20 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob defend thee!

² May He send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

³ May He remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah

⁴ May He grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel.

⁵ We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners; the Lord fulfill all thy petitions!

⁶ Now I know that the Lord saveth His anointed; He will hear him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.

⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

⁸ They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ Save us, Lord! Let the King hear us when we call.

21 The king shall rejoice in Thy strength, O Lord; and in Thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

² Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

³ For Thou goest before him with the blessings of goodness; Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴ He asked life of Thee and Thou gavest it to him, even length of days for ever and ever.

⁵ His glory is great in Thy salvation; honor and majesty hast Thou laid upon him.

⁶ For Thou hast made him most blessed for ever; Thou hast made him exceeding glad with Thy countenance.

⁷ For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.

⁸ Thine hand shall find out all Thine enemies; Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee.

⁹ Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thine anger; the Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

¹⁰ Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹ For they intended evil against Thee; they contrived a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

¹² Therefore shalt Thou make them turn their back when Thou shalt ready Thine arrows upon Thy strings against the face of them.

¹³ Be Thou exalted, Lord, in Thine own strength; so will we sing and praise Thy power!

22 My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Why art Thou so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?

² O My God, I cry in the daytime, but Thou hearest not; and in the night season I am not silent.

³ But Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in Thee; they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them.

⁵ They cried unto Thee and were delivered; they trusted in Thee and were not confounded.

⁶ But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people.

⁷ All they that see Me laugh Me to scorn; they shoot out their lip, they shake their head, saying,

⁸ “He trusted in the Lord that He would deliver him; let Him deliver him, seeing He delighted in him!”

⁹ But Thou art He that took Me out of the womb; Thou didst make Me hope when I was upon My mother’s breasts.

¹⁰ I was cast upon Thee from the womb; Thou art My God from My mother’s belly.

¹¹ Be not far from Me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

¹² Many bulls have compassed Me about; strong bulls of Bashan have beset Me round.

¹³ They gaped at Me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My body.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue cleaveth to My jaws; and Thou hast brought Me into the dust of death.

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded Me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me; they pierced My hands and My feet.

¹⁷ I can count all My bones; they look and stare upon Me.

¹⁸ They part My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture.

¹⁹ But be Thou not far from Me, O Lord; O My Strength, hasten Thee to help Me!

²⁰ Deliver My soul from the sword, My only one from the power of the dog.

²¹ Save Me from the lion’s mouth; for Thou hast heard Me from the horns of the unicorns.

²² I will declare Thy name unto My brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee.

²³ Ye that fear the Lord, praise Him! All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴ For He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath He hid His face from Him, but when He cried unto Him, He heard.

²⁵ My praise shall be of Thee in the great congregation; I will pay My vows before them that fear Him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord that seek Him. Your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee.

²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord’S, and He is the governor among the nations.

²⁹ All they that are fat upon the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, for none can keep alive his own soul.

³⁰ A seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this.

21 And it came to pass that after we had parted from them and had launched, we came on a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara.

² And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia, we went aboard and set forth.

³ Now when we had sighted Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her burden.

⁴ And having found disciples, we tarried there seven days. They told Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

⁵ And when those days there had been accomplished, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, until we were out of the city. And we kneeled down on the shore and prayed.

⁶ And when we had taken our leave one of another, we boarded ship, and they returned home again.

⁷ And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais and saluted the brethren, and stayed with them one day.

⁸ The next day, we who were in Paul’s company departed and came unto Caesarea, and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and lodged with him.

⁹ And this man had four daughters, virgins, who prophesied.

¹⁰ And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus.

¹¹ And when he had come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle and bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus saith the Holy Ghost, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

¹² And when we heard these things, both we and those at that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

¹³ Then Paul answered, “What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? For I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

¹⁴ And when he would not be dissuaded, we ceased, saying, “The will of the Lord be done.”

¹⁵ And after those days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, who brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.

¹⁷ And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

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