20  ^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.

21  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.

22  ^dMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

^eWhy are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

2  O my God, I cry by day, ^fbut you do not answer,

and by night, but I find no rest.

3  Yet you are holy,

enthroned on the praises¹ of Israel.

4  In you our fathers trusted;

they trusted, and you delivered them.

5  To you they cried and were rescued;

^gin you they trusted and were not put to shame.

6  But I am a worm and not a man,

scorned by mankind and ^hdespised by the people.

7  All who see me ⁱmock me;

they make mouths at me; they ^jwag their heads;

8  ^k“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;

let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

9  Yet ^lyou are he who took me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

10  On you was I cast from my birth,

and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

11  ^mBe not far from me,

for trouble is near,

and there is ⁿnone to help.

12  Many bulls encompass me;

strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

13  they open wide their mouths at me,

like a ravening and roaring ^olion.

14  I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are out of joint;

my heart is like wax;

it is melted within my breast;

15  my strength is dried up like a potsherd,

and my tongue sticks to my jaws;

you lay me in the dust of death.

16  For ^pdogs encompass me;

a company of evildoers encircles me;

they have ^qpierced my hands and feet²—

17  I can count all my bones—

they stare and gloat over me;

18  ^rthey divide my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.

19  But you, O Lord, do not be far off!

O you my help, ^scome quickly to my aid!

20  Deliver my soul from the sword,

my precious life from the power of the dog!

21  Save me from the mouth of the ^tlion!

You have rescued³ me from the horns of the wild oxen!

22  ^uI will tell of your name to my brothers;

in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

23  You who fear the Lord, praise him!

All you offspring of Jacob, ^vglorify him,

and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

24  For he has not despised or abhorred

the affliction of the afflicted,

and he has not hidden his face from him,

but has heard, when he cried to him.

25  From you comes my praise in the great congregation;

my vows I will ^wperform before those who fear him.

26  The afflicted⁴ shall eat and be satisfied;

those who seek him shall praise the Lord!

May your hearts live forever!

27  All the ^xends of the earth shall remember

and turn to the Lord,

and all the families of the nations

shall worship before you.

28  For kingship belongs to the Lord,

and he rules over the nations.

29  All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;

before him shall bow all who go down ^yto the dust,

even the one who could not keep himself alive.

30  Posterity shall serve him;

it shall be ^ztold of the Lord to the coming generation;

31  they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people ^ayet unborn,

that he has done it.

23  The Lord is my ^bshepherd; ^cI shall not want.

2  He makes me lie down in ^dgreen pastures.

He ^eleads me beside still waters.¹

3  He ^frestores my soul.

He ^gleads me in ^hpaths of righteousness²

ⁱfor his name’s sake.

4  ^jEven though I walk through the valley of the ^kshadow of death,³

I will fear no evil,

for you are ^lwith me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5  You prepare a ^mtable before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6  Surely⁴ goodness and mercy⁵ shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall ⁿdwell⁶ in the house of the Lord

forever.⁷

24  ^oThe earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,¹

^pthe world and those who dwell therein,

2  for he has founded it upon the seas

and established it upon the rivers.

3  ^qWho shall ascend the hill of the Lord?

And who shall stand in his holy place?

4  He who has ^rclean hands and a ^spure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to what is false

and does not swear deceitfully.

5  He will receive blessing from the Lord

and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6  Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who ^tseek the face of the God of Jacob.² Selah

7  Lift up your heads, O gates!

And be lifted up, O ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

8  Who is this King of glory?

The Lord, strong and mighty,

the Lord, ^umighty in battle!

9  Lift up your heads, O gates!

And lift them up, O ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

10  Who is this King of glory?

The Lord of hosts,

he is the King of glory! Selah