not know. 12 They reward me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into my own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who weeps for his mother.
15 But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The slayers gathered themselves together against me and I did not know it. They tore me and ceased not. 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the lions. 18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
19 Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
20 Because they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
22 You have seen it, O Jehovah. Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me. 23 Stir up yourself and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to your righteousness and do not let them rejoice over me.
25 Do not let them say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who have become great against me.
27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, Jehovah become great, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And my tongue will talk of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
36 1 The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.