³ O send out Your ^(G)light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your ^(H)holy hill
And to Your ^(I)dwelling places.
⁴ Then I will go to ^(J)the altar of God,
To God ^[c]my exceeding ^(K)joy;
And upon the ^(L)lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

^5 (M)Why are you ^[d]in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
^[e]Hope in God, for I shall ^[f]again praise Him,
The ^[g]help of my countenance and my God.

⁴ You are ^(Y)my King, O God;
^(Z)Command ^[i]victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will ^(AA)push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(AB)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will ^(AC)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You ^(AD)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(AE)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we have ^(AF)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(AG)give thanks to Your name forever. ^[j]Selah.

⁹ Yet You ^(AH)have rejected us and brought us to ^(AI)dishonor,
And ^(AJ)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to ^(AK)turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us ^(AL)have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as ^(AM)sheep ^[k]to be eaten
And have ^(AN)scattered us among the nations.
¹² You ^(AO)sell Your people ^[l]cheaply,
And have not ^[m]profited by their sale.
¹³ You make us a ^(AP)reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a ^(AQ)derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us ^(AR)a byword among the nations,
A ^[n](AS)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[o]my ^(AT)humiliation has overwhelmed me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who ^(AU)reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(AV)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have ^(AW)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(AX)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not ^(AY)turned back,
And our steps ^(AZ)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ Yet You have ^(BA)crushed us in a place of ^(BB)jackals
And covered us with ^(BC)the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had ^(BD)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[p]hands to ^(BE)a strange god,
²¹ Would not God ^(BF)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But ^(BG)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as ^(BH)sheep to be slaughtered.
^23 (BI)Arouse Yourself, why ^(BJ)do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, ^(BK)do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You ^(BL)hide Your face
And ^(BM)forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(BN)soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.
^26 (BO)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(BP)redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.

³ Gird ^(BT)Your sword on Your thigh, O ^[x](BU)Mighty One,
In Your splendor and Your majesty!
⁴ And in Your majesty ride on victoriously,
For the cause of truth and ^(BV)meekness and righteousness;
Let Your ^(BW)right hand teach You ^[y]awesome things.
⁵ Your ^(BX)arrows are sharp;
The ^(BY)peoples fall under You;
Your arrows are ^(BZ)in the heart of the King’s enemies.

^6 (CA)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of ^(CB)uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁷ You have ^(CC)loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has ^(CD)anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.
⁸ All Your garments are fragrant with ^(CE)myrrh and aloes and cassia;
Out of ivory palaces ^(CF)stringed instruments have made You glad.
⁹ Kings’ daughters are among ^(CG)Your noble ladies;
At Your ^(CH)right hand stands the queen in ^(CI)gold from Ophir.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
^(CJ)Forget your people and your father’s house;
¹¹ Then the King will desire your beauty.
Because He is your ^(CK)Lord, ^(CL)bow down to Him.
¹² The daughter of ^(CM)Tyre will come with a gift;
The ^(CN)rich among the people will seek your favor.

¹³ The King’s daughter is all glorious within;
Her clothing is ^(CO)interwoven with gold.
¹⁴ She will be ^(CP)led to the King ^(CQ)in embroidered work;
The ^(CR)virgins, her companions who follow her,
Will be brought to You.
¹⁵ They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing;
They will enter into the King’s palace.

¹⁶ In place of your fathers will be your sons;
You shall make them princes in all the earth.
¹⁷ I will cause ^(CS)Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples ^(CT)will give You thanks forever and ever.

⁵ Why should I ^(I)fear in days of adversity,
When the iniquity of my ^[b]foes surrounds me,
⁶ Even those who ^(J)trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?
⁷ No man can by any means ^(K)redeem his brother
Or give to God a ^(L)ransom for him—
⁸ For ^(M)the redemption of ^[c]his soul is costly,
And he should cease trying forever—
⁹ That he should ^(N)live on eternally,
That he should not ^[d](O)undergo decay.

¹⁰ For he sees that even ^(P)wise men die;
The ^(Q)stupid and the senseless alike perish
And ^(R)leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their ^[e](S)inner thought is that their houses ^(T)are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have ^(U)called their lands after their own names.
¹² But ^(V)man in his ^[f]pomp will not endure;
He is like the ^[g]beasts that ^[h]perish.

¹³ This is the ^(W)way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who ^(X)approve their words. ^[i]Selah.
¹⁴ As sheep they are appointed ^(Y)for ^[j]Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the ^(Z)upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for ^[k]Sheol ^(AA)to consume
^[l]So that they have no habitation.
¹⁵ But God will ^(AB)redeem my soul from the ^[m]power of ^[n]Sheol,
For ^(AC)He will receive me. Selah.

¹⁶ Do not be afraid ^(AD)when a man becomes rich,
When the ^[o]glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷ For when he dies he will ^(AE)carry nothing away;
His ^[p]glory will not descend after him.
¹⁸ Though while he lives he ^(AF)congratulates ^[q]himself—
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—
^19 [r]He shall ^(AG)go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see ^(AH)the light.
^20 (AI)Man in his ^[s]pomp, yet without understanding,
Is ^(AJ)like the ^[t]beasts that ^[u]perish.

⁵ How blessed is the man whose ^(H)strength is in You,
In ^[c]whose heart are the ^(I)highways to Zion!
⁶ Passing through the valley of ^[d]Baca they make it a ^[e]spring;
The ^(J)early rain also covers it with blessings.
⁷ They ^(K)go from strength to strength,
^[f]Every one of them ^(L)appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O ^(M)Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give ear, O ^(N)God of Jacob! Selah.
⁹ Behold our ^(O)shield, O God,
And look upon the face of ^(P)Your anointed.
¹⁰ For ^(Q)a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the Lord God is ^(R)a sun and ^(S)shield;
The Lord gives grace and ^(T)glory;
^(U)No good thing does He withhold ^[g]from those who walk ^[h]uprightly.
¹² O Lord of hosts,
How ^(V)blessed is the man who trusts in You!

^4 (AC)Restore us, O God of our salvation,
And ^(AD)cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
⁵ Will ^(AE)You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to ^[k]all generations?
⁶ Will You not Yourself ^[l](AF)revive us again,
That Your people may ^(AG)rejoice in You?
⁷ Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord,
And ^(AH)grant us Your salvation.

^8 [m]I will hear what God the Lord will say;
For He will ^(AI)speak peace to His people, ^[n]to His godly ones;
But let them not ^(AJ)turn back to ^[o]folly.
⁹ Surely ^(AK)His salvation is near to those who ^[p]fear Him,
That ^(AL)glory may dwell in our land.
^10 (AM)Lovingkindness and ^[q]truth have met together;
^(AN)Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
^11 [r]Truth ^(AO)springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.
¹² Indeed, ^(AP)the Lord will give what is good,
And our ^(AQ)land will yield its produce.
^13 (AR)Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way.