Psalms 18 Cross References - LEB

¹ For the music director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song _⌊when_⌋* Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.*
And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength." ² Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold. ³ I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies. ⁴ The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me. ⁵ The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. ⁶ In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry. ⁸ Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him. ⁹ So he bowed the heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet. ¹⁰ And he mounted a cherub and flew, and he swooped down on wings of wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering was a darkness of waters, _⌊thick clouds_⌋.* ¹² From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire. ¹³ And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice with hail and coals of fire. ¹⁴ And he shot his arrows and scattered them,* and many lightning bolts and routed them. ¹⁵ Then the channels of the sea became visible, and the foundations of the world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the _⌊blast_⌋* of the wind of your nose. ¹⁶ He reached* from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters. ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me because they were stronger than I. ¹⁸ They confronted me on the day of disaster, but Yahweh was my support. ¹⁹ So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. ²⁰ Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me. ²¹ Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God, ²² because all his ordinances are before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me, ²³ and I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. ²⁴ Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. ²⁵ To the loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless. ²⁶ To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd. ²⁷ For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate. ²⁸ For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness. ²⁹ For with you I can charge a troop, and with my God I can scale a wall. ³⁰ This* God—his way is blameless. The word of Yahweh is flawless.* He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. ³¹ For who is God apart from Yahweh, and who is a rock except our God? ³² The God who girded me with strength, and made safe* my way, ³³ he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand. ³⁴ He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. ³⁵ You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great. ³⁶ You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip. ³⁷ I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished off. ³⁸ I struck them and they were not able to stand up; they fell under my feet. ³⁹ And you girded me with strength for the battle; those rising against me you made to kneel under me. ⁴⁰ And you _⌊made my enemies turn their backs_⌋,* then I destroyed those who hated me. ⁴¹ They cried out but there was no rescuer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. ⁴² And I ground them like dust _⌊in the wind_⌋,* I emptied them* out like mud of the streets. ⁴³ You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me; ⁴⁴ as soon as _⌊they heard_⌋,* they obeyed me. The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me. ⁴⁵ The children of a foreign land _⌊lost heart_⌋,* and they came trembling from their strongholds. ⁴⁶ Yahweh lives, and blessed be my rock, and may the God of my salvation be exalted— ⁴⁷ the God who executed vengeance for me, and subdued peoples under me, ⁴⁸ who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than those who rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence. ⁴⁹ Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh, and I will sing the praise of your name: ⁵⁰ the one who makes great victories for his king, and who shows loyal love for his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.

¹ Then Moses and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* sang this song to Yahweh, _⌊and they said_⌋,*
"Let me sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea. ² Yah* is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation;* this is my God, and I will praise him—the God of my father—and I will exalt him. ³ Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name. ⁴ The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea, and his choice adjutants were sunk in the _⌊Red Sea_⌋.* ⁵ The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. ⁶ Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy. ⁷ And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble. ⁸ And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up; waves stood like a heap; deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed. ⁹ The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full of them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.' ¹⁰ You blew with your breath; the sea covered them; they dropped like lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹ Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you—glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders?* ¹² You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. ¹³ In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness.* ¹⁴ Peoples heard; they trembled; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Edom were horrified; great distress seized the leaders of Moab; all of the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. ¹⁶ Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until the people whom you bought passed by. ¹⁷ You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, that your hands established. ¹⁸ Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever." ¹⁹ When the horses* of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariots* and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea. ²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her* tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ²¹ And Miriam answered,* "Sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea."

¹ And Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day: ² "When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh! ³ Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel. ⁴ Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water. ⁵ The mountains trembled* before Yahweh, this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. ⁶ "In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the caravans had ceased, _⌊the travelers_⌋,* _⌊they kept to the byways_⌋.* ⁷ The warriors* ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I,* Deborah, arose; I* arose as a mother in Israel. ⁸ God chose new leaders,* then war was at the gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel. ⁹ My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh! ¹⁰ The riders of white female donkeys, those sitting on saddle blankets, and those going on the way, talk about it! ¹¹ At the sound of those dividing* the sheep among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors* in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. ¹² "Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam. ¹³ Then the remnant went down to the nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him* against the mighty. ¹⁴ From Ephraim is their root into Amalek, after you, Benjamin, with your family; from Makir the commanders went down, and from Zebulun those carrying the scepter of the military commander. ¹⁵ And the chiefs* in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar likewise was with Barak; into the valley _⌊he was sent to get him from behind_⌋.* Among the clans of Reuben were great _⌊decisions of the heart_⌋.* ¹⁶ Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, there were great searchings of the heart. ¹⁷ Gilead has remained* beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner with ships? Asher sat at the coast of the waters, and by his coves he has been settling down. ¹⁸ Zebulun is a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field. ¹⁹ "The kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver. ²⁰ The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera. ²¹ The wadi* torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, with strength! ²² "Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions. ²³ 'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.' ²⁴ "Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers. ²⁵ He asked for water, and she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds. ²⁶ She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman's hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple. ²⁷ Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he sank down, he fell; Where he sank down, there he fell—_⌊dead_⌋.* ²⁸ "Through the window she looked down; the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why do the hoof beats* of his chariot tarry?' ²⁹ The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself: ³⁰ 'Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? _⌊A bedmate or two bedmates for every man_⌋;* colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments,* beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?' ³¹ So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest."
And the land had rest for forty years.

¹ Then Hannah prayed and said,
"My heart exults in Yahweh, my strength is exalted in Yahweh; _⌊I grin_⌋* over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation. ² There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God. ³ Do not increase speaking _⌊very proud_⌋* words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge whose deeds are not weighed.* ⁴ The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength. ⁵ Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but she who has many sons withers away. ⁶ Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down to Sheol* and raises up. ⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts. ⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust. From the ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them. ⁹ He will guard the feet of his faithful* ones, but the wicked will be destroyed* in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by his might. ¹⁰ Yahweh will shatter* his adversaries;* he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

¹ Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song,* on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. ² And he said: "Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. ³ I take refuge in God, my rock,* my shield, and the _⌊strength_⌋* of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence! ⁴ I call upon Yahweh who is praiseworthy, and I am saved from those who hate me. ⁵ For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. ⁶ The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. ⁷ In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help was to his ears. ⁸ The earth heaved and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because _⌊he was angry_⌋.* ⁹ Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him. ¹⁰ He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud was under his feet. ¹¹ He rode upon a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. ¹² He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of _⌊thick rain clouds_⌋.* ¹³ From the brightness before him flamed burning coals of fire. ¹⁴ Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High _⌊uttered his voice_⌋.* ¹⁵ He sent arrows and he scattered them, lightning, and he directed them. ¹⁶ Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils. ¹⁷ He sent from a high position and took me; he drew me from mighty waters. ¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they were mightier than I. ¹⁹ They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh was my support. ²⁰ He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. ²¹ Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. ²² For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. ²³ For all of his ordinances were before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. ²⁴ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁵ Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. ²⁶ With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. ²⁷ With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool. ²⁸ Humble people you will deliver, but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring down. ²⁹ For you, O Yahweh are my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness. ³⁰ For by you I can run a raid; by my God I can leap over a wall. ³¹ This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him. ³² For who is God apart from Yahweh? And who is a rock apart from our God? ³³ God is my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way.* ³⁴ He makes my feet* like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me. ³⁵ He trains my hands for the war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. ³⁶ You have given me the shield of your salvation; your willingness to help has made me great. ³⁷ You have broadened my steps beneath me; my ankles have not wobbled. ³⁸ I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them. I did not turn back until finishing them. ³⁹ I wiped them out and I smashed them; they did not get up; they fell under my feet. ⁴⁰ You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me. ⁴¹ _⌊My enemies you cause to retreat from me_⌋;* I destroy those who hate me. ⁴² They looked out, but there was no deliverer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. ⁴³ I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down. ⁴⁴ You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me. ⁴⁵ Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; _⌊when they heard of me_⌋,* they became obedient to me. ⁴⁶ Children of a foreign land lost heart and came trembling from their strongholds. ⁴⁷ Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted! ⁴⁸ God does vengeance for me, bringing down peoples under me. ⁴⁹ He brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rose up against me you lift me up, and from men of violence you rescue me. ⁵⁰ Therefore I will extol you, Yahweh, among the nations! I will sing praises to your name! ⁵¹ He makes great salvation for his king and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David and to his descendants forever."

³² The God who girded me with strength, and made safe* my way,

⁷ Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him. ⁸ Yahweh is their strength, and he is the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.

¹⁹ Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

¹ For the music director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh.*
An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his* heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

¹ I love him, because Yahweh has heard _⌊the voice of my supplications_⌋.* ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call _⌊all my days_⌋.* ³ The ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief. ⁴ Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "O Yahweh, please save my life!" ⁵ Gracious is Yahweh and righteous, and our God is merciful. ⁶ Yahweh watches over the simple. I was brought low, but he gave me victory.

¹⁶ Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

¹⁴ Yah* is my strength and my song,* and he has become my salvation.*

¹ Of David.*
Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war— ² my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples* under me.

¹ And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. ² Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me." ³ And you will draw water from the wells of salvation in joy. ⁴ And you will say on that day,
"Give thanks to Yahweh; call on his name. Make his deeds known among the peoples; bring to remembrance that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing praises to Yahweh, for he has done a glorious thing; this is known in all the earth. ⁶ Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst."

³⁶ For David, after* serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and _⌊was buried with_⌋* his fathers, and experienced decay.

¹³ I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

¹¹ enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,

⁵ And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken,

¹⁹ We love, because he first loved us.

³ I take refuge in God, my rock,* my shield, and the _⌊strength_⌋* of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence!

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.

¹ A psalm of David.*
To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to the pit.

¹¹ Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them to wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

² Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

⁷ On God rests my salvation and my glory; God* is my strong rock, my refuge.

¹⁰ "And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off. The horns of the righteous will be lifted up."

² I will say to Yahweh, "You are my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust."

⁴ With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you can take refuge. His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler.*

¹⁷ There I will cause a horn to grow for David; I will set a lamp for my anointed one.

² my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples* under me.

⁷ For the upright, he stores* sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,

¹⁰ A tower of strength is the name of Yahweh; into him* the righteous will run and be safe.

² And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

¹⁹ O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors* have inherited only lies,* vanity, and there is no profit in them.

¹³ And again,
"I will trust in him."*
And again,
"Behold, I and the children God has given me."*

⁴ I call upon Yahweh who is praiseworthy, and I am saved from those who hate me.

⁵ Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "Stand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise!

² Listen to the sound of my pleading,* my king and my God, for to you I pray. ³ O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forth* my case to you and I will watch.*

¹ A psalm of David.*
To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.

¹ A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.*
Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his _⌊holy mountain_⌋.*

¹⁵ And call me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

¹⁶ As for me, I will call to God, and Yahweh will save me.

⁸ Trust him at all times, O people; pour out before him your heart. God is a refuge for us. Selah

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David. A song.*
Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion, and to you the vow shall be fulfilled. ² O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come.

⁴ Radiant* you are, majestic, from* the mountains of prey.

¹⁵ He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.

⁴ For Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.

³ Great is Yahweh, and very worthy of praise, and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁷¹ salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us,

²¹ And it will be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.'*

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all things? ³³ Who will bring charges against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. ³⁴ Who is the one who condemns? Christ* is the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written,
"On account of you we are being put to death the whole day long; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."* ³⁷ No, but in all these things we prevail completely through the one who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds* in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created."

¹² saying with a loud voice,
"Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" ¹³ And I heard every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the sea and everything in them saying,
"To the one who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power* _⌊forever and ever_⌋*." ¹⁴ And the four living creatures were saying, "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped.

⁵ For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. ⁶ The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

¹² Many bulls have encircled me; mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me. ¹³ They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring.

¹⁶ Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion* they are at my hands and my feet.

³ The ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief.

⁴ Then the waters would have flooded over us, the torrent would have passed over our soul.

⁸ and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. _⌊They will stare at one another_⌋,* _⌊their faces flushing_⌋.*

³ He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with* sickness, and like _⌊one from whom others hide their faces_⌋,* he was despised, and we did not hold him in high regard. ⁴ However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet* we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted.

² and said,
"I called _⌊from my distress_⌋* to Yahweh, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol* I cried for help— you heard my voice. ³ And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me. ⁴ And I said, 'I am banished* from your sight; how* _⌊will I continue to look_⌋* _⌊on your holy temple_⌋?'* ⁵ The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. ⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. ⁷ When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, _⌊to your holy temple_⌋.*

³⁸ Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me." ³⁹ And going forward a little he fell down on his face, praying and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."*

⁴⁷ And while* he was still speaking, behold, Judas—one of the twelve—arrived, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

⁵⁵ At that time Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? Every day in the temple courts* I sat teaching, and you did not arrest me!

²⁴ So Pilate, when he* saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and* washed his* hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it!"* ²⁵ And all the people answered and* said, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

³⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, "The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it* in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking him,* saying, ⁴² "He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him! ⁴³ He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to,* because he said, 'I am the Son of God'!" ⁴⁴ And in the same way even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him.

³³ And he took along Peter and James and John with him, and he began to be distressed and troubled. ³⁴ And he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake."

³⁰ And the whole city was stirred up, and the people came running together, and they seized Paul and* dragged him outside of the temple courts,* and immediately the doors were shut.

⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹³ because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol* below.

³ For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol. ⁴ I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man* without strength,* ⁵ set free* among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand. ⁶ You have set me in the pit below, in dark places, in the depths. ⁷ Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict me with all your waves. Selah ⁸ You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable* to them. I am confined and cannot go out.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.* ¹⁶ Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me. ¹⁷ They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.

¹² For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also _⌊humans_⌋* are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

²⁴ God raised _⌊him_⌋* up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

²³ _⌊And then_⌋* during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.

⁷ In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help was to his ears.

²⁷ For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! _⌊How could_⌋* this house that I have built? ²⁸ You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you this day, ²⁹ so that your eyes will be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. ³⁰ You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray toward this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive.

²⁷ Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens.

⁷ _⌊But as for me_⌋,* through the abundance of your steadfast love* I will enter your house.* I will bow down* toward _⌊your holy temple_⌋* in awe of you.

⁴ Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne. His eyelids see; they test the children of humankind.

³ I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies. ⁴ The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

⁴ One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house* of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider* his temple. ⁵ Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

¹⁵ The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry for help.

¹ A song of ascents.*
In my distress I called to Yahweh, and he answered me.

¹ A song of ascents.*
Out of the depths I call to you, O Yahweh. ² "O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

²⁰ But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him."

³⁶ And he said, "Abba,* Father, all things are possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will."*

⁵ Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail.*

²² For a fire was kindled* by my anger, and it burned _⌊up to the depths of Sheol_⌋,* and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.

⁴ Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water.

² Therefore we will not fear though the earth change, and though the mountains totter into the _⌊midst_⌋* of the sea,

⁷ O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah ⁸ the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain at the presence of God who was at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like _⌊lambs_⌋.* ⁵ What's with you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back? ⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O hills, like lambs? ⁷ At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth,* at the presence of the God of Jacob,

²⁴ I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro.

¹⁹ And in my passion, in the fire of my wrath, I spoke* that _⌊certainly_⌋* on that day a great earthquake will be on the land of Israel. ²⁰ And the fish of the sea and the birds* of the heaven* and the animals* of the field and all of the creeping things that creep on the earth and all of the humans* who are on the surface of the earth will shake _⌊at my presence_⌋;* and the mountains will be demolished, and the steep mountain sides will fall, and every wall on* the earth will fall.

⁶ He stood and measured the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Then the mountains of old were shattered; the hills of old collapsed. The ways of old belong to him.

¹⁰ When the mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high.

⁴ On that day his feet will stand on _⌊the Mount of Olives_⌋,* which faces Jerusalem on the east; and _⌊the Mount of Olives_⌋* will be split _⌊in half_⌋,* from east to west, by a very great valley; and half of the mountain will withdraw toward the north, and the other half toward the south.

² And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came up and* rolled away the stone and sat down* on it.

³¹ And when* they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak* the word* of God with boldness.

²⁵ Now about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and* singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds* were unfastened.

² And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

²⁸ And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that,* behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace.

² So* fire went out _⌊from before_⌋* Yahweh, and it consumed them so that* they died _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh.

¹ And it happened, the people were like those who _⌊complain of hardship_⌋* _⌊in the hearing_⌋* of Yahweh, and Yahweh _⌊became angry_⌋,* and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.

³⁵ And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense.

²⁰ Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for by then the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.

²³ 'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, _⌊none of its land will be sown_⌋,* and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.' ²⁴ And all the nations will say, '_⌊Why_⌋* has Yahweh done _⌊such a thing_⌋* to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?'

⁶ He will rain coals* on the wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

⁹ You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

³ Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.

¹ A maskil of Asaph.*
Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

³² the one who looks at the earth and it quakes, and touches the mountains and they smoke.

⁵ O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke. ⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.

¹⁰ A stream of fire issued forth and flowed _⌊from his presence_⌋;* thousands upon thousands served him and ten thousand upon ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and the books were opened.

¹¹ "I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from the fire, and yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh.

⁵ Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart.* The earth heaves before him— the world and all her inhabitants. ⁶ His indignation—who can stand before it? Who can endure _⌊his fierce anger_⌋?* His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before* him.

⁵ And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.

²² "These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and _⌊he did not add anything_⌋,* and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³ _⌊And then_⌋* _⌊when you heard_⌋* the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

²⁶ "There is no one like God, O, Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, and with his majesty through the skies.

¹⁰ He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud was under his feet.

⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah—* and rejoice before him.

⁵ O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke. ⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them. ⁷ Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners, ⁸ whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand. ⁹ O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you, ¹⁰ who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword. ¹¹ Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand, ¹² that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace, ¹³ that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds,* that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields, ¹⁴ that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas. ¹⁵ Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for the heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like a garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But* my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.

¹⁶ And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.

²⁹ "And immediately after the tribulation of those days,
'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.'*

³³ And when* the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these things."

²⁶ whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying,
"Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."*

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by* being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne and the one who was seated on it, _⌊from whose presence_⌋* earth and heaven fled, and a place was not found for them.

¹¹ He rode upon a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. ¹² He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of _⌊thick rain clouds_⌋.*

¹ For the music director, according to The Lilies. A testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm.*
Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, you who sits enthroned above the cherubim.

¹ Yahweh is king; let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned* between the cherubim. Let the earth shake.

³ the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides* on the wings of the wind,

⁵ And from its midst* was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: _⌊a human form_⌋,* ⁶ and _⌊each had four faces_⌋,* and _⌊each of them had four wings_⌋.* ⁷ And their legs were straight legs, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze. ⁸ And under their wings were _⌊human hands_⌋* on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows: ⁹ _⌊their wings were touching one another_⌋;* _⌊each of them went straight forward_⌋,* _⌊without turning right or left_⌋.* ¹⁰ The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right _⌊of each of them_⌋,* and the face of an ox on the left _⌊of each of them_⌋,* and the face of an eagle _⌊for each of them_⌋.* ¹¹ So were their faces; their wings were spread out _⌊upward_⌋;* each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies. ¹² And each _⌊went straight forward_⌋;* _⌊wherever the spirit went_⌋* they went, and _⌊they did not turn as they went_⌋.* ¹³ As for* the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It* was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and _⌊the fire was very bright_⌋* and lightning was going out from the fire. ¹⁴ And the living creatures _⌊were speeding to and fro_⌋* like the appearance of lightning.

²⁰ This was* the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel at the _⌊Kebar River_⌋,* and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹ _⌊Each one had four faces_⌋,* and there were four wings for each, and the likeness of _⌊human hands_⌋* was under their wings. ²² And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I saw at the _⌊Kebar River_⌋;* thus was their appearance, and they each went _⌊straight ahead_⌋.*

¹¹ And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, _⌊dark with a very thick cloud_⌋.*

⁵ Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

⁷ In this* trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within the secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

¹ One who lives in the secret place* of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.*

² Cloud and thick darkness are surrounding him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

² A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again _⌊for generations to come_⌋.*

²³ And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunder* and hail, and fire went to the earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, and fire was flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

¹¹ And as they were fleeing from Israel, they were on the slope of Beth-horon, and Yahweh threw huge stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah; and more died by the hail stones than those whom the _⌊Israelites_⌋* killed by the sword.

¹³ From the brightness before him flamed burning coals of fire. ¹⁴ Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High _⌊uttered his voice_⌋.* ¹⁵ He sent arrows and he scattered them, lightning, and he directed them.

³ Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about. ⁴ His lightnings light the world; the earth sees and trembles.

² you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,

⁴ And his brightness was like the light; flashing rays came from his hand for him; And there is the covering of his strength. ⁵ Before him went Disease,* and Pestilence* went out at his feet.

² And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothing became bright as the light.

⁵ While* he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!"

²¹ And large hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds,* came down from the sky upon people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, because the plague of it was very great.

¹⁸ And all the people were seeing the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the ram's horn and the mountain smoking, and the people saw, and they trembled, and they stood at a distance.

²⁴ They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;

¹⁰ _⌊While_⌋* Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against the Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel.

⁹ Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

³ The voice of Yahweh is over the waters; the God of glory thunders. Yahweh is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic.

⁴⁸ He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

⁷ At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they ran off.

³ What shall be given to you,* and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue? ⁴ The sharpened arrows of a warrior, with burning charcoals from broom trees.

¹⁰ Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits from which they cannot rise.

⁵ And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard _⌊as far as_⌋* the outer courtyard; it was like the voice of God Shaddai* _⌊when he speaks_⌋.*

⁵ Before him went Disease,* and Pestilence* went out at his feet.

²⁹ Now the crowd that stood there and heard it* said _⌊it had thundered_⌋.* Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him!"

⁵ And from the throne came out lightnings and sounds and thunders, and seven torches of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

⁵ And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire from the altar and threw it to the earth, and there were thunders and sounds and lightnings and an earthquake.

⁶ And I heard something like the sound of a great crowd and something like the sound of many waters and something like the sound of powerful thunder, saying,
"Hallelujah! For the Lord God,* the All-Powerful, reigns!

⁸ God, who brings him out from Egypt, is like the strength* of a wild ox for him. He will devour the nations who are his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce them with his arrows.

²³ I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them.

⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captives* from the heads* of the leaders of the enemy.'

¹⁰ And Yahweh threw them into panic before Israel, who* struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

⁴ for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

³⁵ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

⁹ Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? ¹⁰ Adorn* yourself with pride and dignity, and clothe yourself with splendor. ¹¹ Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all the proud, and humble them. ¹² Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked _⌊where they stand_⌋.*

¹² For you will _⌊turn them to flight_⌋;* you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out water. The skies _⌊thundered_⌋.* Your arrows also _⌊flew about_⌋.*

⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.

³⁰ And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones* of hail.

¹¹ Sun and moon stood still in their place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear.

¹⁴ Then Yahweh will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south. ¹⁵ Yahweh of hosts will defend them, and they will devour and subdue the slingstones;* they will drink, they will make noise* like wine, and they will be full like the sacrificial basin,* drenched like the corners of an altar.

⁸ And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up; waves stood like a heap; deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed.

¹³ When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth,* rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off _⌊upstream_⌋,* and they will stand still in one heap. ¹⁴ And it happened, when the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were _⌊ahead of the people_⌋.* ¹⁵ When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest), ¹⁶ the waters flowing down from above stood still; they stood up in one heap very far from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea,* _⌊were completely cut off_⌋;* and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

¹⁶ Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

⁷ Look, I am putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '"

⁹ By* the breath of God they perish, and by* the blast of his anger they come to an end.

⁴ "Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. ⁵ Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it? ⁶ On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

¹⁵ You split open spring and wadi.* You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider* and horse slumber.

⁵ He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever.

⁹ So he rebuked _⌊the Red Sea_⌋,* and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

⁴ But he shall judge the poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for the needy of the earth with rectitude. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill the wicked person with the breath of his lips.

²⁷ Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire. ²⁸ And his breath is like an overflowing river; it reaches up to the neck to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples.

³³ For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood _⌊abundant_⌋.* The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.

³⁷ Thus says Yahweh, "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

² Hear, O mountains, the indictment of Yahweh, and you eternal foundations of the earth, for Yahweh has an indictment against his people, and against Israel he contends.

¹⁰ And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water."

¹⁷ He sent from a high position and took me; he drew me from mighty waters.

⁴³ You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;

⁶ Therefore let all the faithful pray to you at the time for finding you. Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him.

¹ For the music director. Of David. A psalm.*
I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help. ² And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,* from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady. ³ Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh.

³ He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.

⁷ Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,

⁵ The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. ⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

¹⁵ And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.

¹ Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song,* on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they were mightier than I.

⁹ His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death,

⁴⁰ And you _⌊made my enemies turn their backs_⌋,* then I destroyed those who hated me. ⁴¹ They cried out but there was no rescuer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

¹⁹ Consider that my enemies are many, and they hate me with violent hatred.

¹⁰ All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?"

¹⁹ And my enemies without cause* are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully* are many.

⁴ More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully*— are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore. ⁵ O God, _⌊you yourself know_⌋* my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you. ⁶ Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel. ⁷ Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face. ⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons, ⁹ because the zeal for your house* has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me. ¹⁰ When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me. ¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword. ¹² Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also* the songs of the drunkards. ¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation. ¹⁴ Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths.

⁷ Yahweh is for me as my helper, and so I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

⁶ Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'

¹⁰ Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, ¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

¹⁴ Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these same things, in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵ and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

³⁵ _⌊Vengeance belongs to me_⌋* and also recompense, _⌊for at the time their foot slips_⌋,* because the day of their disaster is near, _⌊and fate comes quickly for them_⌋.'*

⁶ And _⌊David was in a very precarious situation_⌋,* for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each one over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

¹⁹ They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh was my support.

¹ For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song.*
God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles. ² Therefore we will not fear though the earth change, and though the mountains totter into the _⌊midst_⌋* of the sea,

¹¹ Yahweh of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high stronghold.

¹⁶ But as for me, I will sing of your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my high stronghold and a refuge in my _⌊time_⌋* of trouble.

¹⁷ Like the wind from the east I will scatter them _⌊before_⌋* the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.'"

¹⁰ "Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever. ¹¹ On _⌊the day you stood nearby_⌋,* _⌊on the day strangers took_⌋* his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them. ¹² But you should not have gloated* over your brother's day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the _⌊people_⌋* of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out your hands on the day of his disaster. ¹⁴ And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. ¹⁵ And _⌊I am extremely angry_⌋* with the nations that are at ease, for while I was a little angry, they _⌊furthered disaster_⌋."*

¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they were mightier than I. ¹⁹ They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh was my support. ²⁰ He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. ²¹ Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. ²² For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. ²³ For all of his ordinances were before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. ²⁴ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁵ Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. ²⁶ With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. ²⁷ With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

⁹ May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness."

¹⁶ And what's more, he allured you _⌊out of distress_⌋* into a broad place, where in place of it was no constraint; and what was set on your table is full of fatness.

³⁶ You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip.

⁸ And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.

²³ The steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.

² And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,* from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.

⁵ Out of my distress I called to Yah.* Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place.

¹¹ Now, my father, see, yes, see, the hem of your robe in my hand! For _⌊when I cut_⌋* the hem of your robe I did not kill you. Know and _⌊realize_⌋* that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I did not sin against you, but you are hunting down my life to take it. ¹² May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you! ¹³ Just as the ancient proverb says, 'From the wicked, wickedness goes out,' but my hand will not be against you!

¹⁷ Then he said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me the good, but I have repaid you the evil.

¹⁹ For a man has found his enemy but sent him on his way safely. Now may Yahweh reward you with good in return for this day, for what you have done for me. ²⁰ So now then, look, I know that you will certainly be king and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

³⁰ He will deliver the guilty, and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands."

³ O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

⁸ Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence* and according to my integrity within me.

²⁴ Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

⁴ He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,

¹¹ And people* will say, "Surely there is a _⌊reward_⌋* for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land."*

¹⁸ The wicked earns* _⌊deceptive gain_⌋,* but he who sows righteousness, a _⌊true reward_⌋.*

⁴ But* I myself said, "I have labored in* vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh, and my reward is with my God."

¹¹ Look! Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth:
Say to daughter Zion, "Look, your salvation is coming! Look, his reward is with him, and his reward before him.

⁴ in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

⁸ Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

²⁶ For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens,

¹¹ "I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." _⌊Samuel became angry_⌋,* and he cried out to Yahweh all night.

³³ And Josiah removed all the detestable things from the whole land that belonged to the _⌊Israelites_⌋* and obligated* all who were found in Israel to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not turn aside from following* Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.*

⁴ As for the works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept from the ways of the violent.

¹ Of David.*
Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

¹⁰ With my whole heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commands. ¹¹ In my heart I have hidden your word,* so that I may not sin against you.

¹⁰² I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

³² "And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways.

¹⁶ _⌊For this reason_⌋* also I myself _⌊always_⌋* do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out*, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

¹³ With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of your mouth.

³⁰ I have chosen the faithful way; I have set your ordinances before me.

¹¹² I have inclined my heart to do your statutes forever, to the end.

¹¹⁷ Uphold me, that I may be delivered, and have regard for your statutes continually.

¹²⁸ Therefore all your precepts of everything I regard as right; I hate every false way.

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

²³ Yahweh repays to each one his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh's anointed.

¹⁷ And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.

¹ A Shiggaion* of David which he sang to Yahweh on account of Cush, a Benjaminite.*
O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me. ² Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none to deliver. ³ O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, ⁴ if I have repaid _⌊my ally_⌋* with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause, ⁵ let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah ⁶ Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath* of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment. ⁷ And let the assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high. ⁸ Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence* and according to my integrity within me.

⁷ For Yahweh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright shall see his face.

³ You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress.

²⁷ Turn aside from evil and do good and so abide forever.

²⁹ And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.

⁸ And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it* from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire! ⁹ And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it* from you! It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be thrown into fiery hell!

¹² May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge."

⁴¹ The one who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will never lose his reward."

⁶ since it is righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction, ⁷ and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

¹⁶ For people swear by what is greater than themselves, and the oath for confirmation is the end of all dispute for them.

³² then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and _⌊to declare the righteous innocent_⌋* by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

¹⁷ They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion _⌊determined_⌋* to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, _⌊slow to anger_⌋,* abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them.

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David.*
Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor; in the day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him. ² Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the will* of his enemies. ³ Yahweh sustains him on his sick bed. In his illness, you _⌊restore to health_⌋.* ⁴ As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious to me. Heal me,* for I have sinned against you."

¹² And to you belongs loyal love, O Lord, because you will render to each according to his work.

⁴ His light rises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous. ⁵ It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his _⌊business properly_⌋.* ⁶ For he will not be shaken forever; the righteous _⌊will be remembered forever_⌋.*

⁷ The way of the righteous is a straight path; _⌊you clear the level path of the righteous_⌋.*

¹ The righteous one perishes, and there is no one who takes* it to heart. And men of faithfulness are gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness. ² he enters into peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.

⁷ Is it not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring _⌊home_⌋* the poor, the homeless. When you see the naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your _⌊relatives_⌋.* ⁸ Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall grow quickly. And your salvation shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.

²⁵ "Yet* you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair? ²⁶ When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then* he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die! ²⁷ And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, _⌊he will preserve his life_⌋.* ²⁸ And if he sees and he returns from all of his transgressions that he did, surely he will live; he will not die! ²⁹ And yet they, the house of Israel, say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Are not my ways fair, house of Israel? _⌊Are not your ways unfair?_⌋* ³⁰ "Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one* according to his ways," _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord Yahweh. "Repent* and turn around from all of your transgression, and it will not be as a stumbling block of iniquity to you.

⁷ Blessed are the merciful, because they will be shown mercy.

³³ Should you not also have shown mercy to your fellow slave as I also showed mercy to you?' ³⁴ And because he* was angry, his master handed him over to the merciless jailers* until he would repay everything that was owed. ³⁵ So also my heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your hearts!"

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!* ³⁷ "And do not judge, and you will never be judged. And do not condemn, and you will never be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned. ³⁸ Give, and it will be given to you, a good measure—pressed down, shaken, overflowing—they will pour out into your lap. For with the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you in return."

¹⁴ What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there?* May it never be!

²³ " 'And if you do not accept correction from* me through these things, but* you go against me in hostility, ²⁴ then* I myself* will also go against you in hostility, and I myself* also will strike you seven times for your sins.

²⁷ " 'And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, ²⁸ then* I will go against you in hostile anger, and also* I myself* will discipline you seven times for your sins.

¹⁷ Because he loved cursing, let it come upon him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him. ¹⁸ Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter _⌊his body_⌋* like water, and into his bones like oil. ¹⁹ May it be for him like a garment in which he wraps, and a belt _⌊he continually wears_⌋.*

³⁴ With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.

⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵ But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who will reward each one according to his works:

⁹ There will be affliction and distress for every _⌊human being_⌋* who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

¹³ For judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

²⁸ Humble people you will deliver, but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring down.

¹⁸ for the needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish.

⁴ _⌊With bald-faced pride_⌋* the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

¹⁰ They have shut off their calloused* heart; with their mouth they speak arrogantly.

¹³ Rise up, O Yahweh, confront _⌊him_⌋.* Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked,

⁶ This poor man called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles.

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You are my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

⁵ One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. One haughty of eyes and _⌊arrogant_⌋* of heart, him I will not endure.

¹⁶ There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:* ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

⁹ The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

¹² And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against _⌊Mount Zion_⌋* and Jerusalem, "I will punish the _⌊arrogance_⌋* of the king of Assyria and _⌊his haughtiness_⌋."*

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy:
"I reside in a high and holy place, and with the _⌊contrite_⌋* and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the _⌊contrite_⌋.*

² And my hand has made all these things, and all these _⌊came to be_⌋,"*
_⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "but* I look to this one:
to the humble and the contrite of spirit and the one frightened at my word.

⁵² He has brought down rulers from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. ⁵³ He has filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he* was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

²⁹ For you, O Yahweh are my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness.

³⁶ To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name.

⁴ For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;

⁶ The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

³ when his shining lamp was over my head— by his light I walked through darkness—

⁴ His light rises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous.

²⁷ The lamp of Yahweh is the spirit* of humankind, he who searches every _⌊innermost part_⌋.*

¹⁶ And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness _⌊in their presence_⌋* into light and rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

¹ For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not maintain a quiet attitude, until her righteousness goes out like the bright light, and her salvation burns like a torch.

¹⁶ the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."*

⁷⁹ to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."

⁹ But you are a chosen race,* a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

⁴⁹ Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung it. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

² So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And Yahweh said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save* Keilah."

⁸ And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should I pursue after this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?" He said to him, "Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue them."

¹⁹ And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for _⌊I will certainly give_⌋* the Philistines into your hand." ²⁰ So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, "Yahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.*

²⁵ So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba _⌊all the way_⌋* to Gezer.

³⁰ For by you I can run a raid; by my God I can leap over a wall.

⁶ For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory. ⁷ Rather you have saved us from our enemies,* and have humiliated those who hate us.

¹ Of David.*
Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war—

¹⁰ who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

⁹ And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the* power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁰ Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, ¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

¹⁵ When he* had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it.*

²¹ The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.

⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just; he is a faithful God, and _⌊without injustice_⌋;* righteous and upright is he.

³¹ This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him.

⁶ The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.

⁷ Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand* from those who rise up against them.

² Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

⁷ The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving life.* The testimony of Yahweh is firm, making wise the simple. ⁸ The precepts of Yahweh are right, making the heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of Yahweh is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh are true; they are righteous altogether, ¹⁰ more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey in the comb.

¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes.*

¹¹ Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly. ¹² O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts you.

¹⁴⁰ Your word is very pure, and your servant loves it.

⁵ Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield for him who takes refuge in him.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth,* and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

² And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

³ And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:
"Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God All-Powerful; righteous and true are your ways, King of the ages!*

³¹ For the fact of the matter is, their rock is not like our Rock, and our enemies recognize* this.

³⁹ See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand!

² There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God.

³² For who is God apart from Yahweh? And who is a rock apart from our God?

⁸ There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, and there are no works like yours.

⁵ I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me; besides me there is no god. I gird you though* you do not know me,

²¹ Declare and present your case, also let them consult together! Who _⌊made this known_⌋* from _⌊former times_⌋,* declared it from _⌊of old_⌋?* Was it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God besides me, and no savior besides me. ²² Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me.

³³ God is my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way.*

⁷ Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.

¹ Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty. Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might. Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved.

⁵ Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

¹³ And he set him on the high places of the land, and he fed him the crops* of the field, and he nursed him with honey from crags,* and with oil from flinty rock,

²⁹ Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, a people who is saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your triumph, and your enemies, they shall fawn before you,* and you shall tread on their backs."

¹⁸ The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which is in the open field.

¹⁴ Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High _⌊uttered his voice_⌋.*

¹⁹ Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.

³⁶ You have given me the shield of your salvation; your willingness to help has made me great.

⁹ He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear. The wagons of war he burns with fire.

⁶ and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

¹ Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover* the loins of kings to open doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

³⁵ "Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
'Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might.

⁵ _⌊On that day_⌋* I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."

¹² For you bless the righteous. O Yahweh, like a* shield you surround him with good favor.

³ Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and your majesty. ⁴ And in your majesty _⌊ride victoriously_⌋,* because of truth and humility and righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.

³ All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of _⌊you who were found_⌋* were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away.

¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.

¹ Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who _⌊when I am present in person_⌋* am humble among you, but when I* am absent am bold toward you—

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy, ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace among* those who make peace.

³⁷ You have broadened my steps beneath me; my ankles have not wobbled.

⁷ "_⌊His strong steps_⌋* are shortened, and his own schemes* throw him down,

¹ For the music director; with stringed instruments. A psalm of David.*
When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness.* In trouble _⌊deliver me_⌋.* Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

¹² _⌊When you walk_⌋,* your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.

⁵⁰ But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am distressed until it is accomplished!

⁴⁶ and said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and repentance and the forgiveness* of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations,* beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things.

¹⁷ I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; a star will go out from Jacob, and a scepter will rise from Israel; it will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth. ¹⁸ Edom will be a captive; Seir, its enemies, will be a captive, and Israel will be acting _⌊courageously_⌋.* ¹⁹ Someone* from Jacob will rule and will destroy a remnant* from the city."

⁷ Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked you break.

³ When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence.

² Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.

⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh _⌊driving them_⌋.*

²⁰ But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the splendor of the pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.

⁵ By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.

¹¹ They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. ¹² They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹⁰ Yet* Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he _⌊made him sick_⌋.* If she* places* his life a guilt offering,* he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand. ¹¹ From the trouble of his life* he will see;* he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,* and he is the one who will bear their iniquities. ¹² Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,* and with the strong ones he will divide bounty, _⌊because_⌋* he poured his life out to death and was counted with the transgressors; and* he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.

¹ Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah in bright red garments? Who is this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "It is I, speaking in justice, _⌊mighty_⌋* to save!" ² Why are your garments* red, and your garments like he who treads in the winepress? ³ "I have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing, ⁴ for the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come! ⁵ And I looked, but* there was no helper, and I was appalled, but* there was no one who sustains, so* my arm came to assist me, and my wrath _⌊was what_⌋* sustained me. ⁶ And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth."

² And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one seated on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and in order that he might conquer.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war with the one who is seated on the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

⁴⁹ Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung it. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. ⁵⁰ So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and he struck down the Philistine and killed him, but there was no sword in David's hand. ⁵¹ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

⁵ So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines. They drove off their livestock and _⌊dealt them a heavy blow_⌋.* So David saved* the inhabitants of Keilah.

¹⁷ Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped _⌊except_⌋* four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.

¹ So all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and they said, "Here we are, _⌊we are your flesh and blood_⌋.* ² _⌊For some time_⌋,* when Saul was king over us, _⌊you were leading Israel in and out_⌋.* Yahweh had said to you, 'You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.'" ³ All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David _⌊made a covenant_⌋* with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel. ⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years. ⁵ He reigned over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem for thirty-three years. ⁶ The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, "You will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, 'David cannot come here.'" ⁷ David captured the fortress of Zion, the city of David. ⁸ David had said, "On that day _⌊when we attack the Jebusites_⌋,* one must attack the lame and the blind, those who hate the soul of David, by means of the water supply." For thus the blind and the lame would say, "He cannot come into the house." ⁹ David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around it from the Millo and _⌊inward_⌋.* ¹⁰ David _⌊continued growing stronger and stronger_⌋,* and Yahweh the God of hosts was with him. ¹¹ So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and _⌊craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry_⌋,* and they built a house for David. ¹² David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel. ¹³ David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him. ¹⁴ These are the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon; ¹⁵ Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia; ¹⁶ Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet. ¹⁷ When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold.* ¹⁸ Now the Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. ¹⁹ And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for _⌊I will certainly give_⌋* the Philistines into your hand." ²⁰ So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, "Yahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.* ²¹ They had left their idols there, so David and his men carried them away. ²² _⌊Once again_⌋* the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. ²³ So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, "You shall not go up. Rather, go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees. ²⁴ _⌊And it shall be_⌋* that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." ²⁵ So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba _⌊all the way_⌋* to Gezer.

¹ It happened afterwards that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the hands of the Philistines. ² When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and _⌊the third cord_⌋* to let live.* So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute. ³ Then David struck down Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his monument* at the Euphrates River. ⁴ David captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand _⌊foot soldiers_⌋.* David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but _⌊from them_⌋* he spared a hundred chariot horses. ⁵ When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand men of Aram. ⁶ David placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, so Aram became servants of David, bringing tribute. Yahweh protected David everywhere he went. ⁷ David took the small round gold shields which had _⌊belonged_⌋* to the servants of Hadadezer, and he brought them to Jerusalem. ⁸ From Betah and from Berothai, the towns of Hadadezer, King David took very many bronze items. ⁹ When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, ¹⁰ Toi sent Joram his son to King David _⌊to greet him_⌋* and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; _⌊for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi_⌋.* _⌊He brought with him_⌋* objects of silver and objects of gold and objects of bronze. ¹¹ King David dedicated them also to Yahweh along with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued; ¹² from Aram and from Moab and from the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and from the Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah. ¹³ So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand. ¹⁴ He put garrisons in Edom; all over Edom he put garrisons, and all of Edom became servants of David. Yahweh protected David wherever he went. ¹⁵ David reigned over all of Israel, and he* was administering justice and righteousness for all his people. ¹⁶ Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was secretary. ¹⁷ Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests and Seraiah was scribe. ¹⁸ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were priests.

¹ _⌊Afterwards the king of the Ammonites died_⌋,* and his son Hanun ruled in his place. ² David said, "I will show loyal love with Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed loyal love with me." So David sent to console him concerning his father, by the hand of his servants. And the servants of David came to the land of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋.* ³ But the commanders of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* said to Hanun their master, "_⌊In your opinion_⌋,* is David honoring your father because he has sent condolences to you? Is it not in order to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it that David sent his servants to you?" ⁴ Then Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off half of their beards and cut their garments off in the middle up to their buttocks, then sent them away. ⁵ When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain in Jericho until your beards have grown, and then you can return." ⁶ When the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* saw that they had become odious to David, the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* sent word and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and they also hired the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men. ⁷ When David heard, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors. ⁸ The _⌊Ammonites_⌋* came out and _⌊drew up a battle formation_⌋* at the entrance of the gate, but Aram-Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were alone in the open field. ⁹ When Joab saw that _⌊the battle was to be fought on two fronts_⌋,* he chose from all the members of the elite troops of Israel and _⌊lined them up for battle_⌋* to meet Aram. ¹⁰ The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who _⌊arranged them in battle lines_⌋* to meet the _⌊Ammonites_⌋.* ¹¹ Then he said, "If Aram is stronger than I am, you must become my deliverer; but if the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. ¹² Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do what is good in his eyes. ¹³ Joab and all the people who were with him moved forward into the battle against Aram, and they fled from before him. ¹⁴ When the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* saw that Aram had fled, they fled from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and came to Jerusalem. ¹⁵ When the Arameans saw that they were defeated before Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁶ Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, _⌊was at their head_⌋.* ¹⁷ David was told, so he gathered all Israel and crossed over the Jordan and came to Helam. Aram _⌊arranged themselves in battle lines_⌋* to meet David, and they fought with him. ¹⁸ And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there. ¹⁹ When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram was afraid to help the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* any longer.

⁷ The army of Israel was defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand. ⁸ The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and _⌊the forest devoured more among the army than_⌋* the sword did on that day.

¹⁵ There was war again for the Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought the Philistines, and David grew weary. ¹⁶ Now Yishbi in Nob, who was among the descendents of Raphah* (now the weight of his spearhead was three hundredweight of bronze, and he was newly armed), said that he would kill David. ¹⁷ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel." ¹⁸ It happened afterward that there was again battle at Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who was among the descendants of the Raphah. ¹⁹ There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath* the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. ²⁰ Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was _⌊a man of great size_⌋.* The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah. ²¹ He taunted Israel but Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, killed him. ²² These four were born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

³⁹ I wiped them out and I smashed them; they did not get up; they fell under my feet.

¹² There doers of evil have fallen; they are thrust down and not able to rise.

³ He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet.

⁴⁰ You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me. ⁴¹ _⌊My enemies you cause to retreat from me_⌋;* I destroy those who hate me.

¹⁸ "Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he not given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people.

²¹ Evil will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will incur guilt.

³ Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.

³⁶ But he who misses me injures himself.* All those who hate me love death."

¹⁴ Thus says Yahweh: "The acquisition of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, tall men, shall pass over to you; they shall be yours, and they shall walk behind you. They shall pass over in chains, and they shall bow down to you; they will pray to you: 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other. Besides him there is no God.'"

⁵ We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.

²⁴ And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan with the groaning of the mortally wounded _⌊before him_⌋.* ²⁵ And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall. And they will know that I am Yahweh when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out to the land of Egypt.

²³ The one who hates me hates my Father also.

²⁵ For it is necessary for him to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy to be abolished is death. ²⁷ For "he subjected all things under his feet."* But when it says "all things" are subjected, it is clear that the one who subjected all things to him is not included. ²⁸ But whenever all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected* to the one who subjected all things to him, in order that God may be all in all.

²² and he subjected all things under his feet* and gave him as head over all things to the church,

²¹ who will transform our humble body to be conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

²³ And he will repay on them their iniquity, and by* their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them.

⁴² They looked out, but there was no deliverer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. ⁴³ I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.

⁹ Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?

¹² There they cry out, but* he does not answer _⌊because of the pride of evildoers_⌋.* ¹³ "Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.

²² Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver.

²⁸ then they will call* me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.

¹⁵ And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers,* I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

¹ Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short _⌊to save_⌋,* and his ear is not too dull _⌊to hear_⌋.* ² Rather, your iniquities have been _⌊barriers_⌋* between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.

¹¹ _⌊Therefore_⌋* thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

¹² Although they fast, I am not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I am not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I am about to destroy them."

¹⁸ And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear with a loud voice, and I will not hear them."

¹⁴ They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerate* themselves; they depart from me.

⁴ Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.

¹³ 'Thus, just as I* called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.

²⁵ when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open the door* for us!' And he will answer and* say to you, 'I do not know where you are from!'

⁷ For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.

⁶ I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them* a trampling place, like the clay of the streets.

¹⁰ For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down under him as _⌊a heap of straw is trampled down_⌋* in _⌊waters of_⌋* a dung heap.

² Who has roused salvation from the east, summoned* him to his foot, gives nations _⌊in his presence_⌋,* and subjugates kings? He makes* them like the dust with his sword, like scattered stubble with his bow.

¹⁵ Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, _⌊with_⌋* sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush the mountains, and you shall make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶ You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh; you shall boast in the holy one of Israel.

⁵ And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of the streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh is with them, and they will put to shame the riders on horses.

³ You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.

⁹ He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it. ¹⁰ Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel and he reigned two years; however, the house of Judah _⌊followed_⌋* David.

¹ The battle was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David _⌊was growing stronger and stronger_⌋* while the house of Saul _⌊was becoming weaker and weaker_⌋.*

⁹ Then it happened that all the people were disputing among all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

⁴⁴ You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me. ⁴⁵ Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; _⌊when they heard of me_⌋,* they became obedient to me. ⁴⁶ Children of a foreign land lost heart and came trembling from their strongholds.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you. ²⁸ Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations.

⁹ Moab is my washing pot. Over Edom I will cast my sandal; Over Philistia I will shout in triumph."

⁶ And he says, "It is trivial _⌊for you to be_⌋* a servant for me,
to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel. I will give you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the end of the earth."

²² Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
"Look! I will lift my hand up to the nations, and I will raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.* ²³ And kings shall be your _⌊guardians_⌋,* and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, _⌊faces_⌋* to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then* you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.

¹⁵ so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.* For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

⁵ Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you."

¹⁰ * The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of the living God."

³¹ This one God has exalted to his right hand as Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

¹² And again Isaiah says,
"The root of Jesse will come, even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will put their hope."*

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak about anything except that which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

¹⁰ who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.*

¹⁵ And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice in heaven saying,
"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign _⌊forever and ever_⌋*."

¹³ Then David said to the young man who was reporting to him, "Where are you from?" And he said, "I am the son of an alien man. I am an Amalekite."

³⁰ Rebuke the beasts in* the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, trampling the pieces of silver.* Scatter the nations who delight in battles.

¹⁵ Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him, and their fate* would be forever.

⁸ Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by _⌊his mighty arm_⌋,* "Surely I will never again give your grain as food to _⌊your enemies_⌋,* and surely _⌊foreigners_⌋* shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored."

⁷ At* your bringing _⌊foreigners_⌋* who are uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh to be in my sanctuary to profane it, my temple,* _⌊as you offered my food, fat, and blood_⌋,* so* you broke my covenant by all of your detestable things.

¹⁶ But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"* ¹⁷ Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

⁴ The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,

¹⁷ They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you.

¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits* will wither away.

¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

² Yah* is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation;* this is my God, and I will praise him—the God of my father—and I will exalt him.

⁴⁷ Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted!

¹³ Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength, and we sing and praise your power.

⁵ Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you _⌊all day long_⌋.*

⁹ I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

¹⁴ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

⁵ Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth.

¹¹ Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth.

²⁰ Our God is a God of deliverances, and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.

⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and forgive* our sins for the sake of your name.

⁹ Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for Yahweh our God is holy.

² Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."

¹⁰ But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and _⌊an everlasting king_⌋.* Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger.

⁴⁷ and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,

¹⁹ Yet a little time and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

¹⁸ and the one who lives, and I was dead, and behold, I am living _⌊forever and ever_⌋*, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades.

⁴⁸ God does vengeance for me, bringing down peoples under me.

² Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and _⌊full of wrath_⌋.* Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.

¹⁹ Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay,"* says the Lord.

¹⁶ His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you. ²⁸ Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations. ²⁹ All the _⌊healthy ones_⌋* of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰ Descendants* will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation.

¹ For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. Of David. A miktam. When Saul dispatched men and they watched the house to kill him.*
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect* me from those who rise up against me. ² Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and from men of bloodshed save me.

¹⁴ O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them.*

¹³ You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David.*
Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men.* Preserve me from violent men,

⁴ Protect me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from violent men, who have planned to _⌊make me stumble_⌋.*

¹¹ Do not let a _⌊slanderer_⌋* be established in the land; as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.

⁹ Therefore also God exalted him and graciously granted him the name above every name,

⁷ _⌊Oh that from Zion_⌋* would come salvation for Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.

¹² so that _⌊I_⌋* may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

¹⁸ Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

¹ A song. A psalm of David.*
My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

³ I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Yahweh; I will give you praise among the nations,

⁴ All the kings of the earth will praise you, O Yahweh, when they have heard the words* of your mouth,

³⁰ And after they* had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

⁹ and that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, just as it is written,
"Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."*

¹³ I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

¹⁰ Yahweh will shatter* his adversaries;* he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

¹ Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "_⌊How long_⌋* will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."

¹³ He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

¹¹ And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go and sleep with your ancestors,* then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹² He himself will build for me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. ¹³ I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you. ¹⁴ And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever." '"

²⁷ And now may you begin to bless the house of your servant _⌊to continue forever_⌋* before you, for you, O Yahweh, have blessed. And it will be blessed forever."

⁶ "But as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

⁷¹ He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. ⁷² And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.

³ "I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant: ⁴ 'I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne _⌊from generation to generation_⌋.'"* Selah

²⁰ I have found David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him, ²¹ with whom my hand will be steadfast. Surely my arm will strengthen him. ²² The enemy will not deceive him, and no _⌊evil man_⌋* will afflict him. ²³ But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him. ²⁴ And so my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him, and in my name his horn will rise up. ²⁵ And I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. ²⁶ He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.' ²⁷ I will also make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him. ²⁹ I will also establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, ³¹ if they defile* my statutes and do not keep my commandments, ³² then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds. ³³ But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness. ³⁴ I will not defile* my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips. ³⁵ Once* I have sworn by my holiness, 'I will surely not lie to David, ³⁶ His offspring will endure* forever, and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ Like the moon it will be steadfast forever, and like an enduring witness in the sky.'" Selah ³⁸ But you have spurned and rejected; you are very angry with your anointed one.

¹⁰ For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.

⁶ For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ⁷ _⌊His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end_⌋* on* the throne of David and over* his kingdom, to establish it* and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.

³¹ And behold, you will conceive in the womb and will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus. ³² This one will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob _⌊forever_⌋,* and of his kingdom there will be no end.

⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

³⁴ For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,
'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." '* ³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified!"

³ concerning his Son, who was born _⌊a descendant_⌋* of David according to the flesh,

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, "and to descendants," as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to your descendant,"* who is Christ.

⁹ Therefore also God exalted him and graciously granted him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.