25 – 28 March 2025
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar’s friend: whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
The LORD, above in John 19:12, begins His delineation (line upon line, precept upon precept), the differentiation between His kingdom and the kingdoms of the world.
To preface this, I know I Am the one He’s made king, just as I Am, with authority to rule over all (His saints) who receive Him and (over) His (all) creation.
John 19
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth [narzar – separated for this work of God] The King Of The Jews.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam [arrhantos], woven [huphantos] from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture, they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
In context, FYI, I designed the basic ideas in almost all the personal load-bearing equipment (armored vests and pockets) worn by the U.S. military. I developed them (they came to me from God in a dream) and patented them years ago, and the military developers (Program Managers at the U.S. Natick Soldiers System Center) initially bought many of the systems from me under the false premise of evaluating them for an “off-the-shelf” Military-wide purchase. They then changed it slightly, claimed it was their design, and put it out for open bids. The resulting contracts were awarded to larger, better “connected” companies. My original designs remained much better than the Natick “knock-off” version (they called the MOLLE System, on which the Services spent billions, and for which I never received any compensation). Everyone (paying attention to such things) knew what occurred (that Natick stole my designs), and the most elite Forces had the leeway to stay with my OG version. My company (which I sold in 2006) was named Paraclete (the name of the Holy Spirit) Armor & Equipment (I still own several other (Aviation, Wind Tunnel, and Skydiving) companies (“air” related) bearing the name Paraclete. I say this because it is very coincidental (divinely foretold) in the above pattern.
The systems I designed to connect the various modular (arrhaphos – not sewn on) pockets to the vest were straps attached to the top back of the pockets and inter-woven (huphantos – woven) through other straps on the pocket and the vest from top to bottom. All four services still use this system: “and made four parts, to every soldier a part.”
As we know, the quote in verse 24 above is from Psalms 22:18, saying, “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
The word here rendered “lots” is gowral, which speaks of a precursor: something indicative of what is to come. In the LORD’s uses, it’s seemingly random writing, words as if from a stone, which in their depth tell of things not yet visible or realized.
In this context, in a passage speaking of this moment, its most prominent use comes in Proverbs 16:33, saying “The lot [gowral] is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.”
The word rendered “disposing” is mishpat, meaning the verdict; most often rendered judgment. The verse speaks of the initial indication, the seemingly random (coincidental) events that occur, which are then interpreted, prophesied about, and are only understood (realized) in the experience (reality), when the LORD’s judgment comes.
The word misphat, is said to be from the word shaphat, also meaning judgment. It (mishpat) is more correctly asking what (mah) judgment and also describing it fulfilled (male’). In this context, the LORD refers us to its one use in the name Enmishpat (in a verse written, as it is, for this specific moment), meaning fountain of this judgment; speaking of from where it flows.
Genesis 14:7 [numbers with meanings]
And they returned [to the LORD], and came to Enmishpat [this fountain of His judgment], which is Kadesh [His holiness] and smote all the country of the Amalekites [the enemies among us in power, who are at war with us], and also the Amorites [who exalt their words above this word of the LORD], that dwelt in Hazezontamar [cutting off the wicked from the upright]
This name Hazezontamar is from the three-times used word chatsats (to sever) and tamar (upright). It only appears one other time: in 2 Chronicles 20:2 where we’re told it’s another name for Engedi, said to mean fountain of the goat (leaders, those followed). The word gedi is from gadah, a three-times use word speaking of where the words of the proud are stayed, “(meaning to cut off); a border of a river (as cut into by the stream):–bank.”
Isaiah 8
7 Now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings [brought] up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communist attack against church and state, with words of death, leading our nation and people into self-destruction], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks [gadah – corrupting all truth in the word of God]:
2 Chronicles 20
2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat [the judgment of Jehovah], saying, There comes a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar [where they are severed from the upright], which is Engedi [at this fountain of the LORD where the proud wave of the wicked are stayed].
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD [in His word], and proclaimed a fast [silencing the wicked] throughout all Judah.
14 Then upon Jahaziel [chazah ‘el – who perceived and saw God] the son of Zechariah [by remembering Jehovah], the son of Benaiah [in whom Jehovah has risen], the son of Jeiel [ya’ah ‘el – by whom he will sweep away all lies that blind the world – ya’ah only appears once, in Isaiah 28:17; with affinity to a different word ya’ah, also once used, from which comes the name Yahh, to whom it “appertains” – Isaiah 28:17 Judgment {mishpat} also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail {this word frozen in heaven until this time of war} shall sweep away {ya’ah} the refuge of lies, and the waters {of Engedi} shall overflow the hiding place.], the son of Mattaniah [which is a gift, the grace, of Jehovah], a Levite [joined with Him] of the sons of Asaph [to gather His people into His ONE BODY], came the Spirit of the LORD [present but unknown] in the midst of the congregation;
15 And he said, Hearken you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat, Thus says the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed [chathath – confused] by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
16 Tomorrow go you down [descend into hell] against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz [‘alah ma’aleh tsiyts – their rising to power is as the rising of a flower]; and you shall find [matsa’ – attain] them at the end [cowph – this conclusion] of the brook [these waters: the word of the LORD heard], before [paniym – manifesting His presence] the wilderness of Jeruel [taught by God, as in Jerusalem, this word which flow from Him, teaching His ways of peace].
17 You shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed [chathath – confused by this]; tomorrow go out against [paniym – manifest my presence in my word spoken to] them: for the LORD will be with you.
18 And Jehoshaphat [Jehovah’s judgment] bowed his head [subordinated His mind to the LORD’s will: mind] with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
The word tsiyts tells of repentance, and the conclusion (holiness and sanctification) as a sign, title, or waymark, as in John 19:19. Its unstated affinity is to the three-times used word tsiyuwn (from where comes the name Zion), meaning “from the same as 6723 [tsiyah – the same as tsiyown: a dry place, where the words of corruption are removed by the risen sun] in the sense of conspicuousness (compare 5329); a monumental or guiding pillar:–sign, title, waymark.”
Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers [who offer strange fire upon the LORD’s altar] to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people [who receive this understanding] glorify you, the city of the terrible nations [that have not known the LORD among them speaking and working] shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place [tsiyown – ending their corrupt words]; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things [His word that here prospers], a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined [purged of corruption].
7 And he will destroy in this mountain [Zion] the face [paniym] of the covering [lowt] cast [luwt – these words speak the covering that covers the LORD presence] over all people, and the vail [the flesh which He speaks and works unknown] that is spread over all nations.
8 He will [with His mouth, His word heard as His] swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain [Zion] shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to bring things from the deep to the surface]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment [mishpat].
2 And a man [I Am] shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of [life-giving] water in a dry place [tsiyown], as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak [this word of the LORD] plainly.
Proverbs 16
8 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words [that please the LORD] are as a honeycomb [well order and systematically, orderly constructed], sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
26 He that labors [to understanding without waiting for the LORD’s explanation] labors for himself; for his mouth [speaking his self-contrived worthless opinions] craves it of him.
27 An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
28 A froward man [twisting and perverting truth] sows [plants in the earth] strife: and a whisperer [speaking manipulative contrivances] separates chief friends.
29 A violent man entices his neighbor [to join in his violence], and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
30 He shuts his eyes [to reality] to devise froward [twisted and perverted] things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.
31 The hoary head [seybah – those awakened in this end of the age] is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit [rightly governs himself in this state of nature] than he that taketh a city.
33 The lot [gowral] is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing [mishpat] thereof is of the LORD.
The lot cast was the LORD’s crucifixion. The disposing of the matter is His resurrection (when we rise into the “air” with Him), now at this end of the age, in me, in us, His ONE risen BODY.
As we know, Psalms 22 (a Psalm of David) begins with words the LORD spoke from the cross (the precursor). The Psalm then speaks of the LORD’s disposing of the matter.
Psalms 20
1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name [manifested identity] of the God of Jacob defend you;
2 Send you help from the sanctuary [His presence], and strengthen [give understanding to] you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant you according to your own heart [mind], and fulfill all your counsel.
5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen [from death in this resurrection], and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Psalms 21
1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For you prevented [prepared these treasures for] him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown [this understanding] of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, even length of days forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid upon him.
6 For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.
7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.
9 You shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 Their fruit shalt you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 Therefore shalt you make them turn their back, when you shalt make ready your arrows upon your strings against the face of them.
13 Be you exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.
Psalms 22
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far [rachowq – in this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power in church and state] from helping me, and from the words of my roaring [speaking Your word, doing Your work in the earth]?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time [when Your understanding is in me], but you [Your people] hear not; and in the night season [when ignorance of You covers the earth], and am not silent.
3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel [Your presence is manifested in Your word heard from them].
4 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted [that You were present], and you did deliver them.
5 They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.
6 But I Am a worm [animated dead flesh among the dead here in the belly of the earth, in the fires of hell], and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But you are he that took me out of the womb [bringing my flesh to life again among the dead]: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon you from the womb: you are my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble [tsarah – tribulation] is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls [saying they are doing your word in the earth] have compassed me: strong bulls [with their own falsely so-called understanding] of Bashan [whose fruit is corruption] have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths [which are as the gates of hell holding all in death], as a ravening and a roaring lion [claiming they are speaking the LORD’s word].
14 I Am poured out like water [speaking the word You have given me from heaven], and all my bones [Your scatter people, the dead carcass of Your ONE BODY] are out of joint: my heart [the foundational mind of Your BODY] is like wax; it is melted [like the element] in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my [of the ONE BODY] tongue cleaves to my jaws [the dead refusing to speak the word You’ve given them to raise them to life]; and you have brought me [the ONE BODY] into the dust of [the ruin of the earth from where they are brought to life from] death.
16 For dogs [those ignorantly barking in the darkness] have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet [refusing to do Your work and teach Your way].
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots [gowral] upon my vesture.
19 But be not you far [rachaq – not like the evil decrees of the wicked] from me, O LORD: O my strength [my understanding, my light, my life], haste you to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword [the words of wicked men]; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth [those speaking lies in Your name]: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns [Your one and only voice, Your power, manifested in me].
22 I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.
23 You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel [who receive Him].
24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face [paniym – His presence] from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world [‘erets – the end of the old earth and beginning of the new] shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations [who haven’t known Him] shall worship before you.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the LORD for a [new] generation [the first of His new creation].
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.
Isaiah 8
7 Now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings [brought] up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communist attack against church and state, with words of death, leading our nation and people into self-destruction], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks [gadah – corrupting all truth in the word of God]:
8 And he shall pass through Judah [against the leaders of God’s people]; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck [they with their words prevailed and stopped the word of God from ever reaching the mouth of any]; and the stretching out of his wings [their voice exalted above all voices] shall fill the breadth of your land, [against whom the LORD comes, manifesting His presence with us] O Immanuel [‘Immanuw ‘el].
9 Associate [corrupt] yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries [merchaq ‘erets – the earth in this time appointed and decreed by the LORD]: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together [speaking worthless ignorance against the present LORD], and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [‘el] is with us [‘immanuw].
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me [I Am, His man of war] with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, [He] saying [to me],
12 “Say you not, ‘A confederacy [joined with the ignorant and corrupt],’ to all them to whom this people shall say, ‘A confederacy [of the corrupt];’ neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD [declare the present LORD Holy, exalt His one voice from His holy one] of hosts [a man of war] himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he [in His presence] shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel [his people who reject Him], for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [who refuse to receive the peace that flows from His chosen one].
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken [lakad], and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony [this word of Shiloh, of peace flowing from the LORD’s chosen flesh], seal the law among my disciples [My students, who see as I see].”
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides [cathar – hides in men’s chosen ignorance] his face [paniym – His presence] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him [qavah – expect to see Him by His understanding learned].
18 Behold, I [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and the children [upon who these sure mercies of David have come] whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion [His throne here on the earth].
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead, the misleading words of the communists that are known to be the death of men and nations], and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Why are they still looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [When they should be looking] To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh, peace that flows from the LORD’s teaching]: if they speak not according to this word [exalting His voice above all other voices], it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry [refusing the word of God]: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry [without this word of God], they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [I Am the promised son of David, the son of Joseph] and their God, and [ignorantly] look [panah – turn their heads] upward [not believing He is manifesting His presence in His word spoken through His chosen].
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and darkness [ignorance], dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness [into the now obvious insanity].
Psalms 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table [this feast] before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Psalms 24
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart [by which we see the LORD present with us, in us]; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the [first] generation of them that seek him, that seek your face [paniym], O Jacob [the LORD presence with us, in us]. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads [your minds with Him], O you gates [out of hell into heaven]; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of just war], he is the King of glory. Selah.
Psalms 25
1 Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] will he guide in judgment: and the meek [who inherit the earth] will he teach his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon My iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret [treasures] of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles [tsarah – tribulation] of my heart [mind] are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon y affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms 26
1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
3 For your lovingkindness is before My eyes: and I have walked in your truth.
4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
7 That I may publish [shama’ – hear and obey] with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells [in me, in those who receive Your word and do your will].
9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
12 My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even My enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall my head be lifted up above My enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said unto you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 28
1 Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.
8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever.
Psalms 29
1 Give unto the LORD, O you mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.
10 The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sits King forever.
11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 30
1 I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2 O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you have healed me.
3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing unto the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.
8 I cried to you, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?
10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be you my helper.
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.
Psalms 31
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for you are my strength.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
20 You shalt hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless, you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.
23 O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.
Psalms 32
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silent, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledge my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.
7 You are my hiding place; you shalt preserve me from trouble; you shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shalt go: I will guide you with my eye.
9 Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto you.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.
Psalms 33
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
13 The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
15 He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
22 Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in you.
