Psalm 20-22

English Standard Version

⁴ May he ^(G)grant you your heart's desire
    and fulfill all your plans!
⁵ May we shout for joy over ^(H)your salvation,
    and in the name of our God set up our ^(I)banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

⁶ Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with ^(J)the saving might of his right hand.
⁷ Some trust in ^(K)chariots and some in ^(L)horses,
    ^(M)but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸ They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.

⁹ O Lord, save ^(N)the king!
    May he answer us when we call.

⁸ Your hand will ^(AA)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹ You will make them as ^(AB)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his ^(AC)wrath,
    and ^(AD)fire will consume them.
¹⁰ You ^(AE)will destroy their ^(AF)descendants from the earth,
    and their offspring from among the children of man.
¹¹ Though they plan evil against you,
    though they ^(AG)devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹² For you will put them ^(AH)to flight;
    you will ^(AI)aim at their faces with your bows.

¹³ Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
    We will sing and praise your power.

³ Yet you are ^(AN)holy,
    ^(AO)enthroned on ^(AP)the praises^[b] of Israel.
⁴ In you our fathers trusted;
    they trusted, and you delivered them.
⁵ To you they ^(AQ)cried and were rescued;
    in you they ^(AR)trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶ But I am ^(AS)a worm and not a man,
    ^(AT)scorned by mankind and ^(AU)despised by the people.
⁷ All who see me ^(AV)mock me;
    they make mouths at me; they ^(AW)wag their heads;
^8 (AX)“He trusts in the Lord; let him ^(AY)deliver him;
    let him rescue him, for he ^(AZ)delights in him!”

⁹ Yet you are he who ^(BA)took me from the womb;
    you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
¹⁰ On you was I cast from my birth,
    and from ^(BB)my mother's womb you have been my God.
¹¹ Be not ^(BC)far from me,
    for trouble is near,
    and there is ^(BD)none to help.

¹² Many bulls encompass me;
    ^(BE)strong bulls of ^(BF)Bashan surround me;
¹³ they ^(BG)open wide their mouths at me,
    like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am ^(BH)poured out like water,
    and all my bones are ^(BI)out of joint;
my ^(BJ)heart is like ^(BK)wax;
    it is melted within my breast;
¹⁵ my strength is ^(BL)dried up like a potsherd,
    and my ^(BM)tongue sticks to my jaws;
    you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶ For ^(BN)dogs encompass me;
    a company of evildoers ^(BO)encircles me;
they have ^(BP)pierced my hands and feet^[c]—
¹⁷ I can count all my bones—
they ^(BQ)stare and gloat over me;
^18 (BR)they divide my garments among them,
    and for my clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹ But you, O Lord, ^(BS)do not be far off!
    O you my help, ^(BT)come quickly to my aid!
²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword,
    my precious life from the power of ^(BU)the dog!
²¹     Save me from ^(BV)the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued^[d] me from the horns of ^(BW)the wild oxen!

^22 (BX)I will tell of your name to my ^(BY)brothers;
    in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
²³ You who ^(BZ)fear the Lord, praise him!
    All you offspring of Jacob, ^(CA)glorify him,
    and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
²⁴ For he has not despised or abhorred
    the affliction of ^(CB)the afflicted,
and he has not ^(CC)hidden his face from him,
    but has heard, when he ^(CD)cried to him.

²⁵ From you comes my praise in the great ^(CE)congregation;
    my ^(CF)vows I will ^(CG)perform before those who fear him.
^26 (CH)The afflicted^[e] shall ^(CI)eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
    May your hearts ^(CJ)live forever!

²⁷ All ^(CK)the ends of the earth shall remember
    and turn to the Lord,
and all ^(CL)the families of the nations
    shall worship before you.
²⁸ For ^(CM)kingship belongs to the Lord,
    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹ All ^(CN)the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
    before him shall ^(CO)bow all who go down to the dust,
    even the one who could not ^(CP)keep himself alive.
³⁰ Posterity shall serve him;
    it shall be told of the Lord to the coming ^(CQ)generation;
³¹ they shall ^(CR)come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet ^(CS)unborn,
    that he has done it.