Psalm 43-49

New King James Version

^3 (D)Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to ^(E)Your holy hill
And to Your ^[a]tabernacle.
⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp I will praise You,
O God, my God.

^5 (F)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[b]help of my countenance and my God.

^4 (L)You are my King, ^[e]O God;
^[f]Command victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You ^(M)we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
⁶ For ^(N)I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.
⁷ But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.
^8 (O)In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

⁹ But ^(P)You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You make us ^(Q)turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken ^[g]spoil for themselves.
^11 (R)You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have ^(S)scattered us among the nations.
^12 (T)You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

^13 (U)You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
^14 (V)You make us a byword among the nations,
^(W)A shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵ My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
^(X)Because of the enemy and the avenger.

^17 (Y)All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
^(Z)Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
¹⁹ But You have severely broken us in ^(AA)the place of jackals,
And covered us ^(AB)with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ^(AC)stretched^[h] out our hands to a foreign god,
^21 (AD)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
^22 (AE)Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23 (AF)Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
^24 (AG)Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For ^(AH)our soul is bowed down to the ^[i]dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
²⁶ Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

² You are fairer than the sons of men;
^(AJ)Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
^3 [m]Gird Your ^(AK)sword upon Your thigh, ^(AL)O Mighty One,
With Your ^(AM)glory and Your majesty.
^4 (AN)And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
⁵ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.

^6 (AO)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A ^(AP)scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has ^(AQ)anointed You
With the oil of ^(AR)gladness more than Your companions.
⁸ All Your garments are ^(AS)scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
^9 (AT)Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women;
^(AU)At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
^(AV)Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
¹¹ So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
^(AW)Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
¹² And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
^(AX)The rich among the people will seek your favor.

¹³ The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with gold.
^14 (AY)She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
^(AZ)Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
^17 (BA)I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.

⁴ There is a ^(BF)river whose streams shall make glad the ^(BG)city of God,
The holy place of the ^[p]tabernacle of the Most High.
⁵ God is ^(BH)in the midst of her, she shall not be ^[q]moved;
God shall help her, just ^[r]at the break of dawn.
^6 (BI)The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

⁷ The ^(BJ)Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has made desolations in the earth.
^9 (BK)He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
^(BL)He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
^(BM)He burns the chariot in the fire.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God;
^(BN)I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!

¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

^5 (BR)God has gone up with a shout,
The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
^7 (BS)For God is the King of all the earth;
^(BT)Sing praises with understanding.

^8 (BU)God reigns over the nations;
God ^(BV)sits on His ^(BW)holy throne.
⁹ The princes of the people have gathered together,
^(BX)The people of the God of Abraham.
^(BY)For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

⁴ For behold, ^(CB)the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
⁶ Fear ^(CC)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
⁷ As when You break the ^(CD)ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.

⁸ As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will ^(CE)establish it forever. Selah

⁹ We have thought, O God, on ^(CF)Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
¹⁰ According to ^(CG)Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹ Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
¹³ Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may ^(CH)tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴ For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
^(CI)He will be our guide
^[t]Even to death.

⁵ Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
⁶ Those who ^(CJ)trust in their wealth
And boast in the multitude of their riches,
⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor ^(CK)give to God a ransom for him—
⁸ For ^(CL)the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—
⁹ That he should continue to live eternally,
And ^(CM)not ^[v]see the Pit.

¹⁰ For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
^11 [w]Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They ^(CN)call their lands after their own names.
¹² Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not ^[x]remain;
He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the way of those who are ^(CO)foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings. Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;
^(CP)The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
^(CQ)And their beauty shall be consumed in ^[y]the grave, far from their dwelling.
¹⁵ But God ^(CR)will redeem my soul from the power of ^[z]the grave,
For He shall ^(CS)receive me. Selah

¹⁶ Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him.
¹⁸ Though while he lives ^(CT)he blesses himself
(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),
¹⁹ He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see ^(CU)light.^[aa]
20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
^(CV)Is like the beasts that perish.