Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1 oMay the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
May the pname of the God of Jacob protect you!
2 May he send you help from the sanctuary
and give you support from Zion!
3 May he remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
4 May he qgrant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans!
5 May we shout for joy over your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
6 Now I know that the Lord saves his ranointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven
with the saving might of his right hand.
7 sSome trust in chariots and some in thorses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
8 They collapse and fall,
but we rise and stand upright.
9 O Lord, save the king!
May he answer us when we call.
The King Rejoices in the Lord’s Strength
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, in your strength uthe king rejoices,
and in your salvation how greatly he exults!
2 You have vgiven him his heart’s desire
and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
3 For you wmeet him with rich blessings;
you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
4 xHe asked life of you; you gave it to him,
length of days forever and ever.
5 His yglory is great through your salvation;
zsplendor and majesty you bestow on him.
6 For you make him most ablessed forever;1
you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
7 For the king trusts in the Lord,
and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.
8 Your hand will find out all your enemies;
your right hand will find out those who hate you.
9 You will make them bas a blazing oven
when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
and cfire will consume them.
10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
and their offspring from among the children of man.
11 Though they plan evil against you,
though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
12 For you will put them to flight;
you will aim at their faces with your bows.
13 Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, I create lnew heavens
and a new earth,
and mthe former things shall not be remembered
nor come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be oa joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 pI will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
qno more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 rThey shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not sbuild and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy1 the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,2
for they shall be the toffspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
24 uBefore they call I will answer;
vwhile they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 wThe wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and xdust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all ymy holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
36 jAs they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” 37 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do kdoubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. lTouch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 40 And when he had said this, he mshowed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they still disbelieved for njoy and were marveling, he said to them, o“Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,1 43 and he took it and ate before them.
44 Then he said to them, p“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of qMoses and the rProphets and the sPsalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he topened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus it is uwritten, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47 and that repentance for2 the forgiveness of sins should be vproclaimed in his name to all nations, wbeginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are xwitnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am ysending the zpromise of my Father upon you. But astay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
The Ascension
50 bAnd he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was ccarried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple blessing God.
