With God We Shall Do Valiantly
A Song. A Psalm of David.
108 kMy heart is steadfast, O God!
lI will sing and make melody with all my being!1
2 Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
3 mI will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 For your steadfast love is great nabove the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
5 oBe exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
6 pThat your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!
7 God has promised in his holiness:2
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet,
Judah my qscepter.
9 Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rrejected us, O God?
sYou do not go out, O God, with our armies.
12 Oh grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the salvation of man!
13 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.
Help Me, O Lord My God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
109 Be not tsilent, O God uof my praise!
2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.
3 They encircle me with words of hate,
and attack me without cause.
4 In return for my love they accuse me,
vbut I give myself to prayer.1
5 So they wreward me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man against him;
let an accuser stand xat his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
let his yprayer be counted as sin!
8 May his days be few;
zmay another take his office!
9 aMay his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow!
10 May his children bwander about and beg,
seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him,
nor any to pity his fatherless children!
13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
14 cMay the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
and let not the sin of his mother be dblotted out!
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
16 For he did not remember to show kindness,
but pursued the poor and needy
and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
17 He loved to curse; let curses come2 upon him!
He did not delight in blessing; may it be far3 from him!
18 He clothed himself with cursing eas his coat;
may it soak4 into his body like water,
like oil into his bones!
19 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,
like a belt that he puts on every day!
20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,
of those who speak evil against my life!
21 But you, O God my Lord,
deal on my behalf ffor your name’s sake;
gbecause your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
22 hFor I am poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
23 I am gone like a ishadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through jfasting;
my body has become kgaunt, with no fat.
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they lwag their heads.
26 mHelp me, O Lord my God!
Save me according to your steadfast love!
27 Let them know that this is your hand;
you, O Lord, have done it!
28 Let them curse, but you will bless!
They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
29 May my accusers be nclothed with dishonor;
may they be owrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
30 With my mouth pI will give great thanks to the Lord;
I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
31 For he stands qat the right hand of the needy one,
rto save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Sit at My Right Hand
A Psalm of David.
110 sThe Lord says to my Lord:
t“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
uRule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves vfreely
on the day of your power,1
in holy garments;2
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.3
4 wThe Lord has sworn
and xwill not change his mind,
after the order of aMelchizedek.”
5 The Lord is bat your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute cjudgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
over the wide earth.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
Great Are the Lord’s Works
111 1 Praise the Lord!
eI will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the works of the Lord,
fstudied by all who gdelight in them.
3 Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
and hhis righteousness endures forever.
4 He has caused his wondrous works to be iremembered;
the Lord is jgracious and merciful.
5 He provides food for those who fear him;
he kremembers his covenant forever.
6 He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts are trustworthy;
8 they are established forever and ever,
to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
9 He sent lredemption to his people;
he has commanded his covenant forever.
mHoly and awesome is his name!
10 nThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all those who practice it have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever!
The Righteous Will Never Be Moved
112 1 Praise the Lord!
oBlessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who greatly pdelights in his commandments!
2 qHis offspring will be mighty in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house,
and rhis righteousness endures forever.
4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright;
he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
5 It is well with the man who deals generously and slends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.
6 For tthe righteous will never be moved;
uhe will be remembered forever.
7 vHe is not afraid of bad news;
his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
8 His heart is steady;2 he will not be afraid,
until he wlooks in triumph on his adversaries.
9 xHe has distributed freely; he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his horn is exalted in honor.
10 The wicked man sees it and is angry;
he gnashes his teeth and melts away;
ythe desire of the wicked will perish!
