Psalms 21 Through 30

___Psalm 21 1 The king shall rejoice in your strength, O Lord, and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 2 You've given him his heart's desire, and haven't withheld the request of his lips. Selah. 3 For you go before him with the blessings of goodness, you set a crown of pure gold on his head. 4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, length of days forever and ever. 5 His glory is great in your salvation, you've laid honor and majesty on him. 6 For you've made him most blessed forever, you've made him very glad with your facial expression. 7 For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most high he shall not be moved. 8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies, your right hand shall find out those that hate you. 9 You'll make them like a fiery oven in the time of your anger, the Lord shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them. 10 You'll destroy their fruit from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against you, they imagined a mischievous device, that they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore you'll make them turn their back, when you'll make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them. 13 Be exalted, Lord, in your own strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

___Psalm 22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't hear, and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in you, they trusted, and you gave them deliverance. 5 They cried to you, and received deliverance, they trusted in you, and were not put to shame. 6 But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All of those who see me laugh at me scornfully, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, and say, 8 "He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, let him deliver him, since he delighted in him." 9 But you are he that took me out of the womb, you made me hope when I was on my mother's breasts. 10 I was thrown on you from the womb, you are my God from my mother's belly. 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 surrounded me. 13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax, it has melted among my internal organs. 15 My strength has dried up like a piece of broken pottery, and my tongue sticks to my jaws, and you've brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can tell all my bones, they look and stare at me. 18 They divide my garments among them, and draw straws for my vesture. 19 But don't be far from me, O Lord, O my strength, hurry to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth, for you've heard me from the horns of the wild bulls. 22 I will declare your name to my brothers, among the congregation I will praise you. 23 You that fear the Lord, praise him, all of you, the seed of Jacob, glorify him, and fear him, all of you, the seed of Israel. 24 For he has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him, but when he called to him, he heard. 25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation, I will pay my vows before those who fear him. 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied, those who seek the Lord shall praise him, your heart shall live forever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you. 28 For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All of those who are fat on earth shall eat and worship, all of those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, and no one can keep his own soul alive. 30 A seed shall serve him, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

___Psalm 23 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I won’t lack what I need. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul, he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I won’t fear any evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I’ll live in the house of the Lord forever.

___Psalm 24 1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world, and those who live in it. 2 For he has founded it on the oceans, and established it on the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of those who seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of Hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

___Psalm 25 1 To you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in you, let me not be ashamed, don't let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed, let them be ashamed who transgress without cause. 4 Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation, I wait all the day on you. 6 Remember, O Lord, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses, for they have been always of old. 7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions, according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O Lord. 8 The Lord is good and upright, therefore he will teach sinners in the way. 9 He will guide the meek in judgment, and he will teach the meek his way. 10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my sins, for they are many. 12 What man is he that fears the Lord? He shall teach him in the way that he shall choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease, and his descendants shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant. 15 My eyes are always toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart have been enlarged, O bring me out of my distresses. 18 Look at my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins. 19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred. 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me, don't let me be ashamed, for I put my trust in you. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on you. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

___Psalm 26 1 Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, I have trusted also in the Lord, therefore I won't slide. 2 Examine me, O Lord, and test me, try my reins and my heart. 3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in your truth. 4 I haven't sat down with vain people, nor will I go in with pretenders. 5 I've hated the congregation of evil doers, and won't sit with the wicked. 6 I'll wash my hands in innocence, so I will circle your altar, O Lord, 7 So that I can publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works. 8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where yours honor lives. 9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men, 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity, redeem me, and be merciful to me. 12 My foot stands in an even place, in the congregations I will bless the Lord.

___Psalm 27 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, my enemies, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart won't fear, though war should rise against me, in this I'll be confident. 4 One thing I have desired from the Lord, I will seek after it, that I may live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to see the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle he shall hide me, he shall set me up on a rock. 6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies around me, therefore I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy, I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. 7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice, have mercy also on me, and answer me. 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "Your face, Lord, I will seek." 9 Don't hide your face far from me, don't put your servant away in anger, you've been my help, don't leave me, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. 11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Don't deliver me over to the will of my enemies, for false witnesses have risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, wait, I say, on the Lord.

___Psalm 28 1 I will shout to you, O Lord my rock. Don't be silent to me, so that I won't become like those who go down into the pit, if you are silent to me. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle. 3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of sin, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. 4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors, give them according to the work of their hands, render to them what they deserve. 5 Because they don't regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. 6 Blessed be the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. 7 The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trusted in him, and I am helped, therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song will I praise him. 8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9 Save your people, and bless yours inheritance, feed them also, and lift them up forever.

___Psalm 29 1 Give to the Lord, O you mighty, give to the Lord glory and strength. 2 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters, the God of glory thunders, the Lord is on many waters. 4 The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, yes, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild bull. 7 The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. 8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests, and in his temple everyone speaks of his glory. 10 The Lord sits on the flood, yes, the Lord sits King forever. 11 The Lord will give strength to his people, the Lord will bless his people with peace.

___Psalm 30 1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you've lifted me up, and haven't made my enemies to rejoice over me. 2 O Lord my God, I shouted to you, and you've healed me. 3 O Lord, you've brought up my soul from the grave, you've kept me alive, so that I won't go down to the pit. 4 Sing to the Lord, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 5 For his anger lasts but a moment, in his favor is life, crying might continue for a night, but joy comes in the morning. 6 And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be moved." 7 Lord, by your favor you've made my mountain to stand strong, you hid your face, and I was troubled. 8 I shouted to you, O Lord, and to the Lord I made supplication. 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me, Lord, be my helper. 11 You've turned my mourning into dancing for me, you've put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, 12 So that my glory will sing praise to you, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

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