1  I will sing of the ^csteadfast love of the Lord forever;

with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

2  For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;

^din the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”

3  You have said, ^e“I have made a covenant with my chosen one;

I have ^fsworn to David my servant:

4  ‘I will establish your offspring ^gforever,

and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah

5  Let the ^hheavens praise your wonders, O Lord,

your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

6  For ⁱwho in the skies can be compared to the Lord?

Who among the heavenly beings² is like the Lord,

7  a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,

and awesome above all who are around him?

8  O Lord God of hosts,

who is mighty as you are, O Lord,

with your faithfulness all around you?

9  ^jYou rule the raging of the sea;

when its waves rise, you still them.

10  You crushed ^kRahab like a carcass;

you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

11  ^lThe heavens are yours; ^mthe earth also is yours;

the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.

12  The north and the south, you have created them;

Tabor and Hermon ⁿjoyously praise your name.

13  You have a mighty ^oarm;

strong is your hand, high your right hand.

14  ^pRighteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

15  Blessed are the people who know the festal ^qshout,

who walk, O Lord, in the ^rlight of your face,

16  who exult in your name all the day

and in your righteousness are exalted.

17  For you are the glory of their strength;

by your favor our horn is exalted.

18  For our shield belongs to the Lord,

our king to the Holy One of Israel.

19  Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,³ and said:

“I have granted help to one who is mighty;

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

20  ^sI have found David, my servant;

with my holy oil I have ^tanointed him,

21  so that my hand shall be established with him;

my arm also shall strengthen him.

22  The enemy shall not outwit him;

^uthe wicked shall not humble him.

23  I will crush his foes before him

and strike down those who hate him.

24  My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,

and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

25  ^vI will set his hand on the sea

and his right hand on the rivers.

26  He shall cry to me, ‘You are my ^wFather,

my God, and the ^xRock of my salvation.’

27  And I will make him the ^yfirstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

28  ^zMy steadfast love I will keep for him forever,

and my ^acovenant will stand firm⁴ for him.

29  I will establish his offspring forever

and his throne as the days of the heavens.

30  ^bIf his children forsake my law

and do not walk according to my rules,⁵

31  if they violate my statutes

and do not keep my commandments,

32  then I will punish their transgression with the rod

and their iniquity with stripes,

33  but ^cI will not remove from him my steadfast love

or be false to my faithfulness.

34  I will not violate my covenant

or ^dalter the word that went forth from my lips.

35  Once for all I have sworn ^eby my holiness;

I will not ^flie to David.

36  His offspring shall endure forever,

his throne ^gas long as the sun before me.

37  Like the moon it shall be established forever,

a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

38  But now you have cast off and rejected;

you are full of wrath against your anointed.

39  You have renounced the covenant with your servant;

you have defiled his crown in the dust.

40  You have ^hbreached all his walls;

you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

41  All who pass by plunder him;

he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

42  You have exalted the right hand of his foes;

you have ⁱmade all his enemies rejoice.

43  You have also turned back the edge of his sword,

and you have not made him stand in battle.

44  You have made his splendor to cease

and cast his throne to the ground.

45  You have cut short the days of his youth;

you have covered him with shame. Selah

46  ^jHow long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?

How long will your wrath burn like fire?

47  ^kRemember how short my time is!

For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

48  What man can live and never see death?

Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

49  Lord, where is your ^lsteadfast love of old,

which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

50  ^mRemember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,

and how I bear in my heart the insults⁶ of all the many nations,

51  with which your enemies mock, O Lord,

with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

52  ⁿBlessed be the Lord forever!

^oAmen and Amen.

1  ^cOh ^dsing to the Lord a new song;

sing to the Lord, all the earth!

2  Sing to the Lord, ^ebless his name;

tell of his salvation from day to day.

3  ^fDeclare his glory among the nations,

his marvelous works among all the peoples!

4  For ^ggreat is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;

he is ^hto be feared ⁱabove all gods.

5  For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the Lord made the heavens.

6  Splendor and majesty are before him;

strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

7  ^jAscribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,

ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!

8  Ascribe to the Lord the ^kglory due his name;

bring an offering, and ^lcome into his courts!

9  Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;¹

^mtremble before him, all the earth!

10  Say among the nations, “The Lord ⁿreigns!

^oYes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;

he will judge the peoples with equity.”

11  ^pLet the heavens be glad, and ^qlet the earth rejoice;

^rlet the sea roar, and all that fills it;

12  let the field exult, and everything in it!

Then shall all the trees of the forest ^ssing for joy

13  ^tbefore the Lord, for he comes,

for he comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness,

and the peoples in his faithfulness.

1  ^jMake a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

2  Serve the Lord with gladness!

Come into his presence with singing!

3  Know that ^kthe Lord, he is God!

It is he who made us, and we are his;¹

we are his people, and the ^lsheep of his pasture.

4  Enter his gates ^mwith thanksgiving,

and ⁿhis courts with praise!

Give thanks to him; ^obless his name!

5  ^pFor the Lord is good;

his steadfast love endures forever,

and his faithfulness to all generations.

1  I will sing of steadfast love and justice;

to you, O Lord, ^qI will make music.

2  I will ponder the way that is blameless.

Oh when will you come to me?

I will ^rwalk ^swith integrity of heart

within my house;

3  I will not set before my eyes

anything that is worthless.

I hate the work of those who fall away;

it shall not cling to me.

4  A ^tperverse heart shall be far from me;

I will know nothing of evil.

5  Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly

I will destroy.

^uWhoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart

I will not endure.

6  I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he who walks in the way that is blameless

shall minister to me.

7  No one who practices deceit

shall dwell in my house;

no one who utters lies

shall continue before my eyes.

8  Morning by morning I will destroy

all the wicked in the land,

cutting off all the evildoers

from the ^vcity of the Lord.

1  ^sOh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples!

2  Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his wondrous works!

3  ^tGlory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord ^urejoice!

4  Seek the Lord and his strength;

^vseek his presence continually!

5  ^wRemember the wondrous works that he has done,

his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,

6  O offspring of Abraham, his servant,

children of Jacob, ^xhis chosen ones!

7  He is the Lord our God;

his judgments are in all the earth.

8  He ^yremembers his covenant ^zforever,

the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,

9  ^athe covenant that he made with Abraham,

^bhis sworn promise to Isaac,

10  which he ^cconfirmed to Jacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11  saying, “To you I will give the ^dland of Canaan

as your portion for an inheritance.”

12  When they were few in number,

of little account, and sojourners in it,

13  wandering from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people,

14  ^ehe allowed no one to oppress them;

^fhe rebuked kings on their account,

15  saying, ^g“Touch not my anointed ones,

do my prophets no harm!”

16  When he ^hsummoned a famine on the land

and broke all supply¹ of bread,

17  ⁱhe had sent a man ahead of them,

Joseph, who was ^jsold as a slave.

18  ^kHis feet were hurt with fetters;

his neck was put in a collar of iron;

19  ^luntil what he had said came to pass,

the word of the Lord tested him.

20  ^mThe king sent and released him;

the ruler of the peoples set him free;

21  ⁿhe made him lord of his house

and ruler of all his possessions,

22  ^oto bind² his princes at his pleasure

and to teach his elders wisdom.

23  Then ^pIsrael came to Egypt;

Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24  And ^qthe Lord made his people very fruitful

and made them stronger than their foes.

25  ^rHe turned their hearts to hate his people,

to deal craftily with his servants.

26  He ^ssent Moses, his servant,

and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27  ^tThey performed his ^usigns among them

and miracles in the land of Ham.

28  ^vHe sent darkness, and made the land dark;

they did not rebel³ against his words.

29  ^wHe turned their waters into blood

and caused their fish to die.

30  ^xTheir land swarmed with frogs,

even in the chambers of their kings.

31  He spoke, and ^ythere came swarms of flies,

and ^zgnats throughout their country.

32  ^aHe gave them hail for rain,

and ^bfiery lightning bolts through their land.

33  He struck down their vines and fig trees,

and shattered the trees of their country.

34  He spoke, and ^cthe locusts came,

young locusts without number,

35  which devoured all the vegetation in their land

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

36  ^dHe struck down all the firstborn in their land,

^ethe firstfruits of all their strength.

37  ^fThen he brought out Israel with silver and gold,

and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

38  ^gEgypt was glad when they departed,

for dread of them had fallen upon it.

39  He spread a ^hcloud for a covering,

and fire to give light by night.

40  They asked, and ⁱhe brought quail,

and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.

41  ^jHe opened the rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed through the desert like a river.

42  For he remembered his holy promise,

and Abraham, his servant.

43  So he brought his people out with joy,

his chosen ones ^kwith singing.

44  And he gave them the lands of the nations,

and ^lthey took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,

45  that they might keep his statutes

and observe his laws.

Praise the Lord!

1  Remember, O Lord, in David’s favor,

all the hardships he endured,

2  ^show he swore to the Lord

and vowed to ^tthe Mighty One of Jacob,

3  “I will not enter my house

or get into my bed,

4  I will ^unot give sleep to my eyes

or slumber to my eyelids,

5  until I find a place for the Lord,

a ^vdwelling place ^wfor the Mighty One of Jacob.”

6  Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;

^xwe found it in the fields of Jaar.

7  “Let us go to his dwelling place;

let us ^yworship at his footstool!”

8  ^zArise, O Lord, and go to your resting place,

you and the ark of your ^amight.

9  Let your priests be ^bclothed with righteousness,

and let your saints shout for joy.

10  For the sake of your servant David,

^cdo not turn away the face of your ^danointed one.

11  The Lord ^eswore to David a sure oath

from which he will not turn back:

“One of the sons of your body¹

I will set on your ^fthrone.

12  If your sons keep my covenant

and my testimonies that I shall teach them,

their sons also forever

shall sit on your throne.”

13  For ^gthe Lord has ^hchosen 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 provisions;

I will ⁱsatisfy her poor with bread.

16  ^jHer priests I will ^kclothe with salvation,

and her saints will shout for joy.

17  There ^lI will make a horn to sprout for David;

I have prepared a ^mlamp for my anointed.

18  His enemies I will ⁿclothe with shame,

but on him his crown will shine.”