Psalms 16

• 1. Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.
• 2. I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing."
• 3. As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.
• 4. The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.
• 5. LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.
• 6. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
• 7. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
• 8. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
• 9. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
• 10. because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
• 11. You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Psalms 17

• 1. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer- it does not rise from deceitful lips.
• 2. May my vindication come from you; may your eyes see what is right.
• 3. Though you probe my heart and examine me at night, though you test me, you will find nothing; I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.
• 4. As for the deeds of men- by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
• 5. My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
• 6. I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.
• 7. Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.
• 8. Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings
• 9. from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
• 10. They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
• 11. They have tracked me down, they now surround me, with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
• 12. They are like a lion hungry for prey, like a great lion crouching in cover.
• 13. Rise up, O LORD, confront them, bring them down; rescue me from the wicked by your sword.
• 14. O LORD, by your hand save me from such men, from men of this world whose reward is in this life. You still the hunger of those you cherish; their sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
• 15. And I-in righteousness I will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.

Psalms 18

• 1. I love you, O LORD, my strength.
• 2. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• 3. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
• 4. The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
• 5. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
• 6. In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
• 7. The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.
• 8. Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.
• 9. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.
• 10. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.
• 11. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him- the dark rain clouds of the sky.
• 12. Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
• 13. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
• 14. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great bolts of lightning and routed them.
• 15. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
• 16. He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.
• 17. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
• 18. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.
• 19. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
• 20. The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
• 21. For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.
• 22. All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.
• 23. I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.
• 24. The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
• 25. To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
• 26. to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
• 27. You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
• 28. You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.
• 29. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
• 30. As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
• 31. For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
• 32. It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.
• 33. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.
• 34. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
• 35. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.
• 36. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.
• 37. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
• 38. I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
• 39. You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet.
• 40. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
• 41. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them- to the LORD, but he did not answer.
• 42. I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind; I poured them out like mud in the streets.
• 43. You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations; people I did not know are subject to me.
• 44. As soon as they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cringe before me.
• 45. They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
• 46. The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!
• 47. He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,
• 48. who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.
• 49. Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.
• 50. He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

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