Psalm 20–22

Psalm 20

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble;

The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

²Send thee help from the sanctuary,

And strengthen thee out of Zion;

³Remember all thy offerings,

And accept thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah

⁴Grant thee thy heart’s desire,

And fulfil all thy counsel.

⁵We will triumph in thy salvation,

And in the name of our God we will set up our banners:

Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.

⁶Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed;

He will answer him from his holy heaven

With the saving strength of his right hand.

⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;

But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.

⁸They are bowed down and fallen;

But we are risen, and stand upright.

⁹Save, Jehovah:

Let the King answer us when we call.

Psalm 21

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹The king shall joy in thy strength, O Jehovah;

And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

²Thou hast given him his heart’s desire,

And hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah

³For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness:

Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.

⁴He asked life of thee, thou gavest it him,

Even length of days for ever and ever.

⁵His glory is great in thy salvation:

Honor and majesty dost thou lay upon him.

⁶For thou makest him most blessed for ever:

Thou makest him glad with joy in thy presence.

⁷For the king trusteth in Jehovah;

And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

⁸Thy hand will find out all thine enemies;

Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.

⁹Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger:

Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath,

And the fire shall devour them.

¹⁰Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth,

And their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹For they intended evil against thee;

They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

¹²For thou wilt make them turn their back;

Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

¹³Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength:

So will we sing and praise thy power.

Psalm 22

For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.

¹My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not;

And in the night season, and am not silent.

³But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

⁴Our fathers trusted in thee:

They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

⁵They cried unto thee, and were delivered:

They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame.

⁶But I am a worm, and no man;

A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn:

They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

⁸Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him:

Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

⁹But thou art he that took me out of the womb;

Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰I was cast upon thee from the womb;

Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near;

For there is none to help.

¹²Many bulls have compassed me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

¹³They gape upon me with their mouth,

As a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint:

My heart is like wax;

It is melted within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd;

And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;

And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For dogs have compassed me:

A company of evil-doers have inclosed me;

They pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I may count all my bones.

They look and stare upon me;

¹⁸They part my garments among them,

And upon my vesture do they cast lots.

¹⁹But be not thou far off, O Jehovah:

O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,

My darling from the power of the dog.

²¹Save me from the lion’s mouth;

Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren:

In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee.

²³Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him;

All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;

And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;

Neither hath he hid his face from him;

But when he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly:

I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied;

They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him:

Let your heart live for ever.

²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah;

And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

²⁸For the kingdom is Jehovah’s;

And he is the ruler over the nations.

²⁹All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship:

All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him,

Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.

³⁰A seed shall serve him;

It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

³¹They shall come and shall declare his righteousness

Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.