Psalms 38 Cross References - ISV

¹ A Davidic Psalm: As a Reminder.
The Outcast Cries Out LORD! Do not rebuke me in your anger; do not correct me in your wrath, ² because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me. ³ My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin. ⁴ My iniquities loom over my head; like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning. ⁷ My insides are burning and my body is unhealthy. ⁸ I am weak and utterly crushed; I cry out in distress because of my heart’s anguish. ⁹ Lord, all my longings are before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you. ¹⁰ My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone. ¹¹ As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance. ¹² Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning. ¹³ I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth. ¹⁴ Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke. ¹⁵ Because I have placed my hope in you, LORD, you will answer, Lord, my God. ¹⁶ For I said, “Do not let them gloat over me, as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips.” ¹⁷ Indeed, I am being set up for a fall, and I am continuously reminded of my pain. ¹⁸ I confess my iniquity, and my sin troubles me. ¹⁹ But my enemies are alive and well; those who hate me for no reason are numerous. ²⁰ They reward my good with evil, opposing me because I seek to do good. ²¹ Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be so distant from me. ²² Come quickly and help me, Lord, my deliverer.

¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD against you, because he was irate enough to destroy you. But the LORD also listened to me at that time.

¹ To the Director: With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed harp. A Davidic Psalm
A Prayer in Times of Trouble LORD, in your anger, do not rebuke me, in your wrath, do not discipline me.

¹ To the Music director. Davidic. As a memorial.
A Call for Help God, come to my rescue. LORD, hurry to help me.

⁷ Your anger lies heavily upon me; you pound me with all your waves. Interlude

¹⁵ Since my youth I have been oppressed and in danger of death. I bear your dread and am overwhelmed. ¹⁶ Your burning anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

⁸ Measure by measure, in their exile you contended with them; with his fierce blast he removed them, as on a day when the east wind blows.

⁸ I hid my face from you for a moment in a surge of anger, but I will have compassion on you with my everlasting gracious love,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

²⁴ LORD, correct me, but with justice, not with anger. Otherwise, you’ll bring me to nothing.

¹¹ For I’ll be with you to save you,’ declares the LORD. ‘For I’ll put an end to all the nations where I scattered you; but I won’t make an end of you. I’ll discipline you justly, but I certainly won’t leave you unpunished.’

² LORD, as I listen to what has been said about you, I am afraid. LORD, revive your work throughout all of our lives— reveal yourself throughout all of our lives— when you are angry, remember compassion.

⁵ You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not think lightly of the Lord’s discipline or give up when you are corrected by him. ⁶ For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he punishes every son he accepts.” ⁷ What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God’s sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them for it. We should submit even more to the Father of our spirits and live, shouldn’t we? ¹⁰ For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness. ¹¹ No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

¹⁵ Indeed, the hand of the LORD was against them to root them out from the camp until they were utterly destroyed.”

¹³ would you wait for them until they were grown? Would you refrain from marriage for them? No, my daughters! I’m more deeply grieved than you, because the LORD is working against me!”

⁶ The LORD heavily oppressed the people of Ashdod, devastating and afflicting Ashdod and its territories with tumors of the groin.

¹¹ They sent messengers and gathered together all the Philistine lords: “Send away the Ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to where it belongs so that it does not kill us and our people.” Meanwhile, a deadly panic had spread all over the town, and God kept on pressuring them there.

⁹ Keep watching it. If it goes up along the road to its own territory to Beth-shemesh, it’s the LORD who has done this great evil to us. But if it does not, then we will know that he wasn’t pressuring us. It happened to us as a natural event.”

⁴ “The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God’s terrors have been arranged just for me!

¹² Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces.

⁴ For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude

¹⁰ Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand. ¹¹ You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

⁷ But God shot an arrow at them, and they were wounded immediately.

¹² He bent his bow, aiming at me with his arrow.

¹⁹ Uzziah flew into a rage while he held in his hand a censer to burn incense. As he got angry at the priests, leprosy broke out all over his forehead right in front of the priests beside the incense altar in the LORD’s Temple.

⁷ So Satan left the LORD’s presence and struck Job with terrible boils from the sole of his feet to the top of his head. ⁸ Job took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself while sitting among the ashes.

¹⁹ “He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones. ²⁰ He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food. ²¹ His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn’t be seen, are visible. ²² His soul is getting close to the Pit; his life is approaching its executioner.”

² Be gracious to me, LORD, because I am fading away. Heal me, because my body is distressed.

⁹ Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body. ¹⁰ My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

⁸ Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

⁷ Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

³ For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

⁵ Because of the sound of my sighing, my bones cling to my skin.

⁵ “Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint. ⁶ From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there’s no soundness evident— only bruises, sores, and festering wounds that haven’t been cleaned out, bandaged, or treated with oil.”

⁴⁰ Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven. ⁴² As for us, we have sinned and rebelled; but you have not pardoned us.

¹⁸ If any of the meat of his sacrifice of peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it won’t be accepted for the one who brought it. It is to be considered as refuse, and whoever eats it will bear the punishment of his iniquity.”

⁶ and said, “My God, I am too ashamed and hurt to turn to you, because we’re in our iniquities over our heads. Furthermore, my God, our sins have grown as high as the heavens.

¹² Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

¹¹ Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

¹⁴ The yoke of my sins was bound on, fastened together by his hand. They settled on my neck; he caused my strength to fail. The LORD placed me in the power of those I cannot resist.

²⁸ “Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

²⁴ “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. “By his wounds you have been healed.”

³ When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

⁷ My insides are burning and my body is unhealthy.

⁵ God, you know my sins, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people?

²⁸ “In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

⁶ I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

¹⁰ My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

¹⁴ I paced about as for my friend or my brother, and fell down mourning as one weeps for one’s mother.

⁵ Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me.

⁹ I will ask God, my Rock, “Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy’s oppression?”

² Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy’s oppression?”

⁶ They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude

⁹ My eyes languish on account of my affliction; all day long I call out to you, LORD, I spread out my hands to you.

¹⁴ The LORD supports everyone who falls and raises up those who are bowed down.

¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me!

¹⁸ Jehoram’s Illness and Death
After all of this happened, the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable illness. ¹⁹ In due course, as time passed, two years later his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died in agony. His people lit no memorial bonfire for him as they had done for his ancestors.

⁵ My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.

¹⁸ My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

⁸ They say, “Wickedness is entrenched in him. Once he is brought low, he will not rise again.”

²³ Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

²⁴ “As far as I’m concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.

¹ To the Director: To the tune of “Doe of the Dawn”.
A Davidic Psalm.
God Delivers His Suffering Servant My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from delivering me— from my groaning words? ² My God, I cry out to you throughout the day, but you do not answer; and throughout the night, but I have no rest.

¹¹ We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it’s far from us.

¹⁷ LORD, you heard the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen them, you will listen carefully,

²⁰ to listen to the groans of prisoners, to set free those condemned to death,

⁴⁸ Nathaniel asked him, “How do you know me?”
Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

²² For we know that all the rest of creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time. ²³ However, not only the creation, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words, ²⁷ and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God’s will.

² For in this one we sigh, since we long to put on our heavenly dwelling.

²⁷ But Jonathan had not heard that his father had required the army to swear an oath, so he stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. He brought it back to his mouth and his eyes brightened. ²⁸ Then one of the people responded: “Your father strictly ordered the army to take an oath. That’s why he said, ‘Cursed is the person who eats food today,’ and so the army is exhausted.”
²⁹ Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

⁷ My eyesight has faded because of grief, it has dimmed because of all my enemies.

¹ To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.
Hope in God When Times of Trouble Come As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.

³ I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

⁸¹ Kaf
On Obeying God’s WordI long for your deliverance; I have looked to your word, placing my hope in it. ⁸² My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised— I keep asking, “When will you comfort me?” ⁸³ Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.

¹²³ My eyes fail as I look for your salvation and for your righteous promise.

⁴ As a result, my spirit is desolate within me, and my mind within me is appalled. ⁵ I remember the former times, meditating on everything you have done. I think about the work of your hands. ⁶ I stretch out my hands toward you, longing for you like a parched land. Interlude ⁷ Answer me quickly, LORD; my spirit is failing. Do not hide your face from me; otherwise, I will become like those who descend to the Pit,

⁴ And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.

¹¹ My eyes are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed— Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! ¹⁷ This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:

²¹ “And now you’re all just like them, aren’t you? You see my terror and are terrified. ²² When did I ever ask you for anything, say ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth?’ ²³ or say ‘Deliver me from my enemy’s control,’ or ‘Redeem me from the domination of ruthless people’?”

¹³ Job’s Family and Friends Abandoned Him“My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; ¹⁴ my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. ¹⁵ Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I’m a foreigner. ¹⁶ “I call to my servant, but he doesn’t respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. ¹⁷ My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

¹¹ I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies, especially to my neighbors. I have become an object of fear to my friends, and whoever sees me outside runs away from me.

¹⁸ You caused my friend and neighbor to shun me; and my acquaintances are confused.

⁴ “Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted.

⁸ “From detention and judgment he was taken away— and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people.

⁵⁶ But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.

³¹ By chance, a priest was traveling along that road. When he saw the man, he went by on the other side. ³² Similarly, a descendant of Levi came to that place. When he saw the man, he also went by on the other side.

⁵⁴ Peter Denies Jesus
Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.

⁴⁹ But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

³² Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I’m not alone, because the Father is with me.

⁷ “Get out of here! Get out!” Shimei yelled as he cursed. “You murderer! You who think you’re above the law! ⁸ The LORD has repaid you personally for murdering the entire dynasty of Saul, whose place you’ve taken to reign! And the LORD has given the kingdom into your son Absalom’s control. Now look! Your own evil has caught up with you, because you’re guilty of murder!”

¹ “Give me 12,000 men! I’ll leave tonight and pursue David,” Ahithophel advised Absalom. ² “I’ll catch him while he is still tired and weak. I’ll frighten him so all his people with him desert him. But I’ll only kill the king. ³ Then I’ll bring everybody else back to you. When the man you’re looking for is dead, all the rest of the people will return quietly.”

⁹ Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

⁴ Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.

²⁰ For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land.

³ For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

³ How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence? ⁴ They plan to cast him down from his exalted position. They delight in lies; their mouth utters blessings, while their heart is cursing. Interlude

² Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the mob of those who practice evil, ³ who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows, ⁴ shooting at the innocent from concealment. Suddenly they shoot, fearing nothing. ⁵ They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, “Who will see them?”

¹¹⁰ Though the wicked lay a trap for me, I haven’t wandered away from your precepts.

⁵ The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

⁹ Protect me from the trap laid for me and from the snares of those who practice evil.

¹⁹ When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd.
²⁰ A Question about Paying Taxes
So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor, ²¹ so they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you’re right in what you say and teach, and that you don’t favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully. ²² Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

¹⁰ But the king responded, “What do I have in common with you sons of Zeruiah? If he continues to curse—and if the LORD has told him, ‘Curse David!’—then who are you to be demanding to know ‘Why have you done this?’”
¹¹ So David ordered Abishai and all of his staff: “Look! My own son wants to kill me! How much more now is this descendant of Benjamin? Leave him alone and let him go on cursing, because the LORD has ordered him to do this. ¹² Perhaps the LORD will take note of my troubles and return good to me instead of curses today!”

² I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened.

⁹ I remain silent; I do not open my mouth, for you are the one who acted.

⁷ He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he didn’t open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

²³ When he was insulted, he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he did not threaten. It was his habit to commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.

¹³ therefore the prudent person remains silent at such a time, for the time is evil.

⁵ Don’t trust your friends, don’t confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife.

³ The high priests kept accusing him of many things. ⁴ So Pilate asked him again, “Don’t you have any answer? Look how many accusations they’re bringing against you!” ⁵ But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

⁶ They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

⁶ I call upon you, for you will answer me, God. Listen closely to me and hear my prayer.

⁷ How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you.

¹ A Song of Ascents
A Prayer for Relief To you, who sit enthroned in heaven, I lift up my eyes. ² Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us. ³ Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

³ When I called out, you answered me; you strengthened me.

³⁵ To me belong vengeance and recompense. In due time their feet will slip, because their time of calamity is near and the things prepared for them draw near.

³ Look at me! Answer me, LORD, my God! Give light to my eyes! Otherwise, I will sleep in death; ⁴ Otherwise, my enemy will say, “I have overcome him;” Otherwise, my persecutor will rejoice when I am shaken.

²⁴ Judge me according to your righteousness, LORD my God! But do not let them gloat over me. ²⁵ Don’t let them say in their hearts, “Yes! We got what we wanted.” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up.” ²⁶ Instead, let those who gloat over the evil directed against me be ashamed and confounded together; Let those who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and dishonor.

¹⁸ When I say that my foot is shaking, your gracious love, LORD, will sustain me.

¹⁵ But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me— attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.

⁶ I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning.

² When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted. ³ I remember God, and I groan; I meditate, while my spirit grows faint. Interlude

³ “He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him. ⁴ “Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

⁶ “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will assemble the lame; and I will gather those whom I have scattered, along with those whom I have afflicted. ⁷ I will transform the lame into survivors, and those who were scattered into a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion, now and forever.”

³³ No Secret Sins“Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

²⁷ The Song of the Ransomed“He’ll sing to mankind with these words: ‘I’ve sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.

⁵ My sin I acknowledged to you; my iniquity I did not hide. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin! Interlude

³ For I acknowledge my transgression; my sin remains continuously before me.

¹³ Whoever hides his transgressions will not succeed, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

⁷ and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing for me, your sorrow, and your eagerness to take my side, and this made me even happier.
⁸ If I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while. ⁹ Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way. ¹⁰ For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
¹¹ See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

¹ A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.
God Delivers His Servants LORD, I have so many persecutors! Many are rising up against me!

¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hated me because they were stronger than I.

¹⁹ Look how many enemies I have gained! They hate me with a vicious hatred.

¹⁹ Do not let my deceitful enemies gloat over me, nor let those who hate me without justification mock me with their eyes.

¹ To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of “A Silent Dove Far Away,” when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
A Prayer about Trust in God Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long. ² Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit.

¹ To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of “Do Not Destroy,” when Saul sent men to watch the house in order to kill him.
A Prayer for Deliverance and Justice Save me from my enemies, my God! Keep me safe from those who rise up against me. ² Save me from those who practice evil; deliver me from bloodthirsty men. ³ Look, they lie in ambush for my life; these violent men gather together against me, but not because of any transgression or sin of mine, LORD.

⁴ Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. My persecutors are mighty, and they want to destroy me. Must I be forced to return what I did not steal?

²² You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

¹⁸ The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
²² “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The person who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

²⁵ You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David,‘Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots? ²⁶ The kings of the earth take their stand, and rulers meet together against the Lord and against his Messiah.’
²⁷ For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ²⁸ to carry out everything that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.

⁴ Jonathan spoke to his father Saul favorably about David. “The king shouldn’t wrong his servant David because he has not wronged you and because what he has done has been very beneficial for you. ⁵ He risked his life and struck down the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a spectacular deliverance for all Israel. You saw that and rejoiced, so why would you do wrong and shed innocent blood by killing David without cause?” ⁶ Saul listened to Jonathan, and swore by the life of the LORD that David would not be killed.

⁵ David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He carried off their livestock and defeated them decisively, and so David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

¹² Then David said, “Will the people of Keilah hand me over to Saul?”
The LORD said, “They’ll hand you over.”

¹⁶ They were a wall around us both day and night, all the time we were with them taking care of the sheep.

²¹ Now David had said, “Surely it was for nothing that I protected everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was missing of all that belonged to him. But he has repaid me with evil for good!

⁴ if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification,

¹² They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.

³ They surround me with hate-filled words, attacking me for no reason. ⁴ Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer. ⁵ They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to take my life. Remember! I stood before you and spoke good on their behalf in order to turn your wrath away from them.

¹⁰ “How blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!

³² Jesus replied to them, “I’ve shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?”

¹³ Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good?

¹⁷ After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong. ¹⁸ For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,

¹⁴ If you are insulted because of the name of the Messiah, you are blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God is resting on you.
¹⁵ Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker. ¹⁶ But if you suffer for being a Christian, do not feel ashamed, but glorify God with that name.

¹² Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother’s actions were righteous.

¹ To the Director: To the tune of “Doe of the Dawn”.
A Davidic Psalm.
God Delivers His Suffering Servant My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from delivering me— from my groaning words?

¹¹ Do not be so distant from me, for trouble is at hand; indeed, there is no deliverer.

¹⁹ But as for you, LORD, do not be far away from me; My Strength, come quickly to help me.

²⁴ For he does not despise nor detest the afflicted person; he does not hide his face from him, but he hears him when he cries out to him.”

²¹ They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, “Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!” ²² You see this, LORD, so do not be silent. Lord, do not be far from me!

¹ Davidic
Confidence in the LORD The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom will I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid?

¹³ Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me; LORD, hurry up and help me!

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think about me. You are my help and deliverer. My God, do not tarry too long!

² He alone is my rock, my deliverance, and my high tower; nothing will shake me.

⁶ He alone is my rock, my deliverance, and my high tower; nothing will shake me.

⁵ As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

¹² God, do not be distant from me. My God, come quickly to help me.

¹ A Davidic Song
A Prayer for Maturity LORD, I call to you, be quick to listen to me when I cry out!

² “Look! God—yes God—is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid. For the LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”