Psalm 25-32

Tree of Life Version

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I lift up my soul.
² O my God, in You I trust,
so I will not be ashamed,
and my enemies will not gloat over me.
³ Surely no one who waits for You will be ashamed.
But the treacherous without cause will be ashamed.
⁴ Show me Your ways, Adonai.
Teach me Your paths.
⁵ Guide me in Your truth, and teach me,
for You are God, my salvation,
for You I wait all day.
⁶ Remember, Adonai,
Your compassions and Your mercies—
for they are from eternity.
⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion.
According to Your mercy remember me,
    for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
⁸ Good and upright is Adonai.
Therefore He directs sinners in the way.
⁹ He guides the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble His way.
¹⁰ All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness
and truth
    to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
¹¹ For Your Name’s sake, Adonai,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
¹² Who is this man who fears Adonai?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul abides in goodness,
and his offspring will inherit the land.
¹⁴ The secret of Adonai is for those who fear Him.
He makes His covenant known to them.
¹⁵ My eyes are always looking to Adonai,
for He will pull my feet out of the net.
¹⁶ Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart increase.
Bring me out of my distress.
¹⁸ See my affliction and my suffering,
and take away all my sins.
¹⁹ See my enemies, how many they are—
they hate me with violent hatred.
²⁰ Guard my soul and deliver me.
Let me not be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
²¹ May integrity and uprightness protect me—
for I wait for You.
²² Redeem Israel, O God,
from all their troubles.

¹ Of David.
Vindicate me, Adonai,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and trusted in Adonai without wavering.
² Probe me, Adonai, and test me,
refine my mind and my heart.
³ For Your love is before my eyes
and I have walked in Your truth.
⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
⁵ I detest the company of evildoers,
and do not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence,
so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,
⁷ hearing the voice of thanksgiving
    while proclaiming all Your wonders.
⁸ Adonai, I love the House where You live,
the place where Your glory dwells.
⁹ Do not take my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with people of bloodshed—
¹⁰ in whose hands are wicked schemes,
whose right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹ But I—I will walk in my integrity.
Redeem me and be gracious to me.
¹² My feet stand on level ground.
In congregations I will bless Adonai.

¹ Of David.
Adonai is my light and my salvation:
    whom should I fear?
Adonai is the stronghold of my life:
    whom should I dread?
² When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh
—my adversaries and my foes—they stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army camp besieges me, my heart will not fear.
Though war breaks out against me, even then will I be confident.
⁴ One thing have I asked of Adonai,
that will I seek:
to dwell in the House of Adonai
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Adonai,
    and to meditate in His Temple.
⁵ For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah,
conceal me in the shelter of His tent,
and set me high upon a rock.
⁶ Then will my head be high above my enemies around me.
In His Tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy.
I will sing, yes, sing praises to Adonai.

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I call—
    my Rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You were silent to me,
    I would become like those going down to the Pit.
² Hear the sound of my pleas,
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands toward Your holy Sanctuary.
³ Do not drag me away with the wicked and with doers of iniquity,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
while evil is in their hearts.
⁴ Repay them for their deeds, their evil acts.
Repay them for the deeds of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
⁵ Since they show no regard for the deeds of Adonai
nor the work of His hands,
He will tear them down
    and never build them up.
⁶ Blessed be Adonai, because He has heard
the sound of my supplications.
⁷ Adonai is my strength and my shield.^[a]
My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped.
Therefore my heart leaps for joy,
and I will praise Him with my song.
⁸ Adonai is their strength—
a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
⁹ Save Your people, bless Your inheritance,
shepherd them and carry them forever.

¹ A psalm of David.
Ascribe to Adonai, O sons of God,
ascribe to Adonai glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Adonai the glory of His Name.
Bow down to Adonai in the beauty of holiness.
³ The voice of Adonai is over the waters.
The God of glory thunders—
Adonai is over mighty waters.
⁴ The voice of Adonai is powerful.
The voice of Adonai is full of majesty.
⁵ The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars.
Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Adonai hews out flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of Adonai shakes the desert.
Adonai shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of Adonai makes the deer writhe in birth
and strips forests bare,
and in His Temple all are saying, “Glory!”
¹⁰ Adonai sits enthroned over the flood.
Yes, Adonai sits as King forever.
¹¹ Adonai gives strength to His people.
Adonai blesses His people with shalom.

¹ A psalm, a song for the dedication of the Temple, of David.
² I will exalt You, Adonai,
for You have lifted me up,
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
³ Adonai my God, I cried to You for help,
and You healed me.
⁴ Adonai, You brought my soul up from Sheol.
You kept me alive, so I would not go down to the Pit.
⁵ Sing praise to Adonai, His faithful ones,
and praise His holy name.
⁶ For His anger lasts for only a moment,
    His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    but joy comes in the morning.
⁷ When I felt secure, I said:
“I will never be shaken.”
⁸ Adonai, in Your favor
You made my mountain stand strong.
When You hid Your face,
I was terrified.
⁹ To You, Adonai, I called,
and to my Lord I made my plea:
¹⁰ “What gain is there in my blood,
    in my going down to the Pit?
    Will the dust praise You?
    Will it declare Your truth?
¹¹ Hear, Adonai, and be gracious to me.
    Adonai, be my help.”

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² In You, Adonai, have I taken refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
In Your righteousness, deliver me.
³ Turn Your ear to me, rescue me quickly.
Be a rock of refuge for me, a stronghold for my deliverance.
⁴ Since You are my rock and my fortress,
You lead me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.
⁵ Free me from the net they hid for me,
for You are my refuge.
⁶ Into Your hand I commit my spirit.^[b]
You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
⁷ I detest those who continue to watch worthless idols,
but I trust in Adonai.
⁸ I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
for You saw my affliction.
You knew the troubles of my soul.
⁹ You did not hand me over to the enemy.
You set my feet in a wide-open place.
¹⁰ Be gracious to me, Adonai,
    for I am in distress.
My eyes waste away with grief,
    my soul and my body as well.
¹¹ For my life is consumed in sorrow
    and my years in sighing.
My strength fails because of my anguish
    and my bones waste away.
¹² Because of all my adversaries
I am the contempt of my neighbors
    and a dread to my acquaintances.
Seeing me on the street, they flee from me.
¹³ I am as forgotten as a dead man.
I have become like a broken vessel.
¹⁴ For I have heard the whispering of many.
There is terror on every side
    as they conspire against me
    and plot to take my life.
¹⁵ But I have trusted in You, Adonai.
I said: “You are my God.”
¹⁶ My times are in Your hands.
Deliver me from the hands of my foes and from those who pursue me.
¹⁷ Make Your face shine on Your servant.
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
¹⁸ Adonai, let me not be ashamed,
for I have called upon You.
Let the wicked be ashamed—
let them be silent in Sheol.
¹⁹ Let the lying lips be mute.
For they speak arrogantly against the righteous,
    with pride and contempt.
²⁰ How great is Your goodness,
which You have stored up for those who fear You,
which You have given to those who take refuge in You,
    before the children of men.
²¹ In the shelter of Your presence
You hide them from people’s plots.
You conceal them in a sukkah
from the strife of tongues.
²² Blessed be Adonai,
    for He has shown me His wonderful love
    in a besieged city.
²³ I said in my alarm,
“I have been cut off from Your sight!”
But You heard the sound of my pleas
    when I cried out to You.
²⁴ Love Adonai, all His kedoshim!
Adonai preserves all the faithful,
but the proud He pays back in full.
²⁵ Chazak! Let your heart take courage,^[c]
all you who wait for Adonai.

¹ Of David, a contemplative song.
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is pardoned.
² Blessed is the one whose guilt Adonai does not count,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.^[d]
3 When I kept silent,
my bones became brittle
through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me.
My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer.
        Selah
⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not hide my iniquity. I said:
“I confess my transgressions to Adonai,”
and You forgave the guilt of my sin.^[e]
        Selah