Psalm 27

⁶So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

⁶The Lord is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

⁹But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

¹²Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹²They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off.

⁷Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

¹⁵Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

¹⁶For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

³When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.

⁴Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the Lord.

⁶I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.

¹⁴But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

²⁸without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

⁶Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

⁷For we walk by faith, not by sight.

¹⁶Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

⁸O Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

⁶Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

⁴Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

⁴How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah

⁴²But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

²⁰You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.

⁷If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

¹¹⁴You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

³But You, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

⁴⁹who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

²O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

³If You, O Lord, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

³Consider me and respond, O Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

²Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

¹A Psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

²Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

⁴Seek out the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.

¹²Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

¹³You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

⁶Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

⁷Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

⁵⁸I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.

⁶Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

¹A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

²So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

¹⁷Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

⁷Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

²Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

³“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

¹⁸And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁵Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

¹⁵“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

¹¹He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

³²“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

³⁶A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

¹⁶At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

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

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

¹²My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the Lord.

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.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; I flee to You for refuge.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

⁶⁰But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

⁸You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

¹¹Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

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

²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

¹¹Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

¹²So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,

¹⁶Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

⁵I cry to You, O Lord: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

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

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

³When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

¹³For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

¹⁹How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!

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.

²⁴Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the Lord.

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.

⁵I wait for the Lord; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

³⁴Wait for the Lord and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.