Book of Common Prayer

34 (Of Dovid, when he feigned insanity before Avimelech, who drove him away, and he went out) ^1 (2) I will make a bracha of praise unto Hashem at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

^2 (3) My nefesh shall make its boast in Hashem; the anavim (humble) shall hear thereof, and be glad.

^3 (4) O magnify Hashem with me, and let us exalt Shmo together.

^4 (5) I sought Hashem, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

^5 (6) They looked unto Him, and were radiant; and their panim were not ashamed.

^6 (7) The oni (poor man) cried, and Hashem heard him, and saved him out of all his tzoros.

^7 (8) The Malach Hashem encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.

^8 (9) O taste and see that Hashem is tov; ashrei is the man that taketh refuge in Him.

^9 (10) O fear Hashem, ye His Kedoshim; for there is no lack to them that fear Him.

^10 (11) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek Hashem shall not lack any good thing.

^11 (12) Come, ye banim, pay heed unto me; I will teach you the fear of Hashem.

^12 (13) What ish is he that desireth chayyim, and loveth many days, that he may see tov?

^13 (14) Keep thy tongue from rah, and thy lips from speaking mirmah (guile, see Isaiah 53:9 where it says Moshiach will lack mirmah).

^14 (15) Depart from rah, and do tov; seek shalom, and pursue it.

^15 (16) The eyes of Hashem are upon the tzaddikim, and His ears open to their cry.

^16 (17) The face of Hashem is against them that do rah, to cut off the zekher (remembrance) of them from ha’aretz.

^17 (18) The tzaddikim cry, and Hashem heareth, and delivereth them out of all their tzoros.

^18 (19) Hashem is near unto them whose lev is broken; and saveth such whose ruach is contrite.

^19 (20) Many are the afflictions of the tzaddik; but Hashem delivereth him out of them all.

^20 (21) He keepeth shomer over all his bones; not one of them is broken [Yn 19:36].

^21 (22) Evil shall slay the resha’im; and they that hate the tzaddik shall be desolate.

^22 (23) Hashem redeemeth the nefesh of His avadim; and none of them that take refuge in Him shall be condemned [see Ro 5:1; 8:1 OJBC].

19 After these things I heard, as it were, a kol gadol (loud voice) of a great, multititude in Shomayim, saying, "Praise Hashem! The Yeshu’ah (Salvation) and the Kavod (Glory) and the Gevurah (Power) is of Eloheinu!

⁴ And the esrim v’arba’ah Zekenim (twenty-four Elders) fell down and the Arbah Chayyot (four living beings) and they worshiped Hashem who sits on the Kes (Throne), saying, “Omein, Praise Hashem!”

⁵ And a kol (voice) from the Kes (Throne) came forth, saying, “Say ‘Baruch Hashem Eloheinu,’ all you avadim (servants) of him and the ones with yirat Shomayim, ketanim (small ones) and the gedolim (great ones).” [TEHILLIM 134:1; 115:13]

⁶ And I heard, as it were, a sound of a great multitude and a sound like mayim rabbim (many waters) and a sound like mighty thunder saying, “ Baruch Hashem! Because Hashem Eloheinu reigns, El Shaddai.

⁷ “Let us have simcha and exult, and give kavod (glory) to him because has come the Yom HaChuppah, the Yom Nisu’im of the SEH (Lamb, SHEMOT 12:3; YESHAYAH 53:7 Moshiach), and His Kallah (Bride) has made herself ready.”

⁸ And it was given to her that she should be clothed with fine linen, bright and tahor (clean); for the fine linen are the Tzedakot of the Kadoshim. [YESHAYAH 61:10; YECHEZKEL 44:17; ZECHARYAH 3:4]

⁹ And he says to me, Write: "Ashrey are the ones having been summoned to the Seudas Moshiach, the Seudas Yom Nisu’im of the SEH” (Lamb, SHEMOT 12:3; YESHAYAH 53:7 Moshiach). And he says to me, “These are divrei Emes of Hashem.”

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, “You must abstain from such. For I am a fellow eved with both you and your chaverim who hold on to the edut (testimony) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach; worship Hashem! For the edut (testimony) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua is the Ruach HaNevu’ah (prophecy).”