Psalm 54

Prayer for Deliverance

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went and said to Saul, “Is David not hiding among us?” ^(A)

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ The seventy-two^[a](A) returned with joy, saying,^(B) “Lord, even the demons^(C) submit to us in your name.”^(D)

¹⁸ He said to them, “I watched Satan^(E) fall from heaven like lightning.^{(F) 19} Look, I have given you the authority^(G) to trample^(H) on snakes^(I) and scorpions^(J) and over all the power of the enemy; ^(K) nothing at all will harm you.^{(L) 20} However, don’t rejoice that^[b] the spirits ^(M) submit to you,^(N) but rejoice that your names are written^(O) in heaven.”

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(A) submit^[a](B) to your husbands^(C) as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife^(D) as Christ is the head^(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(F) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(G) just as Christ loved^(H) the church and gave himself^(I) for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷ He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{(J) 28} In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, ³⁰ since we are members of his body.^{[c] 31} For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^(K) and the two will become one flesh.^{[d](L) 32} This mystery^(M) is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.