Psalm 61

⁶Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

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.

⁶Hear my prayer, O Lord, and attend to my plea for mercy.

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

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.

²Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

¹A prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

⁹If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

¹⁰even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

²Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

⁶He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

²⁹But if from there you will seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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

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

⁷My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

²Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

⁷O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

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

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

⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and seek Him in His temple.

⁴He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

¹²May the Lord repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

¹⁶At that time those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the Lord and honored His name.

¹⁷“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

¹²Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

¹³He will bless those who fear the Lord—small and great alike.

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

³⁵but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

¹⁹But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

⁴He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.

³⁶his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

³⁷like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

⁶For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.

¹⁵Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him; may they bless him all day long.

¹⁶May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, the people of its cities like the grass of the field.

¹⁰Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

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

²⁷saying, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

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

³He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

⁷Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹³Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

¹³I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

¹⁴the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

²²So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

²I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.