Psalm 3
O Lord, how my foes have increased! Many are rising against me. Many are saying concerning me: “There is no help for him in God.” But thou, O Lord, art my shield, my glory, my uplifter. When I call out to the Lord, he answers me from his holy mountain. When I lie down I sleep, I awake; for the Lord sustains me, I am not afraid of the thousands of people that have set upon me all around, Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God. Thou dost strike all my foes on the cheek; thou dost break the teeth of the wicked. Salvation belongs to the Lord. Upon thy people be thy blessing!
Grant, Lord our God, that we lie down in peace, and that we rise again, O our King, to life. Spread over us thy shelter of peace, and direct us with good counsel of thy own. Save us for thy name’s sake; shield us, and remove from us the enemy and pestilence, the sword and famine and grief; remove the adversary from before us and from behind us; shelter us in the shadow of thy wings; for thou art our guarding and saving God, indeed, a gracious and merciful God and King. Guard thou our going out and our coming in, for life and peace henceforth and forever.
Blessed be the Lord by day; blessed be the Lord by night; blessed be the Lord when we lie down; blessed be the Lord when we rise up. In thy hand are the souls of the living and the dead, as it is written: “In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of every human being.”[1] Into thy hand I commit my spirit; O Lord, faithful God, thou savest me.[2] Our God who art in heaven, reveal thy Oneness and establish thy kingdom forever; do thou reign over us forever and ever.
May our eyes behold, our heart rejoice, and our soul exult in thy true salvation, when it will be said to Zion: “Your God is King.” The Lord is King, the Lord was King, the Lord will be King forever and ever. For the kingdom is thine, and to all eternity thou wilt reign in glory; we have no king except thee.
