Psalms Chapter 76
The God of victory and judgment
1 God is known in Judah; in Israel his name is great.
2 His dwelling place is in Salem, his habitation in Zion.
3 There he breaks the arrows of the bow, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
4 You are glorious, mightier than the mountains of prey.
5 The bold in heart are plundered, they sleep their sleep; none of the mighty men use their hands.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the chariot and the horse are paralyzed.
7 You are awesome; who can stand before you when your anger is kindled?
8 From heaven you pronounced judgment; the earth trembled and stood still
9 When you arose, O God, to judge, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah
10 Surely the wrath of man praises you; you restrain the rest of wrath.
11 Make vows to the Lord your God and pay them; let all who are around him bring offerings to the One to be feared.
12 He will cut off the spirit of princes; he is to be feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalms Chapter 77
Meditation on the mighty deeds of God
1 I cried out to God with my voice; I cried out to God, and he heard me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hands were lifted up to him all night; my soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remembered God and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit fainted. Selah
4 You kept me from sleeping; I was so troubled that I could not speak.
5 I considered the days of old, the years of long ago.
6 I remembered my songs in the night; I meditated in my heart, and my spirit inquired:
7 Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never again be gracious to us?
8 Has his love ceased forever? Has his promise failed for all time?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion? Selah
10 I said, “This is my infirmity; I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
11 I will remember the works of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
12 I will meditate on all your works, and speak of all your deeds.
13 Your way, O God, is holy; what god is as great as our God?
14 You are the God who works wonders; you have made your power known among the nations.
15 With your arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you and were afraid; the deeps also trembled.
17 The clouds poured down floodwaters; the heavens thundered, and your lightning flashed.
18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
19 Your path was through the sea, your way through the mighty waters; your footprints were not seen.
20 You led your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms Chapter 78
God's faithfulness to his unfaithful people
1 Listen, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from ancient times,
3 things we have heard and understood, things our ancestors have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.
5 He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children,
6 so that the next generation might know them, even the children yet to be born, and that they in turn might tell their children,
7 so that they might put their trust in God and not forget his deeds but keep his commands.
8 They will not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The sons of Ephraim, armed archers, turned their backs on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep God’s covenant, nor would they walk in his law;
11 but they forgot his works, and his wonders which he had shown them.
12 Before their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the waters stand still like a heap.
14 He led them by day with a cloud, and all night with a pillar of fire.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as from great deeps;
16 for he brought streams out of the rock, and made waters flow down like rivers.
17 But they sinned against him again, rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness;
18 for they tested God in their hearts, demanding food to satisfy their craving.
19 And they spoke against God, saying, “Can he spread a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, and torrents flooded the land; can he also give bread? Can he provide meat for his people?”
21 Therefore the Lord heard and was angry; the fire was kindled against Jacob, and his wrath rose also against Israel,
22 because they had not believed God, nor trusted in his salvation.
23 Nevertheless, he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 and rained down manna for them to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of nobles; he sent them food until they were satisfied.
26 He stirred up the east wind in the heavens, and by his power brought the south wind,
27He rained down meat on them like dust, like the sand of the sea, like flying birds.
28 He let it fall in the midst of the camp, all around their tents.
29 They ate and were satisfied; he gave them what they craved.
30 Before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God was upon them, and he slew the strongest of them and struck down the chosen of Israel.
32 Yet for all this they still sinned and did not believe in his wonderful deeds.
33 Therefore he made their days worthless and their years miserable.
34 When he slew them, they sought God; they sought him earnestly.
35 They remembered that God was their refuge, the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues;
37 For their hearts were not right with him, nor were they steadfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; many times he turned away his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not return.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, how often they provoked him to anger in the desert!
41 They kept turning back and testing God; they provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger.
42 They did not remember his power, the day he redeemed them from the land of distress,
43 when he performed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers into blood, their streams so that they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs that destroyed them.
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar, their labors to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vineyards with hail, their fig trees with frost.
48 He gave their cattle over to the hailstorm, their herds to the lightning.
49 He sent on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and distress—an army of destroying angels.
50 He made a way for his fury; he did not spare their lives from death, but gave their lives over to destruction.
51 He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 He led his people out like sheep, and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them safely, so that they had no fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
54 He brought them to the borders of his holy land, to this mountain which his right hand won.
55 He drove out the nations before them; he allotted their land as an inheritance with cords, and settled the tribes of Israel in their dwelling places.
56 But they tested and angered God Most High, and did not keep his testimonies;
57 but turned back and rebelled like their fathers; they turned back like a deceitful bow.
58 They angered him with their high places, and provoked him to jealousy with their carved images.
59 God heard it and was angry, and he greatly abhorred Israel.
60 So he abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
61 and gave his power into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the enemy.
62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins were not praised in wedding songs.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not mourn.
65 Then the Lord awoke as one who sleeps, like a warrior shouting with wine,
66 and struck down his enemies from behind; he gave them perpetual shame.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69He built his sanctuary on a high place, like the earth he established forever.
70 He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from tending the ewes he brought him, to shepherd his people Jacob, his inheritance Israel.
72 He shepherded them with integrity of heart, he led them with skillful hands.
Psalms Chapter 79
I lament the destruction of Jerusalem
1 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
4 We are scorned by our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those around us.
5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your zeal burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 Do not hold against us the sins of our ancestors; let your mercies come quickly to meet us, for we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; Deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.
10 For the nations will say, “Where is their God?” Let the vengeance for the blood of your servants, which has been shed, be known among the nations before our eyes.
11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to the greatness of your arm, preserve those condemned to death.
12 Pay back to our neighbors sevenfold for the reproach with which they have dishonored you, O Lord.
13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will sing your praises.
Psalms Chapter 80
Plea for restoration
1 Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel; You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Rouse Your power before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, and come to save us.
3 Restore us, O God; let Your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long will You show Your indignation toward the prayer of Your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in great abundance.
6 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts; let Your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9 You cleared the place before it, and made it take root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the cedars of God with its branches.
11 It sent out its boughs to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 The wild boar tears it apart, and the beasts of the field devour it.
14 O God of hosts, turn again; look down from heaven and see, and visit this vine,
15 the planting that your right hand planted, and the branch that you made firm for yourself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is laid waste; let them perish at the rebuke of your face.
17 Let your hand be upon the man at your right hand, upon the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name.
19 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Psalms Chapter 81
The goodness of God and the wickedness of Israel
1 Sing joyfully to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
2 Sing to one another in song, strike the tambourine, the melodious harp and the lyre.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the appointed time, on the day of our solemn feast.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He established it as a testimony to Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I heard a language I did not understand;
6 I removed his shoulder from under the burden; his hands were freed from the baskets.
7 In your distress you called, 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 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.
10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not listen to my voice, and Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own devices.
13 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate the Lord would submit to him, and their time would last forever.
16 God would feed them with the finest of wheat, and with honey from the rock he would satisfy them.
Psalms Chapter 82
Admonition against unjust judgments
1 God stands in the assembly of the gods; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.
2 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and needy.
4 Rescue the afflicted and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 They do not know, they do not understand; they walk in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 I said, “You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;
7 but you will die like mere mortals, and fall like every other prince.”
8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for you shall inherit all the nations.
Psalms Chapter 83
Prayer asking for the destruction of the enemies of Israel
1 O God, do not keep silent; do not be quiet, O God, do not be still.
2 For behold, your enemies roar; those who hate you lift up their heads.
3 They have plotted craftily against your people; they have taken counsel together against your treasured ones.
4 They have said, “Come, let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 For they have conspired together with one heart; they have made a covenant against you:
6 the tents of Edomites and Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria also has joined them; they are the arm of the sons of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as you did to Jabin at the Kishon River;
10 Those who perished at Endor, they became like dung for the ground.
11 Make their captains like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us inherit the dwellings of God.”
13 O God, make them like whirlwinds, like chaff before the wind,
14 like fire that burns the mountain, like a flame that sets the forest ablaze.
15 Pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your whirlwind.
16 Fill their faces with shame, and let them seek your name, O LORD.
17 Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; let them be disgraced and perish.
18 Let them know that your name is LORD; you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Psalms Chapter 84
I long for the house of God
1 How lovely are your dwelling places, 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, near your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever 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 place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
9 Look upon our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of your anointed.
10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. 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 bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
12 Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.
Psalms Chapter 85
A plea for God's mercy upon Israel
1 You were gracious to your land, O Lord; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sins. Selah
3 You withheld all your wrath; you turned from your fierce anger.
4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put an end to your anger against us.
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, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.
8 I will listen to what the Lord God will speak; for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, that they may not turn back to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth will spring up from the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.
12 The Lord will also give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before him, and his steps will make a path for us.
Psalms Chapter 86
Prayer asking for God's continued mercy
1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you, O my God.
3 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I call to you all day long.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in love to all who call on you.
6 Hear my prayer, O Lord; listen to my cry for mercy.
7 In the day of my trouble I call to you, for you will answer me.
8 There is none among the gods like you, O Lord; no deeds can compare with yours.
9 All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord, and will bring glory to your name.
10 For you are great and do wondrous deeds; you alone are God.
11 Teach me your way, O Lord; I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your mercy toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
14 O God, the proud have risen against me; a band of ruthless men has sought my life, and they have not set you before them.
15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
16 Turn to me and have mercy on me; give your strength to your servant and protect the son of your maidservant.
17 Show me a sign of your favor, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
Psalms Chapter 87
The privilege of dwelling in Zion
1 Its foundation is on the holy mountain.
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, City of God. Selah
4 I will remember Rahab and Babylon among those who know me; behold, 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 will establish her.
6 The Lord will record, when he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah
7 And singers and musicians in her will say, “All my springs are in you.”
Psalms Chapter 88
A plea for deliverance from death
1 O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before you day and night.
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 Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength,
5 abandoned among the dead, like those slain by the sword who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are snatched out of your hand.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deepest places.
7 Your anger rests upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah
8 You have removed my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in, and cannot go out.
9 My eyes fail because of my affliction; I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
10 Will you reveal your wonders to the dead? Will the dead rise to praise you? Selah
11 Will your mercy be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Will your wonders be known in the darkness, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But I cry out to you, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 Why, O Lord, do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 I am poor and needy; from my youth I have borne your terrors; I have been in fear.
16 Your anger has swept over me, and your terrors have overwhelmed me.
17 They surround me continually like waters; they have encircled me completely.
18 You have taken from me friend and companion, and you have put my acquaintances in darkness.
Psalms Chapter 89
God's covenant with David
1 I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known to all generations.
2 For I said, “Mercy will be built up forever; you will establish your faithfulness in the very heavens.”
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant, saying,
4 “ I will establish your descendants forever and build up your throne for all generations.” Selah
5 The heavens will praise your wonderful deeds, O Lord, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the faithful.
6 For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty men is like the Lord?
7 A God to be feared in the great assembly of the faithful, and to be terrified above all who are around him.
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you.
9 You rule over the raging sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
10 You broke Rahab like one mortally wounded; With your mighty arm you scattered your enemies.
11 Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth; the world and all that is in it, you founded it.
12 The north and the south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.
13 Yours is the mighty arm; your hand is strong, your right hand is exalted.
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 face.
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 by your favor you increase our horn.
18 For the Lord is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel is our King.
19 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said: I have placed help on one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from my people.
20 I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with my holy oil.
21 My hand will always be with him, and my arm will strengthen him.
22 The enemy will not outwit him, nor will the wicked afflict him.
23 But I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
24 My faithfulness and my love will be with him, and in my name his horn will be exalted.
25 I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.
26 He will call out to me, “You are my Father, my God, the rock of my salvation.”
27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
28 I will maintain my mercy toward him forever, and my covenant with him will stand firm.
29 I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure.
30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,
31 if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their rebellion with the rod, and their iniquity with floggings.
33 But I will not take my love from him, nor will I betray my faithfulness.
34 I will not forget my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
35 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness, and I will not lie to David.
36 His descendants will endure forever, and his throne will be like the sun before me.
37 Like the moon, it will endure forever, and like a faithful witness in the heavens. Selah
38 But you have rejected and despised your anointed, and you have been angry with him.
39 You have broken the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his walls; you have destroyed his strongholds.
41 All who pass by plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his enemies; you have made all his foes rejoice.
43 You have also blunt the edge of his sword; you do not lift him up in battle.
44 You have put an end to his glory, and cast his throne to the ground.
45 You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah
46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your anger burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is; why have you created all the sons of men in vain?
48 What man can live and not see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
49 O Lord, where are your former mercies, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
50 O Lord, remember the reproach of your servants, the reproach of many peoples, which I bear in my heart.
51 For your enemies, O Lord, have reproached, for your enemies have reproached the steps of your anointed.
52 Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.
Psalms Chapter 90
The eternity of God and the transience of man
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn mortals back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!”
4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning.
6 In the morning it flourishes and springs up, but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 For we are consumed by your wrath and terrified by your anger.
8 You have set our sins before you, our iniquities in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days pass away because of your anger; we finish our years as though it were not so.
10 The days of our years are seventy; Even if the strongest are eighty years, yet their strength is but trouble and toil; for it is soon cut short, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear that you deserve?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let your work be shown to your servants, your glory to their children.
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God rest on us, and establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.
Psalms Chapter 91
Dwelling in the shadow of the Almighty
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the recompense 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, no plague shall come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
12 They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on 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.”
Psalms Chapter 92
Praise for the goodness of God
1 It is good to praise you, O 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 with the ten-stringed lyre and the harp, with melodious music on the lyre.
4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your works; I sing for joy at the works of your hands.
5 How great are your works, O Lord! How profound are your thoughts!
6 The foolish man does not know, and the senseless man does not understand this.
7 When the wicked spring up like grass, and all evildoers flourish, it is only that they may be destroyed forever.
8 But you, O Lord, are forever Most High.
9 For behold, your enemies, O Lord, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.
10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 And my eyes shall look upon my enemies; My ears will hear of those who rose up against me, of the wicked.
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13 planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
Psalms Chapter 93
The majesty of Jehovah
1 The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is armed with strength. He has established the world, so that it shall never be moved.
2 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
3 The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers have lifted up their waves.
4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, mightier than the powerful waves of the sea.
5 Your testimonies are very firm; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forever and ever.
Psalms Chapter 94
Prayer crying out for revenge
1 O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, show yourself!
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; repay the proud!
3 How long will the wicked, how long, O Lord, will the wicked exult?
4 How long will they speak, how long will all the workers of iniquity boast?
5 They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the foreigner, and take away the life of the fatherless.
7 And they say, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob perceive.”
8 Understand, you fools of the people; and you senseless ones, when will you become wise?
9 He who made the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, will he not rebuke? He who teaches mankind knowledge, does he not know?
11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are futile.
12 Blessed is the man whom you, O Lord, correct, and whom you teach from your law,
13 to give him rest in the days of trouble, while for the wicked a pit is dug.
14 For the Lord will not forsake his people, nor will he abandon his inheritance;
15 but justice will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against those who do evil?
17 If the Lord had not helped me, I would soon have dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your mercy, O Lord, sustained me.
19 When my worries were many within me, your consolations brought me joy.
20 Will a throne of wickedness be allied with you, a throne that works oppression by the law?
21 They gather together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood.
22 But the Lord has been my refuge, and my God the rock of my trust.
23 He will repay them for their sins and destroy them in their own wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them.
Psalms Chapter 95
Song of praise and worship
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 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, the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with the nation, and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”
11 So I swore in my anger that they would not enter my rest.
Psalms Chapter 96
Song of praise
1 Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.
3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
4 For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; 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 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
7 Ascribe to the Lord, you families of the peoples; ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.
9 Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” He has established the world; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar , and all that fills it.
12 Let the field be joyful, and everything in it; then all the trees of the forest shall burst into song,
13 before the Lord, for he comes; for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his truth.
Psalms Chapter 97
The dominion and power of Jehovah
1 The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad.
2 Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3 Fire goes before him and sets his enemies on fire all around.
4 His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.
7 Let all who worship carved images be put to shame, those who boast in idols; let all gods bow down to him.
8 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice in your judgments, O Lord.
9 For you, O Lord, are exalted above all the earth; you are highly exalted above all gods.
10 You who love the Lord, hate evil; He guards the souls of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and praise his holy name
Psalms Chapter 98
Praise for God's justice
1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
2 The Lord has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3 He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth; burst into jubilant song with music and praise.
5 Make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing.
6 Shout for joy before the Lord, King, with the trumpet and the sound of the horn.
7 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, the world and all who live in it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let all the mountains sing for joy
9 before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.
Psalms Chapter 99
Jehovah's faithfulness to Israel
1 The Lord reigns; let the nations tremble. He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake.
2 The Lord is great in Zion, and exalted above all the nations.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name; he is holy.
4 The glory of the king loves justice; you establish 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 among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord, and he answered them.
7 He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he had given them.
8 O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, though you punished their deeds.
9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.
Psalms Chapter 100
A call to gratitude
1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with singing.
3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his love endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
