Psalms 5 Cross References - ISV

¹ To the Director: For flutes. A Davidic Psalm
A Prayer for God’s Help LORD, listen to my words, consider my groaning. ² Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for unto you will I pray. ³ LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I will pray to you, and I will watch for your answer. ⁴ Indeed, you aren’t a God who delights in wickedness; evil will never dwell with you. ⁵ Boastful ones will not stand before you; you hate all those who practice wickedness. ⁶ You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the person of bloodshed and deceit. ⁷ But I, because of the abundance of your gracious love, may come into your house. In awe of you, I will worship in your holy Temple. ⁸ LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your path straight before me. ⁹ But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery. ¹⁰ Declare them guilty, God! Let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them away because of their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against you. ¹¹ Let all those who take refuge in you rejoice! Let them shout for joy forever, and may you protect them. Let those who love your name exult in you. ¹² Indeed, you will bless the righteous one, LORD, like a large shield, you will surround him with favor.

¹³ Hannah was praying inwardly. Her lips were quivering, and her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

¹⁶ Don’t consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I’ve been speaking because I’m very anxious and distressed.”

¹ A Davidic Prayer.
A Cry for Justice LORD, hear my just plea! Pay attention to my cry! Listen to my prayer, since it does not come from lying lips.

¹⁴ May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

² God, listen to my prayer, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

¹ To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction.
Betrayal by a Friend Pay attention to my prayer, God, and do not hide yourself from my appeal. ² Pay attention to me and answer me. I moan and groan in my thoughts,

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
A Prayer for Protection Hear, God, as I express my concern; protect me from fear of the enemy.

¹ For the Director of Music: According to “The Lilies”. A testimony of Asaph. A psalm.
A Prayer for Jerusalem Shepherd of Israel, listen! The one who leads Joseph like a flock, the one enthroned on the cherubim, display your glory.

¹ A Davidic prayer
Help Us, God LORD, listen and answer me, for I am afflicted and needy.

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,

¹² For the Lord watches the righteous, and he pays attention to their prayers. But the Lord opposes those who do wrong.”

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he listens to our requests, we can be sure that we have what we ask him for.

⁴ I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Interlude

¹⁶ The LORD is king forever and ever; nations will perish from his land.

⁷ Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in. ⁸ Who is the King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle.

⁴ You are my king, God, command victories for Jacob.

⁶ Sing songs to God! Sing songs! Sing songs to our King! Sing songs! ⁷ Indeed, God is king over all the earth; sing a song of praise.

² Since you hear prayer, everybody will come to you.

¹² But God is my king from ancient times, who brings acts of deliverance throughout the earth.

³ Even the sparrow found a house for herself and the swallow a nest to lay her young at your altar, LORD of the Heavenly Armies, my king and God.

¹ The LORD is Holy The LORD reigns— let people tremble; he is seated above the cherubim— let the earth quake. ² The LORD is great in Zion and is exalted above all peoples. ³ Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is holy! ⁴ A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.

¹ A Davidic Psalm
Praising God for His Works I will speak highly of you, my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever.

²² For the LORD is our judge, and the LORD is our lawgiver; and the LORD is our king, and it is he who will save us.

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.

¹⁷ Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.

¹⁶ Answer me, LORD, for your gracious love is good; Turn to me in keeping with your great compassion,

¹³ As for me, I cry out to you LORD, and in the morning my prayer greets you.

¹⁴⁷ I get up before dawn and cry for help; I place my hope in your word.

⁶ My soul looks to the Lord more than watchmen look for the morning— more, indeed, than watchmen for the morning.

⁹ My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn righteousness.

³⁵ Jesus Goes on a Preaching Tour
In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

¹⁷ And I know, God, that it is you who searches the heart and you who finds pleasure in righteousness. With a righteous heart I have freely given all these things, and now I have seen all of these people of yours giving freely and joyfully to you!

⁵ The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence, he hates.

²¹ These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes.”

¹⁵ They will proclaim: “The LORD is upright; my rock, in whom there is no injustice.”

²⁰ Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

⁷ A deceitful person will not sit in my house; A liar will not remain in my presence.

¹³ Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name, while the upright live in your presence.

¹³ Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil; and you cannot tolerate wickedness. So why do you tolerate the treacherous? And why do you stay silent while the wicked devour those who are more righteous than they are?

¹⁷ God’s Fifth Complaint: Against His People—Complaining about God.“You have wearied the LORD with your words. You ask, ‘How have we wearied you?’ By your saying, ‘All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD and he’s pleased with them,’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’”

²³ Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

¹³ But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

²³ The city doesn’t need any sun or moon to give it light, because the glory of God gave it light, and the lamb was its lamp.

²⁷ Nothing unclean, or anyone who does anything detestable, and no one who tells lies will ever enter it. Only those whose names are written in the lamb’s Book of Life will enter it.

²³ You are not to live by the customs of the nations, whom I’ve cast away right in front of you. Because they did all of these things, I detested them.

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not escape judgment, nor will sinners have a place in the assembly of the righteous.

³ For the wicked one boasts about his own desire; he blesses the greedy and despises the LORD.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
The Fool and God’s Response Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.

³ For I was envious of the proud when I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴ I will say to the proud, “Don’t brag,” and to the wicked, “Don’t vaunt your strength.

⁶ A stupid man doesn’t know, and a fool can’t comprehend this:

⁸ Pay attention, you dull ones among the crowds! You fools! Will you ever become wise?

³ LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

⁷ The Major ThemeThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

²² “You naïve ones, how long will you love naiveté? And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?”

¹⁶ What God HatesHere are six things that the LORD hates— seven, in fact, are detestable to him: ¹⁷ Arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, and hands shedding innocent blood; ¹⁸ a heart crafting evil plans, feet running swiftly to wickedness, ¹⁹ a false witness snorting lies, and someone sowing quarrels between brothers.

⁵ Understand prudence, you naïve people; and gain an understanding heart, you foolish ones.

⁴ Keep Your Promises to GodWhen you make a promise to God, don’t fail to keep it, since he isn’t pleased with fools. Keep what you promise—

¹⁵ “All of their wickedness started in Gilgal, because I began to hate them there. Because of the wickedness of their behavior, I will drive them from my Temple. I will not love them anymore; all their leaders are rebels.

⁸ In a single month I got rid of three shepherds because I grew tired of them, and they despised me.

²³ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who practice evil!’”

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Get away from me, you who are accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

¹⁴ They told them, “We can’t do this. We can’t give our sister to a man who isn’t circumcised, because that would be insulting to us.

²⁵ Three days later, while they were still in pain, Jacob’s sons Simeon and Levi, two of Dinah’s brothers, each grabbed a sword and entered the city unannounced, intending to kill all the males. ²⁶ They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took back Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

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 Sheba’s RebellionRight about then, Bichri’s son Sheba, an ungodly man from the tribe of Benjamin, sounded a battle trumpet and announced: We’ve never been a part of David! We’ll never gain anything from Jesse’s son! It’s every man to his tent, Israel!

² You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude

⁸ LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides. ⁹ Do not group me with sinners, nor include me with men who shed blood. ¹⁰ Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.

¹ God is my Hope during Times of Trouble You be my judge, God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²³ But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you.

²¹ For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain.”

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

⁸ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

¹⁵ Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

¹⁵ If you think it’s the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

²⁹ Let your eyes always look toward this Temple night and day, toward the location where you have said ‘My name will reside there.’ Listen to the prayer that your servant prays in this direction. ³⁰ Listen to the requests from your servant and from your people Israel as they pray in this direction, listen from the place where you reside in heaven, then hear and forgive.

³⁵ “When heaven remains closed, and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray in the direction of this place, confessing your name and turning from their sin when you afflict them,

³⁸ whatever prayer or request is made, no matter whether it’s made by a single man or by all of your people Israel, each praying out of his own hurting heart and anguish and stretching out his hands toward this Temple,

² Hear the sound of my supplications when I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm. When the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
A Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon Have mercy, God, according to your gracious love, according to your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions.

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever.

¹⁶ I call upon God, and the LORD will deliver me.

¹³ Seeking God for DeliveranceAs for me, LORD, may my prayer to you come at a favorable time. God, in the abundance of your gracious love, answer me with your sure deliverance.

⁴ But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be feared.

⁷ Let’s go to his dwelling place and worship at his footstool.

² I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he’ll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he’ll pardon abundantly.

¹¹ Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

¹⁰ Daniel is AccusedWhen Daniel learned that the written document had been signed, he went to an upstairs room in his house that had windows opened facing Jerusalem. Three times a day he would kneel down, pray, and give thanks to his God, just as he had previously done.

⁵ Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come in awe to the LORD and to his goodness in the last days.

¹¹ The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.
¹² Jesus Appoints Twelve Apostles
Now it was in those days that Jesus went to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

³¹ So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace. As it continued to be built up and to live in the fear of the Lord, it kept increasing in numbers through the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more, ²¹ so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

¹⁶ So let us keep on coming boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him. ²⁹ For “our God is an all-consuming fire.”

¹⁷ If you call “Father” the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land. ¹⁸ For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of the Messiah, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, because you have despised the LORD’s enemies with utter contempt, the son born to you will most certainly die.”

⁴ Cause me to understand your ways, LORD; teach me your paths. ⁵ Guide me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God who delivers me. All day long I have waited for you.

¹¹ Teach me your way, LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
Prayer and Thanksgiving In you, LORD, I have taken refuge. Let me never be ashamed. Because you are righteous, deliver me!

⁵ He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

¹⁰ My God of Gracious Love will meet me; God will enable me to see what happens to my enemies.

¹¹ Teach me your ways, LORD, that I may walk in your truth; let me wholeheartedly revere your name.

¹⁰ I have sought you with all of my heart; do not let me drift away from your commands.

⁶⁴ LORD, the earth overflows with your gracious love! Teach me your statutes.

⁸ In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you. ⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, LORD. I have taken refuge in you. ¹⁰ Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not depend on your own understanding. ⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

²⁵ Let your eyes look directly ahead; fix your gaze straight in front of you.

³ He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, “He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”

¹³ and straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.

²¹ I won’t discriminate against anyone, and I won’t flatter any person, ²² since I don’t know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing.”

² Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives. ³ The LORD will cut off all slippery lips, and the tongue that boasts great things,

¹ To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.
An Oracle from the LORD An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. ² He flatters himself too much to discover his transgression and hate it. ³ The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good. ⁴ He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

⁶ Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.

² Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

² As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent! ³ The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

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

⁹ Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

⁶ They devise wicked schemes, saying, “We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts.”

¹ Praise for God’s Amazing Deeds Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all of my heart in the assembled congregation of the upright. ² Great are the acts of the LORD; they are within reach of all who desire them. ³ Splendid and glorious are his awesome deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.

⁵ A strong man who flatters his neighbor is setting a trap where he walks.

¹⁴ Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?

³ They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the LORD. ⁴ “Beware of your neighbors, and don’t trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer. ⁵ People deceive their friends, and they don’t tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil. ⁶ You yourself live in the midst of deception, and because they are deceived they do not know me,” declares the LORD.

⁹ The Deceitfulness of the Human Heart“The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable— who can know it?

¹² Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies— their tongues speak deceitfully!

²¹ because it’s from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

³⁹ But the Lord told him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.

⁴⁴ How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves—people walk on them without realizing it.”

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents, ³¹ foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless.

¹³ Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

⁵ As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!

³⁰ But King Sihon of Heshbon did not allow us to pass through, because the LORD your God had hardened his spirit and made him arrogant, in order to deliver him into your control today.

²⁹ If anyone should arise to pursue you and seek your life, may the life of your majesty be bound up with the LORD your God in a bundle of the living, and may he sling out the lives of your enemies from the pocket of a sling.

³⁹ When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has judged the dispute over my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil. The LORD has repaid Nabal’s wickedness.”
Then David sent word to Abigail that he would take her as his wife.

³¹ Just then, someone told David, “Ahithophel is one of Absalom’s conspirators!”
So David prayed, “LORD, please turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”

¹⁴ Absalom and all of the Israelis replied, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s!”
Hushai Warns DavidBut the LORD had planned to circumvent the sound advice of Ahithophel so the LORD could bring Absalom to destruction.

²³ Ahithophel’s SuicideMeanwhile, when Ahithophel observed that his counsel was not being acted upon, he saddled his donkey, got up, and left for his hometown. Leaving behind a set of orders for his household, he hanged himself. After his death he was buried in his father’s tomb.

¹⁶ But even while the prophet was speaking, the king asked him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?”
So the prophet stopped speaking, but he also said, “I know God has determined to destroy you, because you’ve done all this and ignored my counsel.”

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king’s anger subsided.

¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds. ¹³ He captures the wise in their own craftiness, bringing a quick end to their cunning advice. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

⁹ Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. For you are the righteous God who discerns the inner thoughts. ¹⁰ God is my shield, the one who delivers the upright in heart. ¹¹ God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry with sinners every day. ¹² If the ungodly one doesn’t repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it. ¹³ He prepares weapons of death for himself, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. ¹⁴ But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies. ¹⁵ He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down into the pit they made, their feet are ensnared in the trap they set. ¹⁶ The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; so that when you seek out his wickedness you will find it no more.

¹³ Arise, LORD, confront them, bring them to their knees! Deliver me from the wicked by your sword—

⁸ Your hand will find all your enemies, your right hand will find those who hate you. ⁹ When you appear, you will set them ablaze like a fire furnace. In his wrath, the LORD will consume them, and the fire will devour them. ¹⁰ You will destroy their descendants from the earth, even their offspring from the ranks of mankind.

³ Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who practice iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while harboring evil in their hearts. ⁴ Reward them according to their deeds; according to the evil of their actions. Reward them based on what they do; give them what they deserve.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be made still, especially those who speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.

¹ Davidic
A Prayer for Deliverance Argue my case, LORD, against those who argue against me. Fight against those who fight against me. ² Take up the buckler and the shield, and rise up to help me. ³ Take out the spear and the ax to confront the one who pursues me; say to me, “I am your deliverer!” ⁴ Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded. ⁵ Make them like the chaff before the wind, as the messenger of the LORD pushes them aside. ⁶ May their path be dark and slippery, as the messenger of the LORD tracks them down. ⁷ Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me. ⁸ Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.

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.

¹⁵ Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.

¹² The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies. ¹³ Go ahead and destroy them in anger! Wipe them out, and they will know to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Interlude

⁶ They devise wicked schemes, saying, “We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts.” ⁷ But God shot an arrow at them, and they were wounded immediately. ⁸ They tripped over their own tongues, and everyone who was watching ran away.

⁷ He rules by his power forever, his eyes watching over the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Interlude

¹ To the Director of music: A Psalm. A song.
A Song of Praise to God God arises, and his enemies are scattered. Those who hate him flee from his presence. ² As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.

²² May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies. ²³ May their eyes be blinded and may their bodies tremble continuously. ²⁴ May you pour out your fury on them. May your burning anger overtake them. ²⁵ May their camp become desolate and their tents remain unoccupied.

¹³ Let my adversaries be ashamed and consumed; let those who seek my destruction be covered with scorn and disgrace.

¹² Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.

⁹ Deal with them as you did to Midian, Sisera, and Jabin at the Kishon Brook. ¹⁰ They were destroyed at En-dor and became as dung on the ground. ¹¹ Punish their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² who said, “Let us possess the pastures of God.” ¹³ God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind. ¹⁴ Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze. ¹⁵ Pursue them with your storm and terrify them with your whirlwind. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God. ¹⁷ Let them be humiliated and terrified permanently until they die in shame. ¹⁸ Then they will know that you alone— whose name is LORD— are the Most High over all the earth.

¹¹ because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High.

⁶ Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side. ⁷ When he is judged, may he be found guilty; may his prayer be regarded as sin. ⁸ May his days be few; may another take over his position. ⁹ May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes. ¹¹ May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired. ¹² May no one extend gracious love to him, or show favor to his fatherless children. ¹³ May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation. ¹⁴ May his ancestors’ guilt be remembered in the LORD’s presence, and may his mother’s guilt not be erased. ¹⁵ May what they have done be continually in the LORD’s presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth. ¹⁶ For he didn’t think to extend gracious love; he harassed to death the poor, the needy, and the broken hearted. ¹⁷ He loved to curse—may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others— so may blessings be far from him. ¹⁸ He wore curses like a garment— may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil. ¹⁹ May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears. ²⁰ May this be the way the LORD repays my accuser, those who speak evil against me.

⁷ Remember the day of Jerusalem’s fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, “Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!” ⁸ Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us. ⁹ How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!

⁹ May those who surround me discover that the trouble they talk about falls on their own head! ¹⁰ May burning coals fall on them; may they be cast into fire, and into miry pits, never to rise again.

⁶ Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them. ⁷ Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.

² Rebellious JudahListen, you heavens, and let the earth pay attention, because the LORD has spoken: “I reared children and brought them to adulthood, but then they rebelled against me.

²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel, you’ll be devoured by the sword, because the LORD has spoken.”

¹⁰ Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

⁵ Her adversaries dominate her, her enemies prosper. For the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away, taken into captivity in the presence of the enemy.

⁵ we’ve sinned, we’ve practiced evil, we’ve acted wickedly, and we’ve rebelled, turning away from your commands and from your regulations.

⁹ But to the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we’ve rebelled against him

⁷ The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. ²⁰ Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. For it is written, “He catches the wise with their own trickery,”

³¹ “May all of your enemies perish like this, LORD! But may those who love him be like the ascending sun in its strength!”
Then the land enjoyed quiet for 40 years.

⁷ while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

¹² Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him.

²⁷ Let those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and rejoice! Let them continuously say, “Magnify the LORD, who delights in giving peace to his servant.”

¹⁶ Let all who seek you shout for joy and be glad in you. May those who love your deliverance say, “The LORD be magnified!” continuously.

¹ To the Director: A song by the Sons of Korah.
The Ruler over the Nations Clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with a loud cry of joy! ² For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. ³ He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. ⁴ He chose our inheritance for us, even the pride of Jacob whom he loved. Interlude ⁵ God has ascended on high with a shout, the LORD has ascended with the blast of a trumpet.

¹⁰ The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹³ The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout for joy; yes, they burst out in song!

³ But the righteous rejoice and exult before God; they are overwhelmed with joy.

³⁶ The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who cherish his name will live there.

¹³ The Righteous and Wicked ContrastedTherefore, this is what the LORD says: “See, my servants will eat, but you’ll go hungry; my servants will drink, but you’ll go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you’ll be put to shame. ¹⁴ My servants will sing in gladness of heart, but you’ll cry for help from anguish of heart, and you’ll howl from brokenness of spirit. ¹⁵ You’ll leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death permanently. ¹⁶ Then whoever takes an oath by the God of faithfulness, and whoever takes an oath in the land, will swear by the God of faithfulness, because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

⁹ The Coming of Zion’s King“Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; cry out, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is able to save. He is humble, and is riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

²⁸ And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

⁹ But as it is written, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

¹² Trial and TemptationHow blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor’s crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

²⁰ Be happy about her, heaven, saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has condemned her for you!”

¹ The Vision of WorshipAfter these things, I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God. ² His judgments are true and just. He has condemned the notorious prostitute who corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on her for the blood of his servants.” ³ A second time they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.” ⁴ The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures bowed down and worshipped God, who was sitting on the throne. They said, “Amen! Hallelujah!” ⁵ A voice came from the throne, saying, “Praise our God, all who serve and fear him, from the least important to the most important.”
⁶ The Vision of the Marriage Supper of the LambThen I heard what sounded like the voice of a large crowd, like the sound of raging waters, and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, “Hallelujah! The Lord our God, the Almighty, is reigning. ⁷ Let us rejoice, be glad, and give him glory, because the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.

¹ BOOK I (Psalms 1-41)
The Righteous and the Wicked How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers. ² But he delights in the LORD’s instruction, and meditates in his instruction day and night. ³ He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.

³ But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

⁸ Deliverance comes from the LORD! May your blessing be on your people. Interlude

¹¹ The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

⁷ You are my hiding place; you will deliver me from trouble and surround me with shouts of deliverance. Interlude

¹⁰ The wicked have many sorrows, but gracious love surrounds those who trust in the LORD.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD grants grace and favor; the LORD will not withhold any good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

¹ The Gracious Person Hallelujah! How happy is the person who fears the LORD, who truly delights in his commandments.

¹³ He will bless those who fear the LORD, both the important and the insignificant together.