Psalms 16:1

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,