1 O God, make speed to save me; ♦︎
O Lord, make haste to help me.
2 Let those who seek my life
be put to shame and confusion; ♦︎
let them be turned back and disgraced
who wish me evil.
3 Let those who mock and deride me ♦︎
turn back because of their shame.
4 But let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; ♦︎
let those who love your salvation say always, Great is the Lord!
5 As for me, I am poor and needy; ♦︎
come to me quickly, O God.
6 You are my help and my deliverer; ♦︎
O Lord, do not delay.
1 In you, O Lord, do I seek refuge; ♦︎
let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free; ♦︎
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be for me a stronghold to which I may ever resort; ♦︎
send out to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, ♦︎
from the grasp of the evildoer and the oppressor.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord God, ♦︎
my confidence, even from my youth.
6 Upon you have I leaned from my birth,
when you drew me from my mothers womb; ♦︎
my praise shall be always of you.
7 I have become a portent to many, ♦︎
but you are my refuge and my strength.
8 Let my mouth be full of your praise ♦︎
and your glory all the day long.
9 Do not cast me away in the time of old age; ♦︎
forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 For my enemies are talking against me, ♦︎
and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.
11 They say, God has forsaken him;
pursue him and take him, ♦︎
because there is none to deliver him.
12 O God, be not far from me; ♦︎
come quickly to help me, O my God.
13 Let those who are against me
be put to shame and disgrace; ♦︎
let those who seek to do me evil
be covered with scorn and reproach.
14 But as for me I will hope continually ♦︎
and will praise you more and more.
15 My mouth shall tell of your righteousness
and salvation all the day long, ♦︎
for I know no end of the telling.
16 I will begin with the mighty works of the Lord God; ♦︎
I will recall your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, you have taught me since I was young, ♦︎
and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.
18 Forsake me not, O God,
when I am old and grey-headed, ♦︎
till I make known your deeds to the next generation
and your power to all that are to come.
19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; ♦︎
in the great things you have done, who is like you, O God?
20 What troubles and adversities you have shown me, ♦︎
and yet you will turn and refresh me
and bring me from the deep of the earth again.
21 Increase my honour; ♦︎
turn again and comfort me.
22 Therefore will I praise you upon the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God; ♦︎
I will sing to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will sing out as I play to you, ♦︎
and so will my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue also will tell of your righteousness all the day long, ♦︎
for they shall be shamed and disgraced
who sought to do me evil.
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24Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face towards the wilderness.
2Balaam looked up and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. Then the spirit of God came upon him,
3and he uttered his oracle, saying:
The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,
the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,*
4 the oracle of one who hears the words of God,
who sees the vision of the Almighty,*
who falls down, but with eyes uncovered:
5 how fair are your tents, O Jacob,
your encampments, O Israel!
6 Like palm groves that stretch far away,
like gardens beside a river,
like aloes that the Lord has planted,
like cedar trees beside the waters.
7 Water shall flow from his buckets,
and his seed shall have abundant water,
his king shall be higher than Agag,
and his kingdom shall be exalted.
8 God, who brings him out of Egypt,
is like the horns of a wild ox for him;
he shall devour the nations that are his foes
and break their bones.
He shall strike with his arrows.*
9 He crouched, he lay down like a lion,
and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
and cursed is everyone who curses you.
10 Then Balaks anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, I summoned you to curse my enemies, but instead you have blessed them these three times. 11Now be off with you! Go home! I said, I will reward you richly, but the Lord has denied you any reward. 12And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me, 13If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say?
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12 So then, brothers and sisters,* we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh 13for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, Abba!* Father! 16it is that very Spirit bearing witness* with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christif, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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