⁷ Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
^9 (A)Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
^10 (B)When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.

^11 (C)Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
¹² Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For ^(D)false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
¹³ I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the Lord
^(E)In the land of the living.

^14 (F)Wait^[a] on the Lord;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the Lord!

² “Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob,
And listen to Israel your father.

⁸ “Judah,^(A) you are he whom your brothers shall praise;
^(B)Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
^(C)Your father’s children shall bow down before you.
⁹ Judah is ^(D)a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^(E)He ^[a]bows down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?
^10 (F)The ^[b]scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor ^(G)a lawgiver from between his feet,
^(H)Until Shiloh comes;
^(I)And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
¹¹ Binding his donkey to the vine,
And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
He washed his garments in wine,
And his clothes in the blood of grapes.
¹² His eyes are darker than wine,
And his teeth whiter than milk.

¹³ “Zebulun^(J) shall dwell by the haven of the sea;
He shall become a haven for ships,
And his border shall ^(K)adjoin Sidon.

²¹ “Naphtali^(A) is a deer let loose;
He uses beautiful words.

²² “Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a well;
His branches run over the wall.
²³ The archers have ^(B)bitterly grieved him,
Shot at him and hated him.
²⁴ But his ^(C)bow remained in strength,
And the arms of his hands were ^[a]made strong
By the hands of ^(D)the Mighty God of Jacob
^(E)(From there ^(F)is the Shepherd, ^(G)the Stone of Israel),
^25 (H)By the God of your father who will help you,
^(I)And by the Almighty ^(J)who will bless you
With blessings of heaven above,
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
²⁶ The blessings of your father
Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors,
^(K)Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
^(L)They shall be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

⁶⁸ “Blessed^(B) is the Lord God of Israel,
For ^(C)He has visited and redeemed His people,
^69 (D)And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
^70 (E)As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been ^(F)since the world began,
⁷¹ That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,
^72 (G)To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
^73 (H)The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
⁷⁴ To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might ^(I)serve Him without fear,
^75 (J)In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called the ^(K)prophet of the Highest;
For ^(L)you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
⁷⁷ To give ^(M)knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸ Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the ^[a]Dayspring from on high ^[b]has visited us;
^79 (N)To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To ^(O)guide our feet into the way of peace.”