{ "1": "A Song of Ascents\n\nYahweh, for David’s sake, remember all his afflictions.\n\\q", "2": "how he swore to Yahweh,\n\\q how he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "Surely I will not enter the tent of my house\n\\q nor go up to the spread of my bed,\n\\q", "4": "Nor will I give sleep to my eyes\n\\q or rest to my eyelids\n\\q", "5": "until I find a place for Yahweh,\n\\q a tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.”\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "6": "Look, we heard about it in Ephrathah;\n\\q we found it in the fields of Jaar.\n\\q", "7": "We will go into his tabernacle;\n\\q we will worship at the footstool of his feet.\n\\q", "8": "Arise, Yahweh, to your resting place,\n\\q you and the ark of your strength!\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "9": "May your priests be clothed with righteousness;\n\\q may your faithful ones shout for joy.\n\\q", "10": "For your servant David’s sake,\n\\q do not turn away from the face of your anointed one.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "11": "Yahweh swore a sure oath to David,\n\\q he will not turn from it:\n\\q “From the fruit of your belly I will set on your throne.\n\\q", "12": "If your sons keep my covenant\n\\q and the laws that I will teach them,\n\\q their children also will sit on your throne forevermore.”\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "13": "For Yahweh has chosen Zion,\n\\q he has desired her as a dwelling for him.\n\\q", "14": "“This is my resting place forever.\n\\q I will dwell here, for I desire her.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "15": "With wild game I will abundantly bless her.\n\\q I will satisfy her poor with bread.\n\\q", "16": "I will clothe her priests with salvation,\n\\q her faithful ones will shout aloud for joy.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "17": "There I will make a horn to sprout for David\n\\q and set up a lamp for my anointed one.\n\\q", "18": "I will clothe his enemies with shame,\n\\q but on him his crown will shine.”\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d A song of ascents.\n\\q" }