⁹ Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;^(A)
    my eyes grow weak with sorrow,^(B)
    my soul and body^(C) with grief.

¹⁶ Let your face shine^(A) on your servant;
    save me in your unfailing love.^(B)

³ Strengthen the feeble hands,
    steady the knees^(A) that give way;
⁴ say^(B) to those with fearful hearts,^(C)
    “Be strong, do not fear;^(D)
your God will come,^(E)
    he will come with vengeance;^(F)
with divine retribution
    he will come to save^(G) you.”

⁵ Then will the eyes of the blind be opened^(H)
    and the ears of the deaf^(I) unstopped.
⁶ Then will the lame^(J) leap like a deer,^(K)
    and the mute tongue^(L) shout for joy.^(M)
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
    and streams^(N) in the desert.
⁷ The burning sand will become a pool,
    the thirsty ground^(O) bubbling springs.^(P)
In the haunts where jackals^(Q) once lay,
    grass and reeds^(R) and papyrus will grow.

¹⁸ Indeed, our shield^[a](A) belongs to the Lord,
    our king^(B) to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ Once you spoke in a vision,
    to your faithful people you said:
“I have bestowed strength on a warrior;
    I have raised up a young man from among the people.
²⁰ I have found David^(C) my servant;^(D)
    with my sacred oil^(E) I have anointed^(F) him.
²¹ My hand will sustain him;
    surely my arm will strengthen him.^(G)
22 The enemy will not get the better of him;^(H)
    the wicked will not oppress^(I) him.
²³ I will crush his foes before him^(J)
    and strike down his adversaries.^(K)
24 My faithful love will be with him,^(L)
    and through my name his horn^[b] will be exalted.
²⁵ I will set his hand over the sea,
    his right hand over the rivers.^(M)
26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,^(N)
    my God, the Rock^(O) my Savior.’^(P)
27 And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^(Q)
    the most exalted^(R) of the kings^(S) of the earth.
²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever,
    and my covenant with him will never fail.^(T)
29 I will establish his line forever,
    his throne as long as the heavens endure.^(U)

Praise the Lord,^(A) my soul.

² I will praise the Lord all my life;^(B)
    I will sing praise^(C) to my God as long as I live.^(D)
3 Do not put your trust in princes,^(E)
    in human beings,^(F) who cannot save.
⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;^(G)
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.^(H)
5 Blessed are those^(I) whose help^(J) is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God.

⁶ He is the Maker of heaven^(K) and earth,
    the sea, and everything in them—
    he remains faithful^(L) forever.
⁷ He upholds^(M) the cause of the oppressed^(N)
    and gives food to the hungry.^(O)
The Lord sets prisoners free,^(P)
8     the Lord gives sight^(Q) to the blind,^(R)
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,^(S)
    the Lord loves the righteous.^(T)
9 The Lord watches over the foreigner^(U)
    and sustains the fatherless^(V) and the widow,^(W)
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

¹⁰ The Lord reigns^(X) forever,
    your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the Lord.