Book 2.1: Jehovah is the Great Helper of Israel and Creator of the Universe

Complement    Part 1: Jehovah is the Great Helper of Israel

Opposite   Chapter 1.1: Jehovah is my personal helper (Psalm 54)

¹Save me, O God, by your Name, and judge me by your strength.

²Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

³For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.

⁴Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is with them that uphold my soul; ⁵he shall reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in your truth.

⁶I will freely sacrifice to you; I will praise your Name, O Jehovah: for it is good. ⁷For he has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has looked upon the destruction of my enemies.

Opposite   Chapter 1.2: The help of Israel is in the Name of Jehovah (Psalm 124)

¹If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, now may Israel say; ²if it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us, ³then they would have swallowed us up alive.

When their wrath was kindled against us, ⁴then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the stream would have gone over our soul; ⁵then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶Blessed is Jehovah, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the bird hunters. The snare is broken; and we have escaped.

⁸Our help is in the Name of Jehovah, who made heaven and earth.

 

 

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Complement    Chapter 1.3: Jehovah is the refuge of his people Israel (Psalm 94)

§Unique   Introduction: O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself

¹O Jehovah God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself. ²Lift up yourself, you Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.

³Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? ⁴How long shall they utter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? ⁵They break your people in pieces, O Jehovah, and afflict your inheritance. ⁶They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. ⁷Yet they say, “Jehovah shall not see; neither shall the God of Jacob care.”

⁸Understand, you stupid among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? ¹⁰He that disciplines the heathen, shall he not correct? He that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know? ¹¹Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are vain.

§Complement   Body: Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Jehovah, and teach him out of your Law

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Jehovah, and teach him out of your Law, ¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit has been dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people; neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵But judgment shall return to righteousness; and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? And who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul would have almost dwelt in silence. ¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping”, your mercy, O Jehovah, held me up. ¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

§Complement   Conclusion: Jehovah is my defense, and my God is the Rock of my refuge

²⁰Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, they who frame mischief by a law?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

²²But Jehovah is my defense, and my God is the Rock of my refuge; ²³and he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness. Yea, Jehovah our God shall cut them off.

Complement    Chapter 1.4: Jehovah is the help and shield of his people Israel (Psalm 115)

§Unique   Introduction: Our God is in the heavens; their gods are silver and gold, which cannot speak, see, smell, or walk

¹Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to your Name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth’s sake.

²Why should the heathen say, “Where is their God now?” ³But our God is in the heavens; he has done whatsoever he has pleased.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. ⁵They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ⁶they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; ⁷they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; neither do they speak through their throat. ⁸They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusts in them.

§Complement   Body: O Israel, trust in Jehovah; He will bless you; He will increase you more and more

⁹O Israel, trust in Jehovah; he is their help and their shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah; he is their help and their shield.

¹¹You that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah; he is their help and their shield.

¹²Jehovah has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; ¹³he will bless them that fear Jehovah, both small and great.

¹⁴Jehovah shall increase you more and more, both you and your children. ¹⁵You are blessed of Jehovah who made heaven and earth.

§Complement   Conclusion: We will bless Jehovah from this time forth and forevermore

¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are Jehovah’s;

but the earth has he given to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead do not praise Jehovah; neither any that go down into silence. ¹⁸But we will bless Jehovah from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Jehovah!

 

Unique   Chapter 1.5: Jehovah is the helper of the weak and defenseless (Psalm 146)

§Complement   Introduction: I will praise Jehovah

¹Praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

²While I live, I will praise Jehovah;

I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

§Complement   Body: Jehovah has mercy upon the weak and helpless

³Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ⁴His spirit departs; he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵But happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his helper; whose hope is in Jehovah his God, ⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in it; who keeps truth forever; ⁷who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry.

Jehovah releases the prisoners; ⁸Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises them that are bowed down.

Jehovah loves the righteous. ⁹Jehovah preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow.

But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

§Unique   Conclusion: Jehovah shall reign forever unto all generations

¹⁰Jehovah shall reign forever,

even your God, O Zion, unto all generations.

Praise Jehovah!

 

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Complement   Part 2: Jehovah is the Great Creator of the Universe, the one true God

Opposite   Chapter 2.1: From Eternity past to Eternity future, Jehovah is the one true God (Psalm 90)

¹Jehovah, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. ²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from Eternity past to Eternity future, you are the true God.

³You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, you children of men.” ⁴For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and a watch in the night. ⁵You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. ⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance: ⁹for all our days are passed away in your wrath; we spend our years like a momentary thought. ¹⁰The days of our years are seventy; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the power of your anger? Even according to your fear, so is your wrath. ¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³Return, O Jehovah. How long? And let it repent you concerning your servants. ¹⁴O satisfy us early with your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. ¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. ¹⁶Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children; ¹⁷and let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.

Opposite   Chapter 2.2: The Name of Jehovah is excellent in all the earth (Psalm 8)

¹O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is your Name in all the earth! Who have set your glory above the heavens.

²Out of the mouth of children and infants you have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained: ⁴what is man, that you are mindful of him? The son of man, that you visit him?

⁵For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶You made him to rule over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: ⁷all sheep and oxen; moreover, the beasts of the field, ⁸the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is your Name in all the earth!

 

 

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Complement    Chapter 2.3: Jehovah is the Creator God (Psalm 139)

§Unique   Introduction: Jehovah, you are Omnipresent and Omniscient

¹Jehovah, you have searched me, and known me. ²You know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thought far away. ³You surround my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways: ⁴for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Jehovah, you know it altogether.

⁵You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot grasp it.

§Complement   Body: Jehovah knows everything

⁷Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸If I ascend up into Heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Hell, behold, you are there. ⁹If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, ¹⁰even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me”, even the night shall be as light about me. ¹²Moreover, the darkness hides nothing from you, but the night shines like the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

¹³For you have possessed my reins; you have covered me in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴I will praise you: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are marvelous, and that my soul knows very well. ¹⁵My substance was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my substance, still being imperfect; and in your Book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How great is their sum! ¹⁸If I could count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹Surely you will slay the wicked, O God; therefore depart from me, you bloody men: ²⁰for they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your Name in vain. ²¹Do I not hate them, O Jehovah, that hate you? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? ²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

§Complement   Conclusion: Search me, O God; examine me, and know my heart and my thoughts

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart;

examine me, and know my thoughts;

²⁴and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the Way Everlasting.

Complement   Chapter 2.4: Jehovah alone is the one true God (Psalm 86)

§Unique   Introduction: Bow down your ear, O Jehovah, and hear me: for I am poor and needy

¹Bow down your ear, O Jehovah, and hear me: for I am poor and needy. ²Preserve my soul: for I am holy.

O you my God, deliver your servant that trusts in you. ³Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily. ⁴Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul: ⁵for you, Lord, are good and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon you.

⁶Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. ⁷In the day of my trouble will I call upon you: for you will answer me.

§Complement   Body: You are the only true God

⁸Among the gods there is no one like you, O Lord; neither are there any works like your works.

⁹All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your Name.

¹⁰For you are great, and do wondrous things; you alone are the true God.

¹¹Teach me your way, O Jehovah; I will walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your Name.

¹²I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify your Name forevermore: ¹³for great is your mercy toward me; and you have delivered my soul from the lowest Hell.

§Complement   Conclusion: Show me a sign for good, that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed

¹⁴O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have hunted after my soul, and have not set you before them.

¹⁵But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

¹⁶O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant. ¹⁷Show me a sign for good, that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed, because you, Jehovah, have helped me, and comforted me.

Unique    Chapter 2.5: Let us worship Jehovah, our great King (Psalm 95)

§Complement   Introduction: Let us make a joyful sound to Jehovah with thanksgiving and psalms

¹O come, let us sing to Jehovah.

Let us make a joyful sound to the Rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful sound to him with psalms.

§Complement   Body: For Jehovah is a great God and a great King above all gods

³For Jehovah is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is his also. ⁵The sea is his; and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

§Unique   Conclusion: Harden not your heart, as in the rebellion

Today if you will hear his voice, saying, ⁸“Harden not your heart, as in the rebellion, and as in the day of testing in the wilderness; ⁹when your fathers tested me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with this generation.

And I said, ‘It is a people that go astray in their heart; and they have not known my ways’; ¹¹to whom I swore in my wrath that they would not enter into my rest.”

 

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