I will hear what God the LORD will say; For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones; But let them not turn back to folly.
Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.
Indeed, the LORD will give what is good, And our land will yield its produce.
Make glad the soul of Your servant, For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; And give heed to the voice of my supplications!
In the day of my trouble I shall call upon You, For You will answer me.
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, Nor are there any works like Yours.
For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Oh grant Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your handmaid.
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; And the Most High Himself will establish her.
The LORD will count when He registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.
Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say, “All my springs of joy are in you.”
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
Forsaken among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand.
You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.
Will You perform wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
But I, O LORD, have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the lovingkindness of the LORD forever; To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.
For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”
The heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
For who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD,
A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him?
You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.
The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You.
How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance.
In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.
For our shield belongs to the LORD, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones, And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
“The enemy will not deceive him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
“I shall also set his hand on the sea And his right hand on the rivers.
“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
“I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
“So I will establish his descendants forever And his throne as the days of heaven.
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod And their iniquity with stripes.
“My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
“His descendants shall endure forever And his throne as the sun before Me.
“It shall be established forever like the moon, And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.
You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in battle.
You have made his splendor to cease And cast his throne to the ground.
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