The
Book of Psalms with Commentary
New King James Version
Psalm
1
The Way of the Righteous and the End of the Ungodly
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalm
2
The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom
1 Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a
vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take
counsel together,
Against the LORD and
against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their
cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold
them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in
His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of
Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree:
The LORD has said to
Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten
You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your
inheritance,
And the ends of the
earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to
pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you
judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear,
And rejoice with
trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,[b] lest He[c] be angry,
And you perish in the
way,
When His wrath is
kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those
who put their trust in Him.
Psalm
3
A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.
1 LORD, how they have increased who trouble me!
Many are they who rise
up against me.
2 Many are they who say of me,
“There is no
help for him in God.” Selah
3 But You, O LORD, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One
who lifts up my head.
4 I cried to the LORD with my voice,
And He heard me from
His holy hill. Selah
5 I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the LORD
sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set
themselves against me all around.
7 Arise, O LORD;
Save me, O my God!
For You have struck
all my enemies on the cheekbone;
You have broken the
teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation belongs to the LORD.
Your blessing is upon
Your people. Selah
Psalm
4
To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have relieved me
in my distress;
Have mercy on me, and
hear my prayer.
2 How long, O you sons of men,
Will you turn my glory
to shame?
How long will you love
worthlessness
And seek
falsehood? Selah
3 But know that the LORD has set apart[a] for Himself him who
is
godly;
The LORD will hear
when I call to Him.
4 Be angry, and do not sin.
Meditate within your
heart on your bed, and be still. Selah
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,
And put your trust in
the LORD.
6 There are many who say,
“Who will show
us any good?”
LORD, lift up the
light of Your countenance upon us.
7 You have put gladness in my heart,
More than in the
season that their grain and wine increased.
8 I will both lie down in peace, and sleep;
For You alone, O LORD,
make me dwell in safety.
Psalm
5
To the Chief Musician. With flutes.[a] A Psalm of David.
1 Give ear to my words, O LORD,
Consider my meditation.
2 Give heed to the voice of my cry,
My King and my God,
For to You I will pray.
3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD;
In the morning I will
direct it to You,
And I will look up.
4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,
Nor shall evil dwell
with You.
5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;
You hate all workers
of iniquity.
6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood;
The LORD abhors the
bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude
of
Your mercy;
In fear of You I will
worship toward Your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my
enemies;
Make Your way straight
before my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
Their inward part is
destruction;
Their throat is an
open tomb;
They flatter with
their tongue.
10 Pronounce them guilty, O God!
Let them fall by their
own counsels;
Cast them out in the
multitude of their transgressions,
For they have rebelled
against You.
11 But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;
Let them ever shout
for joy, because You defend them;
Let those also who
love Your name
Be joyful in You.
12 For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;
With favor You will
surround him as with a shield.
Psalm
5
To the Chief Musician. With flutes.[a] A Psalm of David.
1 Give ear to my words, O LORD,
Consider my meditation.
2 Give heed to the voice of my cry,
My King and my God,
For to You I will pray.
3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD;
In the morning I will
direct it to You,
And I will look up.
4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,
Nor shall evil dwell
with You.
5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;
You hate all workers
of iniquity.
6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood;
The LORD abhors the
bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude
of
Your mercy;
In fear of You I will
worship toward Your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my
enemies;
Make Your way straight
before my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
Their inward part is
destruction;
Their throat is an
open tomb;
They flatter with
their tongue.
10 Pronounce them guilty, O God!
Let them fall by their
own counsels;
Cast them out in the
multitude of their transgressions,
For they have rebelled
against You.
11 But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;
Let them ever shout
for joy, because You defend them;
Let those also who
love Your name
Be joyful in You.
12 For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;
With favor You will
surround him as with a shield.
Psalm
6
To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed
harp.[a] A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your
hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak;
O LORD, heal me, for
my bones are troubled.
3 My soul also is greatly troubled;
But You, O
LORD—how long?
4 Return, O LORD, deliver me!
Oh, save me for Your
mercies’ sake!
5 For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will
give You thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning;
All night I make my
bed swim;
I drench my couch with
my tears.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
It grows old because
of all my enemies.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity;
For the LORD has heard
the voice of my weeping.
9 The LORD has heard my supplication;
The LORD will receive
my prayer.
10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled;
Let them turn back and
be ashamed suddenly.
Psalm
7
A Meditation[a] of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the
words of Cush, a Benjamite.
1 O LORD my God, in You I put my trust;
Save me from all those
who persecute me;
And deliver me,
2 Lest they tear me like a lion,
Rending me in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this:
If there is iniquity
in my hands,
4 If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or have plundered my
enemy without cause,
5 Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample
my life to the earth,
And lay my honor in
the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger;
Lift Yourself up
because of the rage of my enemies;
Rise up for me[b]to
the judgment You have commanded!
7 So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes,
therefore, return on high.
8 The LORD shall judge the peoples;
Judge me, O LORD,
according to my righteousness,
And according to my
integrity within me.
9 Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the
just;
For the righteous God
tests the hearts and minds.
10 My defense is of God,
Who saves the upright
in heart.
11 God is a just judge,
And God is angry with
the wicked every day.
12 If he does not turn back,
He will sharpen His
sword;
He bends His bow and
makes it ready.
13 He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows
into fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives
trouble and brings forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit and dug it out,
And has fallen into
the ditch which he made.
16 His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent
dealing shall come down on his own crown.
17 I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise
to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalm
8
To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath.[a] A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your
name in all the earth,
Who have set Your
glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained
strength,
Because of Your
enemies,
That You may silence
the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the
stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man
that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,[b]
And You have crowned
him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your
hands;
You have put all
things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the
field,
8 The birds of the air,
And the fish of the
sea
That pass through the
paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your
name in all the earth!
Psalm
9
To the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Death of the
Son.”[a] A Psalm of David.
1 I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all
Your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to
Your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and
perish at Your presence.
4 For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne
judging in righteousness.
5 You have rebuked the nations,
You have destroyed the
wicked;
You have blotted out
their name forever and ever.
6 O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed
cities;
Even their memory has
perished.
7 But the LORD shall endure forever;
He has prepared His
throne for judgment.
8 He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall
administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of
trouble.
10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, LORD, have
not forsaken those who seek You.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion!
Declare His deeds
among the people.
12 When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the
cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy on me, O LORD!
Consider my trouble
from those who hate me,
You who lift me up
from the gates of death,
14 That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of the
daughter of Zion.
I will rejoice in Your
salvation.
15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they
hid, their own foot is caught.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared
in the work of his own hands.
Meditation.[b] Selah
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations
that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the
poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man
prevail;
Let the nations be
judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may
know themselves to be but men. Selah
Psalm
10
A Song of Confidence in God’s Triumph over Evil
1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD?
Why do You hide in
times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor;
Let them be caught in
the plots which they have devised.
3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire;
He blesses the greedy
and renounces the LORD.
4 The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God;
God is in none of his
thoughts.
5 His ways are always prospering;
Your judgments are far
above, out of his sight;
As for all his
enemies, he sneers at them.
6 He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
I shall never be in
adversity.”
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is
trouble and iniquity.
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the secret places
he murders the innocent;
His eyes are secretly
fixed on the helpless.
9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den;
He lies in wait to
catch the poor;
He catches the poor
when he draws him into his net.
10 So he crouches, he lies low,
That the helpless may
fall by his strength.
11 He has said in his heart,
“God has
forgotten;
He hides His face;
He will never
see.”
12 Arise, O LORD!
O God, lift up Your
hand!
Do not forget the
humble.
13 Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his
heart,
“You will not
require an account.”
14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your
hand.
The helpless commits
himself to You;
You are the helper of
the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his
wickedness until You find none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever;
The nations have
perished out of His land.
17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will prepare their
heart;
You will cause Your
ear to hear,
18 To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the
earth may oppress no more.
Psalm
11
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 In the LORD I put my trust;
How can you say to my
soul,
“Flee as a bird
to your mountain”?
2 For look! The wicked bend their bow,
They make ready their
arrow on the string,
That they may shoot
secretly at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous
do?
4 The LORD is in His holy temple,
The LORD’s
throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the
sons of men.
5 The LORD tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the
one who loves violence His soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and
a burning wind
Shall be the portion
of their cup.
7 For the LORD is righteous,
He loves
righteousness;
His countenance
beholds the upright.[a]
Psalm
12
To the Chief Musician. On an eight-stringed harp.[a] A Psalm of David.
1 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful
disappear from among the sons of men.
2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips
and a double heart they speak.
3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that
speaks proud things,
4 Who have said,
“With our tongue
we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over
us?”
5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing
of the
needy,
Now I will
arise,” says the LORD;
“I will set him
in the safety for which he yearns.”
6 The words of the LORD are pure words,
Like silver tried in a
furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
7 You shall keep them, O LORD,
You shall preserve
them from this generation forever.
8 The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is
exalted among the sons of men.
Psalm
13
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide
Your face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my
heart daily?
How long will my enemy
be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God;
Enlighten my eyes,
Lest I sleep the sleep
of death;
4 Lest my enemy say,
“I have
prevailed against him”;
Lest those who trouble
me rejoice when I am moved.
5 But I have trusted in Your mercy;
My heart shall rejoice
in Your salvation.
6 I will sing to the LORD,
Because He has dealt
bountifully with me.
Psalm
14
–To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no
God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done
abominable works,
There is none who does
good.
2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are
any who understand, who seek God.
3 They have all turned aside,
They have together
become corrupt;
There is none who does
good,
No, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people
as they eat bread,
And do not call on the
LORD?
5 There they are in great fear,
For God is with the
generation of the righteous.
6 You shame the counsel of the poor,
But the LORD is his
refuge.
7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the LORD brings
back the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and
Israel be glad.
Psalm
15
A Psalm of David.
1 LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your
holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly,
And works
righteousness,
And speaks the truth
in his heart;
3 He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his
neighbor,
Nor does he take up a
reproach against his friend;
4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
But he honors those
who fear the LORD;
He who swears to his
own hurt and does not change;
5 He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a
bribe against the innocent.
He who does these
things shall never be moved.
Psalm
16
A Michtam of David.
1 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD,
“You are my
Lord,
My goodness is nothing
apart from You.”
3 As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the
excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another
god;
Their drink offerings
of blood I will not offer,
Nor take up their
names on my lips.
5 O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good
inheritance.
7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel;
My heart also
instructs me in the night seasons.
8 I have set the LORD always before me;
Because He is at my
right hand I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will
rest in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow
Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is
fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are
pleasures forevermore.
Psalm
17
A Prayer of David.
1 Hear a just cause, O LORD,
Attend to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer
which is not from deceitful lips.
2 Let my vindication come from Your presence;
Let Your eyes look on
the things that are upright.
3 You have tested my heart;
You have visited me in
the night;
You have tried me and
have found nothing;
I have purposed that
my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men,
By the word of Your
lips,
I have kept away from
the paths of the destroyer.
5 Uphold my steps in Your paths,
That my footsteps may
not slip.
6 I have called upon You, for You will hear me, O God;
Incline Your ear to
me, and hear my speech.
7 Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand,
O You who save those
who trust in You
From those who rise up
against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye;
Hide me under the
shadow of Your wings,
9 From the wicked who oppress me,
From my deadly enemies
who surround me.
10 They have closed up their fat hearts;
With their mouths they
speak proudly.
11 They have now surrounded us in our steps;
They have set their
eyes, crouching down to the earth,
12 As a lion is eager to tear his prey,
And like a young lion
lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD,
Confront him, cast him
down;
Deliver my life from
the wicked with Your sword,
14 With Your hand from men, O LORD,
From men of the world
who have their portion in this life,
And whose belly You
fill with Your hidden treasure.
They are satisfied
with children,
And leave the rest of
their possession for their babes.
15 As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness;
I shall be satisfied
when I awake in Your likeness.
Psalm
18
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who
spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of
Saul. And he said:
1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength,
in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn
of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved
from my enemies.
4 The pangs of death surrounded me,
And the floods of
ungodliness made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death
confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD,
And cried out to my
God;
He heard my voice from
His temple,
And my cry came before
Him, even to His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the
hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And devouring fire
from His mouth;
Coals were kindled by
it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With darkness under
His feet.
10 And He rode upon a cherub, and flew;
He flew upon the wings
of the wind.
11 He made darkness His secret place;
His canopy around Him
was dark waters
And thick clouds of
the skies.
12 From the brightness before Him,
His thick clouds
passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD thundered from heaven,
And the Most High
uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals
of fire.[a]
14 He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Lightnings in
abundance, and He vanquished them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,
The foundations of the
world were uncovered
At Your rebuke, O
LORD,
At the blast of the
breath of Your nostrils.
16 He sent from above, He took me;
He drew me out of many
waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated
me,
For they were too
strong for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the LORD was my
support.
19 He also brought me out into a broad place;
He delivered me
because He delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the
cleanness of my hands
He has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
And have not wickedly
departed from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me,
And I did not put away
His statutes from me.
23 I was also blameless before Him,
And I kept myself from
my iniquity.
24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my
righteousness,
According to the
cleanness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful;
With a blameless man
You will show Yourself blameless;
26 With the pure You will show Yourself pure;
And with the devious
You will show Yourself shrewd.
27 For You will save the humble people,
But will bring down
haughty looks.
28 For You will light my lamp;
The LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness.
29 For by You I can run against a troop,
By my God I can leap
over a wall.
30 As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD
is proven;
He is a shield to all
who trust in Him.
31 For who is God, except the LORD?
And who is a rock,
except our God?
32 It is God who arms me with strength,
And makes my way
perfect.
33 He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high
places.
34 He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can
bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand has
held me up,
Your gentleness has
made me great.
36 You enlarged my path under me,
So my feet did not
slip.
37 I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them;
Neither did I turn
back again till they were destroyed.
38 I have wounded them,
So that they could not
rise;
They have fallen under
my feet.
39 For You have armed me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under
me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies,
So that I destroyed
those who hated me.
41 They cried out, but there was none to save;
Even to the LORD, but
He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind;
I cast them out like
dirt in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people;
You have made me the
head of the nations;
A people I have not
known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me they obey me;
The foreigners submit
to me.
45 The foreigners fade away,
And come frightened
from their hideouts.
46 The LORD lives!
Blessed be my Rock!
Let the God of my
salvation be exalted.
47 It is God who avenges me,
And subdues the
peoples under me;
48 He delivers me from my enemies.
You also lift me up
above those who rise against me;
You have delivered me
from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the
Gentiles,
And sing praises to
Your name.
50 Great deliverance He gives to His king,
And shows mercy to His
anointed,
To David and his
descendants forevermore.
Psalm
19
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament
shows His handiwork.
2 Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night
reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is
not heard.
4 Their line[a] has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the
end of the world.
In them He has set a
tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices like a
strong man to run its race.
6 Its rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the
other end;
And there is nothing
hidden from its heat.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the
LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the
LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the
LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine
gold;
Sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them
there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret
faults.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have
dominion over me.
Then I shall be
blameless,
And I shall be
innocent of great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your
sight,
O LORD, my strength
and my Redeemer.
Psalm
20
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble;
May the name of the
God of Jacob defend you;
2 May He send you help from the sanctuary,
And strengthen you out
of Zion;
3 May He remember all your offerings,
And accept your burnt
sacrifice. Selah
4 May He grant you according to your heart’s desire,
And fulfill all your
purpose.
5 We will rejoice in your salvation,
And in the name of our
God we will set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfill
all your petitions.
6 Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed;
He will answer him
from His holy heaven
With the saving
strength of His right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember
the name of the LORD our God.
8 They have bowed down and fallen;
But we have risen and
stand upright.
9 Save, LORD!
May the King answer us
when we call.
Psalm
21
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 The king shall have joy in Your strength, O LORD;
And in Your salvation
how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 You have given him his heart’s desire,
And have not withheld
the request of his lips. Selah
3 For You meet him with the blessings of goodness;
You set a crown of
pure gold upon his head.
4 He asked life from You, and You gave it to him—
Length of days forever
and ever.
5 His glory is great in Your salvation;
Honor and majesty You
have placed upon him.
6 For You have made him most blessed forever;
You have made him
exceedingly glad with Your presence.
7 For the king trusts in the LORD,
And through the mercy
of the Most High he shall not be moved.
8 Your hand will find all Your enemies;
Your right hand will
find those who hate You.
9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your
anger;
The LORD shall swallow
them up in His wrath,
And the fire shall
devour them.
10 Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth,
And their descendants
from among the sons of men.
11 For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot
which they are not able to perform.
12 Therefore You will make them turn their back;
You will make ready
Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.
13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength!
We will sing and
praise Your power.
Psalm
22
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the
Dawn.”[a] A
Psalm of David.
1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far
from helping Me,
And from the words of
My groaning?
2 O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night
season, and am not silent.
3 But You are holy,
Enthroned in the
praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in You;
They trusted, and You
delivered them.
5 They cried to You, and were delivered;
They trusted in You,
and were not ashamed.
6 But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and
despised by the people.
7 All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the
lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 “He trusted[b] in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
Let Him deliver Him,
since He delights in Him!”
9 But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust
while on My mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You from birth.
From My mother’s
womb
You have been My God.
11 Be not far from Me,
For trouble is near;
For there is none to
help.
12 Many bulls have surrounded Me;
Strong bulls of Bashan
have encircled Me.
13 They gape at Me with their mouths,
Like a raging and
roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water,
And all My bones are
out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It has melted within
Me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And My tongue clings
to My jaws;
You have brought Me to
the dust of death.
16 For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of
the wicked has enclosed Me.
They pierced[c] My
hands and My feet;
17 I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at
Me.
18 They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing
they cast lots.
19 But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me;
O My Strength, hasten
to help Me!
20 Deliver Me from the sword,
My precious life from
the power of the dog.
21 Save Me from the lion’s mouth
And from the horns of
the wild oxen!
You have answered Me.
22 I will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the
assembly I will praise You.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him!
All you descendants of
Jacob, glorify Him,
And fear Him, all you
offspring of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His
face from Him;
But when He cried to
Him, He heard.
25 My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
I will pay My vows
before those who fear Him.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him
will praise the LORD.
Let your heart live
forever!
27 All the ends of the world
Shall remember and
turn to the LORD,
And all the families
of the nations
Shall worship before
You.[d]
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s,
And He rules over the
nations.
29 All the prosperous of the earth
Shall eat and worship;
All those who go down
to the dust
Shall bow before Him,
Even he who cannot
keep himself alive.
30 A posterity shall serve Him.
It will be recounted
of the Lord to the next generation,
31 They will come and declare His righteousness to a people
who
will be born,
That He has done this.
Psalm
23
A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the
still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the
paths of righteousness
For His name’s
sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your
staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head
with oil;
My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my
life;
And I will dwell[a] in
the house of the LORD
Forever.
Psalm
24
A Psalm of David.
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness,
The world and those
who dwell therein.
2 For He has founded it upon the seas,
And established it
upon the waters.
3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD?
Or who may stand in
His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up
his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD,
And righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your
face. Selah
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you
everlasting doors!
And the King of glory
shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD strong and
mighty,
The LORD mighty in
battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you
everlasting doors!
And the King of glory
shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of
glory. Selah
Psalm
25
A Psalm of David.
1 To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in You;
Let me not be ashamed;
Let not my enemies
triumph over me.
3 Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed;
Let those be ashamed
who deal treacherously without cause.
4 Show me Your ways, O LORD;
Teach me Your paths.
5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of
my salvation;
On You I wait all the
day.
6 Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your
lovingkindnesses,
For they are from of
old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;
According to Your
mercy remember me,
For Your
goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD;
Therefore He teaches
sinners in the way.
9 The humble He guides in justice,
And the humble He
teaches His way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth,
To such as keep His
covenant and His testimonies.
11 For Your name’s sake, O LORD,
Pardon my iniquity,
for it is great.
12 Who is the man that fears the LORD?
Him shall He[a] teach
in the way He[b] chooses.
13 He himself shall dwell in prosperity,
And his descendants
shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him,
And He will show them
His covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD,
For He shall pluck my
feet out of the net.
16 Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me,
For I am desolate and
afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart have enlarged;
Bring me out of my
distresses!
18 Look on my affliction and my pain,
And forgive all my
sins.
19 Consider my enemies, for they are many;
And they hate me with
cruel hatred.
20 Keep my soul, and deliver me;
Let me not be ashamed,
for I put my trust in You.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
For I wait for You.
22 Redeem Israel, O God,
Out of all their
troubles!
Psalm
26
A Psalm of David.
1 Vindicate me, O LORD,
For I have walked in
my integrity.
I have also trusted in
the LORD;
I shall not slip.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;
Try my mind and my
heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,
And I have walked in
Your truth.
4 I have not sat with idolatrous mortals,
Nor will I go in with
hypocrites.
5 I have hated the assembly of evildoers,
And will not sit with
the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence;
So I will go about
Your altar, O LORD,
7 That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
And tell of all Your
wondrous works.
8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house,
And the place where
Your glory dwells.
9 Do not gather my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with
bloodthirsty men,
10 In whose hands is a sinister scheme,
And whose right hand
is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
Redeem me and be
merciful to me.
12 My foot stands in an even place;
In the congregations I
will bless the LORD.
Psalm
27
A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the
strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be
afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not
fear;
Though war may rise
against me,
In this I will be
confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in
the house of the LORD
All the days of my
life,
To behold the beauty
of the LORD,
And to inquire in His
temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in
His pavilion;
In the secret place of
His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high
upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all
around
me;
Therefore I will offer
sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I
will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon
me, and answer me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You,
“Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your
servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor
forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will
take care of me.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a
smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses
have risen against me,
And such as breathe
out violence.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the
goodness of the LORD
In the land of the
living.
14 Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage,
And He shall
strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the
LORD!
Psalm
28
A Psalm of David.
1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock:
Do not be silent to
me,
Lest, if You are
silent to me,
I become like those
who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
When I lift up my
hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
3 Do not take me away with the wicked
And with the workers
of iniquity,
Who speak peace to
their neighbors,
But evil is in their
hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds,
And according to the
wickedness of their endeavors;
Give them according to
the work of their hands;
Render to them what
they deserve.
5 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD,
Nor the operation of
His hands,
He shall destroy them
And not build them up.
6 Blessed be the LORD,
Because He has heard
the voice of my supplications!
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusted in
Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart
greatly rejoices,
And with my song I
will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength,[a]
And He is the saving
refuge of His anointed.
9 Save Your people,
And bless Your
inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
And bear them up
forever.
Psalm
29
A Psalm of David.
1 Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones,
Give unto the LORD
glory and strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name;
Worship the LORD in
the beauty of holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters;
The God of glory
thunders;
The LORD is over many
waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful;
The voice of the LORD
is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars,
Yes, the LORD
splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes them also skip like a calf,
Lebanon and Sirion
like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness;
The LORD shakes the
Wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth,
And strips the forests
bare;
And in His temple
everyone says, “Glory!”
10 The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood,
And the LORD sits as
King forever.
11 The LORD will give strength to His people;
The LORD will bless
His people with peace.
Psalm
30
A Psalm. A Song at the dedication of the house of David.
1 I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my
foes rejoice over me.
2 O LORD my God, I cried out to You,
And You healed me.
3 O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave;
You have kept me
alive, that I should not go down to the pit.[a]
4 Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His,
And give thanks at the
remembrance of His holy name.[b]
5 For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for
a night,
But joy comes in the
morning.
6 Now in my prosperity I said,
“I shall never
be moved.”
7 LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and
I was troubled.
8 I cried out to You, O LORD;
And to the LORD I made
supplication:
9 “What profit is there in my blood,
When I go down to the
pit?
Will the dust praise
You?
Will it declare Your
truth?
10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me;
LORD, be my
helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my
sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be
silent.
O LORD my God, I will
give thanks to You forever.
Psalm
31
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 In You, O LORD, I put my trust;
Let me never be
ashamed;
Deliver me in Your
righteousness.
2 Bow down Your ear to me,
Deliver me speedily;
Be my rock of refuge,
A fortress of defense
to save me.
3 For You are my rock and my fortress;
Therefore, for Your
name’s sake,
Lead me and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my
strength.
5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated those who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the
LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy,
For You have
considered my trouble;
You have known my soul
in adversities,
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet
in a wide place.
9 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble;
My eye wastes away
with grief,
Yes, my soul and my
body!
10 For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with
sighing;
My strength fails
because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste
away.
11 I am a reproach among all my enemies,
But especially among
my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my
acquaintances;
Those who see me
outside flee from me.
12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken
vessel.
13 For I hear the slander of many;
Fear is on every side;
While they take
counsel together against me,
They scheme to take
away my life.
14 But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD;
I say, “You are
my God.”
15 My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the
hand of my enemies,
And from those who
persecute me.
16 Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me for Your
mercies’ sake.
17 Do not let me be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon
You;
Let the wicked be
ashamed;
Let them be silent in
the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence,
Which speak insolent
things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh, how great is Your goodness,
Which You have laid up
for those who fear You,
Which You have
prepared for those who trust in You
In the presence of the
sons of men!
20 You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
You shall keep them
secretly in a pavilion
From the strife of
tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD,
For He has shown me
His marvelous kindness in a strong city!
22 For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off
from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard
the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to
You.
23 Oh, love the LORD, all you His saints!
For the LORD preserves
the faithful,
And fully repays the
proud person.
24 Be of good courage,
And He shall
strengthen your heart,
All you who hope in
the LORD.
Psalm
32
A Psalm of David. A Contemplation.[a]
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute
iniquity,
And in whose spirit
there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning
all the day long.
4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was turned
into the drought of summer. Selah
5 I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have
not hidden.
I said, “I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD,”
And You forgave the
iniquity of my sin. Selah
6 For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You
In a time when You may
be found;
Surely in a flood of
great waters
They shall not come
near him.
7 You are my hiding place;
You shall preserve me
from trouble;
You shall surround me
with songs of deliverance. Selah
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with
My eye.
9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule,
Which have no
understanding,
Which must be
harnessed with bit and bridle,
Else they will not
come near you.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked;
But he who trusts in
the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
11 Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous;
And shout for joy, all
you upright in heart!
Psalm
33
The Sovereignty of the LORD in Creation and History
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous!
For praise from the
upright is beautiful.
2 Praise the LORD with the harp;
Make melody to Him
with an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a
shout of joy.
4 For the word of the LORD is right,
And all His work is
done in truth.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of
the goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of
them by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;[a]
He lays up the deep in
storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD;
Let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it
stood fast.
10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of
the peoples of no effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart
to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
The people He has
chosen as His own inheritance.
13 The LORD looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons
of men.
14 From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants
of the earth;
15 He fashions their hearts individually;
He considers all their
works.
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not
delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it
deliver any by its great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in
His mercy,
19 To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive
in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD;
He is our help and our
shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have
trusted in His holy name.
22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.
Psalm
34
A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove
him away, and he departed.
1 I will bless the LORD at all times;
His praise shall
continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make its boast in the LORD;
The humble shall hear
of it and be glad.
3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
And let us exalt His
name together.
4 I sought the LORD, and He heard me,
And delivered me from
all my fears.
5 They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were
not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him,
And saved him out of
all his troubles.
7 The angel[a] of the LORD encamps all around those who fear
Him,
And delivers them.
8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good;
Blessed is the man who
trusts in Him!
9 Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!
There is no want to
those who fear Him.
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the
LORD shall not lack any good thing.
11 Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you the
fear of the LORD.
12 Who is the man who desires life,
And loves many days,
that he may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from
speaking deceit.
14 Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue
it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
And His ears are open
to their cry.
16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
To cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
And delivers them out
of all their troubles.
18 The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have
a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the LORD delivers
him out of them all.
20 He guards all his bones;
Not one of them is
broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the
righteous shall be condemned.
22 The LORD redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who
trust in Him shall be condemned.
Psalm
35
A Psalm of David.
1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me;
Fight against those
who fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my
help.
3 Also draw out the spear,
And stop those who
pursue me.
Say to my soul,
“I am your
salvation.”
4 Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor
Who seek after my
life;
Let those be turned
back and brought to confusion
Who plot my hurt.
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
And let the angel[a]
of the LORD chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
And let the angel of
the LORD pursue them.
7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a
pit,
Which they have dug
without cause for my life.
8 Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly,
And let his net that
he has hidden catch himself;
Into that very
destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD;
It shall rejoice in
His salvation.
10 All my bones shall say,
“LORD, who is
like You,
Delivering the poor
from him who is too strong for him,
Yes, the poor and the
needy from him who plunders him?”
11 Fierce witnesses rise up;
They ask me things
that I do not know.
12 They reward me evil for good,
To the sorrow of my
soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick,
My clothing was
sackcloth;
I humbled myself with
fasting;
And my prayer would
return to my own heart.
14 I paced about as though he were my friend or brother;
I bowed down heavily,
as one who mourns for his mother.
15 But in my adversity they rejoiced
And gathered together;
Attackers gathered
against me,
And I did not know it;
They tore at me and
did not cease;
16 With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me
with their teeth.
17 Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue me from their
destructions,
My precious life from
the lions.
18 I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You
among many people.
19 Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies;
Nor let them wink with
the eye who hate me without a cause.
20 For they do not speak peace,
But they devise
deceitful matters
Against the quiet ones
in the land.
21 They also opened their mouth wide against me,
And said, “Aha,
aha!
Our eyes have seen
it.”
22 This You have seen, O LORD;
Do not keep silence.
O Lord, do not be far
from me.
23 Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication,
To my cause, my God
and my Lord.
24 Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to Your
righteousness;
And let them not
rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we
would have
it!”
Let them not say,
“We have swallowed him up.”
26 Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who rejoice at my
hurt;
Let them be clothed
with shame and dishonor
Who exalt themselves
against me.
27 Let them shout for joy and be glad,
Who favor my righteous
cause;
And let them say
continually,
“Let the LORD be
magnified,
Who has pleasure in
the prosperity of His servant.”
28 And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness
And of Your praise all
the day long.
Psalm
36
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.
1 An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of
the
wicked:
There is no fear of
God before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
When he finds out his
iniquity and when he hates.
3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be
wise and to do good.
4 He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself in a
way that is not good;
He does not abhor
evil.
5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;
Your faithfulness
reaches to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains;
Your judgments are a
great deep;
O LORD, You preserve
man and beast.
7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children
of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your
house,
And You give them
drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9 For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see
light.
10 Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness
to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand
of the wicked drive me away.
12 There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast
down and are not able to rise.
Psalm
37
A Psalm of David.
1 Do not fret because of evildoers,
Nor be envious of the
workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
And wither as the
green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good;
Dwell in the land, and
feed on His faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself also in the LORD,
And He shall give you
the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it
to pass.
6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as
the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of
him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who
brings wicked schemes to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
Do not fret—it
only causes harm.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off;
But those who wait on
the LORD,
They shall inherit the
earth.
10 For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more;
Indeed, you will look
carefully for his place,
But it shall be no
more.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth,
And shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plots against the just,
And gnashes at him
with his teeth.
13 The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees that his
day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn the sword
And have bent their
bow,
To cast down the poor
and needy,
To slay those who are
of upright conduct.
15 Their sword shall enter their own heart,
And their bows shall
be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man has
Is better than the
riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
But the LORD upholds
the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the upright,
And their inheritance
shall be forever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time,
And in the days of
famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish;
And the enemies of the
LORD,
Like the splendor of
the meadows, shall vanish.
Into smoke they shall
vanish away.
21 The wicked borrows and does not repay,
But the righteous
shows mercy and gives.
22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth,
But those cursed by
Him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
And He delights in his
way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the LORD upholds
him with His hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old;
Yet I have not seen
the righteous forsaken,
Nor his descendants
begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lends;
And his descendants
are blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell forevermore.
28 For the LORD loves justice,
And does not forsake
His saints;
They are preserved
forever,
But the descendants of
the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell in it
forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom,
And his tongue talks
of justice.
31 The law of his God is in his heart;
None of his steps
shall slide.
32 The wicked watches the righteous,
And seeks to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand,
Nor condemn him when
he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD,
And keep His way,
And He shall exalt you
to inherit the land;
When the wicked are
cut off, you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself
like a native green tree.
36 Yet he passed away,[a] and behold, he was no more;
Indeed I sought him,
but he could not be found.
37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright;
For the future of that
man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together;
The future of the
wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
He is their strength
in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them;
He shall deliver them
from the wicked,
And save them,
Because they trust in
Him.
Psalm
38
A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.
1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor chasten me in Your
hot displeasure!
2 For Your arrows pierce me deeply,
And Your hand presses
me down.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my
bones
Because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden
they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are foul and festering
Because of my
foolishness.
6 I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the
day long.
7 For my loins are full of inflammation,
And there is no
soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the
turmoil of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not
hidden from You.
10 My heart pants, my strength fails me;
As for the light of my
eyes, it also has gone from me.
11 My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand
afar off.
12 Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;
Those who seek my hurt
speak of destruction,
And plan deception all
the day long.
13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute
who does not open his mouth.
14 Thus I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth is
no response.
15 For in You, O LORD, I hope;
You will hear, O Lord
my God.
16 For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me,
Lest, when my foot
slips, they exalt themselves against me.”
17 For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is
continually before me.
18 For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be in anguish
over my sin.
19 But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;
And those who hate me
wrongfully have multiplied.
20 Those also who render evil for good,
They are my
adversaries, because I follow what is good.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD;
O my God, be not far
from me!
22 Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!
Psalm
39
To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my
tongue;
I will restrain my
mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are
before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even
from good;
And my sorrow was
stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing,
the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my
tongue:
4 “LORD, make me to know my end,
And what is the
measure of my days,
That I may know how
frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as
nothing before You;
Certainly every man at
his best state is but vapor. Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy
themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who
will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the
reproach of the foolish.
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who
did it.
10 Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the
blow of Your hand.
11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty
melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is
vapor. Selah
12 “Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And give ear to my
cry;
Do not be silent at my
tears;
For I am a stranger
with You,
A sojourner, as all my
fathers were.
13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and
am no more.”
Psalm
40
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a
rock,
And established my
steps.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth—
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and
fear,
And will trust in the
LORD.
4 Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust,
And does not respect
the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts
toward us
Cannot be recounted to
You in order;
If I would declare and
speak of them,
They are more than can
be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have
opened.
Burnt offering and sin
offering You did not require.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the
book it is written of me.
8 I delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within
my heart.”
9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, I do not
restrain my lips,
O LORD, You Yourself
know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your
faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed
Your lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great
assembly.
11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD;
Let Your
lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
My iniquities have
overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the
hairs of my head;
Therefore my heart
fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me;
O LORD, make haste to
help me!
14 Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my
life;
Let them be driven
backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.
15 Let them be confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me,
“Aha, aha!”
16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your
salvation say continually,
“The LORD be
magnified!”
17 But I am poor and needy;
Yet the LORD thinks
upon me.
You are my help and my
deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
Psalm
41
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The LORD will deliver
him in time of trouble.
2 The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed
on the earth;
You will not deliver
him to the will of his enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him
on his sickbed.
4 I said, “LORD, be merciful to me;
Heal my soul, for I
have sinned against You.”
5 My enemies speak evil of me:
“When will he
die, and his name perish?”
6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;
His heart gathers
iniquity to itself;
When he goes out, he
tells it.
7 All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise
my hurt.
8 “An evil disease,” they say,
“clings to him.
And now that he lies
down, he will rise up no more.”
9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel
against me.
10 But You, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.
11 By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does
not triumph over me.
12 As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And set me before Your
face forever.
13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to
everlasting!
Amen and Amen.
Psalm
42
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for
You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and
appear before God?[b]
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually
say to me,
“Where is your
God?”
4 When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul
within me.
For I used to go with
the multitude;
I went with them to
the house of God,
With the voice of joy
and praise,
With a multitude that
kept a pilgrim feast.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you
disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I
shall yet praise Him
For the help of His
countenance.[c]
6 O my God,[d] my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will
remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights
of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and
billows have gone over me.
8 The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His
song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of
my life.
9 I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You
forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach
me,
While they say to me
all day long,
“Where is your
God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you
disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise
Him,
The help of my
countenance and my God.
Psalm
43
Prayer to God in Time of Trouble
1 Vindicate me, O God,
And plead my cause
against an ungodly nation;
Oh, deliver me from
the deceitful and unjust man!
2 For You are the God of my strength;
Why do You cast me
off?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to
Your holy hill
And to Your tabernacle.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding
joy;
And on the harp I will
praise You,
O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you
disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise
Him,
The help of my
countenance and my God.
Psalm
44
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told
us,
The deeds You did in
their days,
In days of old:
2 You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the
peoples, and cast them out.
3 For they did not gain possession of the land by their own
sword,
Nor did their own arm
save them;
But it was Your right
hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
Because You favored
them.
4 You are my King, O God;[b]
Command[c] victories
for Jacob.
5 Through You we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we
will trample those who rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword
save me.
7 But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame
those who hated us.
8 In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name
forever. Selah
9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out
with our armies.
10 You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us
have taken spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have scattered us
among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched
by selling them.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision
to those all around us.
14 You make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head
among the peoples.
15 My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my
face has covered me,
16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy
and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us;
But we have not
forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt
falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps
departed from Your way;
19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with
the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or stretched out our
hands to a foreign god,
21 Would not God search this out?
For He knows the
secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us
off forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our
affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
Our body clings to the
ground.
26 Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your
mercies’ sake.
Psalm
45
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[a] A
Contemplation[b] of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my
composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen
of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon
Your lips;
Therefore God has
blessed You forever.
3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and
Your majesty.
4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth,
humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand
shall teach You awesome things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s
enemies;
The peoples fall under
You.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of
righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your
God, has anointed You
With the oil of
gladness more than Your companions.
8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and
cassia,
Out of the ivory
palaces, by which they have made You glad.
9 Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women;
At Your right hand
stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
10 Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline
your ear;
Forget your own people
also, and your father’s house;
11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your
Lord, worship Him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the
people will seek your favor.
13 The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven
with gold.
14 She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her
companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the
King’s palace.
16 Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make
princes in all the earth.
17 I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people
shall praise You forever and ever.
Psalm
46
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.
1 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in
trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,
Even though the earth
be removed,
And though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains
shake with its swelling. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of
God,
The holy place of the
tabernacle of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
God shall help her,
just at the break of dawn.
6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice,
the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
Who has made
desolations in the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and
cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot
in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted
among the nations,
I will be exalted in
the earth!
11 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah
Psalm
47
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples!
Shout to God with the
voice of triumph!
2 For the LORD Most High is awesome;
He is a great King
over all the earth.
3 He will subdue the peoples under us,
And the nations under
our feet.
4 He will choose our inheritance for us,
The excellence of
Jacob whom He loves. Selah
5 God has gone up with a shout,
The LORD with the
sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our
King, sing praises!
7 For God is the King of all the earth;
Sing praises with
understanding.
8 God reigns over the nations;
God sits on His holy
throne.
9 The princes of the people have gathered together,
The people of the God
of Abraham.
For the shields of the
earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.
Psalm
48
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our
God,
In His holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole
earth,
Is Mount Zion on the
sides of the north,
The city of the great
King.
3 God is in her palaces;
He is known as her
refuge.
4 For behold, the kings assembled,
They passed by
together.
5 They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled,
they hastened away.
6 Fear took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a
woman in birth pangs,
7 As when You break the ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.
8 As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the
LORD of hosts,
In the city of our
God:
God will establish it
forever. Selah
9 We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your
temple.
10 According to Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to
the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is
full of righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of
Judah be glad,
Because of Your
judgments.
12 Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
13 Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may tell it
to the generation following.
14 For this is God,
Our God forever and
ever;
He will be our guide
Even to death.[a]
Psalm
49
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all
inhabitants of the world,
2 Both low and high,
Rich and poor together.
3 My mouth shall speak wisdom,
And the meditation of
my heart shall give understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will disclose my
dark saying on the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the iniquity at
my heels surrounds me?
6 Those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the
multitude of their riches,
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a
ransom for him—
8 For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease
forever—
9 That he should continue to live eternally,
And not see the Pit.
10 For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and
the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth
to others.
11 Their inner thought is that their houses will last
forever,[a]
Their dwelling places
to all generations;
They call their lands
after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain;[b]
He is like the beasts
that perish.
13 This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of their posterity
who approve their sayings. Selah
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on
them;
The upright shall have
dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall
be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
For He shall receive
me. Selah
16 Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his
house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not
descend after him.
18 Though while he lives he blesses himself
(For men will praise
you when you do well for yourself),
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see
light.
20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
Is like the beasts
that perish.
Psalm
50
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 The Mighty One, God the LORD,
Has spoken and called
the earth
From the rising of the
sun to its going down.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God will shine forth.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;
A fire shall devour
before Him,
And it shall be very
tempestuous all around Him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above,
And to the earth, that
He may judge His people:
5 “Gather My saints together to Me,
Those who have made a
covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is
Judge. Selah
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will
testify against you;
I am God, your God!
8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices
Or your burnt
offerings,
Which are continually
before Me.
9 I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your
folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a
thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of
the field are Mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine,
and all its fullness.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of
goats?
14 Offer to God thanksgiving,
And pay your vows to
the Most High.
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you,
and you shall glorify Me.”
16 But to the wicked God says:
“What right have
you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in
your mouth,
17 Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words
behind you?
18 When you saw a thief, you consented[a] with him,
And have been a
partaker with adulterers.
19 You give your mouth to evil,
And your tongue frames
deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own
mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I kept silent;
You thought that I was
altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And set them in order
before your eyes.
22 “Now consider this, you who forget God,
Lest I tear you in
pieces,
And there be none to
deliver:
23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
And to him who orders
his conduct aright
I will show the
salvation of God.”
Psalm
51
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to
him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your
lovingkindness;
According to the
multitude of Your tender mercies,
Blot out my
transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my
sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always
before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in
Your sight—
That You may be found
just when You speak,[a]
And blameless when You
judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother
conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part
You will make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You
have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my
iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast
spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your
Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your
generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be
converted to You.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my
salvation,
And my tongue shall
sing aloud of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall
show forth Your praise.
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in
burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a
contrite heart—
These, O God, You will
not despise.
18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of
Jerusalem.
19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of
righteousness,
With burnt offering
and whole burnt offering;
Then they shall offer
bulls on Your altar.
Psalm
52
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of David when Doeg the
Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, “David has gone
to
the house of Ahimelech.”
1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God
endures continually.
2 Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor,
working deceitfully.
3 You love evil more than good,
Lying rather than
speaking righteousness. Selah
4 You love all devouring words,
You deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you
away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from
the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous also shall see and fear,
And shall laugh at
him, saying,
7 “Here is the man who did not make God his
strength,
But trusted in the
abundance of his riches,
And strengthened
himself in his wickedness.”
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy
of God forever and ever.
9 I will praise You forever,
Because You have done
it;
And in the presence of
Your saints
I will wait on Your
name, for it is good.
Psalm
53
–To the Chief Musician. Set to
“Mahalath.” A
Contemplation[a] of David.
1 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no
God.”
They are corrupt, and
have done abominable iniquity;
There is none who does
good.
2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are
any who understand, who seek God.
3 Every one of them has turned aside;
They have together
become corrupt;
There is none who does
good,
No, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people
as they eat bread,
And do not call upon
God?
5 There they are in great fear
Where no fear was,
For God has scattered
the bones of him who encamps against you;
You have put them to
shame,
Because God has
despised them.
6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God brings back
the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and
Israel be glad.
Psalm
54
To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.[a] A Contemplation[b]
of David when the Ziphites went and said to Saul, “Is David
not
hiding with us?”
1 Save me, O God, by Your name,
And vindicate me by
Your strength.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words
of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me,
And oppressors have
sought after my life;
They have not set God
before them. Selah
4 Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is with those
who uphold my life.
5 He will repay my enemies for their evil.
Cut them off in Your
truth.
6 I will freely sacrifice to You;
I will praise Your
name, O LORD, for it is good.
7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble;
And my eye has seen
its desire upon my enemies.
Psalm
55
To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.[a] A Contemplation[b]
of David.
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God,
And do not hide
Yourself from my supplication.
2 Attend to me, and hear me;
I am restless in my
complaint, and moan noisily,
3 Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the
oppression of the wicked;
For they bring down
trouble upon me,
And in wrath they hate
me.
4 My heart is severely pained within me,
And the terrors of
death have fallen upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me,
And horror has
overwhelmed me.
6 So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and
be at rest.
7 Indeed, I would wander far off,
And remain in the
wilderness. Selah
8 I would hasten my escape
From the windy storm
and tempest.”
9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues,
For I have seen
violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it on its walls;
Iniquity and trouble
are also in the midst of it.
11 Destruction is in its midst;
Oppression and deceit
do not depart from its streets.
12 For it is not an enemy who reproaches me;
Then I could bear it.
Nor is it one who
hates me who has exalted himself against me;
Then I could hide from
him.
13 But it was you, a man my equal,
My companion and my
acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together,
And walked to the
house of God in the throng.
15 Let death seize them;
Let them go down alive
into hell,
For wickedness is in
their dwellings and among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God,
And the LORD shall
save me.
17 Evening and morning and at noon
I will pray, and cry
aloud,
And He shall hear my
voice.
18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me,
For there were many
against me.
19 God will hear, and afflict them,
Even He who abides
from of old. Selah
Because they do not
change,
Therefore they do not
fear God.
20 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace
with him;
He has broken his
covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But war was in his
heart;
His words were softer
than oil,
Yet they were drawn
swords.
22 Cast your burden on the LORD,
And He shall sustain
you;
He shall never permit
the righteous to be moved.
23 But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of
destruction;
Bloodthirsty and
deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in
You.
Psalm
56
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Silent Dove in Distant
Lands.”[a] A Michtam of David when the Philistines captured
him
in Gath.
1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up;
Fighting all day he
oppresses me.
2 My enemies would hound me all day,
For there are many who
fight against me, O Most High.
3 Whenever I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
4 In God (I will praise His word),
In God I have put my
trust;
I will not fear.
What can flesh do to
me?
5 All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are
against me for evil.
6 They gather together,
They hide, they mark
my steps,
When they lie in wait
for my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the
peoples, O God!
8 You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your
bottle;
Are they not in Your
book?
9 When I cry out to You,
Then my enemies will
turn back;
This I know, because
God is for me.
10 In God (I will praise His word),
In the LORD (I will
praise His word),
11 In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
12 Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God;
I will render praises
to You,
13 For You have delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my
feet from falling,
That I may walk before
God
In the light of the
living?
Psalm
57
–To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not
Destroy.”[a] A
Michtam of David when he fled from Saul into the cave.
1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in
You;
And in the shadow of
Your wings I will make my refuge,
Until these calamities
have passed by.
2 I will cry out to God Most High,
To God who performs
all things for me.
3 He shall send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches the one
who would swallow me up. Selah
God shall send forth
His mercy and His truth.
4 My soul is among lions;
I lie among the sons
of men
Who are set on fire,
Whose teeth are spears
and arrows,
And their tongue a
sharp sword.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be
above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They have dug a pit
before me;
Into the midst of it
they themselves have fallen. Selah
7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give
praise.
8 Awake, my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the
dawn.
9 I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing to You
among the nations.
10 For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto
the clouds.
11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be
above all the earth.
Psalm
58
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”[a]
A
Michtam of David.
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge
uprightly, you sons of men?
2 No, in heart you work wickedness;
You weigh out the
violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon
as they are born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf
cobra that stops its ear,
5 Which will not heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so
skillfully.
6 Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of
the young lions, O LORD!
7 Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as
if cut in pieces.
8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
Like a stillborn child
of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them
away as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and
burning wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He shall wash his feet
in the blood of the wicked,
11 So that men will say,
“Surely there is
a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who
judges in the earth.”
Psalm
59
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”[a]
A
Michtam of David when Saul sent men, and they watched the house in
order to kill him.
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Defend me from those
who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from
bloodthirsty men.
3 For look, they lie in wait for my life;
The mighty gather
against me,
Not for my
transgression nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine.
Awake to help me, and
behold!
5 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all
the nations;
Do not be merciful to
any wicked transgressors. Selah
6 At evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the
city.
7 Indeed, they belch with their mouth;
Swords are in their
lips;
For they say,
“Who hears?”
8 But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them;
You shall have all the
nations in derision.
9 I will wait for You, O You his Strength;[b]
For God is my defense.
10 My God of mercy[c] shall come to meet me;
God shall let me see
my desire on my enemies.
11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget;
Scatter them by Your
power,
And bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken
in their pride,
And for the cursing
and lying which they speak.
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them,
That they may not be;
And let them know that
God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the
earth. Selah
14 And at evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the
city.
15 They wander up and down for food,
And howl[d] if they
are not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of Your power;
Yes, I will sing aloud
of Your mercy in the morning;
For You have been my
defense
And refuge in the day
of my trouble.
17 To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises;
For God is my defense,
My God of mercy.
Psalm
60
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Lily of the
Testimony.”[a] A
Michtam of David. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and
Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites
in the Valley of Salt.
1 O God, You have cast us off;
You have broken us
down;
You have been
displeased;
Oh, restore us again!
2 You have made the earth tremble;
You have broken it;
Heal its breaches, for
it is shaking.
3 You have shown Your people hard things;
You have made us drink
the wine of confusion.
4 You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be
displayed because of the truth. Selah
5 That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right
hand, and hear me.
6 God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the
Valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the
helmet for My head;
Judah is My lawgiver.
8 Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast
My shoe;
Philistia, shout in
triumph because of Me.”
9 Who will bring me to the strong city?
Who will lead me to
Edom?
10 Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?
And You, O God, who
did not go out with our armies?
11 Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is
useless.
12 Through God we will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall
tread down our enemies.[b]
Psalm
61
To the Chief Musician. On a stringed instrument.[a]A Psalm of David.
1 Hear my cry, O God;
Attend to my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is
overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I.
3 For You have been a shelter for me,
A strong tower from
the enemy.
4 I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;
I will trust in the
shelter of Your wings. Selah
5 For You, O God, have heard my vows;
You have given me the
heritage of those who fear Your name.
6 You will prolong the king’s life,
His years as many
generations.
7 He shall abide before God forever.
Oh, prepare mercy and
truth, which may preserve him!
8 So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may daily
perform my vows.
Psalm
62
To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1 Truly my soul silently waits for God;
From Him comes my
salvation.
2 He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be greatly
moved.
3 How long will you attack a man?
You shall be slain,
all of you,
Like a leaning wall
and a tottering fence.
4 They only consult to cast him down from his high position;
They delight in lies;
They bless with their
mouth,
But they curse
inwardly. Selah
5 My soul, wait silently for God alone,
For my expectation is
from Him.
6 He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory;
The rock of my
strength,
And my refuge, is in
God.
8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart
before Him;
God is a refuge for
us. Selah
9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor,
Men of high degree are
a lie;
If they are weighed on
the scales,
They are altogether
lighter than vapor.
10 Do not trust in oppression,
Nor vainly hope in
robbery;
If riches increase,
Do not set your heart
on them.
11 God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard
this:
That power belongs to
God.
12 Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy;
For You render to each
one according to his work.
Psalm
63
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
1 O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for
You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty
land
Where there is no
water.
2 So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and
Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise
You.
4 Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my
hands in Your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall
praise You with joyful lips.
6 When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in
the night watches.
7 Because You have been my help,
Therefore in the
shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
8 My soul follows close behind You;
Your right hand
upholds me.
9 But those who seek my life, to destroy it,
Shall go into the
lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword;
They shall be a
portion for jackals.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God;
Everyone who swears by
Him shall glory;
But the mouth of those
who speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm
64
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation;
Preserve my life from
fear of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of
the workers of iniquity,
3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
And bend their bows to
shoot their arrows—bitter words,
4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at
him and do not fear.
5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter;
They talk of laying
snares secretly;
They say, “Who
will see them?”
6 They devise iniquities:
“We have
perfected a shrewd scheme.”
Both the inward
thought and the heart of man are deep.
7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be
wounded.
8 So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
All who see them shall
flee away.
9 All men shall fear,
And shall declare the
work of God;
For they shall wisely
consider His doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and trust in Him.
And all the upright in
heart shall glory.
Psalm
65
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song.
1 Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;
And to You the vow
shall be performed.
2 O You who hear prayer,
To You all flesh will
come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our
transgressions,
You will provide
atonement for them.
4 Blessed is the man You choose,
And cause to approach
You,
That he may dwell in
Your courts.
We shall be satisfied
with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us,
O God of our
salvation,
You who are the
confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of the far-off
seas;
6 Who established the mountains by His strength,
Being clothed with
power;
7 You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their
waves,
And the tumult of the
peoples.
8 They also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid of
Your
signs;
You make the outgoings
of the morning and evening rejoice.
9 You visit the earth and water it,
You greatly enrich it;
The river of God is
full of water;
You provide their
grain,
For so You have
prepared it.
10 You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its
furrows;
You make it soft with
showers,
You bless its growth.
11 You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip
with abundance.
12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
And the little hills
rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are
covered with grain;
They shout for joy,
they also sing.
Psalm
66
To the Chief Musician. A Song. A Psalm.
1 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
2 Sing out the honor of His name;
Make His praise
glorious.
3 Say to God,
“How awesome are
Your works!
Through the greatness
of Your power
Your enemies shall
submit themselves to You.
4 All the earth shall worship You
And sing praises to
You;
They shall sing
praises to Your name.” Selah
5 Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His
doing toward the sons of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
They went through the
river on foot.
There we will rejoice
in Him.
7 He rules by His power forever;
His eyes observe the
nations;
Do not let the
rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
8 Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of
His praise to be heard,
9 Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our
feet to be moved.
10 For You, O God, have tested us;
You have refined us as
silver is refined.
11 You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on
our backs.
12 You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire
and through water;
But You brought us out
to rich fulfillment.
13 I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;
I will pay You my vows,
14 Which my lips have uttered
And my mouth has
spoken when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
With the sweet aroma
of rams;
I will offer bulls
with goats. Selah
16 Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare
what He has done for my soul.
17 I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was extolled
with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
19 But certainly God has heard me;
He has attended to the
voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God,
Who has not turned
away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!
Psalm
67
To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.[a] A Psalm. A Song.
1 God be merciful to us and bless us,
And cause His face to
shine upon us, Selah
2 That Your way may be known on earth,
Your salvation among
all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples
praise You.
4 Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
For You shall judge
the people righteously,
And govern the nations
on earth. Selah
5 Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples
praise You.
6 Then the earth shall yield her increase;
God, our own God,
shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us,
And all the ends of
the earth shall fear Him.
Psalm
68
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song.
1 Let God arise,
Let His enemies be
scattered;
Let those also who
hate Him flee before Him.
2 As smoke is driven away,
So drive them away;
As wax melts before
the fire,
So let the wicked
perish at the presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad;
Let them rejoice
before God;
Yes, let them rejoice
exceedingly.
4 Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Extol Him who rides on
the clouds,[a]
By His name YAH,
And rejoice before
Him.
5 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy
habitation.
6 God sets the solitary in families;
He brings out those
who are bound into prosperity;
But the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when You went out before Your people,
When You marched
through the wilderness, Selah
8 The earth shook;
The heavens also
dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself was moved
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, sent a plentiful rain,
Whereby You confirmed
Your inheritance,
When it was weary.
10 Your congregation dwelt in it;
You, O God, provided
from Your goodness for the poor.
11 The Lord gave the word;
Great was the company
of those who proclaimed it:
12 “Kings of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at
home divides the spoil.
13 Though you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You will be like the
wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her feathers with
yellow gold.”
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
It was white as snow
in Zalmon.
15 A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many
peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
16 Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
This is the mountain
which God desires to dwell in;
Yes, the LORD will
dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of
thousands;
The Lord is among them
as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.
18 You have ascended on high,
You have led captivity
captive;
You have received
gifts among men,
Even from the
rebellious,
That the LORD God
might dwell there.
19 Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us
with benefits,
The God of our
salvation! Selah
20 Our God is the God of salvation;
And to GOD the Lord
belong escapes from death.
21 But God will wound the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of the
one who still goes on in his trespasses.
22 The Lord said, “I will bring back from Bashan,
I will bring them back
from the depths of the sea,
23 That your foot may crush them[b] in blood,
And the tongues of
your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
24 They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my
God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players on instruments
followed
after;
Among them were the
maidens playing timbrels.
26 Bless God in the congregations,
The Lord, from the
fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin, their leader,
The princes of Judah
and their company,
The princes of Zebulun
and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded[c] your strength;
Strengthen, O God,
what You have done for us.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem,
Kings will bring
presents to You.
30 Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
The herd of bulls with
the calves of the peoples,
Till everyone submits
himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the peoples
who delight in war.
31 Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly
stretch out her hands to God.
32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;
Oh, sing praises to
the Lord, Selah
33 To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of
old!
Indeed, He sends out
His voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God;
His excellence is over
Israel,
And His strength is in
the clouds.
35 O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places.
The God of Israel is
He who gives strength and power to His people.
Blessed be God!
Psalm
69
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[a]A
Psalm of
David.
1 Save me, O God!
For the waters have
come up to my neck.
2 I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no
standing;
I have come into deep
waters,
Where the floods
overflow me.
3 I am weary with my crying;
My throat is dry;
My eyes fail while I
wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause
Are more than the
hairs of my head;
They are mighty who
would destroy me,
Being my enemies
wrongfully;
Though I have stolen
nothing,
I still must restore
it.
5 O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not
hidden from You.
6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed
because of me;
Let not those who seek
You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my
face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my
mother’s children;
9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
And the reproaches of
those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my
reproach.
11 I also made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to
them.
12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of
the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to You,
O LORD, in the
acceptable time;
O God, in the
multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth
of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire,
And let me not sink;
Let me be delivered
from those who hate me,
And out of the deep
waters.
15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep
swallow me up;
And let not the pit
shut its mouth on me.
16 Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according
to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me speedily.
18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of
my enemies.
19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all
before You.
20 Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of
heaviness;
I looked for someone
to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters,
but I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for my food,
And for my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a
trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins
shake continually.
24 Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful
anger take hold of them.
25 Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in
their tents.
26 For they persecute the ones You have struck,
And talk of the grief
of those You have wounded.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And let them not come
into Your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
And not be written
with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O
God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him
with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and
hooves.
32 The humble shall see this and be glad;
And you who seek God,
your hearts shall live.
33 For the LORD hears the poor,
And does not despise
His prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and
everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion
And build the cities
of Judah,
That they may dwell
there and possess it.
36 Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His
name shall dwell in it.
Psalm
70
–To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. To bring to
remembrance.
1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me!
Make haste to help me,
O LORD!
2 Let them be ashamed and confounded
Who seek my life;
Let them be turned
back[a] and confused
Who desire my hurt.
3 Let them be turned back because of their shame,
Who say, “Aha,
aha!”
4 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
And let those who love
Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be
magnified!”
5 But I am poor and needy;
Make haste to me, O
God!
You are my help and my
deliverer;
O LORD, do not delay.
Psalm
71
God the Rock of Salvation
1 In You, O LORD, I put my trust;
Let me never be put to
shame.
2 Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;
Incline Your ear to
me, and save me.
3 Be my strong refuge,
To which I may resort
continually;
You have given the
commandment to save me,
For You are my rock
and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the
unrighteous and cruel man.
5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD;
You are my trust from
my youth.
6 By You I have been upheld from birth;
You are He who took me
out of my mother’s womb.
My praise shall be
continually of You.
7 I have become as a wonder to many,
But You are my strong
refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with Your praise
And with Your glory
all the day.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when
my strength fails.
10 For my enemies speak against me;
And those who lie in
wait for my life take counsel together,
11 Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and take him,
for there is none to deliver him.”
12 O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, make haste
to help me!
13 Let them be confounded and consumed
Who are adversaries of
my life;
Let them be covered
with reproach and dishonor
Who seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually,
And will praise You
yet more and more.
15 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all
the day,
For I do not know
their limits.
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD;
I will make mention of
Your righteousness, of Yours only.
17 O God, You have taught me from my youth;
And to this day I
declare Your wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake
me,
Until I declare Your
strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone
who is to come.
19 Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high,
You who have done
great things;
O God, who is like You?
20 You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again
from the depths of the earth.
21 You shall increase my greatness,
And comfort me on
every side.
22 Also with the lute I will praise You—
And Your faithfulness,
O my God!
To You I will sing
with the harp,
O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,
And my soul, which You
have redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the
day
long;
For they are
confounded,
For they are brought
to shame
Who seek my hurt.
Psalm
72
A Psalm of Solomon.
1 Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness
to the king’s Son.
2 He will judge Your people with righteousness,
And Your poor with
justice.
3 The mountains will bring peace to the people,
And the little hills,
by righteousness.
4 He will bring justice to the poor of the people;
He will save the
children of the needy,
And will break in
pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear You[a]
As long as the sun and
moon endure,
Throughout all
generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing,
Like showers that
water the earth.
7 In His days the righteous shall flourish,
And abundance of
peace,
Until the moon is no
more.
8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River to
the ends of the earth.
9 Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him,
And His enemies will
lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles
Will bring presents;
The kings of Sheba and
Seba
Will offer gifts.
11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him;
All nations shall
serve Him.
12 For He will deliver the needy when he cries,
The poor also, and him
who has no helper.
13 He will spare the poor and needy,
And will save the
souls of the needy.
14 He will redeem their life from oppression and violence;
And precious shall be
their blood in His sight.
15 And He shall live;
And the gold of Sheba
will be given to Him;
Prayer also will be
made for Him continually,
And daily He shall be
praised.
16 There will be an abundance of grain in the earth,
On the top of the
mountains;
Its fruit shall wave
like Lebanon;
And those of the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure forever;
His name shall
continue as long as the sun.
And men shall be
blessed in Him;
All nations shall call
Him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
Who only does wondrous
things!
19 And blessed be His glorious name forever!
And let the whole
earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Psalm
73
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Truly God is good to Israel,
To such as are pure in
heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
My steps had nearly
slipped.
3 For I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the
prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no pangs in their death,
But their strength is
firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued
like other men.
6 Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them
like a garment.
7 Their eyes bulge[a] with abundance;
They have more than
heart could wish.
8 They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue walks
through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return here,
And waters of a full
cup are drained by them.
11 And they say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge
in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who are always at
ease;
They increase in
riches.
13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
And washed my hands in
innocence.
14 For all day long I have been plagued,
And chastened every
morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have
been untrue to the generation of Your children.
16 When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for
me—
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood
their end.
18 Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to
destruction.
19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly
consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You
awake,
You shall despise
their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved,
And I was vexed in my
mind.
22 I was so foolish and ignorant;
I was like a beast
before You.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You hold me by my
right hand.
24 You will guide me with Your counsel,
And afterward receive
me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon
earth that I desire besides You.
26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the
strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all
those who desert You for harlotry.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in
the Lord GOD,
That I may declare all
Your works.
Psalm
74
A Contemplation[a] of Asaph.
1 O God, why have You cast us off forever?
Why does Your anger
smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your
inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where
You have dwelt.
3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged
everything in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their
banners for signs.
5 They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick
trees.
6 And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the
dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts,
“Let us destroy
them altogether.”
They have burned up
all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any
prophet;
Nor is there any among
us who knows how long.
10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach?
Will the enemy
blaspheme Your name forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your
bosom and destroy them.
12 For God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in
the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of
the sea serpents in the waters.
14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food
to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood;
You dried up mighty
rivers.
16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the
light and the sun.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer
and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD,
And that a foolish
people has blasphemed Your name.
19 Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild
beast!
Do not forget the life
of Your poor forever.
20 Have respect to the covenant;
For the dark places of
the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
21 Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy
praise Your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the
foolish man reproaches You daily.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those
who rise up against You increases continually.
Psalm
75
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”[a]
A Psalm
of Asaph. A Song.
1 We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!
For Your wondrous
works declare that Your name is near.
2 “When I choose the proper time,
I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved;
I set up its pillars
firmly. Selah
4 “I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal
boastfully,’
And to the wicked,
‘Do not lift up the horn.
5 Do not lift up your horn on high;
Do not speak with a
stiff neck.’”
6 For exaltation comes neither from the east
Nor from the west nor
from the south.
7 But God is the Judge:
He puts down one,
And exalts another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup,
And the wine is red;
It is fully mixed, and
He pours it out;
Surely its dregs shall
all the wicked of the earth
Drain and drink down.
9 But I will declare forever,
I will sing praises to
the God of Jacob.
10 “All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off,
But the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted.”
Psalm
76
To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.[a] A Psalm of Asaph. A
Song.
1 In Judah God is known;
His name is great in
Israel.
2 In Salem[b] also is His tabernacle,
And His dwelling place
in Zion.
3 There He broke the arrows of the bow,
The shield and sword
of battle. Selah
4 You are more glorious and excellent
Than the mountains of
prey.
5 The stouthearted were plundered;
They have sunk into
their sleep;
And none of the mighty
men have found the use of their hands.
6 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both the chariot and
horse were cast into a dead sleep.
7 You, Yourself, are to be feared;
And who may stand in
Your presence
When once You are
angry?
8 You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and
was still,
9 When God arose to judgment,
To deliver all the
oppressed of the earth. Selah
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise You;
With the remainder of
wrath You shall gird Yourself.
11 Make vows to the LORD your God, and pay them;
Let all who are around
Him bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome to the
kings of the earth.
Psalm
77
To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 I cried out to God with my voice—
To God with my voice;
And He gave ear to me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
My hand was stretched
out in the night without ceasing;
My soul refused to be
comforted.
3 I remembered God, and was troubled;
I complained, and my
spirit was overwhelmed. Selah
4 You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that
I cannot speak.
5 I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient
times.
6 I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my
heart,
And my spirit makes
diligent search.
7 Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be
favorable no more?
8 Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His promise failed
forevermore?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut
up His tender mercies? Selah
10 And I said, “This is my anguish;
But I will remember
the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
11 I will remember the works of the LORD;
Surely I will remember
Your wonders of old.
12 I will also meditate on all Your work,
And talk of Your deeds.
13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;
Who is so great a God
as our God?
14 You are the God who does wonders;
You have declared Your
strength among the peoples.
15 You have with Your arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and
Joseph. Selah
16 The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You,
they were afraid;
The depths also
trembled.
17 The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a
sound;
Your arrows also
flashed about.
18 The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
The lightnings lit up
the world;
The earth trembled and
shook.
19 Your way was in the sea,
Your path in the great
waters,
And Your footsteps
were not known.
20 You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses
and Aaron.
Psalm
78
A Contemplation[a] of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to
the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark
sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have
told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the
generation to come the praises of the LORD,
And His strength and
His wonderful works that He has done.
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in
Israel,
Which He commanded our
fathers,
That they should make
them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would
be born,
That they may arise
and declare them to their children,
7 That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the
works of God,
But keep His
commandments;
8 And may not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and
rebellious generation,
A generation that did
not set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was
not faithful to God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day
of battle.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk
in His law,
11 And forgot His works
And His wonders that
He had shown them.
12 Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through;
And He made the waters
stand up like a heap.
14 In the daytime also He led them with the cloud,
And all the night with
a light of fire.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink in
abundance like the depths.
16 He also brought streams out of the rock,
And caused waters to
run down like rivers.
17 But they sinned even more against Him
By rebelling against
the Most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food
of their fancy.
19 Yes, they spoke against God:
They said, “Can
God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He struck the rock,
So that the waters
gushed out,
And the streams
overflowed.
Can He give bread
also?
Can He provide meat
for His people?”
21 Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious;
So a fire was kindled
against Jacob,
And anger also came up
against Israel,
22 Because they did not believe in God,
And did not trust in
His salvation.
23 Yet He had commanded the clouds above,
And opened the doors
of heaven,
24 Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the
bread of heaven.
25 Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to
the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He
brought in the south wind.
27 He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like
the sand of the seas;
28 And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their
dwellings.
29 So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their
own desire.
30 They were not deprived of their craving;
But while their food
was still in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest
of them,
And struck down the
choice men of Israel.
32 In spite of this they still sinned,
And did not believe in
His wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in
fear.
34 When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and
sought earnestly for God.
35 Then they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God
their Redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him
with their tongue;
37 For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful
in His covenant.
38 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy
them.
Yes, many a time He
turned His anger away,
And did not stir up
all His wrath;
39 For He remembered that they were but flesh,
A breath that passes
away and does not come again.
40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the
desert!
41 Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy
One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His power:
The day when He
redeemed them from the enemy,
43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the
field of Zoan;
44 Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams,
that they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And frogs, which
destroyed them.
46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the
locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore
trees with frost.
48 He also gave up their cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to
fiery lightning.
49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation,
and trouble,
By sending angels of
destruction among them.
50 He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their
soul from death,
But gave their life
over to the plague,
51 And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their
strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But He made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the
wilderness like a flock;
53 And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And He brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which
His right hand had acquired.
55 He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an
inheritance by survey,
And made the tribes of
Israel dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His
testimonies,
57 But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside
like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places,
And moved Him to
jealousy with their carved images.
59 When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred
Israel,
60 So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed
among men,
61 And delivered His strength into captivity,
And His glory into the
enemy’s hand.
62 He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with
His inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men,
And their maidens were
not given in marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
And their widows made
no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
Like a mighty man who
shouts because of wine.
66 And He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a
perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the
tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He
loved.
69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which
He has established forever.
70 He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the
sheepfolds;
71 From following the ewes that had young He brought him,
To shepherd Jacob His
people,
And Israel His
inheritance.
72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his
heart,
And guided them by the
skillfulness of his hands.
Psalm
79
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they
have defiled;
They have laid
Jerusalem in heaps.
2 The dead bodies of Your servants
They have given as
food for the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your
saints to the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one
to bury them.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and derision
to those who are around us.
5 How long, LORD?
Will You be angry
forever?
Will Your jealousy
burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms
that do not call on Your name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his
dwelling place.
8 Oh, do not remember former iniquities against us!
Let Your tender
mercies come speedily to meet us,
For we have been
brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation,
For the glory of Your
name;
And deliver us, and
provide atonement for our sins,
For Your name’s
sake!
10 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their
God?”
Let there be known
among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the
blood of Your servants which has been shed.
11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the
greatness of Your power
Preserve those who are
appointed to die;
12 And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
Their reproach with
which they have reproached You, O Lord.
13 So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks
forever;
We will show forth
Your praise to all generations.
Psalm
80
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[a] A
Testimony[b] of Asaph. A Psalm.
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph
like a flock;
You who dwell between
the cherubim, shine forth!
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,
Stir up Your strength,
And come and save us!
3 Restore us, O God;
Cause Your face to
shine,
And we shall be saved!
4 O LORD God of hosts,
How long will You be
angry
Against the prayer of
Your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears
to drink in great measure.
6 You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh
among themselves.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts;
Cause Your face to
shine,
And we shall be saved!
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt;
You have cast out the
nations, and planted it.
9 You prepared room for it,
And caused it to take
deep root,
And it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with its shadow,
And the mighty cedars
with its boughs.
11 She sent out her boughs to the Sea,[c]
And her branches to
the River.[d]
12 Why have You broken down her hedges,
So that all who pass
by the way pluck her fruit?
13 The boar out of the woods uproots it,
And the wild beast of
the field devours it.
14 Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven
and see,
And visit this vine
15 And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,
And the branch that
You made strong for Yourself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the
rebuke of Your countenance.
17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man
whom You made strong for Yourself.
18 Then we will not turn back from You;
Revive us, and we will
call upon Your name.
19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
Cause Your face to
shine,
And we shall be saved!
Psalm
81
To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.[a]A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Sing aloud to God our strength;
Make a joyful shout to
the God of Jacob.
2 Raise a song and strike the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with
the lute.
3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on
our solemn feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel,
A law of the God of
Jacob.
5 This He established in Joseph as a testimony,
When He went
throughout the land of Egypt,
Where I heard a
language I did not understand.
6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden;
His hands were freed
from the baskets.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the
secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the
waters of Meribah. Selah
8 “Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you!
O Israel, if you will
listen to Me!
9 There shall be no foreign god among you;
Nor shall you worship
any foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God,
Who brought you out of
the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide,
and I will fill it.
11 “But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have
none of Me.
12 So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own
counsels.
13 “Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk
in My ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand
against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him,
But their fate would
endure forever.
16 He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat;
And with honey from
the rock I would have satisfied you.”
Psalm
82
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty;
He judges among the
gods.[a]
2 How long will you judge unjustly,
And show partiality to
the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the
hand of the wicked.
5 They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in
darkness;
All the foundations of
the earth are unstable.
6 I said, “You are gods,[b]
And all of you are
children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of
the princes.”
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For You shall inherit
all nations.
Psalm
83
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Do not keep silent, O God!
Do not hold Your
peace,
And do not be still, O
God!
2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult;
And those who hate You
have lifted up their head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together
against Your sheltered ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off
from being
a nation,
That the name of
Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 For they have consulted together with one consent;
They form a
confederacy against You:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the
inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the
children of Lot. Selah
9 Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera,
As with Jabin at the
Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor,
Who became as refuse
on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb,
Yes, all their princes
like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves
The pastures of God
for a possession.”
13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like the chaff before
the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods,
And as the flame sets
the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with
Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek
Your name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put
to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD,
Are the Most High over
all the earth.
Psalm
84
To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.[a] A Psalm of the sons
of Korah.
1 How lovely is Your tabernacle,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the
LORD;
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
And the swallow a nest
for herself,
Where she may lay her
young—
Even Your altars, O
LORD of hosts,
My King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;
They will still be
praising You. Selah
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
Whose heart is set on
pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
They make it a spring;
The rain also covers
it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
Each one appears
before God in Zion.[b]
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give ear, O God of
Jacob! Selah
9 O God, behold our shield,
And look upon the face
of Your anointed.
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the
tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD will give
grace and glory;
No good thing will He
withhold
From those who walk
uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts,
Blessed is the man who
trusts in You!
Psalm
85
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 LORD, You have been favorable to Your land;
You have brought back
the captivity of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people;
You have covered all
their sin. Selah
3 You have taken away all Your wrath;
You have turned from
the fierceness of Your anger.
4 Restore us, O God of our salvation,
And cause Your anger
toward us to cease.
5 Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your
anger to all generations?
6 Will You not revive us again,
That Your people may
rejoice in You?
7 Show us Your mercy, LORD,
And grant us Your
salvation.
8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak,
For He will speak
peace
To His people and to
His saints;
But let them not turn
back to folly.
9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him,
That glory may dwell
in our land.
10 Mercy and truth have met together;
Righteousness and
peace have kissed.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth,
And righteousness
shall look down from heaven.
12 Yes, the LORD will give what is good;
And our land will
yield its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before Him,
And shall make His
footsteps our pathway.
Psalm
86
A Prayer of David.
1 Bow down Your ear, O LORD, hear me;
For I am poor and
needy.
2 Preserve my life, for I am holy;
You are my God;
Save Your servant who
trusts in You!
3 Be merciful to me, O Lord,
For I cry to You all
day long.
4 Rejoice the soul of Your servant,
For to You, O Lord, I
lift up my soul.
5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy
to all those who call upon You.
6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;
And attend to the
voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,
For You will answer
me.
8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord;
Nor are there any
works like Your works.
9 All nations whom You have made
Shall come and worship
before You, O Lord,
And shall glorify Your
name.
10 For You are great, and do wondrous things;
You alone are God.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD;
I will walk in Your
truth;
Unite my heart to fear
Your name.
12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
And I will glorify
Your name forevermore.
13 For great is Your mercy toward me,
And You have delivered
my soul from the depths of Sheol.
14 O God, the proud have risen against me,
And a mob of violent
men have sought my life,
And have not set You
before them.
15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and
gracious,
Longsuffering and
abundant in mercy and truth.
16 Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give Your strength to
Your servant,
And save the son of
Your maidservant.
17 Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me
may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, LORD,
have helped me and comforted me.
Psalm
87
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song.
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion
More than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God!
Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to
those who
know Me;
Behold, O Philistia
and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was
born there.’ ”
5 And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and
that one were born in her;
And the Most High
Himself shall establish her.”
6 The LORD will record,
When He registers the
peoples:
“This one was
born there.” Selah
7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
“All my springs
are in you.”
Psalm
88
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to
“Mahalath Leannoth.” A Contemplation[a] of Heman
the
Ezrahite.
1 O LORD, God of my salvation,
I have cried out day
and night before You.
2 Let my prayer come before You;
Incline Your ear to my
cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near
to the grave.
4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a man who
has no strength,
5 Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie
in the grave,
Whom You remember no
more,
And who are cut off
from Your hand.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In darkness, in the
depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
And You have afflicted
me with all Your waves. Selah
8 You have put away my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an
abomination to them;
I am shut up, and I
cannot get out;
9 My eye wastes away because of affliction.
LORD, I have called
daily upon You;
I have stretched out
my hands to You.
10 Will You work wonders for the dead?
Shall the dead arise
and praise You? Selah
11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
Or Your faithfulness
in the place of destruction?
12 Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But to You I have cried out, O LORD,
And in the morning my
prayer comes before You.
14 LORD, why do You cast off my soul?
Why do You hide Your
face from me?
15 I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;
I suffer Your terrors;
I am distraught.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me;
Your terrors have cut
me off.
17 They came around me all day long like water;
They engulfed me
altogether.
18 Loved one and friend You have put far from me,
And my acquaintances
into darkness.
Psalm
89
A Contemplation[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever;
With my mouth will I
make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness You
shall establish in the very heavens.”
3 “I have made a covenant with My chosen,
I have sworn to My
servant David:
4 ‘Your
seed I will establish forever,
And build up your
throne to all generations.’”
Selah
5 And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD;
Your faithfulness also
in the assembly of the saints.
6 For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the sons of
the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
And to be held in
reverence by all those around Him.
8 O LORD God of hosts,
Who is mighty like
You, O LORD?
Your faithfulness also
surrounds You.
9 You rule the raging of the sea;
When its waves rise,
You still them.
10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain;
You have scattered
Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all its
fullness, You have founded them.
12 The north and the south, You have created them;
Tabor and Hermon
rejoice in Your name.
13 You have a mighty arm;
Strong is Your hand,
and high is Your right hand.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your
throne;
Mercy and truth go
before Your face.
15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O LORD, in
the light of Your countenance.
16 In Your name they rejoice all day long,
And in Your
righteousness they are exalted.
17 For You are the glory of their strength,
And in Your favor our
horn is exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to the LORD,
And our king to the
Holy One of Israel.
19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one,[b]
And said: “I
have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one
chosen from the people.
20 I have found My servant David;
With My holy oil I
have anointed him,
21 With whom My hand shall be established;
Also My arm shall
strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not outwit him,
Nor the son of
wickedness afflict him.
23 I will beat down his foes before his face,
And plague those who
hate him.
24 “But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with
him,
And in My name his
horn shall be exalted.
25 Also I will set his hand over the sea,
And his right hand
over the rivers.
26 He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock
of my salvation.’
27 Also I will make him My firstborn,
The highest of the
kings of the earth.
28 My mercy I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall
stand firm with him.
29 His seed also I will make to endure forever,
And his throne as the
days of heaven.
30 “If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My
judgments,
31 If they break My statutes
And do not keep My
commandments,
32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity
with stripes.
33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take
from
him,
Nor allow My
faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word
that has gone out of My lips.
35 Once I have sworn by My holiness;
I will not lie to
David:
36 His seed shall endure forever,
And his throne as the
sun before Me;
37 It shall be established forever like the moon,
Even like the faithful
witness in the sky.” Selah
38 But You have cast off and abhorred,
You have been furious
with Your anointed.
39 You have renounced the covenant of Your servant;
You have profaned his
crown by casting it to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his hedges;
You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by the way plunder him;
He is a reproach to
his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his
enemies rejoice.
43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
And have not sustained
him in the battle.
44 You have made his glory cease,
And cast his throne
down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth You have shortened;
You have covered him
with shame. Selah
46 How long, LORD?
Will You hide Yourself
forever?
Will Your wrath burn
like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is;
For what futility have
You created all the children of men?
48 What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his
life from the power of the grave? Selah
49 Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses,
Which You swore to
David in Your truth?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants—
How I bear in my bosom
the reproach of all the many peoples,
51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD,
With which they have
reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD forevermore!
Amen and Amen.
Psalm
90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place[a] in all
generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed
the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting
to everlasting, You are God.
3 You turn man to destruction,
And say,
“Return, O children of men.”
4 For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday
when it is past,
And like a watch in
the night.
5 You carry them away like a flood;
They are like a sleep.
In the morning they
are like grass which grows up:
6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is
cut down and withers.
7 For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we
are terrified.
8 You have set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the
light of Your countenance.
9 For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years
like a sigh.
10 The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of
strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is
only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut
off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of
You, so is Your wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a
heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD!
How long?
And have compassion on
Your servants.
14 Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
That we may rejoice
and be glad all our days!
15 Make us glad according to the days in which You have
afflicted
us,
The years in which we
have seen evil.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants,
And Your glory to
their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us,
And establish the work
of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the
work of our hands.
Psalm
91
Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my
fortress;
My God, in Him I will
trust.”
3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler[a]
And from the perilous
pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings
you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be
your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that
flies by day,
6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction
that lays waste at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at
your right hand;
But it shall not come
near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of
the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High,
your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague
come near your dwelling;
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all
your ways.
12 In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your
foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the
serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore
I will
deliver him;
I will set him on
high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in
trouble;
I will deliver him and
honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My
salvation.”
Psalm
92
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath day.
1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
And to sing praises to
Your name, O Most High;
2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning,
And Your faithfulness
every night,
3 On an instrument of ten strings,
On the lute,
And on the harp,
With harmonious sound.
4 For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work;
I will triumph in the
works of Your hands.
5 O LORD, how great are Your works!
Your thoughts are very
deep.
6 A senseless man does not know,
Nor does a fool
understand this.
7 When the wicked spring up like grass,
And when all the
workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be
destroyed forever.
8 But You, LORD, are on high forevermore.
9 For behold, Your enemies, O LORD,
For behold, Your
enemies shall perish;
All the workers of
iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn You have exalted like a wild ox;
I have been anointed
with fresh oil.
11 My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies;
My ears hear my desire
on the wicked
Who rise up against
me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
He shall grow like a
cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those who are planted in the house of the LORD
Shall flourish in the
courts of our God.
14 They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be fresh
and flourishing,
15 To declare that the LORD is upright;
He is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in Him.
Psalm
93
The Eternal Reign of the LORD
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The LORD is clothed,
He has girded Himself
with strength.
Surely the world is
established, so that it cannot be moved.
2 Your throne is established from of old;
You are from
everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
The floods have lifted
up their voice;
The floods lift up
their waves.
4 The LORD on high is mightier
Than the noise of many
waters,
Than the mighty waves
of the sea.
5 Your testimonies are very sure;
Holiness adorns Your
house,
O LORD, forever.
Psalm
94
God the Refuge of the Righteous
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs—
O God, to whom
vengeance belongs, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Render punishment to
the proud.
3 LORD, how long will the wicked,
How long will the
wicked triumph?
4 They utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of
iniquity boast in themselves.
5 They break in pieces Your people, O LORD,
And afflict Your
heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the
fatherless.
7 Yet they say, “The LORD does not see,
Nor does the God of
Jacob understand.”
8 Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when
will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye,
shall He not see?
10 He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man
knowledge?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man,
That they are futile.
12 Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD,
And teach out of Your
law,
13 That You may give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug
for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off His people,
Nor will He forsake
His inheritance.
15 But judgment will return to righteousness,
And all the upright in
heart will follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for
me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help,
My soul would soon
have settled in silence.
18 If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O LORD,
will hold me up.
19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight
my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with
You?
21 They gather together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn innocent
blood.
22 But the LORD has been my defense,
And my God the rock of
my refuge.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall cut them off
in their own wickedness;
The LORD our God shall
cut them off.
Psalm
95
A Call to Worship and Obedience
1 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD!
Let us shout joyfully
to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully
to Him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is the great God,
And the great King
above all gods.
4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the
hills are His also.
5 The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed
the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before
the LORD our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
And we are the people
of His pasture,
And the sheep of His
hand.
Today, if you will
hear His voice:
8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the
rebellion,[a]
As in the day of
trial[b] in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though
they saw My work.
10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is
a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know
My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not
enter My rest.’ ”
Psalm
96
A Song of Praise to God Coming in Judgment
1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song!
Sing to the LORD, all
the earth.
2 Sing to the LORD, bless His name;
Proclaim the good news
of His salvation from day to day.
3 Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all
peoples.
4 For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared
above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the LORD made the
heavens.
6 Honor and majesty are before Him;
Strength and beauty
are in His sanctuary.
7 Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples,
Give to the LORD glory
and strength.
8 Give to the LORD the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and
come into His courts.
9 Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him,
all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns;
The world also is
firmly established,
It shall not be moved;
He shall judge the
peoples righteously.”
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and
all its fullness;
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of
the woods will rejoice
13 before the LORD.
For He is coming, for
He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the
world with righteousness,
And the peoples with
His truth.
Psalm
97
A Song of Praise to the Sovereign LORD
1 The LORD reigns;
Let the earth rejoice;
Let the multitude of
isles be glad!
2 Clouds and darkness surround Him;
Righteousness and
justice are the foundation of His throne.
3 A fire goes before Him,
And burns up His
enemies round about.
4 His lightnings light the world;
The earth sees and
trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD,
At the presence of the
Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples
see His glory.
7 Let all be put to shame who serve carved images,
Who boast of idols.
Worship Him, all you
gods.
8 Zion hears and is glad,
And the daughters of
Judah rejoice
Because of Your
judgments, O LORD.
9 For You, LORD, are most high above all the earth;
You are exalted far
above all gods.
10 You who love the LORD, hate evil!
He preserves the souls
of His saints;
He delivers them out
of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous,
And gladness for the
upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous,
And give thanks at the
remembrance of His holy name.[a]
Psalm
98
A Psalm.
1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song!
For He has done
marvelous things;
His right hand and His
holy arm have gained Him the victory.
2 The LORD has made known His salvation;
His righteousness He
has revealed in the sight of the nations.
3 He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the
house
of Israel;
All the ends of the
earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth;
Break forth in song,
rejoice, and sing praises.
5 Sing to the LORD with the harp,
With the harp and the
sound of a psalm,
6 With trumpets and the sound of a horn;
Shout joyfully before
the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and all its fullness,
The world and those
who dwell in it;
8 Let the rivers clap their hands;
Let the hills be
joyful together
9 before the
LORD,
For He is coming to
judge the earth.
With righteousness He
shall judge the world,
And the peoples with
equity.
Psalm
99
Praise to the LORD for His Holiness
1 The LORD reigns;
Let the peoples
tremble!
He dwells between the
cherubim;
Let the earth be moved!
2 The LORD is great in Zion,
And He is high above
all the peoples.
3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name—
He is holy.
4 The King’s strength also loves justice;
You have established
equity;
You have executed
justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt the LORD our God,
And worship at His
footstool—
He is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among
those who called upon His name;
They called upon the
LORD, and He answered them.
7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar;
They kept His
testimonies and the ordinance He gave them.
8 You answered them, O LORD our God;
You were to them
God-Who-Forgives,
Though You took
vengeance on their deeds.
9 Exalt the LORD our God,
And worship at His
holy hill;
For the LORD our God
is holy.
Psalm
100
A Psalm of Thanksgiving.
1 Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before His
presence with singing.
3 Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who has made
us, and not we ourselves;[a]
We are His people and
the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts
with praise.
Be thankful to Him,
and bless His name.
5 For the LORD is good;
His mercy is
everlasting,
And His truth endures
to all generations.
Psalm
101
A Psalm of David.
1 I will sing of mercy and justice;
To You, O LORD, I will
sing praises.
2 I will behave wisely in a perfect way.
Oh, when will You come
to me?
I will walk within my
house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of
those who fall away;
It shall not cling to
me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not know
wickedness.
5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
The one who has a
haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.
6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell
with me;
He who walks in a
perfect way,
He shall serve me.
7 He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies
shall not continue in my presence.
8 Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all
the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
Psalm
102
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his
complaint before the LORD.
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And let my cry come to
You.
2 Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble;
Incline Your ear to
me;
In the day that I
call, answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke,
And my bones are
burned like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to
eat my bread.
5 Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my
skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am like an owl of
the desert.
7 I lie awake,
And am like a sparrow
alone on the housetop.
8 My enemies reproach me all day long;
Those who deride me
swear an oath against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink
with weeping,
10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have lifted me
up and cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like
grass.
12 But You, O LORD, shall endure forever,
And the remembrance of
Your name to all generations.
13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
For the time to favor
her,
Yes, the set time, has
come.
14 For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
And show favor to her
dust.
15 So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD,
And all the kings of
the earth Your glory.
16 For the LORD shall build up Zion;
He shall appear in His
glory.
17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute,
And shall not despise
their prayer.
18 This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to
be created may praise the LORD.
19 For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the LORD
viewed the earth,
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those
appointed to death,
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion,
And His praise in
Jerusalem,
22 When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to
serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way;
He shortened my days.
24 I said, “O my God,
Do not take me away in
the midst of my days;
Your years are
throughout all generations.
25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are
the work of Your hands.
26 They will perish, but You will endure;
Yes, they will all
grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will
change them,
And they will be
changed.
27 But You are the same,
And Your years will
have no end.
28 The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants
will be established before You.”
Psalm
103
A Psalm of David.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul;
And all that is within
me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget not all His
benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your
diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with
lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is
renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executes righteousness
And justice for all
who are oppressed.
7 He made known His ways to Moses,
His acts to the
children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and
abounding in mercy.
9 He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His
anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor punished us
according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy
toward those who fear Him;
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed
our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children,
So the LORD pities
those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we
are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the
field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
And its place
remembers it no more.[a]
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to
everlasting
On those who fear Him,
And His righteousness
to children’s children,
18 To such as keep His covenant,
And to those who
remember His commandments to do them.
19 The LORD has established His throne in heaven,
And His kingdom rules
over all.
20 Bless the LORD, you His angels,
Who excel in strength,
who do His word,
Heeding the voice of
His word.
21 Bless the LORD, all you His hosts,
You ministers of His,
who do His pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all His works,
In all places of His
dominion.
Bless the LORD, O my
soul!
Psalm
104
Praise to the Sovereign LORD for His Creation and Providence
– 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, You are
very great:
You are clothed with
honor and majesty,
2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the
heavens like a curtain.
3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds
His chariot,
Who walks on the wings
of the wind,
4 Who makes His angels spirits,
His ministers a flame
of fire.
5 You who laid the foundations of the earth,
So that it should not
be moved forever,
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters stood above
the mountains.
7 At Your rebuke they fled;
At the voice of Your
thunder they hastened away.
8 They went up over the mountains;
They went down into
the valleys,
To the place which You
founded for them.
9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,
That they may not
return to cover the earth.
10 He sends the springs into the valleys;
They flow among the
hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys
quench their thirst.
12 By them the birds of the heavens have their home;
They sing among the
branches.
13 He waters the hills from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied
with the fruit of Your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the
service of man,
That he may bring
forth food from the earth,
15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face
shine,
And bread which
strengthens man’s heart.
16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap,
The cedars of Lebanon
which He planted,
17 Where the birds make their nests;
The stork has her home
in the fir trees.
18 The high hills are for the wild goats;
The cliffs are a
refuge for the rock badgers.[a]
19 He appointed the moon for seasons;
The sun knows its
going down.
20 You make darkness, and it is night,
In which all the
beasts of the forest creep about.
21 The young lions roar after their prey,
And seek their food
from God.
22 When the sun rises, they gather together
And lie down in their
dens.
23 Man goes out to his work
And to his labor until
the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have
made them all.
The earth is full of
Your possessions—
25 This great and wide sea,
In which are
innumerable teeming things,
Living things both
small and great.
26 There the ships sail about;
There is that
Leviathan
Which You have made to
play there.
27 These all wait for You,
That You may give them
their food in due season.
28 What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand,
they are filled with good.
29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
You take away their
breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face
of the earth.
31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
May the LORD rejoice
in His works.
32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the hills,
and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;
I will sing praise to
my God while I have my being.
34 May my meditation be sweet to Him;
I will be glad in the
LORD.
35 May sinners be consumed from the earth,
And the wicked be no
more.
Bless the LORD, O my
soul!
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
105
The Eternal Faithfulness of the LORD
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds
among the peoples!
2 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His
wondrous works!
3 Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of
those rejoice who seek the LORD!
4 Seek the LORD and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
5 Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the
judgments of His mouth,
6 O seed of Abraham His servant,
You children of Jacob,
His chosen ones!
7 He is the LORD our God;
His judgments are in
all the earth.
8 He remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He
commanded, for a thousand generations,
9 The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
10 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an
everlasting covenant,
11 Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of
your inheritance,”
12 When they were few in number,
Indeed very few, and
strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to
another people,
14 He permitted no one to do them wrong;
Yes, He rebuked kings
for their sakes,
15 Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no
harm.”
16 Moreover He called for a famine in the land;
He destroyed all the
provision of bread.
17 He sent a man before them—
Joseph—who was
sold as a slave.
18 They hurt his feet with fetters,
He was laid in irons.
19 Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the LORD
tested him.
20 The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the
people let him go free.
21 He made him lord of his house,
And ruler of all his
possessions,
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure,
And teach his elders
wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt,
And Jacob dwelt in the
land of Ham.
24 He increased His people greatly,
And made them stronger
than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with
His servants.
26 He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron whom He had
chosen.
27 They performed His signs among them,
And wonders in the
land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark;
And they did not rebel
against His word.
29 He turned their waters into blood,
And killed their fish.
30 Their land abounded with frogs,
Even in the chambers
of their kings.
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
And lice in all their
territory.
32 He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in
their land.
33 He struck their vines also, and their fig trees,
And splintered the
trees of their territory.
34 He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without
number,
35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit
of their ground.
36 He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land,
The first of all their
strength.
37 He also brought them out with silver and gold,
And there was none
feeble among His tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the fear of them
had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering,
And fire to give light
in the night.
40 The people asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them
with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
It ran in the dry
places like a river.
42 For He remembered His holy promise,
And Abraham His
servant.
43 He brought out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with
gladness.
44 He gave them the lands of the Gentiles,
And they inherited the
labor of the nations,
45 That they might observe His statutes
And keep His laws.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
106
Joy in Forgiveness of Israel’s Sins
1 Praise the LORD!
Oh, give thanks to the
LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
Who can declare all
His praise?
3 Blessed are those who keep justice,
And he who does[a]
righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your
people.
Oh, visit me with Your
salvation,
5 That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in
the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with
Your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed
iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember
the multitude of Your mercies,
But rebelled by the
sea—the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His
mighty power known.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So He led them through
the depths,
As through the
wilderness.
10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from
the hand of the enemy.
11 The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of
them left.
12 Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.
13 They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for
His counsel,
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the
desert.
15 And He gave them their request,
But sent leanness into
their soul.
16 When they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of
the LORD,
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the
faction of Abiram.
18 A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up
the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the
molded image.
20 Thus they changed their glory
Into the image of an
ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great
things in Egypt,
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the
Red Sea.
23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His
chosen one stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His
wrath, lest He destroy them.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe
His word,
25 But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the
voice of the LORD.
26 Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
To overthrow them in
the wilderness,
27 To overthrow their descendants among the nations,
And to scatter them in
the lands.
28 They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices
made to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke
out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was
stopped.
31 And that was accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations
forevermore.
32 They angered Him also at the waters of strife,[b]
So that it went ill
with Moses on account of them;
33 Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke
rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples,
Concerning whom the
LORD had commanded them,
35 But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their
works;
36 They served their idols,
Which became a snare
to them.
37 They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to
demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their
sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed
to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was
polluted with blood.
39 Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot
by their own deeds.
40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His
people,
So that He abhorred
His own inheritance.
41 And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated
them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought
into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in
their counsel,
And were brought low
for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When He heard their
cry;
45 And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And relented according
to the multitude of His mercies.
46 He also made them to be pitied
By all those who
carried them away captive.
47 Save us, O LORD our God,
And gather us from
among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your
holy name,
To triumph in Your
praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to
everlasting!
And let all the people
say, “Amen!”
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
107
Thanksgiving to the LORD for His Great Works of Deliverance
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
Whom He has redeemed
from the hand of the enemy,
3 And gathered out of the lands,
From the east and from
the west,
From the north and
from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;
They found no city to
dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted in
them.
6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He delivered them
out of their distresses.
7 And He led them forth by the right way,
That they might go to
a city for a dwelling place.
8 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,
And for His wonderful
works to the children of men!
9 For He satisfies the longing soul,
And fills the hungry
soul with goodness.
10 Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Bound in affliction
and irons—
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God,
And despised the
counsel of the Most High,
12 Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and
there was none to help.
13 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He saved them out
of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains
in pieces.
15 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His
goodness,
And for His wonderful
works to the children of men!
16 For He has broken the gates of bronze,
And cut the bars of
iron in two.
17 Fools, because of their transgression,
And because of their
iniquities, were afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorred all manner of food,
And they drew near to
the gates of death.
19 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He saved them out
of their distresses.
20 He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them
from their destructions.
21 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His
goodness,
And for His wonderful
works to the children of men!
22 Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And declare His works
with rejoicing.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on
great waters,
24 They see the works of the LORD,
And His wonders in the
deep.
25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind,
Which lifts up the
waves of the sea.
26 They mount up to the heavens,
They go down again to
the depths;
Their soul melts
because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And are at their
wits’ end.
28 Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He brings them out
of their distresses.
29 He calms the storm,
So that its waves are
still.
30 Then they are glad because they are quiet;
So He guides them to
their desired haven.
31 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His
goodness,
And for His wonderful
works to the children of men!
32 Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,
And praise Him in the
company of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And the watersprings
into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness,
For the wickedness of
those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into pools of water,
And dry land into
watersprings.
36 There He makes the hungry dwell,
That they may
establish a city for a dwelling place,
37 And sow fields and plant vineyards,
That they may yield a
fruitful harvest.
38 He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;
And He does not let
their cattle decrease.
39 When they are diminished and brought low
Through oppression,
affliction, and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to
wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
41 Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,
And makes their
families like a flock.
42 The righteous see it and rejoice,
And all iniquity stops
its mouth.
43 Whoever is wise will observe these things,
And they will
understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalm
108
–A Song. A Psalm of David.
1 O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give
praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the dawn.
3 I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples,
And I will sing
praises to You among the nations.
4 For Your mercy is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches
to the clouds.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above
all the earth;
6 That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right
hand, and hear me.
7 God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the
Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the
helmet for My head;
Judah is My lawgiver.
9 Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast
My shoe;
Over Philistia I will
triumph.”
10 Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who will lead me to
Edom?
11 Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?
And You, O God, who
did not go out with our armies?
12 Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is
useless.
13 Through God we will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall
tread down our enemies.[a]
Psalm
109
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 Do not keep silent,
O God of my praise!
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against
me;
They have spoken
against me with a lying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me
without a cause.
4 In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to
prayer.
5 Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my
love.
6 Set a wicked man over him,
And let an accuser[a]
stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And let his prayer
become sin.
8 Let his days be few,
And let another take
his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
10 Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them seek their
bread[b] also from their desolate places.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers
plunder his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any
to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off,
And in the generation
following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the
LORD,
And let not the sin of
his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be continually before the LORD,
That He may cut off
the memory of them from the earth;
16 Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the
poor and needy man,
That he might even
slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight
in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his
body like water,
And like oil into his
bones.
19 Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with
which he girds himself continually.
20 Let this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak
evil against my person.
21 But You, O GOD the Lord,
Deal with me for Your
name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is
good, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is
wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a
locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble
from lack of fatness.
25 I also have become a reproach to them;
When they look at me,
they shake their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God!
Oh, save me according
to Your mercy,
27 That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, LORD, have
done it!
28 Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let
them be ashamed,
But let Your servant
rejoice.
29 Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover
themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
Yes, I will praise Him
among the multitude.
31 For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those
who condemn him.
Psalm
110
–A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right
hand,
Till I make Your
enemies Your footstool.”
2 The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.
Rule in the midst of
Your enemies!
3 Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your
power;
In the beauties of
holiness, from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of
Your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn
And will not relent,
“You are a
priest forever
According to the order
of Melchizedek.”
5 The Lord is at Your right hand;
He shall execute kings
in the day of His wrath.
6 He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the
places with dead bodies,
He shall execute the
heads of many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He shall
lift up the head.
Psalm
111
Praise to God for His Faithfulness and Justice
1 Praise the LORD!
I will praise the LORD
with my whole heart,
In the assembly of the
upright and in the congregation.
2 The works of the LORD are great,
Studied by all who
have pleasure in them.
3 His work is honorable and glorious,
And His righteousness
endures forever.
4 He has made His wonderful works to be remembered;
The LORD is gracious
and full of compassion.
5 He has given food to those who fear Him;
He will ever be
mindful of His covenant.
6 He has declared to His people the power of His works,
In giving them the
heritage of the nations.
7 The works of His hands are verity and justice;
All His precepts are
sure.
8 They stand fast forever and ever,
And are done in truth
and uprightness.
9 He has sent redemption to His people;
He has commanded His
covenant forever:
Holy and awesome is
His name.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding
have all those who do His commandments.
His praise endures
forever.
Psalm
112
The Blessed State of the Righteous
1 Praise the LORD!
Blessed is the man who
fears the LORD,
Who delights greatly
in His commandments.
2 His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the
upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness
endures forever.
4 Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and
full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man deals graciously and lends;
He will guide his
affairs with discretion.
6 Surely he will never be shaken;
Psalm
113
The Majesty and Condescension of God
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise, O servants of
the LORD,
Praise the name of the
LORD!
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD
From this time forth
and forevermore!
3 From the rising of the sun to its going down
The LORD’s name
is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations,
His glory above the
heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God,
Who dwells on high,
6 Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in
the heavens and in the earth?
7 He raises the poor out of the dust,
And lifts the needy
out of the ash heap,
8 That He may seat him with princes—
With the princes of
His people.
9 He grants the barren woman a home,
Like a joyful mother
of children.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
114
The Power of God in His Deliverance of Israel
1 When Israel went out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob
from a people of strange language,
2 Judah became His sanctuary,
And Israel His
dominion.
3 The sea saw it and fled;
Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
The little hills like
lambs.
5 What ails you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you
turned back?
6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O little hills, like
lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the
God of Jacob,
8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a
fountain of waters.
Psalm
115
The Futility of Idols and the Trustworthiness of God
1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us,
But to Your name give
glory,
Because of Your mercy,
Because of Your truth.
2 Why should the Gentiles say,
“So where is
their God?”
3 But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He
pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of
men’s hands.
5 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but
they do not see;
6 They have ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but
they do not smell;
7 They have hands, but they do not handle;
Feet they have, but
they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter
through their throat.
8 Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who
trusts in them.
9 O Israel, trust in the LORD;
He is their help and
their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD;
He is their help and
their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD;
He is their help and
their shield.
12 The LORD has been mindful of us;
He will bless us;
He will bless the
house of Israel;
He will bless the
house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD,
Both small and great.
14 May the LORD give you increase more and more,
You and your children.
15 May you be blessed by the LORD,
Who made heaven and
earth.
16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s;
But the earth He has
given to the children of men.
17 The dead do not praise the LORD,
Nor any who go down
into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD
From this time forth
and forevermore.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
116
Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Death
1 I love the LORD, because He has heard
My voice and my
supplications.
2 Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call
upon Him as long as I live.
3 The pains of death surrounded me,
And the pangs of Sheol
laid hold of me;
I found trouble and
sorrow.
4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
“O LORD, I
implore You, deliver my soul!”
5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
Yes, our God is
merciful.
6 The LORD preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and
He saved me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul,
For the LORD has dealt
bountifully with you.
8 For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from
falling.
9 I will walk before the LORD
In the land of the
living.
10 I believed, therefore I spoke,
“I am greatly
afflicted.”
11 I said in my haste,
“All men are
liars.”
12 What shall I render to the LORD
For all His benefits
toward me?
13 I will take up the cup of salvation,
And call upon the name
of the LORD.
14 I will pay my vows to the LORD
Now in the presence of
all His people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
Is the death of His
saints.
16 O LORD, truly I am Your servant;
I am Your servant, the
son of Your maidservant;
You have loosed my
bonds.
17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And will call upon the
name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows to the LORD
Now in the presence of
all His people,
19 In the courts of the LORD’s house,
In the midst of you, O
Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
117
Let All Peoples Praise the LORD
1 Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you
peoples!
2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
And the truth of the
LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
118
Praise to God for His Everlasting Mercy
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
2 Let Israel now say,
“His mercy
endures forever.”
3 Let the house of Aaron now say,
“His mercy
endures forever.”
4 Let those who fear the LORD now say,
“His mercy
endures forever.”
5 I called on the LORD in distress;
The LORD answered me
and set me in a broad place.
6 The LORD is on my side;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
7 The LORD is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I shall see
my desire on those who hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence
in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence
in princes.
10 All nations surrounded me,
But in the name of the
LORD I will destroy them.
11 They surrounded me,
Yes, they surrounded
me;
But in the name of the
LORD I will destroy them.
12 They surrounded me like bees;
They were quenched
like a fire of thorns;
For in the name of the
LORD I will destroy them.
13 You pushed me violently, that I might fall,
But the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my
salvation.[a]
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation
Is in the tents of the
righteous;
The right hand of the
LORD does valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted;
The right hand of the
LORD does valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live,
And declare the works
of the LORD.
18 The LORD has chastened me severely,
But He has not given
me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness;
I will go through
them,
And I will praise the
LORD.
20 This is the gate of the LORD,
Through which the
righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise You,
For You have answered
me,
And have become my
salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23 This was the LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our
eyes.
24 This is the day the LORD has made;
We will rejoice and be
glad in it.
25 Save now, I pray, O LORD;
O LORD, I pray, send
now prosperity.
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!
We have blessed you
from the house of the LORD.
27 God is the LORD,
And He has given us
light;
Bind the sacrifice
with cords to the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I will praise You;
You are my God, I will
exalt You.
29 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
Psalm
119
א ALEPH
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of
the LORD!
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the
whole heart!
3 They also do no iniquity;
They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded us
To keep Your precepts
diligently.
5 Oh, that my ways were directed
To keep Your statutes!
6 Then I would not be ashamed,
When I look into all
Your commandments.
7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your
righteous judgments.
8 I will keep Your statutes;
Oh, do not forsake me
utterly!
ב BETH
9 How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed
according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander
from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin
against You.
12 Blessed are You, O LORD!
Teach me Your statutes.
13 With my lips I have declared
All the judgments of
Your mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all
riches.
15 I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your
ways.
16 I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your
word.
ג GIMEL
17 Deal bountifully with Your servant,
That I may live and
keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from
Your law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your
commandments from me.
20 My soul breaks with longing
For Your judgments at
all times.
21 You rebuke the proud—the cursed,
Who stray from Your
commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt,
For I have kept Your
testimonies.
23 Princes also sit and speak against me,
But Your servant
meditates on Your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight
And my counselors.
ד DALETH
25 My soul clings to the dust;
Revive me according to
Your word.
26 I have declared my ways, and You answered me;
Teach me Your statutes.
27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts;
So shall I meditate on
Your wonderful works.
28 My soul melts from heaviness;
Strengthen me
according to Your word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying,
And grant me Your law
graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth;
Your judgments I have
laid before me.
31 I cling to Your testimonies;
O LORD, do not put me
to shame!
32 I will run the course of Your commandments,
For You shall enlarge
my heart.
ה HE
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes,
And I shall keep it to
the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law;
Indeed, I shall
observe it with my whole heart.
35 Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.
36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies,
And not to
covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things,
And revive me in Your
way.[a]
38 Establish Your word to Your servant,
Who is devoted to
fearing You.
39 Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your judgments are
good.
40 Behold, I long for Your precepts;
Revive me in Your
righteousness.
וWAW
41 Let Your mercies come also to me, O LORD—
Your salvation
according to Your word.
42 So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your
word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I have hoped in
Your ordinances.
44 So shall I keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your
precepts.
46 I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings,
And will not be
ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments,
Which I love.
48 My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments,
Which I love,
And I will meditate on
Your statutes.
זZAYIN
49 Remember the word to Your servant,
Upon which You have
caused me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
For Your word has
given me life.
51 The proud have me in great derision,
Yet I do not turn
aside from Your law.
52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O LORD,
And have comforted
myself.
53 Indignation has taken hold of me
Because of the wicked,
who forsake Your law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs
In the house of my
pilgrimage.
55 I remember Your name in the night, O LORD,
And I keep Your law.
56 This has become mine,
Because I kept Your
precepts.
חHETH
57 You are my portion, O LORD;
I have said that I
would keep Your words.
58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart;
Be merciful to me
according to Your word.
59 I thought about my ways,
And turned my feet to
Your testimonies.
60 I made haste, and did not delay
To keep Your
commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have bound me,
But I have not
forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You,
Because of Your
righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all who fear You,
And of those who keep
Your precepts.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of Your mercy;
Teach me Your
statutes.
טTETH
65 You have dealt well with Your servant,
O LORD, according to
Your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
For I believe Your
commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your
word.
68 You are good, and do good;
Teach me Your statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your
precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease,
But I delight in Your
law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your
statutes.
72 The law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of
coins of gold and silver.
יYOD
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding,
that I may learn Your commandments.
74 Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped
in Your word.
75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right,
And that in
faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort,
According to Your word
to Your servant.
77 Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
For Your law is my
delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed,
For they treated me
wrongfully with falsehood;
But I will meditate on
Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You turn to me,
Those who know Your
testimonies.
80 Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes,
That I may not be
ashamed.
כKAPH
81 My soul faints for Your salvation,
But I hope in Your
word.
82 My eyes fail from searching Your word,
Saying, “When
will You comfort me?”
83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke,
Yet I do not forget
Your statutes.
84 How many are the days of Your servant?
When will You execute
judgment on those who persecute me?
85 The proud have dug pits for me,
Which is not according
to Your law.
86 All Your commandments are faithful;
They persecute me
wrongfully;
Help me!
87 They almost made an end of me on earth,
But I did not forsake
Your precepts.
88 Revive me according to Your lovingkindness,
So that I may keep the
testimony of Your mouth.
לLAMED
89 Forever, O LORD,
Your word is settled
in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
You established the
earth, and it abides.
91 They continue this day according to Your ordinances,
For all are Your
servants.
92 Unless Your law had been my delight,
I would then have
perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget Your precepts,
For by them You have
given me life.
94 I am Yours, save me;
For I have sought Your
precepts.
95 The wicked wait for me to destroy me,
But I will consider
Your testimonies.
96 I have seen the consummation of all perfection,
But Your commandment
is exceedingly broad.
מMEM
97 Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation
all the day.
98 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my
enemies;
For they are ever with
me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies
are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your
precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your
word.
102 I have not departed from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have
taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to
my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every
false way.
נNUN
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and confirmed
That I will keep Your
righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much;
Revive me, O LORD,
according to Your word.
108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
LORD,
And teach me Your
judgments.
109 My life is continually in my hand,
Yet I do not forget
Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not strayed
from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,
For they are the
rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, to the very
end.
סSAMEK
113 I hate the double-minded,
But I love Your law.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in Your word.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers,
For I will keep the
commandments of my God!
116 Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live;
And do not let me be
ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe,
And I shall observe
Your statutes continually.
118 You reject all those who stray from Your statutes,
For their deceit is
falsehood.
119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your
testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of
Your judgments.
עAYIN
121 I have done justice and righteousness;
Do not leave me to my
oppressors.
122 Be surety for Your servant for good;
Do not let the proud
oppress me.
123 My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation
And Your righteous
word.
124 Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy,
And teach me Your
statutes.
125 I am Your servant;
Give me understanding,
That I may know Your
testimonies.
126 It is time for You to act, O LORD,
For they have regarded
Your law as void.
127 Therefore I love Your commandments
More than gold, yes,
than fine gold!
128 Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things
I consider to be
right;
I hate every false
way.
פPE
129 Your testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul
keeps them.
130 The entrance of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding
to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth and panted,
For I longed for Your
commandments.
132 Look upon me and be merciful to me,
As Your custom is
toward those who love Your name.
133 Direct my steps by Your word,
And let no iniquity
have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your
precepts.
135 Make Your face shine upon Your servant,
And teach me Your
statutes.
136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not
keep Your law.
צTSADDE
137 Righteous are You, O LORD,
And upright are Your
judgments.
138 Your testimonies, which You have commanded,
Are righteous and very
faithful.
139 My zeal has consumed me,
Because my enemies
have forgotten Your words.
140 Your word is very pure;
Therefore Your servant
loves it.
141 I am small and despised,
Yet I do not forget
Your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Your law is truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have overtaken me,
Yet Your commandments
are my delights.
144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting;
Give me understanding,
and I shall live.
קQOPH
145 I cry out with my whole heart;
Hear me, O LORD!
I will keep Your
statutes.
146 I cry out to You;
Save me, and I will
keep Your testimonies.
147 I rise before the dawning of the morning,
And cry for help;
I hope in Your word.
148 My eyes are awake through the night watches,
That I may meditate on
Your word.
149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness;
O LORD, revive me
according to Your justice.
150 They draw near who follow after wickedness;
They are far from Your
law.
151 You are near, O LORD,
And all Your
commandments are truth.
152 Concerning Your testimonies,
I have known of old
that You have founded them forever.
רRESH
153 Consider my affliction and deliver me,
For I do not forget
Your law.
154 Plead my cause and redeem me;
Revive me according to
Your word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek
Your statutes.
156 Great are Your tender mercies, O LORD;
Revive me according to
Your judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies,
Yet I do not turn from
Your testimonies.
158 I see the treacherous, and am disgusted,
Because they do not
keep Your word.
159 Consider how I love Your precepts;
Revive me, O LORD,
according to Your lovingkindness.
160 The entirety of Your word is truth,
And every one of Your
righteous judgments endures forever.
שSHIN
161 Princes persecute me without a cause,
But my heart stands in
awe of Your word.
162 I rejoice at Your word
As one who finds great
treasure.
163 I hate and abhor lying,
But I love Your law.
164 Seven times a day I praise You,
Because of Your
righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have those who love Your law,
And nothing causes
them to stumble.
166 LORD, I hope for Your salvation,
And I do Your
commandments.
167 My soul keeps Your testimonies,
And I love them
exceedingly.
168 I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are
before You.
ת TAU
169 Let my cry come before You, O LORD;
Give me understanding
according to Your word.
170 Let my supplication come before You;
Deliver me according
to Your word.
171 My lips shall utter praise,
For You teach me Your
statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of Your word,
For all Your
commandments are righteousness.
173 Let Your hand become my help,
For I have chosen Your
precepts.
174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD,
And Your law is my
delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise You;
And let Your judgments
help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep;
Seek Your servant,
For I do not forget
Your commandments.
Psalm
120
A Song of Ascents.
1 In my distress I cried to the LORD,
And He heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips
And from a deceitful
tongue.
3 What shall be given to you,
Or what shall be done
to you,
You false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the warrior,
With coals of the
broom tree!
5 Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech,
That I dwell among the
tents of Kedar!
6 My soul has dwelt too long
With one who hates
peace.
7 I am for peace;
But when I speak, they
are for war.
8 His heart is established;
He will not be afraid,
Until he sees his
desire upon his enemies.
9 He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the
poor;
His righteousness
endures forever;
His horn will be
exalted with honor.
10 The wicked will see it and be grieved;
He will gnash his
teeth and melt away;
The desire of the
wicked shall perish.
Psalm
121
A Song of Ascents.
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my
help?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and
earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will
not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber
nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade
at your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your
soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth,
and even forevermore.
Psalm
122
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go into
the house of the LORD.”
2 Our feet have been standing
Within your gates, O
Jerusalem!
3 Jerusalem is built
As a city that is
compact together,
4 Where the tribes go up,
The tribes of the
LORD,
To the Testimony of
Israel,
To give thanks to the
name of the LORD.
5 For thrones are set there for judgment,
The thrones of the
house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they
prosper who love you.
7 Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your
palaces.”
8 For the sake of my brethren and companions,
I will now say,
“Peace be within you.”
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God
I will seek your good.
Psalm
123
A Song of Ascents.
1 Unto You I lift up my eyes,
O You who dwell in the
heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their
masters,
As the eyes of a maid
to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to
the LORD our God,
Until He has mercy on
us.
3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us!
For we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled
With the scorn of
those who are at ease,
With the contempt of
the proud.
Psalm
124
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our
side,”
Let Israel now
say—
2 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
When men rose up
against us,
3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was
kindled against us;
4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have
gone over our soul;
5 Then the swollen waters
Would have gone over
our soul.”
6 Blessed be the LORD,
Who has not given us
as prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the
fowlers;[a]
The snare is broken,
and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
Who made heaven and
earth.
Psalm
125
A Song of Ascents.
1 Those who trust in the LORD
Are like Mount Zion,
Which cannot be moved,
but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the LORD surrounds
His people
From this time forth
and forever.
3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest
On the land allotted
to the righteous,
Lest the righteous
reach out their hands to iniquity.
4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good,
And to those who are
upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways,
The LORD shall lead
them away
With the workers of
iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm
126
A Song of Ascents.
1 When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion,
We were like those who
dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with
singing.
Then they said among
the nations,
“The LORD has
done great things for them.”
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
And we are glad.
4 Bring back our captivity, O LORD,
As the streams in the
South.
5 Those who sow in tears
Shall reap in joy.
6 He who continually goes forth weeping,
Bearing seed for
sowing,
Shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves
with him.
Psalm
127
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who
build it;
Unless the LORD guards
the city,
The watchman stays
awake in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
To sit up late,
To eat the bread of
sorrows;
For so He gives His
beloved sleep.
3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
The fruit of the womb
is a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of
one’s youth.
5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
They shall not be
ashamed,
But shall speak with
their enemies in the gate.
Psalm
128
A Song of Ascents.
1 Blessed is every one who fears the LORD,
Who walks in His ways.
2 When you eat the labor of your hands,
You shall be happy,
and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of
your house,
Your children like
olive plants
All around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the LORD.
5 The LORD bless you out of Zion,
And may you see the
good of Jerusalem
All the days of your
life.
6 Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm
129
A Song of Ascents.
1 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my
youth,”
Let Israel now
say—
2 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;
Yet they have not
prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their
furrows long.”
4 The LORD is righteous;
He has cut in pieces
the cords of the wicked.
5 Let all those who hate Zion
Be put to shame and
turned back.
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before
it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds
sheaves, his arms.
8 Neither let those who pass by them say,
“The blessing of
the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the
name of the LORD!”
Psalm
130
A Song of Ascents.
1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD;
2 Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be
attentive
To the voice of my
supplications.
3 If You, LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could
stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be
feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
And in His word I do
hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord
More than those who
watch for the morning—
Yes, more than those
who watch for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the LORD;
For with the LORD
there is mercy,
And with Him is
abundant redemption.
8 And He shall redeem Israel
From all his
iniquities.
Psalm
131
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 LORD, my heart is not haughty,
Nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern
myself with great matters,
Nor with things too
profound for me.
2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child
with his mother;
Like a weaned child is
my soul within me.
3 O Israel, hope in the LORD
From this time forth
and forever.
Psalm
132
A Song of Ascents.
1 LORD, remember David
And all his
afflictions;
2 How he swore to the LORD,
And vowed to the
Mighty One of Jacob:
3 “Surely I will not go into the chamber of my
house,
Or go up to the
comfort of my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes
Or slumber to my
eyelids,
5 Until I find a place for the LORD,
A dwelling place for
the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
We found it in the
fields of the woods.[a]
7 Let us go into His tabernacle;
Let us worship at His
footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place,
You and the ark of
Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your saints
shout for joy.
10 For Your servant David’s sake,
Do not turn away the
face of Your Anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David;
He will not turn from
it:
“I will set upon
your throne the fruit of your body.
12 If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which
I shall teach them,
Their sons also shall
sit upon your throne forevermore.”
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for
His dwelling place:
14 “This is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for
I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her
poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation,
And her saints shall
shout aloud for joy.
17 There I will make the horn of David grow;
I will prepare a lamp
for My Anointed.
18 His enemies I will clothe with shame,
But upon Himself His
crown shall flourish.”
Psalm
133
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell
together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Running down on the
beard,
The beard of Aaron,
Running down on the
edge of his garments.
3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the
mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD
commanded the blessing—
Life forevermore.
Psalm
134
A Song of Ascents.
1 Behold, bless the LORD,
All you servants of
the LORD,
Who by night stand in
the house of the LORD!
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
And bless the LORD.
3 The LORD who made heaven and earth
Bless you from Zion!
Psalm
135
Praise to God in Creation and Redemption
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the name of the
LORD;
Praise Him, O you
servants of the LORD!
2 You who stand in the house of the LORD,
In the courts of the
house of our God,
3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
Sing praises to His
name, for it is pleasant.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His special
treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great,
And our Lord is above
all gods.
6 Whatever the LORD pleases He does,
In heaven and in
earth,
In the seas and in all
deep places.
7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for
the rain;
He brings the wind out
of His treasuries.
8 He destroyed the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and beast.
9 He sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all
his servants.
10 He defeated many nations
And slew mighty
kings—
11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
And all the kingdoms
of Canaan—
12 And gave their land as a heritage,
A heritage to Israel
His people.
13 Your name, O LORD, endures forever,
Your fame, O LORD,
throughout all generations.
14 For the LORD will judge His people,
And He will have
compassion on His servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of
men’s hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but
they do not see;
17 They have ears, but they do not hear;
Nor is there any
breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who
trusts in them.
19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel!
Bless the LORD, O
house of Aaron!
20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi!
You who fear the LORD,
bless the LORD!
21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion,
Who dwells in
Jerusalem!
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
136
Thanksgiving to God for His Enduring Mercy
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
2 Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
For His mercy endures
forever.
3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
For His mercy endures
forever:
4 To Him who alone does great wonders,
For His mercy endures
forever;
5 To Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
For His mercy endures
forever;
6 To Him who laid out the earth above the waters,
For His mercy endures
forever;
7 To Him who made great lights,
For His mercy endures
forever—
8 The sun to rule by day,
For His mercy endures
forever;
9 The moon and stars to rule by night,
For His mercy endures
forever.
10 To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn,
For His mercy endures
forever;
11 And brought out Israel from among them,
For His mercy endures
forever;
12 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
For His mercy endures
forever;
13 To Him who divided the Red Sea in two,
For His mercy endures
forever;
14 And made Israel pass through the midst of it,
For His mercy endures
forever;
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
For His mercy endures
forever;
16 To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
For His mercy endures
forever;
17 To Him who struck down great kings,
For His mercy endures
forever;
18 And slew famous kings,
For His mercy endures
forever—
19 Sihon king of the Amorites,
For His mercy endures
forever;
20 And Og king of Bashan,
For His mercy endures
forever—
21 And gave their land as a heritage,
For His mercy endures
forever;
22 A heritage to Israel His servant,
For His mercy endures
forever.
23 Who remembered us in our lowly state,
For His mercy endures
forever;
24 And rescued us from our enemies,
For His mercy endures
forever;
25 Who gives food to all flesh,
For His mercy endures
forever.
26 Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven!
For His mercy endures
forever.
Psalm
137
Longing for Zion in a Foreign Land
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down,
yea, we wept
When we remembered
Zion.
2 We hung our harps
Upon the willows in
the midst of it.
3 For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a
song,
And those who
plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us
one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song
In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand
forget its skill!
6 If I do not remember you,
Let my tongue cling to
the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt
Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze
it, raze it,
To its very
foundation!”
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one who
repays you as you have served us!
9 Happy the one who takes and dashes
Your little ones
against the rock!
Psalm
138
A Psalm of David.
1 I will praise You with my whole heart;
Before the gods I will
sing praises to You.
2 I will worship toward Your holy temple,
And praise Your name
For Your
lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified
Your word above all Your name.
3 In the day when I cried out, You answered me,
And made me bold with
strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O LORD,
When they hear the
words of Your mouth.
5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD,
For great is the glory
of the LORD.
6 Though the LORD is on high,
Yet He regards the
lowly;
But the proud He knows
from afar.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch out
Your hand
Against the wrath of
my enemies,
And Your right hand
will save me.
8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD,
endures forever;
Do not forsake the
works of Your hands.
Psalm
139
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my
thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted
with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD,
You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand
upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot
attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee
from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in
hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand
shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[a] on
me,”
Even the night shall
be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines
as the day;
The darkness and the
light are both alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my
mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made;[b]
Marvelous are Your
works,
And that my soul knows
very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in
secret,
And skillfully wrought
in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they
all were written,
The days fashioned for
me,
When as yet there were
none of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum
of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than
the
sand;
When I awake, I am
still with You.
19 Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me,
therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
20 For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your
name in vain.[c]
21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe
those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my
enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my
anxieties;
24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way
everlasting.
Psalm
140
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men;
Preserve me from
violent men,
2 Who plan evil things in their hearts;
They continually
gather together for war.
3 They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The poison of asps is
under their lips. Selah
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from
violent men,
Who have purposed to
make my steps stumble.
5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords;
They have spread a net
by the wayside;
They have set traps
for me. Selah
6 I said to the LORD: “You are my God;
Hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my
head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his
wicked scheme,
Lest they be
exalted. Selah
9 “As for the head of those who surround me,
Let the evil of their
lips cover them;
10 Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be cast into
the fire,
Into deep pits, that
they rise not up again.
11 Let not a slanderer be established in the earth;
Let evil hunt the
violent man to overthrow him.”
12 I know that the LORD will maintain
The cause of the
afflicted,
And justice for the
poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name;
The upright shall
dwell in Your presence.
Psalm
141
A Psalm of David.
1 LORD, I cry out to You;
Make haste to me!
Give ear to my voice
when I cry out to You.
2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense,
The lifting up of my
hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the
door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
To practice wicked
works
With men who work
iniquity;
And do not let me eat
of their delicacies.
5 Let the righteous strike me;
It shall be a
kindness.
And let him rebuke me;
It shall be as
excellent oil;
Let my head not refuse
it.
For still my prayer is
against the deeds of the wicked.
6 Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff,
And they hear my
words, for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,
As when one plows and
breaks up the earth.
8 But my eyes are upon You, O GOD the Lord;
In You I take refuge;
Do not leave my soul
destitute.
9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,
And from the traps of
the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
While I escape safely.
Psalm
142
A Contemplation[a] of David. A Prayer when he was in the cave.
1 I cry out to the LORD with my voice;
With my voice to the
LORD I make my supplication.
2 I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare before Him
my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
Then You knew my path.
In the way in which I
walk
They have secretly set
a snare for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see,
For there is no one
who acknowledges me;
Refuge has failed me;
No one cares for my
soul.
5 I cried out to You, O LORD:
I said, “You are
my refuge,
My portion in the land
of the living.
6 Attend to my cry,
For I am brought very
low;
Deliver me from my
persecutors,
For they are stronger
than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may praise Your
name;
The righteous shall
surround me,
For You shall deal
bountifully with me.”
Psalm
143
A Psalm of David.
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD,
Give ear to my
supplications!
In Your faithfulness
answer me,
And in Your
righteousness.
2 Do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no
one living is righteous.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul;
He has crushed my life
to the ground;
He has made me dwell
in darkness,
Like those who have
long been dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart within me is
distressed.
5 I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all Your
works;
I muse on the work of
Your hands.
6 I spread out my hands to You;
My soul longs for You
like a thirsty land. Selah
7 Answer me speedily, O LORD;
My spirit fails!
Do not hide Your face
from me,
Lest I be like those
who go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For in You do I trust;
Cause me to know the
way in which I should walk,
For I lift up my soul
to You.
9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies;
In You I take
shelter.[a]
10 Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of
uprightness.
11 Revive me, O LORD, for Your name’s sake!
For Your
righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
12 In Your mercy cut off my enemies,
And destroy all those
who afflict my soul;
For I am Your servant.
Psalm
144
A Psalm of David.
1 Blessed be the LORD my Rock,
Who trains my hands
for war,
And my fingers for
battle—
2 My lovingkindness and my fortress,
My high tower and my
deliverer,
My shield and the One
in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my
people[a] under me.
3 LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man,
that You are mindful of him?
4 Man is like a breath;
His days are like a
passing shadow.
5 Bow down Your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
Touch the mountains,
and they shall smoke.
6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Shoot out Your arrows
and destroy them.
7 Stretch out Your hand from above;
Rescue me and deliver
me out of great waters,
From the hand of
foreigners,
8 Whose mouth speaks lying words,
And whose right hand
is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song to You, O God;
On a harp of ten
strings I will sing praises to You,
10 The One who gives salvation to kings,
Who delivers David His
servant
From the deadly sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks
lying words,
And whose right hand
is a right hand of falsehood—
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
That our daughters may
be as pillars,
Sculptured in palace
style;
13 That our barns may be full,
Supplying all kinds of
produce;
That our sheep may
bring forth thousands
And ten thousands in
our fields;
14 That our oxen may be well laden;
That there be no
breaking in or going out;
That there be no
outcry in our streets.
15 Happy are the people who are in such a state;
Happy are the people
whose God is the LORD!
Psalm
145
A Praise of David.
1 I will extol You, my God, O King;
And I will bless Your
name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your
name forever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;
And His greatness is
unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your
mighty acts.
5 I[a] will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
And on Your wondrous
works.[b]
6 Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,
And I will declare
Your greatness.
7 They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness,
And shall sing of Your
righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and
great in mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all,
And His tender mercies
are over all His works.
10 All Your works shall praise You, O LORD,
And Your saints shall
bless You.
11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,
And talk of Your power,
12 To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,
And the glorious
majesty of His kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion
endures throughout all generations.[c]
14 The LORD upholds all who fall,
And raises up all who
are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all look expectantly to You,
And You give them
their food in due season.
16 You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire
of every living thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His
works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon
Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear
their cry and save them.
20 The LORD preserves all who love Him,
But all the wicked He
will destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD,
And all flesh shall
bless His holy name
Forever and ever.
Psalm
146
The Happiness of Those Whose Help Is the LORD
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, O my
soul!
2 While I live I will praise the LORD;
I will sing praises to
my God while I have my being.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in a son of man,
in whom there is no help.
4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his
plans perish.
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the
LORD his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that
is in them;
Who keeps truth
forever,
7 Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the
hungry.
The LORD gives freedom
to the prisoners.
8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind;
The LORD raises those
who are bowed down;
The LORD loves the
righteous.
9 The LORD watches over the strangers;
He relieves the
fatherless and widow;
But the way of the
wicked He turns upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign forever—
Your God, O Zion, to
all generations.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
147
Praise to God for His Word and Providence
1 Praise the LORD!
For it is good to sing
praises to our God;
For it is pleasant,
and praise is beautiful.
2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers together
the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their
wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by
name.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;
His understanding is
infinite.
6 The LORD lifts up the humble;
He casts the wicked
down to the ground.
7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
Sing praises on the
harp to our God,
8 Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who prepares rain for
the earth,
Who makes grass to
grow on the mountains.
9 He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young
ravens that cry.
10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse;
He takes no pleasure
in the legs of a man.
11 The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him,
In those who hope in
His mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O
Zion!
13 For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your
children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders,
And fills you with the
finest wheat.
15 He sends out His command to the earth;
His word runs very
swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost
like ashes;
17 He casts out His hail like morsels;
Who can stand before
His cold?
18 He sends out His word and melts them;
He causes His wind to
blow, and the waters flow.
19 He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His
judgments to Israel.
20 He has not dealt thus with any nation;
And as for His
judgments, they have not known them.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
148
Praise to the LORD from Creation
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD from
the heavens;
Praise Him in the
heights!
2 Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His
hosts!
3 Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all you
stars of light!
4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens,
And you waters above
the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
For He commanded and
they were created.
6 He also established them forever and ever;
He made a decree which
shall not pass away.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth,
You great sea
creatures and all the depths;
8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds;
Stormy wind,
fulfilling His word;
9 Mountains and all hills;
Fruitful trees and all
cedars;
10 Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and
flying fowl;
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges
of the earth;
12 Both young men and maidens;
Old men and children.
13 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
For His name alone is
exalted;
His glory is above the
earth and heaven.
14 And He has exalted the horn of His people,
The praise of all His
saints—
Of the children of
Israel,
A people near to Him.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
149
Praise to God for His Salvation and Judgment
1 Praise the LORD!
Sing to the LORD a new
song,
And His praise in the
assembly of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let the children of
Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing praises
to Him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the
humble with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory;
Let them sing aloud on
their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword
in their hand,
7 To execute vengeance on the nations,
And punishments on the
peoples;
8 To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with
fetters of iron;
9 To execute on them the written judgment—
This honor have all
His saints.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm
150
Let All Things Praise the LORD
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise God in His
sanctuary;
Praise Him in His
mighty firmament!
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts;
Praise Him according
to His excellent greatness!
3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet;
Praise Him with the
lute and harp!
4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance;
Praise Him with
stringed instruments and flutes!
5 Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with
clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!