Book of Common Prayer

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² May Adonai answer you in the day of trouble!
May the Name of the God of Jacob set you up securely on high.
³ May He send you help from the Sanctuary
and support you from Zion.
⁴ May He remember all your meal offerings
and accept the fat of your burnt offering. Selah
⁵ May He grant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans.
⁶ We will shout for joy in your victory
    and lift up our banners in the Name of our God!
May Adonai fulfill all your petitions.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² Adonai, the king rejoices in Your strength!
How greatly he delights in Your salvation.
³ You granted him his heart’s desire,
and You did not withhold the request of his lips. Selah
⁴ For You met him with the best blessings.
You set on his head a crown of pure gold.
⁵ He asked You for life, You gave it to him,
length of days forever and ever.
⁶ His glory is great through Your salvation.
Honor and majesty You bestow on him.
⁷ For You bestow on him eternal blessings,
gladden him with joy in Your presence.
⁸ For the king trusts in Adonai,
and in the lovingkindness of Elyon
he will not be shaken.
⁹ Your hand will find all your enemies.
Your right hand will overtake those who hate You.
¹⁰ You will make them like a fiery furnace
    at the time of your appearing.
In His wrath Adonai will swallow them up
    and fire will consume them.
¹¹ You destroy their offspring from earth,
their seed from the children of men.
¹² Though they intended evil against You
and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
¹³ For You make them turn their backs.
You aim Your bowstrings at their faces.
¹⁴ Be exalted, Adonai, in Your strength!
We will sing and praise Your might.

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai declares to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”^[a]
2 Adonai will extend your mighty rod from Zion:
“Rule in the midst of your enemies.”^[b]
3 Your people will be a freewill offering in a day of your power.
In holy splendors, from dawn’s womb,
    yours is the dew of your youth.
⁴ Adonai has sworn, and will not His mind:
“You are a Kohen forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”^[c]
5 My Lord is at your right hand.
He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.
⁶ He will judge among the nations, heaping up corpses.
He will crush heads over the entire land.
⁷ He will drink from a stream along the way
—so His head will be exalted.

¹ I love Adonai,
for He hears my voice, my cries.
² Because He has turned His ear to me,
I will call on Him all my days.
³ The ropes of death entangled me,
and the torments of Sheol found me.
I found trouble and sorrow.
⁴ Then I called upon the Name of Adonai:
“Adonai, save my soul!”
⁵ Adonai is gracious and righteous—
yes, our God is compassionate.
⁶ Adonai protects the simple-hearted.
When I was brought low, He saved me.
⁷ Return to your rest, my soul,
for Adonai has been good to you.
⁸ For You delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.
⁹ I will walk before Adonai
in the lands of the living.
¹⁰ I trusted even when I said,
    “I am very afflicted”—
¹¹ even when I said in my haste,
    “All men are liars.”
¹² How can I repay Adonai
for all His bounties to me?
¹³ I will lift up the cup of salvation,
and call on the Name of Adonai.
¹⁴ I will fulfill my vows to Adonai
in the presence of all His people.
¹⁵ Precious in the sight of Adonai
is the death of His kedoshim.
¹⁶ O Adonai! Surely I am Your servant.
I am Your servant,
the son of Your maidservant.
You have freed me from my bonds.
¹⁷ To You I will offer a sacrifice of praise,
and will call on the Name of Adonai.
¹⁸ I will fulfill my vows to Adonai
in the presence of all His people,
¹⁹ in the courts of the House of Adonai,
in your midst, O Jerusalem. Halleluyah!

¹ Praise Adonai, all you nations!
Glorify Him, all you peoples.
² For great is His lovingkindness toward us,
and Adonai’s truth endures forever.
Halleluyah!

²² “Adonai brought me forth,
the first of His way,
before His works of old.
²³ From eternity I was appointed
from the beginning, before the world began.
²⁴ When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains were shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth.
²⁶ He had not yet made the land,
the fields, or the first dust of the earth.
²⁷ When He set the heavens in place, I was there.
When He inscribed the horizon on the face of the ocean,
²⁸ when He established the skies above,
when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when He set the boundaries for the sea,
so that the waters never transgress His command,
when He laid out earth’s foundations—
³⁰ then I was the craftsman beside Him,
I was His daily delight, always rejoicing before Him,
³¹ rejoicing in His whole world,
    and delighting in mankind.