Psalms 21
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1(21-1) For the Leader. A Psalm of David. (21-2) O LORD, in Thy strength the king rejoiceth; and in Thy salvation how greatly doth he exult!
1Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.
2(21-3) Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and the request of his lips Thou hast not withholden. Selah
2O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
3(21-4) For Thou meetest him with choicest blessings; Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.
3O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
4(21-5) He asked life of Thee, Thou gavest it him; even length of days for ever and ever.
4But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
5(21-6) His glory is great through Thy salvation; honour and majesty dost Thou lay upon him.
5In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
6(21-7) For Thou makest him most blessed for ever; Thou makest him glad with joy in Thy presence.
6They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
7(21-8) For the king trusteth in the LORD, yea, in the mercy of the Most High; he shall not be moved.
7But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
8(21-9) Thy hand shall be equal to all thine enemies; thy right hand shall overtake those that hate thee.
8All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
9(21-10) Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
9He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
10(21-11) Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
10For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.
11(21-12) For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.
11I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,
12(21-13) For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.
12Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
13(21-14) Be Thou exalted, O LORD, in Thy strength; so will we sing and praise Thy power.
13Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.
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14They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
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15I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.
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16My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.
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17For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.
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18They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
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19They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
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20But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.
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21Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
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22Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
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23I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
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24Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.
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25Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.
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26With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
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27The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
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28All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
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29For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations.
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30All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
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31And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
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32There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.
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