Psalm 3:3

O sons of men, how long will my glory become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and seek falsehood? Selah.

And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with loud shouts of joy; I will sing, and I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

A Psalm. A Song at the Dedication of the House. Of David. I will exalt You, O Yahweh, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies be glad over me.

But You, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up, That I may repay them.

For one’s rising up does not come from the east, nor from the west, And not from the desert;

See our shield, O God, And look upon the face of Your anointed.

My lovingkindness and my fortress, My stronghold and my deliverer, My shield and He in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.

Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;