¹⁷ And you will be hated by all men, because of me.

¹⁸ But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.

¹⁹ By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

²⁰ But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

¹⁷ A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

¹⁸ See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

¹⁹ To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

²⁰ Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

²² And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

³ But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

¹⁷ There I will make the horn of David fertile: I have made ready a light for my king.

¹⁸ His haters will be clothed with shame; but I will make his crown shining.

³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

⁸ The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

²⁰ But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

²¹ The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

⁶ Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

² He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

³ But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

⁹ The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

²² Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

⁸ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

¹⁰ The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

¹¹ Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

² He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.

³ Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.

⁷ You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

¹⁵ My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

¹⁰ You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

¹⁸ We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

⁸ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

⁷ Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

⁸ Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

⁹ Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?

¹⁶ By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

¹¹ And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

¹² While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

¹³ And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

¹ <Michtam. Of David.> Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

¹¹ But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

¹² For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

¹⁰ It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.

¹¹ But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.

²³ And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

⁸ Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

⁹ You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

¹¹ And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

¹ <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

⁷ He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

⁸ He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

⁹ Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

⁷ For the king has faith in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

⁸ Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

¹⁰ Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

³⁰ As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

²⁵ The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

⁴ Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

⁵ A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

⁶ Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

² Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

³ May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.

⁴ See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep.

⁵ The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

⁶ You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.

⁷ The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.

⁸ The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.

²² The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

⁵ Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

⁸ I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

²⁹ So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: (for you, O Lord God, have said it,) and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever!

⁵ Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.

¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

³² For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

⁷ The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

⁸ I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.

⁴ You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

⁸ So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.

³ Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

² Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)

³ But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

⁴ I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

⁵ I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.

⁶ I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

⁷ Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

¹⁹ Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)

²⁶ And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

³ The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

³⁵ You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

³⁶ You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

³⁷ I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

⁶ And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

¹⁴ And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

¹⁵ And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

¹⁶ If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

⁶ The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

⁶ My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

⁷ Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.

⁸ Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

⁹ From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

¹⁰ They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

⁸ The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

⁹ The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

¹⁰ The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;

² May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

³ May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; (Selah.)

²⁶ For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

²⁰ O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.

²¹ For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

²² Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

⁶ The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

⁷ Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

⁸ You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

⁹ I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;

⁷ Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

¹¹⁴ You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.

⁹ He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

¹² The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

³⁵ And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

² Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

³ He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

¹² Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

¹⁴ Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

²⁶ For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

²² And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

⁷ The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

²⁰ Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

⁷ You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

¹⁶ But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

²⁵ For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.

¹¹ If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

²⁹ Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:

³⁰ But the hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹ Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

³² To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

¹⁰ I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

⁹ Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

¹⁰ No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

¹¹ For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

⁴ Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.

⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?