Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.
Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.
He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.”
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;












