Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee; May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; Remember all thine oblations, and accept thy burnt-offering; Selah. Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels. We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions!

⁶Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand. ⁷Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we 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 in the day we call.

Psalm 21

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

The king shall joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice. Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head. He asked life of thee; thou gavest it him, length of days for ever and ever. His glory is great through thy salvation; majesty and splendour hast thou laid upon him. For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast filled him with joy by thy countenance.

⁷For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved. ⁸Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. ⁹Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them: ¹⁰Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. ¹¹For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. ¹²For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face. ¹³Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power.

Psalm 22

To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.

My •God, my •God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning? My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel. Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying: Commit it to Jehovah—let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him! But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my •God from my mother’s belly.

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. ¹²Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan’s strong ones 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 become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. ¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death. ¹⁶For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me; ¹⁸They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. ¹⁹But thou, Jehovah, be not far from me; O my strength, haste thee to help me. ²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog; ²¹Save me from the lion’s mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.

²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. ²³Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere 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. ²⁵My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. ²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee: ²⁸For the kingdom is Jehovah’s, and he ruleth among 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, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul. ³⁰A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. ³¹They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

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