71 O Lord my God , in You I have taken refuge ; Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, 2 Or he will tear my soul like a lion , Dragging me away , while there is none to deliver . 3 O Lord my God , if I have done this , If there is injustice in my hands , 4 If I have rewarded evil to my friend , Or have plundered him who without cause was my adversary , 5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it; And let him trample my life down to the ground And lay my glory in the dust . Selah . 6 Arise , O Lord , in Your anger ; Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries , And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment . 7 Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You, And over them return on high . 8 The Lord judges the peoples ; Vindicate me, O Lord , according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me. 9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end , but establish the righteous ; For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds .
10 My shield is with God , Who saves the upright in heart . 11 God is a righteous judge , And a God who has indignation every day . 12 If a man does not repent , He will sharpen His sword ; He has bent His bow and made it ready . 13 He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons ; He makes His arrows fiery shafts . 14 Behold , he travails with wickedness , And he conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood . 15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made . 16 His mischief will return upon his own head , And his violence will descend upon his own pate . 17 I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High .
81 O Lord , our Lord , How majestic is Your name in all the earth , Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens ! 2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries , To make the enemy and the revengeful cease .
3 When I consider Your heavens , the work of Your fingers , The moon and the stars , which You have ordained ; 4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God , And You crown him with glory and majesty ! 6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands ; You have put all things under his feet , 7 All sheep and oxen , And also the beasts of the field , 8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea , Whatever passes through the paths of the seas . 9 O Lord , our Lord , How majestic is Your name in all the earth !
91 I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart ; I will tell of all Your wonders . 2 I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name , O Most High . 3 When my enemies turn back , They stumble and perish before e You. 4 For You have maintained my just cause ; You have sat on the throne judging righteously . 5 You have rebuked the nations , You have destroyed the wicked ; You have blotted out their name forever and ever . 6 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins , And You have uprooted the cities ; The very memory of them has perished . 7 But the Lord abides forever ; He has established His throne for judgment , 8 And He will judge the world in righteousness ; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity . 9 The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed , A stronghold in times of trouble ; 10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Lord , have not forsaken those who seek You.
11 Sing praises to the Lord , who dwells in Zion ; Declare among the peoples His deeds . 12 For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted . 13 Be gracious to me, O Lord ; See my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death , 14 That I may tell of all Your praises , That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation . 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made ; In the net which they hid , their own foot has been caught . 16 The Lord has made Himself known ; He has executed judgment . In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared . Higgaion Selah . 17 The wicked will return to Sheol , Even all the nations who forget God . 18 For the needy will not always be forgotten , Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever . 19 Arise , O Lord , do not let man prevail ; Let the nations be judged before e You. 20 Put them in fear , O Lord ; Let the nations know that they are but men . Selah .
181 After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth . 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila , a native of Pontus , having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla , because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome . He came to them, 3 and because he was of the same trade , he stayed with them and they were working , for by trade they were tent-makers . 4 And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks . 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia , Paul began devoting himself completely to the word , solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ . 6 But when they resisted and blasphemed , he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads ! I am clean . From now on I will go to the Gentiles ."
7 Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus , a worshiper of God , whose house was next to the synagogue . 8 Crispus , the leader of the synagogue , believed in the Lord with all his household , and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized . 9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision , "Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent ; 10 for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city ." 11 And he settled there a year and six months , teaching the word of God among them.
12 But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia , the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat , 13 saying , "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law ." 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth , Gallio said to the Jews , "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime , O Jews , it would be reasonable for me to put up with you; 15 but if there are questions about words and names and your own law , look after it yourselves ; I am unwilling e to be a judge of these matters." 16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat . 17 And they all took hold of Sosthenes , the leader of the synagogue , and began beating him in front of the judgment seat . But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things .
18 Paul , having remained many days longer , took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for Syria , and with him were Priscilla and Aquila . In Cenchrea he had his hair cut , for he was keeping a vow . 19 They came to Ephesus , and he left them there . Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews . 20 When they asked him to stay for a longer time , he did not consent , 21 but taking leave of them and saying , "I will return to you again if God wills ," he set sail from Ephesus .
22 When he had landed at Caesarea , he went up and greeted the church , and went down to Antioch . 23 And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia , strengthening all the disciples .
24 Now a Jew named Apollos , an Alexandrian by birth , an eloquent man , came to Ephesus ; and he was mighty in the Scriptures . 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord ; and being fervent in spirit , he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus , being acquainted only with the baptism of John ; 26 and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue . But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately . 27 And when he wanted to go across to Achaia , the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived , he greatly helped those who had believed through grace , 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public , demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ .
