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17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.(A)

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102 I do not turn away from your ordinances,
    for you have taught me.

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How can young people keep their way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.(A)

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For you, O Lord, are my hope,
    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.(A)

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16 Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for me.(A)

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singing aloud a song of thanksgiving
    and telling all your wondrous deeds.(A)

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David’s Song of Thanksgiving

22 David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.(A) He said,

“The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,(B)
    my God, my rock in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
    my stronghold and my refuge,
    my savior; you save me from violence.(C)
I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
    and I am saved from my enemies.(D)

For the waves of death encompassed me;
    the torrents of perdition assailed me;(E)
the cords of Sheol entangled me;
    the snares of death confronted me.(F)

In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry came to his ears.(G)

Then the earth reeled and rocked;
    the foundations of the heavens trembled
    and reeled because he was angry.(H)
Smoke went up from his nostrils
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    glowing coals flamed forth from him.(I)
10 He bowed the heavens and came down;
    thick darkness was under his feet.(J)
11 He rode on a cherub and flew;
    he was seen upon the wings of the wind.(K)
12 He made darkness around him a canopy,
    thick clouds, a gathering of water.(L)
13 Out of the brightness before him
    coals of fire flamed forth.
14 The Lord thundered from heaven;
    the Most High uttered his voice.(M)
15 He sent out arrows and scattered them,
    lightning and routed them.
16 Then the channels of the sea were seen;
    the foundations of the world were laid bare
at the rebuke of the Lord,
    at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.(N)

17 He reached from on high; he took me;
    he drew me out of mighty waters.(O)
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
    from those who hated me,
    for they were too mighty for me.
19 They came upon me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my stay.(P)
20 He brought me out into a broad place;
    he delivered me because he delighted in me.(Q)

21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
    according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.(R)
22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.(S)
23 For all his ordinances were before me,
    and from his statutes I did not turn aside.(T)
24 I was blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.(U)
25 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
    according to my cleanness in his sight.(V)

26 With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
    with the blameless[a] you show yourself blameless;(W)
27 with the pure you show yourself pure,
    and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.(X)
28 You deliver a humble people,
    but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.(Y)
29 Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord;
    the Lord lightens my darkness.(Z)
30 By you I can outrun a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
31 This God—his way is perfect;
    the promise of the Lord proves true;
    he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.(AA)

32 For who is God but the Lord?
    And who is a rock except our God?(AB)
33 The God who has girded me with strength[b]
    has opened wide my path.[c](AC)
34 He made my feet like the feet of deer
    and set me secure on the heights.(AD)
35 He trains my hands for war,
    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.(AE)
36 You have given me the shield of your salvation,
    and your help[d] has made me great.
37 You have made me stride freely,
    and my feet do not slip;(AF)
38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them
    and did not turn back until they were consumed.
39 I consumed them; I struck them down so that they did not rise;
    they fell under my feet.(AG)
40 For you girded me with strength for the battle;
    you made my assailants sink under me.(AH)
41 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
    those who hated me, and I destroyed them.(AI)
42 They looked, but there was no one to save them;
    they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(AJ)
43 I beat them fine like the dust of the earth;
    I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.(AK)

44 You delivered me from strife with the peoples;[e]
    you kept me as the head of the nations;
    people whom I had not known served me.(AL)
45 Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.(AM)
46 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling out[f] of their strongholds.(AN)

47 The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,(AO)
48 the God who gave me vengeance
    and brought down peoples under me,(AP)
49 who brought me out from my enemies;
    you exalted me above my adversaries;
    you delivered me from the violent.(AQ)

50 For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations
    and sing praises to your name.(AR)
51 He is a tower of salvation for his king
    and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
    to David and his descendants forever.”(AS)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.26 Heb mss Gk: MT blameless warrior
  2. 22.33 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT God is my strong refuge
  3. 22.33 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 22.36 Q ms: MT your answering
  5. 22.44 Heb mss Q ms Gk: MT my people
  6. 22.46 Meaning of Heb uncertain

David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,(A)

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36 Your servant has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37 David said, “The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine.” So Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you!”(A)

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“See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

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He appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. Asaph was the chief, and second to him was Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,(A) and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

David’s Psalm of Thanksgiving

Then on that day David first appointed the singing of praises to the Lord by Asaph and his kindred.(B)

O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name,
    make known his deeds among the peoples.(C)
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    tell of all his wonderful works.
10 Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
11 Seek the Lord and his strength;
    seek his presence continually.(D)
12 Remember the wonderful works he has done,
    his miracles and the judgments he uttered,(E)
13 O offspring of his servant Israel,
    children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

14 He is the Lord our God;
    his judgments are in all the earth.(F)
15 Remember his covenant forever,
    the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
16 the covenant that he made with Abraham,
    his sworn promise to Isaac,(G)
17 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(H)
18 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as your portion for an inheritance.”

19 When they were few in number,
    of little account, and strangers in the land,[a](I)
20 wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
21 he allowed no one to oppress them;
    he rebuked kings on their account,(J)
22 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.”

23 Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
    Tell of his salvation from day to day.(K)
24 Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous works among all the peoples.
25 For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
    he is to be revered above all gods.(L)
26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
    but the Lord made the heavens.(M)
27 Honor and majesty are before him;
    strength and joy are in his place.

28 Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.(N)
29 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering and come before him.
Worship the Lord in holy splendor;
30     tremble before him, all the earth.
    The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved.
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,
    and let them say among the nations, “The Lord is king!”(O)
32 Let the sea roar and all that fills it;
    let the field exult and everything in it.(P)
33 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy
    before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
34 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.(Q)

35 Say also,

“Save us, O God of our salvation,
    and gather and rescue us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.(R)
36 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
    from everlasting to everlasting.”

Then all the people said “Amen!” and praised the Lord.(S)

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Footnotes

  1. 16.19 Heb in it