Psalms 30:1

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

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

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

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

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”

(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.