Bible in 90 Days

² O my God, I trust in You;
    may I not be ashamed;
    may my enemies not triumph over me.
³ Yes, let none who wait on You
    be ashamed;
let them be ashamed
    who transgress without cause.

⁴ Make me to know Your ways, O Lord;
    teach me Your paths.
⁵ Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
    for You are the God of my salvation;
    on You I wait all the day.
⁶ Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and Your lovingkindness,
    for they are from old.
⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth
    or my transgressions;
according to Your lovingkindness remember me,
    on account of Your goodness, O Lord.

⁸ Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore He will teach sinners in the way.
⁹ The meek will He guide in judgment,
    and the meek He will teach His way.
¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth,
    for those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
¹¹ For Your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity,
    for it is great.

¹² Who is the man who fears the Lord?
    He will teach him in the way He should choose.
¹³ He will dwell at ease,
    and his descendants will inherit the land.
¹⁴ The counsel of the Lord is with those who fear him,
    and He will make His covenant known to them.
¹⁵ My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
    for He will lead my feet from the net.

¹⁶ Turn to me, and be gracious to me,
    for I am isolated and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
    bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸ Look on my pain and misery,
    and forgive all my sins.
¹⁹ Consider my enemies, for they are many,
    and they hate me with violent hatred.

²⁰ Watch over my life, and deliver me!
    Let me not suffer shame,
    for I seek refuge in You.
²¹ Truth and integrity will preserve me
    while I wait for You.

²² Redeem Israel, O God,
    out of all their troubles.

⁴ I have not sat with the worthless,
    nor will I go with hypocrites.
⁵ I have hated the congregation of evildoers,
    and will not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence;
    thus I will go around Your altar, O Lord,
⁷ that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
    and tell of all Your wondrous works.
⁸ Lord, I have loved the refuge of Your house,
    and the place where Your honor dwells.
⁹ Do not gather my soul with sinners,
    nor my life with murderers,
¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness,
    and their right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
    redeem me and be gracious to me.

¹² My foot stands in an even place;
    with the congregations I will bless the Lord.

² When the wicked came against me
    to eat my flesh—
my enemies and my foes—
    they stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army should encamp against me,
    my heart will not fear;
though war should rise against me,
    in this will I be confident.

⁴ One thing I have asked from the Lord,
    that will I seek after—
for me to dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to see the beauty of the Lord,
    and to inquire in His temple.
⁵ For in the time of trouble
    He will hide me in His pavilion;
in the shelter of His tabernacle He will hide me;
    He will set me up on a rock.

⁶ Now my head will be lifted up
    above my enemies encircling me;
therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
    I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

⁷ Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
    Be gracious to me and answer me.
⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,”
    my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
⁹ Do not hide Your face far from me;
    do not thrust Your servant away in anger;
    You have been my help.
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
    O God of my salvation.
¹⁰ If my father and my mother forsake me,
    then the Lord will take me in.
¹¹ Teach me Your way, O Lord,
    and lead me in an upright path,
    because of my enemies.
¹² Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies;
    for false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they breathe out violence.

¹³ I believe
    I will see the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living.
¹⁴ Wait on the Lord;
    be strong, and may your heart be stout;
    wait on the Lord.

³ Do not draw me away with the wicked
    and with the workers of iniquity,
who speak peace to their neighbors,
    but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴ Give them according to their deeds,
    and according to the wickedness of their endeavors;
give them according to the work of their hands;
    return to them what they deserve.

⁵ Because they do not regard the works of the Lord,
    nor the work of His hands,
He will destroy them
    and not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
    because He has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷ The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    my heart trusted in Him, and I was helped;
therefore my heart rejoices,
    and with my song I will thank Him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of His people,
    and He is the saving strength of His anointed.
⁹ Save Your people,
    and bless Your inheritance;
    feed them and lift them up forever.

³ The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders;
    the Lord is over many waters.
⁴ The voice of the Lord sounds with strength;
    the voice of the Lord—with majesty.
⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes them skip like a calf,
    Lebanon and Sirion like a wild ox.
⁷ The voice of the Lord flashes
    like flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of the Lord makes the deer to give birth,
    and strips the forests bare;
and in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The Lord sits enthroned above the flood,
    the Lord sits as King forever.
¹¹ The Lord will give strength to His people;
    the Lord will bless His people with peace.

⁴ Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His,
    and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.
⁵ For His anger endures but a moment,
    in His favor is life;
weeping may endure for a night,
    but joy comes in the morning.

⁶ In my prosperity I said,
    “I will never be moved.”
⁷ Lord, by Your favor
    You had set me strong as a mountain;
You hid Your face,
    and I was terrified.

⁸ I cried to You, O Lord,
    and to the Lord I made supplication:
⁹ “What profit is there in my death,
    if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust give You thanks?
    Will it declare Your truth?
¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me;
    Lord, be my helper.”

¹¹ For You have turned my mourning into dancing;
    You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
¹² so that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
    O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

⁶ I have hated those who regard worthless vanity,
    but I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
    for You have seen my trouble;
    You have known my soul in adversities,
⁸ and have not delivered me up into the hand of the enemy;
    You have set my feet in a broad place.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
    my eye wastes away with grief,
    yes, my soul and my body.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and my bones waste away.
¹¹ I became a reproach among all my enemies,
    but especially among my neighbors,
and a dread to my acquaintances;
    those who saw me outside fled from me.
¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind;
    I am like a broken vessel.
¹³ For I have heard the slander of many;
    fear was on every side;
while they took counsel together against me,
    they planned to take away my life.

¹⁴ But I trusted in You, O Lord;
    I said, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in Your hand;
    deliver me from the hand of my enemies
    and my pursuers.
¹⁶ Make Your face to shine on Your servant;
    save me by Your lovingkindness.
¹⁷ Do not let me be ashamed, O Lord,
    for I have called on You;
let the wicked be ashamed,
    and let them be silent in the grave.
¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence,
    who speak arrogantly
    in pride and contempt against the righteous.

¹⁹ Oh, how great is Your goodness,
    which You have laid up for those who fear You,
which You have done for those
    seeking refuge in You before people!
²⁰ You will hide them in the secret of Your presence
    from conspirators;
You will keep them secretly in a shelter
    from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
    for He has shown me His marvelous lovingkindness
    in a fortified city.
²² For I said in my haste,
    “I am cut off from before Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
    when I cried to You.

²³ Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints,
    for the Lord preserves the faithful,
    but amply repays the one who acts in pride.
²⁴ Be strong, and He will strengthen your heart,
    all you who wait for the Lord.

³ When I kept silent,
    my bones wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night
    Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was changed
    into the drought of summer. Selah

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You,
    and my iniquity I did not conceal.
I said, “I will confess
    my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You forgave
    the iniquity of my sin. Selah

⁶ For this cause everyone who is godly will pray to You
    in a time when You may be found;
surely in the floods of great waters
    they will not reach him.
⁷ You are my hiding place;
    You will preserve me from trouble;
    You will surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my eye on you.
⁹ Do not be as the horse or as the mule
    that are without understanding,
that must be restrained with bit and bridle,
    or they will not come near you.
¹⁰ Many sorrows come to the wicked,
    but lovingkindness will surround
    the man who trusts in the Lord.

¹¹ Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous one;
    and shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

⁴ For the word of the Lord is upright,
    and all His work is done in truth.
⁵ He loves righteousness and justice;
    the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
    and all their host by the breath of His mouth.
⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
    He puts the depths in storehouses.
⁸ Let all the earth fear the Lord;
    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
⁹ For He spoke, and it was done;
    He commanded, and it stood fast.

¹⁰ The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
    He restrains the purposes of the people.
¹¹ The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
    the purposes of His heart to all generations.

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom He has chosen as His inheritance.
¹³ The Lord looks from heaven;
    He sees all the sons of men.
¹⁴ From the place of His habitation He gazes
    on all the inhabitants of the earth;
¹⁵ He fashions their hearts alike;
    He considers all their works.

¹⁶ No king is saved by a great army;
    a mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
¹⁷ A horse is a vain hope for safety;
    it will not deliver by its great strength.
¹⁸ The eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
    on those who hope in His lovingkindness,
¹⁹ to deliver their soul from death,
    and to keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ Our soul waits for the Lord;
    He is our help and our shield.
²¹ For our heart will rejoice in Him,
    because we have trusted in His holy name.
²² Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be on us,
    just as we hope in You.

⁴ I sought the Lord, and He answered me,
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ They looked to Him and became radiant,
    and their faces are not ashamed.
⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard,
    and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear Him,
    and delivers them.

⁸ Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
    blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
⁹ Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints;
    for the ones who fear Him will not be in need.
¹⁰ The young lions are in want and suffer hunger,
    but the ones who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.
¹¹ Come, you children, listen to me;
    I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
¹² Who is the man who desires life,
    and loves a long life in order to see good?
¹³ Keep your tongue from evil,
    and your lips from speaking deceit.
¹⁴ Turn away from evil, and do good;
    seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
    and His ears are open to their cry.
¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against the ones doing evil,
    to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is near to the broken-hearted,
    and saves the contrite of spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
²⁰ A righteous one keeps all his bones;
    not one of them is broken.

²¹ Evil will slay the wicked,
    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²² The Lord redeems the life of His servants,
    and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished.

⁴ May those who seek my life
    be ashamed and humiliated;
may those who plan my injury
    be turned back and put to shame.
⁵ May they be as chaff before the wind,
    and may the angel of the Lord cast them down.
⁶ May their way be dark and slippery,
    and may the angel of the Lord pursue them.

⁷ For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit,
    which they have dug without cause for my soul.
⁸ Let destruction come on him without warning,
    and let the net that he hid ensnare him;
    let him fall into it, to his destruction.
⁹ My soul will be joyful in the Lord;
    it will rejoice in His salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones will say,
    “Lord, who is like You,
who delivers the poor from a stronger one,
    the poor and the needy from the one who robs them?”

¹¹ Witnesses intent on violence rose up;
    they accused me of things I knew nothing about.
¹² They rewarded me evil for good,
    the bereavement of my soul.
¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
    I humbled my soul with fasting;
and my prayer returns to my own heart.
¹⁴ I paced as though he were my friend or brother;
    I bowed down lamenting,
    as one who mourns for a mother.
¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered together;
    assailants gathered together against me, though I was unaware;
    they tore me apart and did not stop;
¹⁶ with hypocritical mockers in feasts,
    they gnashed on me with their teeth.

¹⁷ Lord, how long will You look on?
    Rescue my soul from their destructions,
    my life from the lions.
¹⁸ I will give You thanks in the great congregation;
    I will praise You among a mighty people.
¹⁹ May my deceitful enemies
    not rejoice over me;
nor may those who hate me without cause
    wink with their eye.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
    but they devise deceitful matters
    against the restful ones in the land.
²¹ They opened their mouth wide against me,
    and said, “Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.”

²² This You have seen, O Lord; do not be silent;
    O Lord, be not far from me.
²³ Rouse Yourself and awake for my judgment,
    for my cause, my God and my Lord.
²⁴ Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness,
    and may they not rejoice over me.
²⁵ May they not say in their hearts, “Ah, we have our soul’s desire.”
    May they not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶ May those who rejoice at my harm be ashamed
    and altogether put to shame;
may they be clothed with shame and dishonor
    who magnify themselves against me.
²⁷ May those who favor my righteous cause
    shout for joy and be glad;
may they say continually, “The Lord be magnified,
    who delights in the peace of His servant.”

²⁸ My tongue will speak of Your righteousness
    and of Your praise all the day long.

² For they flatter themselves in their own eyes,
    that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
³ The words of their mouth are wickedness and deceit;
    they have ceased to be wise and to do good.
⁴ They devise mischief on their bed;
    they set themselves on a path that is not good;
    they do not reject evil.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,
    and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
⁶ Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
    Your judgments like the great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
⁷     How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore mankind
    seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
⁸ They will drink their fill from the abundance of Your house,
    and You will cause them to drink from the river of Your pleasures.
⁹ For with You is the fountain of life;
    in Your light we see light.

¹⁰ Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
    and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
¹¹ Do not let the foot of the arrogant come against me,
    and do not let the hand of the wicked cause me to wander.
¹² There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
    they are cast down and not able to rise.

³ Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    dwell in the land, and practice faithfulness.
⁴ Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and He will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵ Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.
⁶ He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your judgment as the noonday.

⁷ Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him;
    do not fret because of those who prosper in their way,
    because of those who make wicked schemes.

⁸ Let go of anger, and forsake wrath;
    do not fret—it surely leads to evil deeds.
⁹ For evildoers will be cut off,
    but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the earth.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked will not be;
    you will look diligently for their place, and it will not be.
¹¹ But the meek will inherit the earth,
    and will delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

¹² The wicked plot against the righteous,
    and grind their teeth against them.
¹³ The Lord will laugh at him,
    for He sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword
    and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy,
    and to slay those on the upright path.
¹⁵ Their sword will enter into their own heart,
    and their bows will be broken.

¹⁶ Better is a little that the righteous has
    than the abundance of many wicked.
¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
    but the Lord supports the righteous.

¹⁸ The Lord knows the days of people of integrity,
    and their inheritance will be forever.
¹⁹ They will not be ashamed in the evil time,
    and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

²⁰ But the wicked will perish,
    and the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of pastures;
    they will waste away, in smoke they will waste away.

²¹ The wicked borrows and does not repay,
    but the righteous is gracious and gives.
²² For those who are blessed of Him will inherit the earth,
    but those who are cursed of Him will be cut off.

²³ The steps of a man are made firm by the Lord;
    He delights in his way.
²⁴ Though he falls, he will not be hurled down,
    for the Lord supports him with His hand.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old;
    yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
    nor their offspring begging bread.
²⁶ The righteous are gracious and lend,
    and their offspring are a source of blessing.

²⁷ Depart from evil and do good,
    and abide forevermore.
²⁸ For the Lord loves justice,
    and does not forsake His saints;
they are preserved forever,
    but the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
²⁹ The righteous will inherit the land,
    and dwell on it forever.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
    and their tongue speaks justice.
³¹ The law of their God is in their heart;
    none of their steps will slip.

³² The wicked watch the righteous,
    and seek to kill them.
³³ The Lord will not forsake them to their hand,
    nor condemn them when they are judged.

³⁴ Hope in the Lord,
    and keep His way,
and He will exalt you to inherit the land;
    when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power,
    and spreading himself like a luxuriant tree.
³⁶ Yet he passed away, and he was not;
    I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁷ Mark the blameless man, and consider the upright,
    for the end of that man is peace.
³⁸ But the transgressors will be destroyed together;
    the end of the wicked is to be cut off.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
    He is their refuge in the time of distress.
⁴⁰ The Lord will help them and deliver them;
    He will deliver them from the wicked,
    and save them, because they take refuge in Him.

⁵ My wounds grow foul and fester
    because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am bent, I am bowed down greatly;
    I go mourning all the day long.
⁷ For my sides are filled with burning,
    and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸ I am numb and completely crushed;
    I have roared because of the groaning of my heart.

⁹ Lord, all my desire is before You,
    and my sighing is not hidden from You.
¹⁰ My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
    as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
¹¹ My friends and my companions stand back because of my affliction,
    and those close to me stand at a distance.
¹² The people who seek my life strike at me;
    those who seek my harm speak destruction,
    and plan treacheries all the day long.

¹³ But I, like a deaf man, did not hear;
    and like a dumb man, did not open my mouth.
¹⁴ Thus I was as a man who does not hear,
    and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
¹⁵ For in You, O Lord, do I hope;
    You will answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶ For I said, “Lest otherwise they should rejoice over me.
    When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.”

¹⁷ For I am ready to stumble,
    and my pain is continually before me.
¹⁸ For I will declare my iniquity;
    I am anxious because of my sin.
¹⁹ But my enemies are lively, and they are strong;
    and those who wrongfully hate me are many.
²⁰ Those also who repay evil for good are my adversaries,
    because I pursue good.

²¹ Do not abandon me, O Lord;
    O my God, do not be far from me.
²² Make haste to help me,
    O Lord, my salvation.

⁴ “Lord, make me to know my end,
    and what is the measure of my days,
    that I may know how transient I am.
⁵ Indeed, You have made my days as a handbreadth,
    and my age is as nothing before You;
    indeed every man at his best is as a breath.” Selah
⁶ Surely every man walks in a mere shadow;
    surely he goes as a breath;
    he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

⁷ Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
    My hope is in You.
⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions;
    do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
⁹ I was speechless, I did not open my mouth,
    because You did it.
¹⁰ Remove Your blow from me;
    I am consumed by the hostility of Your hand.
¹¹ When with rebukes You correct a man for iniquity,
    You consume like a moth what is dear to him;
    surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹² Hear my prayer, O Lord,
    and give ear to my cry;
    do not be silent at my tears,
for I am a stranger with You,
    and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
¹³ Turn Your gaze of displeasure from me, that I may smile,
    before I go away and am no more.

⁴ Blessed is the man
    who places trust in the Lord,
but does not turn toward the proud,
    nor those falling away to falsehood.
⁵ O Lord my God,
    You have done many wonderful works,
and Your thoughts toward us
    cannot be compared;
if I would declare and speak of them,
    they are more than can be numbered.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
    You have opened up my ears to listen.
Burnt offering and sin offering
    You have not required.
⁷ Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
    in the scroll of the book it is written of me,
⁸ I delight to do Your will, O my God;
    Your law is within my inward parts.”

⁹ I have proclaimed righteousness in the great congregation;
    I have not held back my lips,
    O Lord, You know.
¹⁰ I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
    I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
    from the great congregation.

¹¹ Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O Lord;
    may Your lovingkindness and Your truth always guard me.
¹² For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
    my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of my head
    so that my heart fails me.
¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
    O Lord, make haste to help me.

¹⁴ May those seeking to snatch away my life
    be ashamed and confounded together;
may those who desire my harm
    be driven backward and dishonored.
¹⁵ May those who say to me “Aha, aha!”
    be appalled on account of their shame.
¹⁶ May all those who seek You
    rejoice and be glad in You;
may those who love Your salvation say continually,
    “The Lord is magnified.”

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy;
    yet the Lord thinks about me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
    do not delay, O my God.

⁴ I said, “Lord, be gracious to me;
    heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
⁵ My enemies speak evil of me:
    “When will he die, and his name perish?”
⁶ And if people come to see me, they speak insincerely;
    their heart gathers iniquity to itself,
    when they go outside, they tell it.

⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me;
    they devise harm against me.
⁸ “An evil disease clings to him.
    And now that he lies down, he will not rise up again.”
⁹ Yes, my own close friend,
    in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread,
    has lifted up the heel against me.

¹⁰ But You, O Lord, be gracious to me,
    and raise me up, that I may repay them.
¹¹ By this I know that You favor me,
    because my enemy does not triumph over me.
¹² As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
    and set me before You forever.

¹³ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
    from everlasting and to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul?
    And why are you disquieted in me?
Hope in God,
    for I will yet thank Him
    for the help of His presence.

⁶ O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I will remember You
from the land of Jordan,
    and of the Hermon, from the hill of Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
    at the noise of Your waterfalls;
all Your waves and Your billows
    passed over me.

⁸ Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
    and in the night His song will be with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God, my rock,
    “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ With shattering in my bones,
    those harassing me reproach me,
when they say to me every day,
    “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why, my soul, are you cast down?
    Why do you groan within me?
Wait for God;
    I will yet thank Him,
    For He is my deliverance and my God.

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul?
    And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
    for I will yet give Him thanks,
    the salvation of my countenance and my God.

⁴ You are my King, O God;
    command deliverances for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will push down our opponents;
    through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will not trust in my bow,
    nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You have saved us from our opponents,
    and have put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we boast all the day long,
    and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah

⁹ But You have rejected us and put us to shame,
    and do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You make us to turn back from the opponent,
    and those who hate us make us their spoil.
¹¹ You have placed us like sheep for prey,
    and have scattered us among the nations.
¹² You sell Your people for nothing,
    and do not increase Your wealth by their sale.

¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
    a scorn and a derision to those who surround us.
¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations,
    a shaking of the head among the people.
¹⁵ All day long my reproach is before me,
    and the shame of my face covers me,
¹⁶ from the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
    by reason of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷ All this is come on us,
    yet we have not forgotten You,
    nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back,
    nor have our steps deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ though You have crushed us in the place of jackals,
    and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God,
    or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
²¹ would not God search this out?
    For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² Yes, for Your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are considered like sheep for the slaughter.

²³ Awake; why do You sleep, O Lord?
    Arise; do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You hide Your face,
    and forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
    our body cleaves to the earth.
²⁶ Arise, be our help,
    and redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.

² You are fairer than all the sons of men;
    favor is poured on your lips;
    therefore God has blessed you forever.
³ Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
    with your splendor and your majesty.
⁴ In your majesty ride prosperously
    because of truth and meekness and righteousness;
    and your right hand will teach you awesome things.
⁵ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies;
    peoples will fall under you.
⁶ Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
    the scepter of Your kingdom is an upright scepter.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
    therefore God, your God, anointed you
    with the oil of gladness above your companions.
⁸ All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
    from the ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad.
⁹ Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women;
    at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, consider and incline your ear;
    forget your own people, and your father’s house,
¹¹ and the king will desire your beauty.
    Since he is your lord, bow to him.
¹² The daughter of Tyre will be there with a gift;
    even the rich among the people will entreat your favor.
¹³ The royal daughter is all glorious within her chamber;
    her clothing is plaited gold.
¹⁴ She shall be brought to the king in embroidered garments;
    the virgins, her companions who follow her,
    shall be brought to you.