Old/New Testament
54 Save me, O God, by Your Name; and by Your power, judge me.
2 O God, hear my prayer; hear the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me, and tyrants seek my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
4 Behold, God is my helper. The LORD is with those who uphold my soul.
5 He shall reward evil to my enemies. Oh, cut them off in Your truth!
6 I will sacrifice freely to You. I will praise Your Name, O LORD, because it is good.
7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David, to give instruction
55 Hear my prayer, O God, and do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
2 Hear me and answer me. I mourn in my prayer and make a noise
3 for the voice of the enemy, for the troubling of the wicked; because they have brought iniquity upon me and furiously hate me.
4 My heart trembles within me; and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me; and a horrible fear has covered me.
6 And I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away and rest!
7 “Behold, I would wander far off and lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
8 “He would hurry for my deliverance from the stormy wind and tempest.”
9 Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues; for I have seen cruelty and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof. Both iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof. Deceit and guile do not depart from her streets.
12 Surely my enemy did not defame me (for I could have borne it); nor did my adversary exalt himself against me (for I would have hidden myself from him).
13 But it was you, O man, even my companion, my guide, and my intimate.
14 We delighted in consulting together; and went into the House of God as companions.
15 Let death seize them. Let them go down quick into the grave; for wickedness is in their dwellings, even in the midst of them.
16 I will call to God and the LORD will save me.
17 Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and make a noise; and He will hear my voice.
18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle against me, for many were with me.
19 God shall hear and afflict them, even He Who reigns of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they do not fear God.
20 He laid his hand upon such who are at peace with Him. He broke His Covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were softer than butter; yet war was in his heart. His words were more gentle than oil; yet they were swords.
22 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He shall nourish you. He will not allow the righteous to fall forever.
23 And You, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of corruption. The bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But I will trust in You. To him who excels: A Psalm of David on Michtam, concerning the dumb dove in a far country, when the Philistines took him in Gath
56 Be merciful to me, O God; for man desires to swallow me up. He fights continually and troubles me.
2 My enemies would swallow me up daily; for many fight against me, O You Most High.
3 When I was afraid, I trusted in You.
4 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I trust in God and will not fear what flesh can do to me.
5 My own words grieve me daily. All their thoughts are against me, to do me hurt.
6 They gather together and keep themselves close. They mark my steps because they wait for my soul.
7 They think they shall escape by iniquity. O God, cast these people down in Your anger.
8 You have counted my wanderings. Put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your register?
9 When I cry, then my enemies shall turn back. This I know; for God is with me.
10 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I will rejoice in the LORD because of His Word.
11 In God do I trust. I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
12 Your vows are upon me, O God. I will render praises to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death—and also my feet from falling—so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm of David, on Michtam, when he fled from Saul in the cave
3 What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Much in every way! Firstly, because indeed the oracles of God were entrusted to them.
3 For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 Absolutely not! Indeed, let God be true, and every man a liar! As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and overcome when you are judged.”
5 Now, if our unrighteousness exhibits the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous in punishing? (I speak as a man.)
6 Absolutely not! Or else, how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God has abounded more through my lie, unto His Glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
8 Rather, why not say (as we are slanderously accused of saying, and as some affirm that we say) “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Their damnation is just.
9 What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no way! For we have already proved that all, both Jews and Gentiles, are under sin.
10 As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
11 “There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.
12 “They have all turned away. They have all been made useless. There is no one that does good; no, not one.
13 “Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips;
14 “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 “Destruction and misery are in their path;
17 “and the way of peace they have not known.
18 “The fear of God is not before their eyes.”
19 Now, we know that whatever the Law says, it says it to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be subject to the judgment of God.
20 Therefore, no flesh shall be justified in His sight by the works of the Law. For by the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 But now, the righteousness of God has been made manifest without the Law, having been witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;
22 that is, the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference.
23 For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God;
24 and are justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation, (through faith in His blood) to declare His righteousness, by the forgiveness of previous sins through God’s forbearance;
26 to show His righteousness at this present time, that He might be just, and a justifier of the one who believes in Jesus.
27 Where, then, is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the Law of faith.
28 Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, apart from the works of the Law.
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.
30 For indeed it is one God Who shall justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make the Law of no effect through faith? Absolutely not! Rather, we establish the Law.
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