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Psalm 7 (Listen)

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• Psalm 7
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In You Do I Take Refuge

A lShiggaion1 of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2 lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

3 O Lord my God, qif I have done this,

if there is rwrong in my hands,

4 if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

6 vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

8 The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3

O righteous God!

10 My shield is cwith God,

who saves dthe upright in heart.

11 God is ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels findignation every day.

12 If a man4 does not repent, God5 will gwhet his sword;

he has hbent and ireadied his bow;

13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his jarrows kfiery shafts.

14 Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil

and is lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

15 He makes ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

16 His nmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

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Psalm 27 (Listen)

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The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation

Of David.

27 The Lord is my hlight and my isalvation;

jwhom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold1 of my life;

of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When evildoers assail me

to keat up my flesh,

my adversaries and foes,

it is they who stumble and fall.

3 lThough an army encamp against me,

my heart shall not fear;

though war arise against me,

yet2 I will be confident.

4 mOne thing have I asked of the Lord,

that will I seek after:

that I may ndwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,

to gaze upon othe beauty of the Lord

and to inquire3 in his temple.

5 For he will phide me in his shelter

in the day of trouble;

he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;

he will qlift me high upon a rock.

6 And now my rhead shall be lifted up

above my enemies all around me,

and I will offer in his tent

sacrifices with shouts of sjoy;

tI will sing and make melody to the Lord.

7 uHear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;

be gracious to me and answer me!

8 You have said, v“Seek4 my face.”

My heart says to you,

“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”5

9 wHide not your face from me.

Turn not your servant away in anger,

O you who have been my help.

Cast me not off; forsake me not,

xO God of my salvation!

10 For ymy father and my mother have forsaken me,

but the Lord will ztake me in.

11 aTeach me your way, O Lord,

and lead me on ba level path

because of my enemies.

12 cGive me not up to the will of my adversaries;

for dfalse witnesses have risen against me,

and they ebreathe out violence.

13 I believe6 that I shall look upon fthe goodness of the Lord

in gthe land of the living!

14 hWait for the Lord;

ibe strong, and let your heart take courage;

wait for the Lord!

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Psalm 31 (Listen)

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Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

31 oIn you, O Lord, do I ptake refuge;

qlet me never be put to shame;

in your rrighteousness deliver me!

2 Incline your ear to me;

rescue me speedily!

Be sa rock of trefuge for me,

a strong fortress to save me!

3 For you are my rock and my fortress;

and for your uname's sake you lead me and guide me;

4 you vtake me out of wthe net they have hidden for me,

for you are my xrefuge.

5 yInto your hand I commit my spirit;

you have redeemed me, O Lord, zfaithful God.

6 I ahate1 those who pay bregard to worthless cidols,

but I trust in the Lord.

7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,

because you have seen my affliction;

you have dknown the distress of my soul,

8 and you have not edelivered me into the hand of the enemy;

you have set my feet in fa broad place.

9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am gin distress;

hmy eye is wasted from grief;

my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow,

and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my iniquity,

and imy bones waste away.

11 Because of all my adversaries I have become ja reproach,

especially to my kneighbors,

and an object of dread to my acquaintances;

those who see me in the street lflee from me.

12 I have been mforgotten like one who is dead;

I have become like na broken vessel.

13 For I ohear the whispering of many—

terror on every side!—

pas they scheme together against me,

as they plot to take my life.

14 But I qtrust in you, O Lord;

I say, “You are my God.”

15 My rtimes are in your hand;

srescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

16 tMake your face shine on your servant;

save me in your steadfast love!

17 O Lord, ulet me not be put to shame,

for I call upon you;

let the wicked be put to shame;

let them go vsilently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute,

which wspeak xinsolently against the righteous

in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness,

which you have stored up for those who fear you

and worked for those who take refuge in you,

yin the sight of the children of mankind!

20 In zthe cover of your presence you hide them

from the plots of men;

you astore them in your shelter

from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord,

for he has wondrously bshown his steadfast love to me

when I was in ca besieged city.

22 I had said in my dalarm,2

“I am ecut off from fyour sight.”

But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy

when I cried to you for help.

23 Love the Lord, all you his gsaints!

The Lord preserves the faithful

but abundantly hrepays the one who acts in pride.

24 iBe strong, and let your heart take courage,

all you who wait for the Lord!

• Psalm 30
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Psalm 34 (Listen)

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Taste and See That the Lord Is Good

1 Of David, when he nchanged his behavior before oAbimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.

34 I will bless the Lord pat all times;

his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul qmakes its boast in the Lord;

let the humble hear and rbe glad.

3 Oh, smagnify the Lord with me,

and let us exalt his name together!

4 I tsought the Lord, and he answered me

and delivered me from all my fears.

5 Those who look to him are uradiant,

and their faces shall never be ashamed.

6 vThis poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

and wsaved him out of all his troubles.

7 xThe angel of the Lord yencamps

around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8 Oh, ztaste and see that athe Lord is good!

bBlessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,

for those who fear him have no lack!

10 cThe young lions suffer want and hunger;

but those who dseek the Lord lack no good thing.

11 eCome, O children, listen to me;

fI will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 gWhat man is there who desires life

and loves many days, that he may hsee good?

13 iKeep your tongue from evil

and your lips from jspeaking deceit.

14 kTurn away from evil and do good;

seek peace and lpursue it.

15 mThe eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous

nand his ears toward their cry.

16 oThe face of the Lord is against those who do evil,

to pcut off the memory of them from the earth.

17 nWhen the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears

and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is near to qthe brokenhearted

and saves rthe crushed in spirit.

19 sMany are the afflictions of the righteous,

tbut the Lord delivers him out of them all.

20 He keeps all his bones;

unot one of them is broken.

21 vAffliction will slay the wicked,

and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

22 The Lord wredeems the life of his servants;

none of those who take refuge in him will be xcondemned.

• Psalm 33
• Psalm 34
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Psalm 52 (Listen)

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• Psalm 53

The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil1 of David, when cDoeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

2 Your dtongue plots destruction,

like ea sharp razor, you fworker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good,

and glying more than speaking what is right. Selah

4 You love all words that devour,

O deceitful tongue.

5 But God will break you down forever;

he will snatch and htear you from your tent;

he will uproot you from ithe land of the living. Selah

6 The righteous shall jsee and fear,

and shall klaugh at him, saying,

7 “See the man who would not make

God his refuge,

but ltrusted in the abundance of his riches

and sought refuge in his own destruction!”2

8 But I am like ma green olive tree

in the house of God.

I trust in the steadfast love of God

forever and ever.

9 I will thank you forever,

because you have done it.

I will wait for your name, nfor it is good,

in the presence of the ogodly.