By David.
35:1 O Lord, fight 2 those who fight with me!
Attack those who attack me!
35:2 Grab your small shield and large shield, 3
and rise up to help me!
35:3 Use your spear and lance 4 against 5 those who chase me!
Assure me with these words: 6 “I am your deliverer!”
For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song 8 by David. It was written when the Ziphites came and informed Saul: “David is hiding with us.” 9
54:1 O God, deliver me by your name! 10
Vindicate me 11 by your power!
A psalm.
98:1 Sing to the Lord a new song, 13
for he performs 14 amazing deeds!
His right hand and his mighty arm
accomplish deliverance. 15
98:2 The Lord demonstrates his power to deliver; 16
in the sight of the nations he reveals his justice.
144:5 O Lord, make the sky sink 17 and come down! 18
Touch the mountains and make them smolder! 19
144:6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them!
Shoot your arrows and rout them! 20
144:7 Reach down 21 from above!
Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, 22
from the power of foreigners, 23
15:6 Your right hand, O Lord, was majestic 24 in power,
your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.
51:2 Look at Abraham, your father,
and Sarah, who gave you birth. 25
When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, 26
but I blessed him 27 and gave him numerous descendants. 28
51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;
he will console all her ruins.
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
her desert like the Garden of the Lord.
Happiness and joy will be restored to 29 her,
thanksgiving and the sound of music.
51:4 Pay attention to me, my people!
Listen to me, my people!
For 30 I will issue a decree, 31
I will make my justice a light to the nations. 32
51:5 I am ready to vindicate, 33
I am ready to deliver, 34
I will establish justice among the nations. 35
The coastlands 36 wait patiently for me;
they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power. 37
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 38 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 39 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 40 will not disappear. 41
51:7 Listen to me, you who know what is right,
you people who are aware of my law! 42
Don’t be afraid of the insults of men;
don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!
51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;
a clothes moth will devour them like wool.
But the vindication I provide 43 will be permanent;
the deliverance I give will last.”
51:9 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! 44
Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity!
Did you not smash 45 the Proud One? 46
Did you not 47 wound the sea monster? 48
51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,
the waters of the great deep?
Did you not make 49 a path through the depths of the sea,
so those delivered from bondage 50 could cross over?
51:11 Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;
they will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 51
happiness and joy will overwhelm 52 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 53