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Psalm 19 ()

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

[1] The heavens declare the glory of God.
The expanse shows his handiwork.
[2] Day after day they pour out speech,
and night after night they display knowledge.
[3] There is no speech nor language
where their voice is not heard.
[4] Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
[5] which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room,
like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
[6] His going out is from the end of the heavens,
his circuit to its ends.
There is nothing hidden from its heat.

[7] Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.
Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
[8] Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
[9] The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
[10] They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold,
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
[11] Moreover your servant is warned by them.
In keeping them there is great reward.
[12] Who can discern his errors?
Forgive me from hidden errors.

[13] Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I will be upright.
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
[14] Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Psalm 20 ()

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

[1] May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
[2] send you help from the sanctuary,
grant you support from Zion,
[3] remember all your offerings,
and accept your burned sacrifice.
Selah.

[4] May he grant you your heart’s desire,
and fulfill all your counsel.
[5] We will triumph in your salvation.
In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.
May Yahweh grant all your requests.
[6] Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed.
He will answer him from his holy heaven,
with the saving strength of his right hand.
[7] Some trust in chariots, and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.
[8] They are bowed down and fallen,
but we rise up, and stand upright.
[9] Save, Yahweh!
Let the King answer us when we call!

Psalm 21 ()

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

[1] The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh!
How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
[2] You have given him his heart’s desire,
and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Selah.

[3] For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
[4] He asked life of you and you gave it to him,
even length of days forever and ever.
[5] His glory is great in your salvation.
You lay honor and majesty on him.
[6] For you make him most blessed forever.
You make him glad with joy in your presence.
[7] For the king trusts in Yahweh.
Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
[8] Your hand will find out all of your enemies.
Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
[9] You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath.
The fire shall devour them.
[10] You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
their posterity from among the children of men.
[11] For they intended evil against you.
They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
[12] For you will make them turn their back,
when you aim drawn bows at their face.
[13] Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength,
so we will sing and praise your power.

Psalm 22 ()

For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David.

[1] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
[2] My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;
in the night season, and am not silent.
[3] But you are holy,
you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
[4] Our fathers trusted in you.
They trusted, and you delivered them.
[5] They cried to you, and were delivered.
They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
[6] But I am a worm, and no man;
a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
[7] All those who see me mock me.
They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
[8] “He trusts in Yahweh.
Let him deliver him.
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
[9] But you brought me out of the womb.
You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
[10] I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.
You are my God since my mother bore me.
[11] Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.
For there is no one to help.
[12] Many bulls have surrounded me.
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
[13] They open their mouths wide against me,
lions tearing prey and roaring.
[14] I am poured out like water.
All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax.
It is melted within me.
[15] My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have brought me into the dust of death.
[16] For dogs have surrounded me.
A company of evildoers have enclosed me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
[17] I can count all of my bones.
They look and stare at me.
[18] They divide my garments among them.
They cast lots for my clothing.

[19] But don’t be far off, Yahweh.
You are my help. Hurry to help me!
[20] Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dog.
[21] Save me from the lion’s mouth!
Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

[22] I will declare your name to my brothers.
Among the assembly, I will praise you.
[23] You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
[24] For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,
neither has he hidden his face from him;
but when he cried to him, he heard.

[25] My praise of you comes in the great assembly.
I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
[26] The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him.
Let your hearts live forever.
[27] All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
[28] For the kingdom is Yahweh’s.
He is the ruler over the nations.
[29] All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.
All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
[30] Posterity shall serve him.
Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
[31] They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,
for he has done it.

Psalm 22:16 So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”

Psalm 23 ()

A Psalm by David.

[1] Yahweh is my shepherd;
I shall lack nothing.
[2] He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
[3] He restores my soul.
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
[4] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
[5] You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil.
My cup runs over.
[6] Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Psalm 24 ()

A Psalm by David.

[1] The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell in it.
[2] For he has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the floods.

[3] Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill?
Who may stand in his holy place?
[4] He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
and has not sworn deceitfully.
[5] He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh,
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
[6] This is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek your face—even Jacob.
Selah.

[7] Lift up your heads, you gates!
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
[8] Who is the King of glory?
Yahweh strong and mighty,
Yahweh mighty in battle.
[9] Lift up your heads, you gates;
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
[10] Who is this King of glory?
Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory!
Selah.

Proverbs 4 ()

[1] Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
[2] for I give you sound learning.
Don’t forsake my law.
[3] For I was a son to my father,
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
[4] He taught me, and said to me:
“Let your heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
[5] Get wisdom.
Get understanding.
Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
[6] Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you.
Love her, and she will keep you.
[7] Wisdom is supreme.
Get wisdom.
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
[8] Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
[9] She will give to your head a garland of grace.
She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

[10] Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
The years of your life will be many.
[11] I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths.
[12] When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
When you run, you will not stumble.
[13] Take firm hold of instruction.
Don’t let her go.
Keep her, for she is your life.
[14] Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
[15] Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
Turn from it, and pass on.
[16] For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
[17] For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
[18] But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
that shines more and more until the perfect day.
[19] The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don’t know what they stumble over.

[20] My son, attend to my words.
Turn your ear to my sayings.
[21] Let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the center of your heart.
[22] For they are life to those who find them,
and health to their whole body.
[23] Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it is the wellspring of life.
[24] Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
Put corrupt lips far from you.
[25] Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Fix your gaze directly before you.
[26] Make the path of your feet level.
Let all of your ways be established.
[27] Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.