Book 3.4: The Old Covenant Kingdom of Zion rejected their King

Complement    Part 1: The Jews persecuted and conspired against Jesus their King

Opposite   Chapter 1.1: Jesus was tempted by Satan and found faultless (Psalm 91)

¹He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall remain under the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of Jehovah, “He is my refuge and my fortress. He is my God; in him will I trust. ³Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the bird hunter, and from the destroying plague. ⁴He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust. His truth shall be your large shield and small shield.

⁵You shall not be afraid of the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day; ⁶nor for the plague that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. ⁷A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand. ⁸But it shall not come near you: only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because you have made Jehovah, who is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation, ¹⁰no evil shall befall you; neither shall any plague come near your dwelling: ¹¹for he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. ¹²They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. ¹³You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shall you trample under feet.

¹⁴“Because he has set his love upon me; therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known my Name. ¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. ¹⁶With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”

Opposite   Chapter 1.2: The Son of God became the faultless Lamb of God (Psalm 40)

¹I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry. ²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a Rock, and established my goings. ³And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Jehovah. ⁴Blessed is that man that makes Jehovah his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵Many, O Jehovah my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts toward us; they cannot be reckoned up in order to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened; burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. ⁷Then I said, “Lo, I come; in the Volume of the Book it is written of me.” ⁸I delight to do your will, O my God; moreover, your Law is within my heart.

⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Jehovah; you know. ¹⁰I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your loving-kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

¹¹Withhold not your tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; let your loving-kindness and your truth continually preserve me: ¹²for innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart is failing me. ¹³Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; O Jehovah, hurry to help me. ¹⁴Let them be ashamed and disgraced together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, “Aha, aha.” ¹⁶Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let such as love your salvation say continually, “Jehovah be magnified.” ¹⁷But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinks upon me; you are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.

 

 

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Complement    Chapter 1.3: The enemies of Jesus slandered him and plotted to take away his life (Psalm 31)

§Unique   Introduction: You are my Rock; into your hand I commit my spirit

¹In you, O Jehovah, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in your righteousness. ²Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily; be my strong Rock, for a house of defense to save me: ³for you are my Rock and my fortress; therefore for your Name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

⁴Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength. ⁵Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Jehovah God of truth. ⁶I have hated them that regard lying vanities; but I trust in Jehovah.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities, ⁸and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a large room.

§Complement   Body: Let me not be ashamed; but let the wicked be ashamed

⁹Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah: for I am in trouble; my eye is consumed with grief; yea, my soul and my belly: ¹⁰for my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed. ¹¹I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance; they that saw me outside fled from me. ¹²I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel: ¹³for 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.

¹⁴But I trusted in you, O Jehovah; I said, “You are my God.” ¹⁵My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me. ¹⁶Make your face to shine upon your servant; O save me for your mercies’ sake. ¹⁷Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah: for I have called upon you.

Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. ¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence, who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹⁹Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you, which you have prepared for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

²⁰You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man; you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

§Complement   Conclusion: Blessed is Jehovah, for He heard my supplications; love Jehovah all you his saints

²¹Blessed is Jehovah: for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city: ²²for I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes”; nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

²³O love Jehovah, all you his saints: for Jehovah preserves the faithful, and abundantly repays the proud doer.

²⁴Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in Jehovah.

Complement    Chapter 1.4: The enemies of Jesus persecuted and reproached him (Psalm 69)

§Unique   Introduction: They that hate me without a cause are many; they that would destroy me are mighty

¹Save me, O God: for the waters have come into my soul. ²I sink in deep mud, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. ³I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;

they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty, then I restored that which I did not take away.

§Complement   Body: Let me not sink in the mud or drown in the flood; hear me, and deliver me

⁵O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you. ⁶Let not them that wait on you, O Lord Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let not those that seek you be disgraced for my sake, O God of Israel. ⁷Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. ⁸I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children: ⁹for the zeal of your House has eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached you have fallen upon me. ¹⁰When I wept, and disciplined my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. ¹¹I also made sackcloth my garment, and I became a joke to them. ¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. ¹⁴Deliver me out of the mud, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep water. ¹⁵Let the water-flood not overflow me; neither let the deep swallow me up, and let the pit not shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶Hear me, O Jehovah: for your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. ¹⁷And hide not your face from your servant: for I am in trouble; hear me speedily. ¹⁸Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. ¹⁹You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you. ²⁰Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none. ²¹They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table become a snare before them; and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. ²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. ²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger take hold of them! ²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents: ²⁶for they persecute him whom you have smitten, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. ²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness. ²⁸Let them be blotted out of the Book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. ³⁰I will praise the Name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. ³¹This also shall please Jehovah better than an ox or bull that has horns and hoofs.

§Complement   Conclusion: Your heart shall live that seeks God; let the Heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything in it

³²The humble shall see this, and be glad; and your heart shall live that seeks God: ³³for Jehovah hears the poor, and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Let the Heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moves in it: ³⁵for God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his Name shall dwell there.

Unique   Chapter 1.5: Jesus triumphantly entered into Jerusalem (Psalm 118)

§Complement   Introduction: Let the house of Israel, Aaron and those that fear Jehovah say, that his mercy endures forever

¹O give thanks to Jehovah: for he is good, because his mercy endures forever. ²Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.

³Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever.

⁴Let them now that fear Jehovah say, that his mercy endures forever.

§Complement   Body: Jehovah is my strength and song; I will praise you, for you have heard me, and become my salvation

⁵I called upon Jehovah in distress; Jehovah answered me, and set me in a large place. ⁶Jehovah is on my side; therefore I will not fear. What can man do to me? ⁷Jehovah takes my part with them that help me; therefore shall I look upon the destruction of them that hate me. ⁸It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in man; ⁹it is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in princes. ¹⁰All nations surrounded me; but in the Name of Jehovah will I destroy them. ¹¹They surrounded me; yea, they surrounded me, but in the Name of Jehovah will I destroy them. ¹²They surrounded me like bees, but they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the Name of Jehovah will I destroy them.

¹³You have thrust sore at me that I might fall; but Jehovah helped me. ¹⁴Jehovah is my strength and song, and has become my salvation. ¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Jehovah does valiantly. ¹⁶The right hand of Jehovah is exalted; the right hand of Jehovah does valiantly. ¹⁷I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of Jehovah. ¹⁸Jehovah has severely disciplined me, but he has not given me over to death. ¹⁹Open the gates of righteousness to me; I will go into them, and I will praise Jehovah: ²⁰this gate of Jehovah, into which the righteous shall enter. ²¹I will praise you: for you have heard me, and become my salvation.

²²The stone which the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner. ²³This is Jehovah’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day that Jehovah has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

²⁵Please save now, O Jehovah; O Jehovah, please send prosperity now.

§Unique   Conclusion: Jehovah is the true God; you are my God, and I will praise you

²⁶Blessed is he that comes in the Name of Jehovah; we have blessed you out of the House of Jehovah. ²⁷Jehovah is the true God, who has shown us Light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

²⁸You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you.

²⁹O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good: for his mercy endures forever.

 

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Complement    Part 2: Judas conspired with the chief priests to betray Jesus their King

Opposite   Chapter 2.1: Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus his master and lost his apostleship (Psalm 109)

¹Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise: ²for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. ³They also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. ⁴For my love they are my adversaries; but I give myself to prayer. ⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him; and let Satan stand at his right hand. ⁷When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin. ⁸Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. ¹¹Let the extortionist catch all that he has; and let the strangers prey on his labor. ¹²Let there be none to extend mercy to him; neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. ¹³Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, ¹⁶because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. ¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. ¹⁹Let it be to him as the garment which covers him, and for a belt with which he is girded continually. ²⁰Let this be the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But do for me, O Lord Jehovah, for your Name’s sake. Because your mercy is good, deliver me: ²²for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ²³I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down as the locust. ²⁴My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness. ²⁵I also became a reproach to them; when they looked upon me, they shook their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Jehovah my God; O save me according to your mercy, ²⁷that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Jehovah, have done it. ²⁸Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice. ²⁹Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. ³⁰I will greatly praise Jehovah with my mouth; moreover, I will praise him among the multitude: ³¹for he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Opposite   Chapter 2.2: Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus his friend and went down into Hell (Psalm 55)

¹Give ear to my prayer, O God, and do not hide yourself from my supplication. ²Attend to me, and hear me; I mourn in my complaint, and make a commotion, ³because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. ⁴My heart is very painful within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. ⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. ⁶And I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest. ⁷Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ⁸I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.”

⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰Day and night they go around it upon its walls; mischief also and sorrow are in its midst. ¹¹Wickedness is in its midst; deceit and guile depart not from her streets. ¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me, then I would have hidden myself from him; ¹³but it was you; a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance. ¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the House of God in company. ¹⁵Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quickly into Hell! For wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; and Jehovah shall save me. ¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice. ¹⁸He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. ¹⁹God shall hear, and afflict them: even he that abides forever. Selah.

Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God. ²⁰He has put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he has broken his covenant. ²¹The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

²²Cast your burden upon Jehovah, and he shall sustain you; he shall never allow the righteous to be shaken. ²³But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

 

 

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Complement    Chapter 2.3: False witnesses accused Jesus of blasphemy (Psalm 35)

§Unique   Introduction: Let them be disgraced and put to shame that seek after my soul; and let the angel of Jehovah chase them

¹Plead my cause, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me. ²Take hold of large shield and small shield, and stand up for my help. ³Draw out the spear also, and stop the way against them that persecute me; say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

⁴Let them be disgraced and put to shame that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. ⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the angel of Jehovah chase them. ⁶Let their way be dark and slippery; and let the angel of Jehovah persecute them: ⁷for without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul. ⁸Let destruction come upon him by surprise; and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

⁹And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in his salvation. ¹⁰All my bones shall say, “Jehovah, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him; moreover, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?”

§Complement   Body: I prayed for my enemies, but they tore me and gnashed upon me with their teeth

¹¹False witnesses rose up; they laid to my charge things that I did not know. ¹²They rewarded me evil for good to the bereavement of my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom. ¹⁴I behaved myself as though he was my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

¹⁵But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yea, the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it; they tore me, and did not cease; ¹⁶with hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. ¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great congregation; I will praise you among much people. ¹⁹Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause: ²⁰for they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. ²¹Moreover, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, “Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.”

²²You have seen it, O Jehovah; do not keep silence; O Lord, be not far from me. ²³Stir yourself up, and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord. ²⁴Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. ²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so would we have it”; let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.” ²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

§Complement   Conclusion: Let those that favor my righteous cause shout for joy and praise Jehovah

²⁷But let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause.

Yea, let them say continually, “Let Jehovah be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.”

²⁸And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all day long.

Complement    Chapter 2.4: The chief priests slandered Jesus as he hung on the cross (Psalm 22)

§Unique   Introduction: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? ²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

³But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

⁴Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you delivered them. ⁵They cried to you, and were delivered; they trusted in you, and were not ashamed.

§Complement   Body: All that see me laugh me to scorn

⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. ⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying, ⁸“He trusted on Jehovah that he would deliver him; therefore let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.”

⁹But you are he that took me out of the womb; you made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰I was cast upon you from the womb; you are my God from my mother’s belly.

¹¹Be not far from me: for trouble is near: for there is no one to help. ¹²Many bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. ¹³They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. ¹⁴I am poured out like water; and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. ¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death: ¹⁶for dogs have surrounded me, and the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷I can count all my bones; they look and stare upon me. ¹⁸They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. ¹⁹But be not far from me, O Jehovah; O my strength, hurry to help me. ²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. ²¹Save me from the lion’s mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²²I will declare your Name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise you. ²³You that fear Jehovah, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel: ²⁴for he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. ²⁵My praise shall be of you in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him; your heart shall live forever.

§Complement   Conclusion: The Kingdom is Jehovah's; a seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation

²⁷All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall worship before you: ²⁸for the Kingdom is Jehovah’s; and he is the Governor among the nations.

²⁹All the prosperous 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.

³⁰A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. ³¹They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

Unique   Chapter 2.5: The chief priests and Judas Iscariot conspired against Jesus (Psalm 41)

§Complement   Introduction: Jehovah will preserve him that considers the poor

¹Blessed is he that considers the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in time of trouble.

²Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be blessed upon the earth; and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³Jehovah will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; you will make all his bed in his sickness.

§Complement   Body: All that hate me whisper together against me; my friend has lifted up his heel against me

⁴I said, “Jehovah, be merciful to me; heal my soul: for I have sinned against you.”

⁵My enemies speak evil of me, “When shall he die, and his name perish?” ⁶And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; then when he goes abroad, he tells it.

⁷All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they plot my harm. ⁸They say, “An evil disease sticks fast to him; and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.”

⁹Moreover, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰But you, O Jehovah, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

§Unique   Conclusion: I know that you favor me; you uphold me in my integrity and set me before your face forever

¹¹By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹²And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

¹³Blessed is Jehovah God of Israel from Eternity past and to Eternity future. Amen, and Amen.

 

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