Psalm 25

⁸Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

⁴Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

¹⁵“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

⁴¹Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

¹¹It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

¹¹By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

⁵They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

⁵And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

⁶Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

²⁵The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

³¹But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

²³Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

⁷But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

⁵Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

⁸Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.

²⁷Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.

⁸Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

¹³Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

³⁴Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

¹⁸Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the Lord is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

³Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

⁵⁰His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

⁷⁸because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

¹⁸Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁵I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

¹⁷Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

¹⁶“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

¹⁷Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

¹²For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

²⁶For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

²⁵Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

⁵Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

⁴⁴“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

¹⁵to proclaim, “The Lord is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”

¹³But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

⁵Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

³He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

⁵Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

⁶Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

¹⁵But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,

¹¹See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

²⁸And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

⁸But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

⁹It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.

¹¹O Lord, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

¹⁷For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

¹⁸to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

¹²I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.

²⁵I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

³For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

²⁰The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

²¹so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

²³The steps of a man are ordered by the Lord who takes delight in his journey.

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

¹⁷If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

¹³When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁰Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord; let him lean on his God.

¹¹But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

²³The fear of the Lord leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

³³But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

²⁶They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.

³⁹This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

¹⁷The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

²¹Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

²²Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

¹⁷If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.

⁹And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

¹⁴The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

⁸But my eyes are fixed on You, O God the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.

⁷We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

⁴You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.

¹A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

²My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

²As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the Lord our God until He shows us mercy.

²⁶For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

¹⁶Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

¹⁷So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

¹⁴Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

⁴My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

⁶Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

⁸We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

⁹persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

²In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

³I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

¹A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

²For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

¹⁷Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

¹⁸yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

¹²Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

¹³²Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

²Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

¹Of David. A Maskil. Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

²Blessed is the man whose iniquity the Lord does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

¹Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

¹¹And she made a vow, saying, “O Lord of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

⁵But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”

¹¹May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

³For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

¹⁹Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

²and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they feared the people.

¹In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

²In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

⁷The Lord will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.

²⁶You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

²⁷Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

⁸Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

²Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.

⁵⁹While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

³The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

¹²In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.

¹Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

⁷The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

¹⁶In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

¹¹But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

⁸And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

¹⁸In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁹Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.

⁷Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.