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1 O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory upon the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing-babes you have perfected praise, because of your adversaries, that you might make the enemy and the avenger cease.
3 Because I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have established, 4 what is man that you remember him? And the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him but a little lower than messengers and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You make him to have dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet. 7 All sheep and oxen, yes and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
9 1 I will give thanks to Jehovah with my whole heart. I will show forth all your marvelous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High. 3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at your presence. 4 Because you have maintained my right and my cause. You sit in the throne judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name everlasting and forever. 6 The enemy have come to an end. They are desolate forever and the cities which you have overthrown. The very memory of them has perished, 7 but Jehovah will endure everlasting.
He has prepared his throne for judgment, 8 and he will judge the world in righteousness. He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness.
9 Jehovah will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble. 10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you, because you, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion. Declare among the people his practices. 12 Because he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.
13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, you who lifts me up from the gates of death 14 that I may show forth all your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. 16 Jehovah has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah. 17 Wicked men will be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
18 Because a needy man will not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah, do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. 20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.
10 1 Why do you stand afar off, O Jehovah? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 The poor man is hotly-pursued in the pride of the wicked man. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. 3 Because the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yes, despises Jehovah.
4 The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5 His ways are profane at all times. Your judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them. 6 He says in his heart, I will not be shaken. I will not be in adversity to all generations.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
8 He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. He murders the innocent man in the covert places. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his covering. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. 10 He crouches, he bows down and helpless men fall by his strong men.
11 He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.
12 Arise, O Jehovah, O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the poor.
13 Why does the wicked man despise God and say in his heart, You will not require it?
14 You have seen. Because you behold mischief and spite, to repay with your hand. The poor man commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break you the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness will be sought and will not be found. 16 Jehovah is King everlasting and forever. The nations have perished out of his land. 17 Jehovah, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear, 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more terrify.
11 1 I take refuge in Jehovah. How will you* say to my soul, Flee like a bird to your* mountain.
2 Because, behold, the wicked bend the bow. They make ready their arrow upon the string that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. 3 Because the foundations are destroyed, what can a righteous man do?
4 Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men. 5 Jehovah tries the righteous man. But his soul hates the wicked man and he who loves violence. 6 He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
7 Because Jehovah is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright man will behold his face.
12 1 Help, Jehovah, because the holy man ceases, because the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
2 They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. They speak with a flattering lip and with a double heart. 3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, 4 who have said, We prevail with our tongue will. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?
5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says Jehovah. I will set him into the safety he breathes for.
6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times. 7 You will keep them, O Jehovah. You will preserve them from this generation everlasting.
8 The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
13 1 How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death, 4 lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, lest my adversaries rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your loving kindness. My heart will rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to Jehovah because he has dealt bountifully with me.
14 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. 3 They are all gone aside. They are morally-corrupt together. There is none who does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon Jehovah?
5 There they were in great fear, because God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 You* put to shame the counsel of the poor because Jehovah is his refuge.
7 O that the salvation of Israel came out of Zion! When Jehovah brings back the captivity of his people, then Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.
15 1 Jehovah, who will journey in your tabernacle? Who will dwell in your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks truth in his heart, 3 he who does not slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor, 4 in whose eyes those who reject God are despised, but who honors those who fear Jehovah, he that swears to his own hurt and changes not, 5 he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will not be shaken everlasting.
16 1 Preserve me, O God, because I take refuge in you. 2 You, my soul, have said to Jehovah, You are my Lord. I have no good beyond you.
3 As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows will be multiplied who give gifts for another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.
5 Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. You maintain my lot. 6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a fine heritage. 7 I will praise Jehovah, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
8 I beheld Jehovah always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will dwell in hope.
10 Because you will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will you allow your holy man to see corruption.
11 You made known to me the path of life. You will fill me of joy with your countenance.
17 1 Hear the righteous, O Jehovah, attend to my cry. Listen to my prayer, that does not go out from pretending lips. 2 Let my justice come out from your presence. Let your eyes look upon uprightness.
3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man. 5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
6 I have called upon you, because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me and hear my speech. 7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you who saves by your right hand those who take refuge from those who rise up.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, 9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who encompass me around.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat. They speak proudly with their mouth. 11 They have now encompassed us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast down to the earth. 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O Jehovah, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, 14 from men by your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life and whose belly you fill with your treasure. They are satisfied with sons and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.
18 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.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing-babes you have perfected praise, because of your adversaries, that you might make the enemy and the avenger cease.
3 Because I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have established, 4 what is man that you remember him? And the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him but a little lower than messengers and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You make him to have dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet. 7 All sheep and oxen, yes and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
9 1 I will give thanks to Jehovah with my whole heart. I will show forth all your marvelous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High. 3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at your presence. 4 Because you have maintained my right and my cause. You sit in the throne judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name everlasting and forever. 6 The enemy have come to an end. They are desolate forever and the cities which you have overthrown. The very memory of them has perished, 7 but Jehovah will endure everlasting.
He has prepared his throne for judgment, 8 and he will judge the world in righteousness. He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness.
9 Jehovah will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble. 10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you, because you, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion. Declare among the people his practices. 12 Because he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.
13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, you who lifts me up from the gates of death 14 that I may show forth all your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. 16 Jehovah has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah. 17 Wicked men will be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
18 Because a needy man will not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah, do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. 20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.
10 1 Why do you stand afar off, O Jehovah? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 The poor man is hotly-pursued in the pride of the wicked man. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. 3 Because the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yes, despises Jehovah.
4 The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5 His ways are profane at all times. Your judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them. 6 He says in his heart, I will not be shaken. I will not be in adversity to all generations.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
8 He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. He murders the innocent man in the covert places. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his covering. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. 10 He crouches, he bows down and helpless men fall by his strong men.
11 He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.
12 Arise, O Jehovah, O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the poor.
13 Why does the wicked man despise God and say in his heart, You will not require it?
14 You have seen. Because you behold mischief and spite, to repay with your hand. The poor man commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break you the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness will be sought and will not be found. 16 Jehovah is King everlasting and forever. The nations have perished out of his land. 17 Jehovah, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear, 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more terrify.
11 1 I take refuge in Jehovah. How will you* say to my soul, Flee like a bird to your* mountain.
2 Because, behold, the wicked bend the bow. They make ready their arrow upon the string that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. 3 Because the foundations are destroyed, what can a righteous man do?
4 Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men. 5 Jehovah tries the righteous man. But his soul hates the wicked man and he who loves violence. 6 He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
7 Because Jehovah is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright man will behold his face.
12 1 Help, Jehovah, because the holy man ceases, because the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
2 They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. They speak with a flattering lip and with a double heart. 3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, 4 who have said, We prevail with our tongue will. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?
5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says Jehovah. I will set him into the safety he breathes for.
6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times. 7 You will keep them, O Jehovah. You will preserve them from this generation everlasting.
8 The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
13 1 How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death, 4 lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, lest my adversaries rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your loving kindness. My heart will rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to Jehovah because he has dealt bountifully with me.
14 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. 3 They are all gone aside. They are morally-corrupt together. There is none who does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon Jehovah?
5 There they were in great fear, because God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 You* put to shame the counsel of the poor because Jehovah is his refuge.
7 O that the salvation of Israel came out of Zion! When Jehovah brings back the captivity of his people, then Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.
15 1 Jehovah, who will journey in your tabernacle? Who will dwell in your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks truth in his heart, 3 he who does not slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor, 4 in whose eyes those who reject God are despised, but who honors those who fear Jehovah, he that swears to his own hurt and changes not, 5 he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will not be shaken everlasting.
16 1 Preserve me, O God, because I take refuge in you. 2 You, my soul, have said to Jehovah, You are my Lord. I have no good beyond you.
3 As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows will be multiplied who give gifts for another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.
5 Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. You maintain my lot. 6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a fine heritage. 7 I will praise Jehovah, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
8 I beheld Jehovah always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will dwell in hope.
10 Because you will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will you allow your holy man to see corruption.
11 You made known to me the path of life. You will fill me of joy with your countenance.
17 1 Hear the righteous, O Jehovah, attend to my cry. Listen to my prayer, that does not go out from pretending lips. 2 Let my justice come out from your presence. Let your eyes look upon uprightness.
3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man. 5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
6 I have called upon you, because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me and hear my speech. 7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you who saves by your right hand those who take refuge from those who rise up.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, 9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who encompass me around.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat. They speak proudly with their mouth. 11 They have now encompassed us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast down to the earth. 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O Jehovah, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, 14 from men by your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life and whose belly you fill with your treasure. They are satisfied with sons and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.
18 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.