19 Psalms(시편) 101-115

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Psalm 101

Promised Faithfulness to the LORD

A Psalm of David.

I will sing of mercy and justice;

To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

²I will behave wisely in a perfect way.

Oh, when will You come to me?

I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

³I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;

I hate the work of those who fall away;

It shall not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me;

I will not know wickedness.

⁵Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,

Him I will destroy;

The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,

Him I will not endure.

⁶My 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.

⁷He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;

He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

⁸Early 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

The LORD’s Eternal Love

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD.

Hear my prayer, O LORD,

And let my cry come to You.

²Do 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.

³For my days are consumed like smoke,

And my bones are burned like a hearth.

⁴My heart is stricken and withered like grass,

So that I forget to eat my bread.

⁵Because of the sound of my groaning

My bones cling to my skin.

⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness;

I am like an owl of the desert.

⁷I lie awake,

And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.

⁸My enemies reproach me all day long;

Those who deride me swear an oath against me.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread,

And mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁰Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;

For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

¹¹My days are like a shadow that lengthens,

And I wither away like grass.

¹²But You, O LORD, shall endure forever,

And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.

¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion;

For the time to favor her,

Yes, the set time, has come.

¹⁴For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,

And show favor to her dust.

¹⁵So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD,

And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

¹⁶For the LORD shall build up Zion;

He shall appear in His glory.

¹⁷He shall regard the prayer of the destitute,

And shall not despise their prayer.

¹⁸This will be written for the generation to come,

That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.

¹⁹For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;

From heaven the LORD viewed the earth,

²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner,

To release those appointed to death,

²¹To declare the name of the LORD in Zion,

And His praise in Jerusalem,

²²When the peoples are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

²³He weakened my strength in the way;

He shortened my days.

²⁴I said, “O my God,

Do not take me away in the midst of my days;

Your years are throughout all generations.

²⁵Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,

And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

²⁶They 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.

²⁷But You are the same,

And Your years will have no end.

²⁸The children of Your servants will continue,

And their descendants will be established before You.”

Psalm 103

Praise for the LORD’s Mercies

A Psalm of David.

Bless the LORD, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless His holy name!

²Bless the LORD, O my soul,

And forget not all His benefits:

³Who forgives all your iniquities,

Who heals all your diseases,

⁴Who redeems your life from destruction,

Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

⁵Who satisfies your mouth with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶The LORD executes righteousness

And justice for all who are oppressed.

⁷He made known His ways to Moses,

His acts to the children of Israel.

⁸The LORD is merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

⁹He will not always strive with us,

Nor will He keep His anger forever.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as the heavens are high above the earth,

So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;

¹²As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

¹³As a father pities his children,

So the LORD pities those who fear Him.

¹⁴For He knows our frame;

He remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

And its place remembers it no more.^a

¹⁷But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting

On those who fear Him,

And His righteousness to children’s children,

¹⁸To such as keep His covenant,

And to those who remember His commandments to do them.

¹⁹The LORD has established His throne in heaven,

And His kingdom rules over all.

²⁰Bless the LORD, you His angels,

Who excel in strength, who do His word,

Heeding the voice of His word.

²¹Bless the LORD, all you His hosts,

You ministers of His, who do His pleasure.

²²Bless 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

Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD my God, You are very great:

You are clothed with honor and majesty,

²Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,

Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

³He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,

Who makes the clouds His chariot,

Who walks on the wings of the wind,

⁴Who makes His angels spirits,

His ministers a flame of fire.

⁵You who laid the foundations of the earth,

So that it should not be moved forever,

⁶You covered it with the deep as with a garment;

The waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At Your rebuke they fled;

At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

⁸They went up over the mountains;

They went down into the valleys,

To the place which You founded for them.

⁹You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,

That they may not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰He sends the springs into the valleys;

They flow among the hills.

¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²By them the birds of the heavens have their home;

They sing among the branches.

¹³He waters the hills from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

¹⁴He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the service of man,

That he may bring forth food from the earth,

¹⁵And wine that makes glad the heart of man,

Oil to make his face shine,

And bread which strengthens man’s heart.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD are full of sap,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

¹⁷Where the birds make their nests;

The stork has her home in the fir trees.

¹⁸The high hills are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.^a

¹⁹He appointed the moon for seasons;

The sun knows its going down.

²⁰You make darkness, and it is night,

In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.

²¹The young lions roar after their prey,

And seek their food from God.

²²When the sun rises, they gather together

And lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to his work

And to his labor until the evening.

²⁴O LORD, how manifold are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all.

The earth is full of Your possessions—

²⁵This great and wide sea,

In which are innumerable teeming things,

Living things both small and great.

²⁶There the ships sail about;

There is that Leviathan

Which You have made to play there.

²⁷These all wait for You,

That You may give them their food in due season.

²⁸What You give them they gather in;

You open Your hand, they are filled with good.

²⁹You hide Your face, they are troubled;

You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

³⁰You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

May the LORD rejoice in His works.

³²He looks on the earth, and it trembles;

He touches the hills, and they smoke.

³³I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

³⁴May my meditation be sweet to Him;

I will be glad in the LORD.

³⁵May 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

Oh, give thanks to the LORD!

Call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the peoples!

²Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;

Talk of all His wondrous works!

³Glory in His holy name;

Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the LORD!

⁴Seek the LORD and His strength;

Seek His face evermore!

⁵Remember His marvelous works which He has done,

His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,

⁶O seed of Abraham His servant,

You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

⁷He is the LORD our God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

⁹The covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the allotment of your inheritance,”

¹²When they were few in number,

Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

¹³When they went from one nation to another,

From one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴He permitted no one to do them wrong;

Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,

¹⁵Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶Moreover He called for a famine in the land;

He destroyed all the provision of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them—

Joseph—who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They hurt his feet with fetters,

He was laid in irons.

¹⁹Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of the LORD tested him.

²⁰The king sent and released him,

The ruler of the people let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house,

And ruler of all his possessions,

²²To bind his princes at his pleasure,

And teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt,

And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

²⁴He increased His people greatly,

And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

²⁶He sent Moses His servant,

And Aaron whom He had chosen.

²⁷They performed His signs among them,

And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His word.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood,

And killed their fish.

³⁰Their land abounded with frogs,

Even in the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,

And lice in all their territory.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

³³He struck their vines also, and their fig trees,

And splintered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and locusts came,

Young locusts without number,

³⁵And ate up all the vegetation in their land,

And devoured the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land,

The first of all their strength.

³⁷He also brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was none feeble among His tribes.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,

For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰The people asked, and He brought quail,

And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and water gushed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He remembered His holy promise,

And Abraham His servant.

⁴³He brought out His people with joy,

His chosen ones with gladness.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the Gentiles,

And they inherited the labor of the nations,

⁴⁵That they might observe His statutes

And keep His laws.

Praise the LORD!

Psalm 106

Joy in Forgiveness of Israel’s Sins

Praise the LORD!

Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!

For His mercy endures forever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?

Who can declare all His praise?

³Blessed are those who keep justice,

And he who does^a righteousness at all times!

⁴Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people.

Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

⁵That 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.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity,

We have done wickedly.

⁷Our 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.

⁸Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,

That He might make His mighty power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;

So He led them through the depths,

As through the wilderness.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their enemies;

There was not one of them left.

¹²Then they believed His words;

They sang His praise.

¹³They soon forgot His works;

They did not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And tested God in the desert.

¹⁵And He gave them their request,

But sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶When they envied Moses in the camp,

And Aaron the saint of the LORD,

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,

And covered the faction of Abiram.

¹⁸A fire was kindled in their company;

The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb,

And worshiped the molded image.

²⁰Thus they changed their glory

Into the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

Awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore 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.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land;

They did not believe His word,

²⁵But complained in their tents,

And did not heed the voice of the LORD.

²⁶Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,

To overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷To overthrow their descendants among the nations,

And to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,

And ate sacrifices made to the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,

And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,

And the plague was stopped.

³¹And that was accounted to him for righteousness

To all generations forevermore.

³²They angered Him also at the waters of strife,^a

So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

³³Because they rebelled against His Spirit,

So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples,

Concerning whom the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵But they mingled with the Gentiles

And learned their works;

³⁶They served their idols,

Which became a snare to them.

³⁷They even sacrificed their sons

And their daughters to demons,

³⁸And 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.

³⁹Thus they were defiled by their own works,

And played the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people,

So that He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴¹And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Many times He delivered them;

But they rebelled in their counsel,

And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,

When He heard their cry;

⁴⁵And for their sake He remembered His covenant,

And relented according to the multitude of His mercies.

⁴⁶He also made them to be pitied

By all those who carried them away captive.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God,

And gather us from among the Gentiles,

To give thanks to Your holy name,

To triumph in Your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel

From everlasting to everlasting!

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

Praise the LORD!

BOOK FIVE: Psalms 107—150

Psalm 107

Thanksgiving to the LORD for His Great Works of Deliverance

Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!

For His mercy endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,

Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

³And gathered out of the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;

They found no city to dwell in.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷And He led them forth by the right way,

That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.

⁸Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For He satisfies the longing soul,

And fills the hungry soul with goodness.

¹⁰Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Bound in affliction and irons—

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God,

And despised the counsel of the Most High,

¹²Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;

They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

And broke their chains in pieces.

¹⁵Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For He has broken the gates of bronze,

And cut the bars of iron in two.

¹⁷Fools, because of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorred all manner of food,

And they drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sent His word and healed them,

And delivered them from their destructions.

²¹Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

²²Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And declare His works with rejoicing.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on great waters,

²⁴They see the works of the LORD,

And His wonders in the deep.

²⁵For He commands and raises the stormy wind,

Which lifts up the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mount up to the heavens,

They go down again to the depths;

Their soul melts because of trouble.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,

And are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He brings them out of their distresses.

²⁹He calms the storm,

So that its waves are still.

³⁰Then they are glad because they are quiet;

So He guides them to their desired haven.

³¹Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

³²Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,

And praise Him in the company of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a wilderness,

And the watersprings into dry ground;

³⁴A fruitful land into barrenness,

For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

³⁵He turns a wilderness into pools of water,

And dry land into watersprings.

³⁶There He makes the hungry dwell,

That they may establish a city for a dwelling place,

³⁷And sow fields and plant vineyards,

That they may yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;

And He does not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹When they are diminished and brought low

Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,

⁴⁰He pours contempt on princes,

And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;

⁴¹Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,

And makes their families like a flock.

⁴²The righteous see it and rejoice,

And all iniquity stops its mouth.

⁴³Whoever is wise will observe these things,

And they will understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

Psalm 108

Assurance of God’s Victory over Enemies

A Song. A Psalm of David.

O God, my heart is steadfast;

I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

²Awake, lute and harp!

I will awaken the dawn.

³I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples,

And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

⁴For Your mercy is great above the heavens,

And Your truth reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,

And Your glory above all the earth;

⁶That Your beloved may be delivered,

Save with Your right hand, and hear me.

⁷God has spoken in His holiness:

“I will rejoice;

I will divide Shechem

And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim also is the helmet for My head;

Judah is My lawgiver.

⁹Moab is My washpot;

Over Edom I will cast My shoe;

Over Philistia I will triumph.”

¹⁰Who will bring me into the strong city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?

And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

¹²Give us help from trouble,

For the help of man is useless.

¹³Through God we will do valiantly,

For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.^a

Psalm 109

Plea for Judgment of False Accusers

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

Do not keep silent,

O God of my praise!

²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful

Have opened against me;

They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,

And fought against me without a cause.

⁴In return for my love they are my accusers,

But I give myself to prayer.

⁵Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him,

And let an accuser^a stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty,

And let his prayer become sin.

⁸Let his days be few,

And let another take his office.

⁹Let his children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

¹⁰ Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;

Let them seek their bread^a also from their desolate places.

¹¹Let the creditor seize all that he has,

And let strangers plunder his labor.

¹²Let there be none to extend mercy to him,

Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

¹³Let his posterity be cut off,

And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD,

And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be continually before the LORD,

That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy,

But persecuted the poor and needy man,

That he might even slay the broken in heart.

¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;

As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,

So let it enter his body like water,

And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,

And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

²⁰Let this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers,

And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹But You, O GOD the Lord,

Deal with me for Your name’s sake;

Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.

²²For I am poor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens;

I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting,

And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

²⁵I also have become a reproach to them;

When they look at me, they shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, O LORD my God!

Oh, save me according to Your mercy,

²⁷That they may know that this is Your hand—

That You, LORD, have done it!

²⁸Let them curse, but You bless;

When they arise, let them be ashamed,

But let Your servant rejoice.

²⁹Let my accusers be clothed with shame,

And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;

Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.

³¹For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,

To save him from those who condemn him.

Psalm 110

Announcement of the Messiah’s Reign

A Psalm of David.

The LORD said to my Lord,

“Sit at My right hand,

Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

²The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.

Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

³Your 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.

⁴The LORD has sworn

And will not relent,

“You are a priest forever

According to the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵The Lord is at Your right hand;

He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.

⁶He shall judge among the nations,

He shall fill the places with dead bodies,

He shall execute the heads of many countries.

⁷He 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

Praise the LORD!

I will praise the LORD with my whole heart,

In the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

²The works of the LORD are great,

Studied by all who have pleasure in them.

³His work is honorable and glorious,

And His righteousness endures forever.

⁴He has made His wonderful works to be remembered;

The LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

⁵He has given food to those who fear Him;

He will ever be mindful of His covenant.

⁶He has declared to His people the power of His works,

In giving them the heritage of the nations.

⁷The works of His hands are verity and justice;

All His precepts are sure.

⁸They stand fast forever and ever,

And are done in truth and uprightness.

⁹He has sent redemption to His people;

He has commanded His covenant forever:

Holy and awesome is His name.

¹⁰The 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

Praise the LORD!

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,

Who delights greatly in His commandments.

²His descendants will be mighty on earth;

The generation of the upright will be blessed.

³Wealth and riches will be in his house,

And his righteousness endures forever.

⁴Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;

He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

⁵A good man deals graciously and lends;

He will guide his affairs with discretion.

⁶Surely he will never be shaken;

The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.

⁷He will not be afraid of evil tidings;

His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

⁸His heart is established;

He will not be afraid,

Until he sees his desire upon his enemies.

⁹He has dispersed abroad,

He has given to the poor;

His righteousness endures forever;

His horn will be exalted with honor.

¹⁰The wicked will see it and be grieved;

He will gnash his teeth and melt away;

The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 113

The Majesty and Condescension of God

Praise the LORD!

Praise, O servants of the LORD,

Praise the name of the LORD!

²Blessed be the name of the LORD

From this time forth and forevermore!

³From the rising of the sun to its going down

The LORD’s name is to be praised.

⁴The LORD is high above all nations,

His glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD our God,

Who dwells on high,

⁶Who humbles Himself to behold

The things that are in the heavens and in the earth?

⁷He raises the poor out of the dust,

And lifts the needy out of the ash heap,

⁸That He may seat him with princes—

With the princes of His people.

⁹He 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

When Israel went out of Egypt,

The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

²Judah became His sanctuary,

And Israel His dominion.

³The sea saw it and fled;

Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

The little hills like lambs.

⁵What ails you, O sea, that you fled?

O Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶O mountains, that you skipped like rams?

O little hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

At the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸Who 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

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us,

But to Your name give glory,

Because of Your mercy,

Because of Your truth.

²Why should the Gentiles say,

“So where is their God?”

³But our God is in heaven;

He does whatever He pleases.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold,

The work of men’s hands.

⁵They have mouths, but they do not speak;

Eyes they have, but they do not see;

⁶They have ears, but they do not hear;

Noses they have, but they do not smell;

⁷They have hands, but they do not handle;

Feet they have, but they do not walk;

Nor do they mutter through their throat.

⁸Those who make them are like them;

So is everyone who trusts in them.

⁹O Israel, trust in the LORD;

He is their help and their shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD;

He is their help and their shield.

¹¹You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD;

He is their help and their shield.

¹²The LORD has been mindful of us;

He will bless us;

He will bless the house of Israel;

He will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless those who fear the LORD,

Both small and great.

¹⁴May the LORD give you increase more and more,

You and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s;

But the earth He has given to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead do not praise the LORD,

Nor any who go down into silence.

¹⁸But we will bless the LORD

From this time forth and forevermore.

Praise the LORD!

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