Psalm Chapter 1

Psalm 1:1 (NKJV)

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;

Psalm 1:2 (NKJV)

² But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law, he meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:3 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 1:4 (NIV)

⁴ Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 1:5 (NIV)

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Psalm 1:6 (NIV)

⁶ For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm Chapter 2

Psalm 2:1 (NIV)

¹ Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 2:2 (NIV)

² The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One.

Psalm 2:3 (AMP)-M

³ Let us break Their bands [of restraint] asunder and cast Their cords [of control] from us [and free ourselves from slavery to God and his commands].

Psalm 2:4 (AMP)

⁴ He Who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision [and in supreme contempt he mocks them].

Psalm 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

Psalm 2:6 (NLT)-M

⁶ For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain [of Zion].”

Psalm 2:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ “I will proclaim the decree: the Lord said to me, ‘You are my son; today I became your father.

Psalm 2:8 (CJB)

⁸ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance; the whole wide world will be your possession.

Psalm 2:9 (NIV)

⁹ You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

Psalm 2:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Now therefore, O you kings, act wisely; be instructed and warned, O you rulers of the earth.

Psalm 2:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 2:12 (NLT)

¹² Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities— for his anger flares up in an instant. But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

Psalm Chapter 3

Psalm 3:1 (NASB)

¹ O LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me.

Psalm 3:2 (CJB)

² how countless those who say of me, “There is no salvation for him in God.” (Selah)

Psalm 3:3 (AMP)

³ But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Psalm 3:4 (NKJV)-M

⁴ I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah

Psalm 3:5 (NKJV)

⁵ I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me.

Psalm 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.

Psalm 3:7 (NIV)

⁷ Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 3:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ Victory comes from the Lord; may your blessing rest on your people. (Selah)

Psalm Chapter 4

Psalm 4:1 (NIV2011)

¹ Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

Psalm 4:2 (AMP)

² O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor and glory into shame? How long will you love vanity and futility and seek after lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Psalm 4:3 (NASB)

³ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly man for Himself; The LORD hears when I call to Him.

Psalm 4:4 (NIV)

⁴ When provoked by the righteous anger of God, do not sin by mixing it together with the anger which is derived from the human sin nature. When you are on your beds, search your hearts and examine the source of your anger and be silent if it is only anger of human origin. Selah

Psalm 4:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ Offer sacrifices rightly, and put your trust in the Lord.

Psalm 4:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ Many ask, “Who can show us some good?” Lord, lift the light of your face over us!

Psalm 4:7 (AMP)

⁷ You have put more joy and rejoicing in my heart than [they know] when their wheat and new wine have yielded abundantly.

Psalm 4:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ I will lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone O Lord make me live securely.

Psalm Chapter 5

Psalm 5:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Give ear to my words, Lord, consider my inmost thoughts.

Psalm 5:2 (AMP)

² Hear the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray.

Psalm 5:3 (NIV)

³ In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

Psalm 5:4 (CJB)

⁴ For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; evil cannot remain with you.

Psalm 5:5 (NIV)-M

⁵ The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do evil.

Psalm 5:6 (NIV)

⁶ You destroy those who tell lies; bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors.

Psalm 5:7 (CJB)

⁷ But I can enter your house because of your great grace and love; I will bow down toward your holy temple in reverence for you.

Psalm 5:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of those lying in wait for me; make your way straight before me.

Psalm 5:9 (NASB)

⁹ There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 5:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

Psalm 5:11 (CJB)

¹¹ But let all who take refuge in you rejoice, let them forever shout for joy! Shelter them; and they will be glad, those who love your name.

Psalm 5:12 (NIV)

¹² For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Psalm Chapter 6

Psalm 6:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

Psalm 6:2 (CJB)-M

² Be gracious to me, Lord, because I am withering away; heal me, Lord, because my bones are shaking;

Psalm 6:3 (AMP)

³ My [inner] self [as well as my body] is also exceedingly disturbed and troubled. But You, O Lord, how long [until You return and speak peace to me]?

Psalm 6:4 (AMP)

⁴ Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast love and mercy.

Psalm 6:5 (AMP)

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol (the place of the dead) who will give You thanks?

Psalm 6:6 (AMP)

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.

Psalm 6:7 (NIV)

⁷ My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

Psalm 6:8 (AMP)

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 6:9 (AMP)

⁹ The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer.

Psalm 6:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Psalm Chapter 7

Psalm 7:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,

Psalm 7:2 (NIV)

² or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Psalm 7:3 (NIV)

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands–

Psalm 7:4 (CJB)

⁴ if I paid back evil to him who was at peace with me, when I even spared those who opposed me without cause;

Psalm 7:5 (NIV2011)

⁵ then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust.

Psalm 7:6 (NIV)

⁶ Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.

Psalm 7:7 (NIV2011)

⁷ Let the assembled peoples gather around you, while you sit enthroned over them on high.

Psalm 7:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ Let the LORD judge the peoples. Vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.

Psalm 7:9 (NIV2011)

⁹ Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

Psalm 7:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.

Psalm 7:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

Psalm 7:12 (NLT)

¹² If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

Psalm 7:13 (NIV)

¹³ He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.

Psalm 7:14 (NLT)

¹⁴ The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies.

Psalm 7:15 (NLT)

¹⁵ They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves.

Psalm 7:16 (NLT)

¹⁶ The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads.

Psalm 7:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm Chapter 8

Psalm 8:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

Psalm 8:2 (NIV2011)

² Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Psalm 8:3 (NIV)

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Psalm 8:4 (NIV)

⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 8:5 (NASB)

⁵ Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Psalm 8:6 (NASB)

⁶ You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

Psalm 8:7 (NASB)

⁷ All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,

Psalm 8:8 (NASB)

⁸ The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Psalm 8:9 (NASB)

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Psalm Chapter 9

Psalm 9:1 (NIV2011)

¹ I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 9:2 (NIV)

² I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:3 (NIV)

³ My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.

Psalm 9:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.

Psalm 9:5 (NIV)

⁵ You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 9:6 (NIV)

⁶ Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.

Psalm 9:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

Psalm 9:8 (NIV)

⁸ He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.

Psalm 9:9 (NIV)

⁹ The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Psalm 9:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Psalm 9:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

Psalm 9:12 (NIV)

¹² For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 9:13 (NIV)

¹³ O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,

Psalm 9:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.

Psalm 9:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Psalm 9:16 (NIV2011)

¹⁶ The LORD is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.

Psalm 9:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned back [headlong into premature death] into Sheol (the place of the departed spirits of the wicked), even all the nations that forget or are forgetful of God.

Psalm 9:18 (NIV2011)

¹⁸ But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.

Psalm 9:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Arise, O LORD, do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged before You.

Psalm 9:20 (NIV2011)

²⁰ Strike them with terror, LORD; let the nations know they are only mortal.

Psalm Chapter 10

Psalm 10:1 (NIV)

¹ Why, O LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 10:2 (AMP)

² The wicked in pride and arrogance hotly pursue and persecute the poor; let them be taken in the schemes which they have devised.

Psalm 10:3 (NIV)

³ He boasts of the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

Psalm 10:4 (NIV)

⁴ In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

Psalm 10:5 (NIV)

⁵ His ways are always prosperous; he is haughty and your laws are far from him; he sneers at all his enemies.

Psalm 10:6 (NIV)

⁶ He says to himself, “Nothing will shake me; I’ll always be happy and never have trouble.”

Psalm 10:7 (NKJV)

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

Psalm 10:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for his victims;

Psalm 10:9 (NIV2011)

⁹ like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

Psalm 10:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.

Psalm 10:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.”

Psalm 10:12 (NIV)

¹² Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.

Psalm 10:13 (NIV)

¹³ Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”?

Psalm 10:14 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 10:15 (NIV2011)

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.

Psalm 10:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ The LORD is King forever and ever; Nations have perished from His land.

Psalm 10:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,

Psalm 10:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ to give justice to the fatherless and oppressed, so that no one on earth will strike terror again.

Psalm Chapter 11

Psalm 11:1 (NIV)

¹ In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.

Psalm 11:2 (CJB)

² See how the wicked are drawing their bows and setting their arrows on the string, to shoot from the shadows at honest men.

Psalm 11:3 (NIV)-M

³ When the foundations [of law and order] are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Psalm 11:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them.

Psalm 11:5 (NIV)

⁵ The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates.

Psalm 11:6 (NIV)

⁶ On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.

Psalm 11:7 (NASB)

⁷ For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face.

Psalm Chapter 12

Psalm 12:1 (NIV)

¹ Help, LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

Psalm 12:2 (NIV)

² Everyone lies to his neighbor; their flattering lips speak with deception.

Psalm 12:3 (NIV2011)

³ May the LORD silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue—

Psalm 12:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ those who say, “By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

Psalm 12:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ “Because the poor are oppressed, because the needy are groaning, I will now rise up,” says the Lord “and grant security to those whom they scorn.”

Psalm 12:6 (AMP)

⁶ The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

Psalm 12:7 (AMP)

⁷ You will keep them and preserve them, O Lord; You will guard and keep us from this [evil] generation forever.

Psalm 12:8 (NIV2011)-M

⁸ the wicked freely vaunt their evil in a time when what is vile is honored by the human race.

Psalm Chapter 13

Psalm 13:1 (NIV)

¹ How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 13:2 (NIV)

² How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Psalm 13:3 (CJB)-M

³ Look, and answer me, Lord my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death.

Psalm 13:4 (AMP)

⁴ Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken.

Psalm 13:5 (NIV)

⁵ But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Psalm 13:6 (AMP)

⁶ I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm Chapter 14

Psalm 14:1 (CJB)

¹ Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They deal corruptly, their deeds are vile, not one does what is right.

Psalm 14:2 (NIV2011)

² The LORD looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Psalm 14:3 (NIV)

³ All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 14:4 (NIV)

⁴ Will evildoers never learn– those who devour my people as men eat bread and who do not call on the LORD?

Psalm 14:5 (CJB)

⁵ There they are, utterly terrified; for God is with those who are righteous.

Psalm 14:6 (NIV)

⁶ You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge.

Psalm 14:7 (NIV)

⁷ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

Psalm Chapter 15

Psalm 15:1 (NIV)

¹ LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?

Psalm 15:2 (NIV)

² He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart

Psalm 15:3 (NIV)

³ and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,

Psalm 15:4 (NKJV)

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;

Psalm 15:5 (NASB)

⁵ He does not put out his money at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Psalm Chapter 16

Psalm 16:1 (NASB)

¹ Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.

Psalm 16:2 (NIV)

² I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”

Psalm 16:3 (NASB)

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.

Psalm 16:4 (CJB)

⁴ Those who run after another god multiply their sorrows. To such gods I will not offer drink offerings of blood or take their names on my lips.

Psalm 16:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ Lord, my assigned portion, my cup: you safeguard my share.

Psalm 16:6 (NIV)

⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

Psalm 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.

Psalm 16:8 (NIV)

⁸ I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalm 16:9 (NIV)

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,

Psalm 16:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your holy one see decay.

Psalm 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life; you fill me with the joy of your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Psalm Chapter 17

Psalm 17:1 (NIV)

¹ Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer– it does not rise from deceitful lips.

Psalm 17:2 (NIV)

² May my vindication come from you; may your eyes see what is right.

Psalm 17:3 (NIV)

³ Though you probe my heart and examine me at night, though you test me, you will find nothing; I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.

Psalm 17:4 (NIV)

⁴ As for the deeds of men– by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Psalm 17:5 (NIV)

⁵ My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Psalm 17:6 (NIV)

⁶ I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.

Psalm 17:7 (NIV)

⁷ Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.

Psalm 17:8 (CJB)

⁸ Protect me like the pupil of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings

Psalm 17:9 (CJB)

⁹ from the wicked, who are assailing me, from my deadly enemies, who are all around me.

Psalm 17:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ They close their hearts to compassion; they speak arrogantly with their mouths;

Psalm 17:11 (CJB)

¹¹ they track me down, they surround me; they watch for a chance to bring me to the ground.

Psalm 17:12 (CJB)

¹² They are like lions eager to tear the prey, like young lions crouching in ambush.

Psalm 17:13 (NIV)

¹³ Rise up, O LORD, confront them, bring them down; rescue me from the wicked by your sword.

Psalm 17:14 (NIV2011)

¹⁴ By your hand save me from such people, LORD, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

Psalm 17:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And I–in righteousness I will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.

Psalm Chapter 18

Psalm 18:1 (NIV)

¹ I love you, O LORD, my strength.

Psalm 18:2 (NASB)

² The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 18:3 (NIV)

³ I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

Psalm 18:4 (NIV)

⁴ The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

Psalm 18:5 (NIV)

⁵ The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 18:6 (NIV)

⁶ In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.

Psalm 18:7 (NIV)

⁷ The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.

Psalm 18:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.

Psalm 18:9 (NIV)

⁹ He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.

Psalm 18:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalm 18:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 18:12 (NIV)

¹² Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

Psalm 18:13 (AMP)

¹³ The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.

Psalm 18:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

Psalm 18:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.

Psalm 18:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

Psalm 18:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my support.

Psalm 18:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

Psalm 18:21 (NASB)

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalm 18:22 (NIV)

²² All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.

Psalm 18:23 (NIV)

²³ I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.

Psalm 18:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

Psalm 18:25 (NIV)

²⁵ To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,

Psalm 18:26 (NIV)

²⁶ to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

Psalm 18:27 (NIV)

²⁷ You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

Psalm 18:28 (NIV)

²⁸ You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

Psalm 18:29 (NIV)

²⁹ With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

Psalm 18:30 (NIV)

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 18:31 (NIV)

³¹ For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

Psalm 18:32 (NIV)

³² It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

Psalm 18:33 (NIV)

³³ He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.

Psalm 18:34 (NIV)

³⁴ He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Psalm 18:35 (NIV)

³⁵ You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.

Psalm 18:36 (NIV)

³⁶ You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.

Psalm 18:37 (NIV)

³⁷ I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.

Psalm 18:38 (NIV)

³⁸ I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.

Psalm 18:39 (NIV)

³⁹ You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet.

Psalm 18:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, And I destroyed those who hated me.

Psalm 18:41 (NASB)

⁴¹ They cried for help, but there was none to save, Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.

Psalm 18:42 (NIV)

⁴² I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind; I poured them out like mud in the streets.

Psalm 18:43 (NIV)

⁴³ You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations; people I did not know are subject to me.

Psalm 18:44 (CJB)

⁴⁴ the moment they hear of me, they obey me, foreigners come cringing to me.

Psalm 18:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.

Psalm 18:46 (AMP)

⁴⁶ The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted,

Psalm 18:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,

Psalm 18:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.

Psalm 18:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.

Psalm 18:50 (NASB)

⁵⁰ He gives great deliverance to His king, And shows lovingkindness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever.

Psalm Chapter 19

Psalm 19:1 (NIV)

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Psalm 19:2 (NIV)

² Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.

Psalm 19:3 (NIV)

³ There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.

Psalm 19:4 (NIV)

⁴ Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,

Psalm 19:5 (NIV)

⁵ which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

Psalm 19:6 (NIV)

⁶ It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.

Psalm 19:7 (NIV)

⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalm 19:8 (NASB)

⁸ The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalm 19:9 (NIV)

⁹ The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.

Psalm 19:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

Psalm 19:11 (NIV)

¹¹ By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalm 19:12 (NLT)-M

¹² How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults, O Lord.

Psalm 19:13 (CJB)

¹³ Also keep your servant from presumptuous sins, so that they won’t control me. Then I will be blameless and free of great offense.

Psalm 19:14 (NLT)-M

¹⁴ May the meditation of my heart and words of my mouth be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Psalm Chapter 20

Psalm 20:1 (NIV)

¹ May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

Psalm 20:2 (NASB)

² May He send you help from the sanctuary And support you from Zion!

Psalm 20:3 (NIV)

³ May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. Selah

Psalm 20:4 (NIV)

⁴ May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

Psalm 20:5 (NIV)

⁵ We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.

Psalm 20:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ Now I know that the Lord gives victory to his anointed one — he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.

Psalm 20:7 (NIV)

⁷ Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:8 (NIV)

⁸ They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

Psalm 20:9 (NIV)

⁹ O LORD, save the king! Answer us when we call!

Psalm Chapter 21

Psalm 21:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, the king rejoices in your strength. How great is his joy in the victories you give!

Psalm 21:2 (NASB)

² You have given him his heart’s desire, And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

Psalm 21:3 (AMP)

³ For You send blessings of good things to meet him; You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

Psalm 21:4 (NIV)

⁴ He asked you for life, and you gave it to him– length of days, for ever and ever.

Psalm 21:5 (NIV)

⁵ Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.

Psalm 21:6 (NIV)

⁶ Surely you have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence.

Psalm 21:7 (NIV)

⁷ For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.

Psalm 21:8 (NASB)

⁸ Your hand will find out all your enemies; Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

Psalm 21:9 (NIV)

⁹ At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.

Psalm 21:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.

Psalm 21:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.

Psalm 21:12 (NIV)

¹² for you will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.

Psalm 21:13 (NIV)

¹³ Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might.

Psalm Chapter 22

Psalm 22:1 (NIV2011)

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

Psalm 22:2 (CJB)

² My God, by day I call to you, but you don’t answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.

Psalm 22:3 (CJB)

³ Nevertheless, you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Isra’el.

Psalm 22:4 (NASB)

⁴ In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You delivered them.

Psalm 22:5 (NIV)

⁵ They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

Psalm 22:6 (NIV)

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Psalm 22:7 (NIV)

⁷ All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

Psalm 22:8 (NIV)

⁸ “He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

Psalm 22:9 (NIV)

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast.

Psalm 22:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

Psalm 22:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

Psalm 22:12 (NIV)

¹² Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalm 22:13 (NASB)

¹³ They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 22:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

Psalm 22:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 22:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.

Psalm 22:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

Psalm 22:19 (NIV2011)

¹⁹ But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.

Psalm 22:20 (CJB)

²⁰ Rescue me from the sword, my life from the power of the dogs.

Psalm 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

Psalm 22:22 (CJB)

²² I will proclaim your name to my kinsmen; right there in the assembly I will praise you:

Psalm 22:23 (NIV)

²³ You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

Psalm 22:24 (NIV)

²⁴ For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

Psalm 22:25 (CJB)

²⁵ Because of you I give praise in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows in the sight of those who fear him.

Psalm 22:26 (CJB)-M

²⁶ The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord will praise him; Your hearts will enjoy life forever.

Psalm 22:27 (NASB)

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, And all the families of the nations will worship before You.

Psalm 22:28 (NIV)

²⁸ for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

Psalm 22:29 (AMP)

²⁹ All the mighty ones upon earth shall eat [in thanksgiving] and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.

Psalm 22:30 (CJB)-M

³⁰ A descendant will serve him; the next generation will be told of the Lord.

Psalm 22:31 (CJB)

³¹ They will come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he is the one who did it.

Psalm Chapter 23

Psalm 23:1 (NASB)

¹ The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Psalm 23:2 (NASB)

² He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside quiet waters.

Psalm 23:3 (NASB)

³ He restores my soul; he guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Psalm 23:4 (NASB)

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 23:5 (NASB)

⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows.

Psalm 23:6 (NASB)-M

⁶ Surely [God’s] goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Psalm Chapter 24

Psalm 24:1 (NASB)

¹ The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it.

Psalm 24:2 (NASB)

² For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the rivers.

Psalm 24:3 (CJB)-M

³ Who may go up to the mountain of the Lord? Who can stand in his holy place?

Psalm 24:4 (CJB)

⁴ Those with clean hands and pure hearts, who don’t make vanities the purpose of their lives or swear oaths just to deceive.

Psalm 24:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ They will receive a blessing from the Lord and justice from God, who saves them.

Psalm 24:6 (NIV)

⁶ Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

Psalm 24:7 (NASB)

⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in!

Psalm 24:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ Who is he, this glorious king? The Lord, strong and mighty, The Lord, mighty in battle.

Psalm 24:9 (CJB)

⁹ Lift up your heads, you gates! Lift them up, everlasting doors, so that the glorious king can enter!

Psalm 24:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.

Psalm Chapter 25

Psalm 25:1 (NIV)

¹ To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

Psalm 25:2 (NIV)

² in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

Psalm 25:3 (NKJV)

³ Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Psalm 25:4 (NIV)

⁴ Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;

Psalm 25:5 (NASB)

⁵ Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:6 (NIV)

⁶ Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

Psalm 25:7 (NLT)

⁷ Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth. Remember me in the light of your unfailing love, for you are merciful, O Lord.

Psalm 25:8 (NLT)-M

⁸ The Lord is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path (to return to God) to those who go astray.

Psalm 25:9 (NLT)

⁹ He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.

Psalm 25:10 (NLT)

¹⁰ The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.

Psalm 25:11 (NLT)

¹¹ For the honor of your name, O Lord, forgive my many sins.

Psalm 25:12 (NLT)-M

¹² Who are those who fear the Lord? He will show them the path they should choose (for returning to the Lord).

Psalm 25:13 (NLT)-M

¹³ They will live in prosperity (like Job and Abraham) and their children will inherit the land.

Psalm 25:14 (NLT)

¹⁴ The Lord is a friend to those who fear him. He teaches them his covenant.

Psalm 25:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.

Psalm 25:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.

Psalm 25:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses.

Psalm 25:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ Look upon my affliction and my trouble and forgive all my sins.

Psalm 25:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me!

Psalm 25:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

Psalm 25:21 (NASB)

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.

Psalm 25:22 (NIV)

²² Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles!

Psalm Chapter 26

Psalm 26:1 (NIV)

¹ Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

Psalm 26:2 (NIV)

² Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;

Psalm 26:3 (NIV)

³ for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.

Psalm 26:4 (NIV)

⁴ I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites;

Psalm 26:5 (NIV)

⁵ I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Psalm 26:6 (NIV)

⁶ I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, O LORD,

Psalm 26:7 (NIV)

⁷ proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 26:8 (NASB)

⁸ O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Psalm 26:9 (NIV)

⁹ Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with bloodthirsty men,

Psalm 26:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

Psalm 26:11 (NASB)

¹¹ But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Psalm 26:12 (NASB)

¹² My foot stands on a level place; In the congregations I shall bless the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 27

Psalm 27:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD is my light and my salvation– whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life– of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:2 (CJB)

² When evildoers assailed me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 27:3 (NIV)

³ Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident.

Psalm 27:4 (NIV)

⁴ One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.

Psalm 27:5 (CJB)

⁵ For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble, he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me high on a rock.

Psalm 27:6 (NASB)

⁶ And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

Psalm 27:7 (NIV)

⁷ Hear my voice when I call, O LORD; be merciful to me and answer me.

Psalm 27:8 (NASB)

⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.”

Psalm 27:9 (NASB)

⁹ Do not hide Your face from me, Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not abandon me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation!

Psalm 27:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me.

Psalm 27:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Teach me your way, O LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

Psalm 27:12 (NIV)

¹² Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

Psalm 27:13 (NASB)

¹³ I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 27:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.

Psalm Chapter 28

Psalm 28:1 (NIV)

¹ To you I call, O LORD my Rock; do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down to the pit.

Psalm 28:2 (NIV)

² Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Psalm 28:3 (NIV)

³ Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.

Psalm 28:4 (AMP)

⁴ Repay them according to their work and according to the wickedness of their doings; repay them according to the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

Psalm 28:5 (AMP)

⁵ Because they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operations of His hands, He will break them down and not rebuild them.

Psalm 28:6 (NIV)

⁶ Praise be to the LORD, for he has heard my cry for mercy.

Psalm 28:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.

Psalm 28:8 (NKJV)

⁸ The LORD is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

Psalm 28:9 (CJB)

⁹ Save your people! Bless your heritage! Shepherd them, and carry them forever!

Psalm Chapter 29

Psalm 29:1 (NIV2011)

¹ Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Psalm 29:2 (NIV)

² Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.

Psalm 29:3 (NASB)

³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders, The LORD is over many waters.

Psalm 29:4 (NIV)

⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

Psalm 29:5 (NIV)

⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 29:6 (NASB)

⁶ He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.

Psalm 29:7 (AMP)

⁷ The voice of the Lord splits and flashes forth forked lightning.

Psalm 29:8 (NIV)

⁸ The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.

Psalm 29:9 (NIV)

⁹ The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

Psalm 29:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

Psalm 29:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Psalm Chapter 30

Psalm 30:1 (NASB)

¹ I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

Psalm 30:2 (NASB)

² O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

Psalm 30:3 (NIV)

³ O LORD, you brought me up from the grave; you spared me from going down into the pit.

Psalm 30:4 (NIV)

⁴ Sing to the LORD, you saints of his; praise his holy name.

Psalm 30:5 (NIV)

⁵ For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

Psalm 30:6 (NASB)

⁶ Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, “I will never be moved.”

Psalm 30:7 (NIV)

⁷ O LORD, when you favored me, you made my mountain stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.

Psalm 30:8 (NIV)

⁸ To you, O LORD, I called; to the Lord I cried for mercy:

Psalm 30:9 (NIV)

⁹ “What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

Psalm 30:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my help.”

Psalm 30:11 (NASB)

¹¹ You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

Psalm 30:12 (NIV)

¹² that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.

Psalm Chapter 31

Psalm 31:1 (NASB)

¹ In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed; In Your righteousness deliver me.

Psalm 31:2 (NIV)

² Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

Psalm 31:3 (CJB)

³ Since you are my rock and fortress, lead me and guide me for your name’s sake.

Psalm 31:4 (NASB)

⁴ You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my strength.

Psalm 31:5 (NIV)

⁵ Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

Psalm 31:6 (NASB)

⁶ I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 31:7 (CJB)

⁷ I will rejoice and be glad in your grace, for you see my affliction, you know how distressed I am.

Psalm 31:8 (NIV)

⁸ You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.

Psalm 31:9 (NIV)

⁹ Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.

Psalm 31:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And my body has wasted away.

Psalm 31:11 (CJB)

¹¹ I am scorned by all my adversaries, and even more by my neighbors; even to acquaintances I am an object of fear — when they see me in the street, they turn away from me.

Psalm 31:12 (CJB)

¹² Like a dead man, I have passed from their minds; I have become like a broken pot.

Psalm 31:13 (NIV)

¹³ For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Psalm 31:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

Psalm 31:15 (NIV2011)

¹⁵ My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

Psalm 31:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.

Psalm 31:17 (NIV2011)

¹⁷ Let me not be put to shame, LORD, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead.

Psalm 31:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

Psalm 31:19 (NIV2011)

¹⁹ How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you.

Psalm 31:20 (NLT2)

²⁰ You hide them in the shelter of your presence, safe from those who conspire against them. You shelter them in your presence, far from accusing tongues.

Psalm 31:21 (NIV)

²¹ Praise be to the LORD, for he showed his wonderful love to me when I was in a besieged city.

Psalm 31:22 (NIV)

²² In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

Psalm 31:23 (NASB)

²³ O love the LORD, all you His godly ones! The LORD preserves the faithful And fully recompenses the proud doer.

Psalm 31:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 32

Psalm 32:1 (NIV)

¹ Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Psalm 32:2 (NIV)

² Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.

Psalm 32:3 (NASB)

³ When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4 (CJB)

⁴ day and night your hand was heavy on me; the sap in me dried up as in a summer drought. (Selah)

Psalm 32:5 (7KB)

⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord” and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Psalm 32:6 (CJB)

⁶ This is what everyone faithful should pray at a time when you can be found. Then, when the floodwaters are raging, they will not reach to him.

Psalm 32:7 (NIV)

⁷ You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Psalm 32:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

Psalm 32:9 (NLT)

⁹ Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”

Psalm 32:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in the LORD, lovingkindness shall surround him.

Psalm 32:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!

Psalm Chapter 33

Psalm 33:1 (NIV)

¹ Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.

Psalm 33:2 (NIV)

² Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.

Psalm 33:3 (NIV)

³ Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.

Psalm 33:4 (NIV)

⁴ For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.

Psalm 33:5 (NIV)

⁵ The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.

Psalm 33:6 (NIV)

⁶ By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:7 (NASB)

⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Psalm 33:8 (NASB)

⁸ Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

Psalm 33:9 (NIV)

⁹ For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Psalm 33:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 33:11 (NIV)

¹¹ But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

Psalm 33:12 (NASB)

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Psalm 33:13 (NIV)

¹³ From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind;

Psalm 33:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth–

Psalm 33:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.

Psalm 33:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.

Psalm 33:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.

Psalm 33:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

Psalm 33:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Psalm 33:20 (NIV)

²⁰ We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

Psalm 33:21 (NIV)

²¹ In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name.

Psalm 33:22 (NASB)

²² Let Your lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon us, According as we have hoped in You.

Psalm Chapter 34

Psalm 34:1 (NASB)

¹ I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Psalm 34:2 (NIV2011)

² I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

Psalm 34:3 (NASB)

³ O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.

Psalm 34:4 (NASB)

⁴ I sought the LORD, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 34:5 (NIV)

⁵ Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.

Psalm 34:6 (NLT2)

⁶ In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened; and he saved me from all my troubles.

Psalm 34:7 (NIV)

⁷ The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.

Psalm 34:8 (NIV)

⁸ Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 34:9 (NKJV)

⁹ Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.

Psalm 34:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing.

Psalm 34:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psalm 34:12 (NIV)

¹² Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days,

Psalm 34:13 (NASB)

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

Psalm 34:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 34:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry;

Psalm 34:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 34:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ The righteous cry, and the LORD hears And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 34:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ The LORD is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Psalm 34:20 (NASB)

²⁰ He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.

Psalm 34:21 (NASB)

²¹ Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

Psalm 34:22 (NIV)

²² The LORD redeems his servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.

Psalm Chapter 35

Psalm 35:1 (NIV)

¹ Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.

Psalm 35:2 (NIV)

² Take up shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.

Psalm 35:3 (NKJV)

³ Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

Psalm 35:4 (NIV)

⁴ May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay.

Psalm 35:5 (NIV)

⁵ May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away;

Psalm 35:6 (NASB)

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

Psalm 35:7 (NIV)

⁷ Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,

Psalm 35:8 (NASB)

⁸ Let destruction come upon him unawares, And let the net which he hid catch himself; Into that very destruction let him fall.

Psalm 35:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.

Psalm 35:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, O LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

Psalm 35:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about.

Psalm 35:12 (NIV)

¹² They repay me evil for good and leave my soul forlorn.

Psalm 35:13 (NIV)

¹³ Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

Psalm 35:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

Psalm 35:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; attackers gathered against me when I was unaware. They slandered me without ceasing.

Psalm 35:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.

Psalm 35:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, My only life from the lions.

Psalm 35:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.

Psalm 35:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ Don’t let those who are wrongfully my enemies gloat over me; and those who hate me unprovoked — don’t let them smirk at me.

Psalm 35:20 (NASB)

²⁰ For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalm 35:21 (NIV)

²¹ They gape at me and say, “Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we have seen it.”

Psalm 35:22 (NIV)

²² O LORD, you have seen this; be not silent. Do not be far from me, O Lord.

Psalm 35:23 (NIV)

²³ Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord.

Psalm 35:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Vindicate me in your righteousness, O LORD my God; do not let them gloat over me.

Psalm 35:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Do not let them think, “Aha, just what we wanted!” or say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 35:26 (NIV)

²⁶ May all who gloat over my distress be put to shame and confusion; may all who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.

Psalm 35:27 (NASB)

²⁷ Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication; And let them say continually, “The LORD be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”

Psalm 35:28 (NASB)

²⁸ And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness And Your praise all day long.

Psalm Chapter 36

Psalm 36:1 (NIV)

¹ An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 36:2 (CJB)

² For, the way he sees it, crime makes his life easy — that is, until his wrongs are discovered; then, he is hated.

Psalm 36:3 (NIV)

³ The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 36:4 (NIV)

⁴ Even on his bed he plots evil; he commits himself to a sinful course and does not reject what is wrong.

Psalm 36:5 (NASB)

⁵ Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 36:6 (NIV)

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.

Psalm 36:7 (NASB)

⁷ How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Psalm 36:8 (CJB)

⁸ they feast on the rich bounty of your house, and you have them drink from the stream of your delights.

Psalm 36:9 (NIV)

⁹ For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

Psalm 36:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalm 36:11 (NIV)

¹¹ May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalm 36:12 (NASB)

¹² There the doers of iniquity have fallen; They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

Psalm Chapter 37

Psalm 37:1 (NIV)

¹ Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong;

Psalm 37:2 (NIV)

² for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.

Psalm 37:3 (NIV)

³ Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Psalm 37:4 (NKJV)-M

⁴ Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:5 (NKJV)

⁵ Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalm 37:6 (NKJV)

⁶ He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.

Psalm 37:7 (NIV)

⁷ Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

Psalm 37:8 (NIV)

⁸ Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret–it leads only to evil.

Psalm 37:9 (NASB)

⁹ For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

Psalm 37:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

Psalm 37:11 (NASB)

¹¹ But the humble will inherit the land And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

Psalm 37:12 (NIV)

¹² The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

Psalm 37:13 (NIV)

¹³ but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

Psalm 37:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

Psalm 37:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Psalm 37:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

Psalm 37:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Psalm 37:18 (NIV2011)

¹⁸ The blameless spend their days under the LORD’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever.

Psalm 37:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.

Psalm 37:20 (NIV)

²⁰ But the wicked will perish: The LORD’s enemies will be like the beauty of the fields, they will vanish–vanish like smoke.

Psalm 37:21 (NASB)

²¹ The wicked borrows and does not pay back, But the righteous is gracious and gives.

Psalm 37:22 (NASB)

²² For those blessed by Him will inherit the land, But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

Psalm 37:23 (NKJV)

²³ The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in his way.

Psalm 37:24 (NIV)

²⁴ though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

Psalm 37:25 (NKJV)

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.

Psalm 37:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.

Psalm 37:27 (NASB)

²⁷ Depart from evil and do good, So you will abide forever.

Psalm 37:28 (NIV)

²⁸ For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;

Psalm 37:29 (NASB)

²⁹ The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever.

Psalm 37:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just.

Psalm 37:31 (NASB)

³¹ The law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.

Psalm 37:32 (NIV)

³² The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, seeking their very lives;

Psalm 37:33 (NIV)

³³ but the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned when brought to trial.

Psalm 37:34 (NASB)

³⁴ Wait for the LORD and keep His way, And He will exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

Psalm 37:35 (NASB)

³⁵ I have seen a wicked, violent man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Psalm 37:36 (NIV)

³⁶ but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.

Psalm 37:37 (NKJV)

³⁷ Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace.

Psalm 37:38 (NIV)

³⁸ But all sinners will be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

Psalm 37:39 (NIV)

³⁹ The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

Psalm 37:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ The LORD helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.

Psalm Chapter 38

Psalm 38:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

Psalm 38:2 (NASB)

² For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalm 38:3 (NIV)

³ Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin.

Psalm 38:4 (NASB)

⁴ For my iniquities are gone over my head; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

Psalm 38:5 (NASB)

⁵ My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my folly.

Psalm 38:6 (NIV)

⁶ I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalm 38:7 (CJB)

⁷ For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.

Psalm 38:8 (NKJV)

⁸ I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

Psalm 38:9 (NASB)

⁹ Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

Psalm 38:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.

Psalm 38:11 (NASB)

¹¹ My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalm 38:12 (CJB)

¹² Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.

Psalm 38:13 (CJB)

¹³ But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it; and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.

Psalm 38:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.

Psalm 38:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ For I hope in You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

Psalm 38:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

Psalm 38:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Psalm 38:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

Psalm 38:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ But my enemies are vigorous and strong, And many are those who hate me wrongfully.

Psalm 38:20 (AMP)

²⁰ They also that render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.

Psalm 38:21 (AMP)

²¹ Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, be not far from me.

Psalm 38:22 (NASB)

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

Psalm Chapter 39

Psalm 39:1 (NASB)-M

¹ I said, “I will guard all my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth (as with a muzzle) while in the presence of the wicked.”

Psalm 39:2 (NKJV)

² I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.

Psalm 39:3 (CJB)

³ My heart grew hot within me; whenever I thought of it, the fire burned. Then, [at last,] I let my tongue speak:

Psalm 39:4 (NASB)

⁴ “LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.

Psalm 39:5 (NIV)

⁵ You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath. Selah

Psalm 39:6 (NIV)

⁶ Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.

Psalm 39:7 (NIV)

⁷ “But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.

Psalm 39:8 (NIV)

⁸ Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

Psalm 39:9 (CJB)

⁹ I am silent, I keep my mouth shut, because it is you who have done it.

Psalm 39:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalm 39:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:12 (CJB)-M

¹² Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry, don’t be deaf to my weeping; for with you, I am just a traveler passing through, like all my ancestors.

Psalm 39:13 (CJB)

¹³ Turn your gaze from me, so I can smile again before I depart and cease to exist.

Psalm Chapter 40

Psalm 40:1 (NASB)

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry.

Psalm 40:2 (NASB)

² He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

Psalm 40:3 (CJB)-M

³ He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will look on in awe and put their trust in the Lord.

Psalm 40:4 (CJB)

⁴ How blessed the man who trusts in the Lord and does not look to the arrogant or to those who rely on things that are false.

Psalm 40:5 (NASB)

⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.

Psalm 40:6 (CJB)

⁶ Sacrifices and grain offerings you don’t want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don’t demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;

Psalm 40:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then I said, “Here I am, I have come– it is written about me in the scroll.

Psalm 40:8 (NIV)

⁸ I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 40:9 (NASB)

⁹ I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, You know.

Psalm 40:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.

Psalm 40:11 (CJB)-M

¹¹ Lord, don’t withhold your mercy from me. Let your grace and truth preserve me always.

Psalm 40:12 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 40:13 (AMP)

¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me!

Psalm 40:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ May all who seek to take my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Psalm 40:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ May those who jeer at me, “Aha! Aha!” be aghast because of their shame.

Psalm 40:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “The LORD be exalted!”

Psalm 40:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Since I am afflicted and needy, Let the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.

Psalm Chapter 41

Psalm 41:1 (NASB)

¹ How blessed is he who considers the helpless; The LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble.

Psalm 41:2 (NIV)

² The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.

Psalm 41:3 (NKJV)

³ The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.

Psalm 41:4 (NIV)

⁴ I said, “O LORD, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

Psalm 41:5 (NIV)

⁵ My enemies say of me in malice, “When will he die and his name perish?”

Psalm 41:6 (NIV)

⁶ Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad.

Psalm 41:7 (NIV)

⁷ All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying,

Psalm 41:8 (NIV)

⁸ “A vile disease has beset him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.”

Psalm 41:9 (NIV)

⁹ Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalm 41:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ But you, O LORD, have mercy on me; raise me up, that I may repay them.

Psalm 41:11 (NASB)

¹¹ By this I know that You are pleased with me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

Psalm 41:12 (NIV)

¹² In my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.

Psalm 41:13 (NIV)

¹³ Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Psalm Chapter 42

Psalm 42:1 (NIV)

¹ As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

Psalm 42:2 (NASB)

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:3 (NASB)

³ My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4 (NASB)

⁴ These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 42:5 (NASB)

⁵ Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.

Psalm 42:6 (NASB)

⁶ O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 42:7 (CJB)

⁷ Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls; all your surging rapids and waves are sweeping over me.

Psalm 42:8 (NIV)

⁸ By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me– a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:9 (NIV)

⁹ I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

Psalm 42:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ My adversaries’ taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’”

Psalm 42:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm Chapter 43

Psalm 43:1 (NIV)

¹ Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.

Psalm 43:2 (NIV)

² You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

Psalm 43:3 (NIV)

³ Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

Psalm 43:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

Psalm 43:5 (NIV)-M

⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

Psalm Chapter 44

Psalm 44:1 (NASB)

¹ O God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us The work that You did in their days, In the days of old.

Psalm 44:2 (NIV)

² With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.

Psalm 44:3 (CJB)

³ For not by their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; rather, it was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; because you favored them.

Psalm 44:4 (NIV)

⁴ You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.

Psalm 44:5 (NASB)

⁵ Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

Psalm 44:6 (NIV)

⁶ I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;

Psalm 44:7 (NIV)

⁷ but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.

Psalm 44:8 (NIV)

⁸ In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah

Psalm 44:9 (CJB)

⁹ Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don’t march out with our armies.

Psalm 44:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.

Psalm 44:11 (CJB)

¹¹ You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:12 (NIV)

¹² You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

Psalm 44:13 (NIV)

¹³ You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

Psalm 44:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.

Psalm 44:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ My disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame

Psalm 44:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

Psalm 44:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You, And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Psalm 44:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back, And our steps have not deviated from Your way,

Psalm 44:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness.

Psalm 44:20 (NIV)

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalm 44:21 (NIV)

²¹ would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalm 44:22 (NIV)

²² Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 44:23 (NIV)

²³ Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

Psalm 44:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?

Psalm 44:25 (NIV)

²⁵ We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

Psalm 44:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.

Psalm Chapter 45

Psalm 45:1 (NKJV)

¹ To the Chief Musician. Set to ‘The Lilies.’ A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. A song of Love. My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:2 (AMP)

² You are fairer than the children of men; graciousness is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.

Psalm 45:3 (NIV)

³ Gird your sword upon your side, O mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.

Psalm 45:4 (NIV)

⁴ In your majesty ride forth victoriously in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness; let your right hand display awesome deeds.

Psalm 45:5 (CJB)

⁵ Your arrows are sharp. The people fall under you, as they penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies.

Psalm 45:6 (CJB)

⁶ Your throne, God, will last forever and ever; you rule your kingdom with a scepter of equity.

Psalm 45:7 (CJB)

⁷ You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy in preference to your companions.

Psalm 45:8 (NIV)

⁸ All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad.

Psalm 45:9 (NIV)

⁹ Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

Psalm 45:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: Forget your people and your father’s house.

Psalm 45:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.

Psalm 45:12 (NIV)

¹² The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift, men of wealth will seek your favor.

Psalm 45:13 (NIV)

¹³ All glorious is the princess within [her chamber]; her gown is interwoven with gold.

Psalm 45:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her and are brought to you.

Psalm 45:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.

Psalm 45:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.

Psalm 45:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

Psalm Chapter 46

Psalm 46:1 (NIV)

¹ God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:2 (NIV)

² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

Psalm 46:3 (NIV)

³ though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah

Psalm 46:4 (NIV)

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalm 46:5 (NASB)

⁵ God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 46:6 (CJB)

⁶ Nations were in turmoil, kingdoms were moved; his voice thundered forth, and the earth melted away.

Psalm 46:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Psalm 46:8 (NASB)

⁸ Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has wrought desolations in the earth.

Psalm 46:9 (NASB)

⁹ He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots with fire.

Psalm 46:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 46:11 (NASB)

¹¹ The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

Psalm Chapter 47

Psalm 47:1 (NKJV)

¹ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

Psalm 47:2 (NKJV)

² For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.

Psalm 47:3 (NASB)

³ He subdues peoples under us And nations under our feet.

Psalm 47:4 (NKJV)

⁴ He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah

Psalm 47:5 (NIV)

⁵ God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.

Psalm 47:6 (NIV)

⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.

Psalm 47:7 (NIV)

⁷ For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise.

Psalm 47:8 (NIV)

⁸ God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

Psalm 47:9 (NIV)

⁹ The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.

Psalm Chapter 48

Psalm 48:1 (NIV)

¹ Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.

Psalm 48:2 (NASB)

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the great King.

Psalm 48:3 (NIV)

³ God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.

Psalm 48:4 (CJB)

⁴ For the kings met by agreement; together they advanced.

Psalm 48:5 (NIV)

⁵ they saw [her] and were astounded; they fled in terror.

Psalm 48:6 (NIV)

⁶ Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Psalm 48:7 (NIV)

⁷ You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.

Psalm 48:8 (NIV)

⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever. Selah

Psalm 48:9 (NIV)

⁹ Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

Psalm 48:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ God, your praise, like your name, extends to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.

Psalm 48:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of Your [righteous] judgments!

Psalm 48:12 (NIV)

¹² Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,

Psalm 48:13 (NASB)

¹³ Consider her ramparts; Go through her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation.

Psalm 48:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

Psalm Chapter 49

Psalm 49:1 (NASB)

¹ Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Psalm 49:2 (CJB)

² regardless of whether low or high, regardless of whether rich or poor!

Psalm 49:3 (NASB)

³ My mouth will speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart will be understanding.

Psalm 49:4 (NKJV)

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

Psalm 49:5 (CJB)

⁵ Why should I fear when the days bring trouble, when the evil of my pursuers surrounds me,

Psalm 49:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches,

Psalm 49:7 (NKJV)

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him–

Psalm 49:8 (NKJV)

⁸ For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forever–

Psalm 49:9 (NKJV)

⁹ That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.

Psalm 49:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ For the wise man and the rich man must all die (and just like the foolish and brute men) they to must also pass away. They are forced to leave their wealth to others because they can take nothing with them when they perish and go to the grave.

Psalm 49:11 (7KB)

¹¹ They think their homes will last forever, and imagine that their dwellings will last through all generations. So, they give their own names to their estates and create memorials for themselves.

Psalm 49:12 (7KB)

¹² But even a rich man (despite his assets) will live only briefly on the earth. He will not last because he is no better than the beasts that perish and are no more.

Psalm 49:13 (7KB)

¹³ This is the fate of those who are arrogant and trust only in themselves. Their way is folly even though their followers may continue to approve of their sayings long after they are gone. Selah

Psalm 49:14 (7KB)

¹⁴ Like sheep these wicked rich men are laid in the grave and death shall feed on them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their beauty shall be consumed in hell, far from their lofty abode.

Psalm 49:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself. Selah

Psalm 49:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Do not be overawed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases;

Psalm 49:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ for he will take nothing with him when he dies, his splendor will not descend with him.

Psalm 49:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Though while he lived he counted himself blessed– and men praise you when you prosper–

Psalm 49:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light [of life].

Psalm 49:20 (NIV)

²⁰ A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm Chapter 50

Psalm 50:1 (NASB)

¹ The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Psalm 50:2 (NASB)

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Psalm 50:3 (NIV)

³ Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.

Psalm 50:4 (NIV)

⁴ He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:

Psalm 50:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Psalm 50:6 (NIV)

⁶ And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah

Psalm 50:7 (NKJV)

⁷ “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God!

Psalm 50:8 (CJB)

⁸ I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

Psalm 50:9 (CJB)

⁹ I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;

Psalm 50:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psalm 50:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Psalm 50:12 (NASB)

¹² “If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

Psalm 50:13 (NIV)

¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;

Psalm 50:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ and call on me when you are in trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Psalm 50:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says: “What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips,

Psalm 50:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.

Psalm 50:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalm 50:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

Psalm 50:20 (NIV)

²⁰ You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.

Psalm 50:21 (NIV)

²¹ These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Psalm 50:22 (NIV)

²² “Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:

Psalm 50:23 (NASB)

²³ “He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God.”

Psalm Chapter 51

Psalm 51:1 (NASB)

¹ Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:2 (NASB)

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:3 (NASB)

³ For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 51:4 (NASB)

⁴ Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.

Psalm 51:5 (NASB)

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 51:6 (NASB)

⁶ Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

Psalm 51:7 (NASB)

⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:8 (NASB)

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Psalm 51:9 (NIV)

⁹ Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

Psalm 51:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Psalm 51:12 (NIV)

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Psalm 51:13 (NASB)

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.

Psalm 51:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

Psalm 51:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise.

Psalm 51:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.

Psalm 51:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Psalm 51:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ By Your favor do good to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 51:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, In burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar.

Psalm Chapter 52

Psalm 52:1 (NKJV)

¹ To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of David when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, ‘David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.’ Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Psalm 52:2 (NKJV)

² Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 52:3 (NASB)

³ You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

Psalm 52:4 (NIV)

⁴ You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!

Psalm 52:5 (NIV)

⁵ Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalm 52:6 (NIV)

⁶ The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at him, saying,

Psalm 52:7 (NKJV)

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.”

Psalm 52:8 (NIV)

⁸ But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.

Psalm 52:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.

Psalm Chapter 53

Psalm 53:1 (CJB)

¹ A brutish fool tells himself, “There isn’t any God.” Such people are depraved, all their deeds are vile, not one of them does what is good.

Psalm 53:2 (NIV)

² God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Psalm 53:3 (NIV)

³ Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 53:4 (HCSB)

⁴ Will evildoers never understand? They consume My people as they consume bread; they do not call on God.

Psalm 53:5 (CJB)

⁵ They will be gripped with terror, even though now they are not afraid; for God will scatter the bones of him who is besieging you. You are putting them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Psalm 53:6 (HCSB)

⁶ Oh, that Israel’s deliverance would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of His people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.

Psalm Chapter 54

Psalm 54:1 (NIV)

¹ Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might.

Psalm 54:2 (NIV)

² Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 54:3 (NIV)

³ Strangers are attacking me; ruthless men seek my life– men without regard for God. Selah

Psalm 54:4 (NIV)

⁴ Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.

Psalm 54:5 (CJB)

⁵ May he repay the evil to those who are lying in wait for me. In your faithfulness, destroy them!

Psalm 54:6 (NASB)

⁶ Willingly I will sacrifice to You; I will give thanks to Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

Psalm 54:7 (NIV)

⁷ For he has delivered me from all my troubles, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

Psalm Chapter 55

Psalm 55:1 (NASB)

¹ Give ear to my prayer, O God; And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

Psalm 55:2 (NIV)

² hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught

Psalm 55:3 (NIV)

³ at the voice of the enemy, at the stares of the wicked; for they bring down suffering upon me and revile me in their anger.

Psalm 55:4 (CJB)

⁴ My heart within me is pounding in anguish, the terrors of death press down on me,

Psalm 55:5 (AMP)

⁵ Fear and trembling have come upon me; horror and fright have overwhelmed me.

Psalm 55:6 (CJB)

⁶ I said, “I wish I had wings like a dove! Then I could fly away and be at rest.

Psalm 55:7 (CJB)

⁷ Yes, I would flee to a place far off, I would stay in the desert. (Selah)

Psalm 55:8 (AMP)

⁸ I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

Psalm 55:9 (NIV)

⁹ Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 55:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Day and night they prowl about on its walls; malice and abuse are within it.

Psalm 55:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies never leave its streets.

Psalm 55:12 (CJB)

¹² For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.

Psalm 55:13 (AMP)

¹³ But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend.

Psalm 55:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ We had sweet fellowship together and used to walk to the house of God in company.

Psalm 55:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave, for evil finds lodging among them.

Psalm 55:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.

Psalm 55:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.

Psalm 55:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He ransoms me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

Psalm 55:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ God, who is enthroned forever, will hear them and afflict them– Selah men who never change their ways and have no fear of God.

Psalm 55:20 (NASB)

²⁰ He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has violated his covenant.

Psalm 55:21 (NIV)

²¹ His speech is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.

Psalm 55:22 (NIV)

²² Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

Psalm 55:23 (NIV)

²³ But you, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.

Psalm Chapter 56

Psalm 56:1 (NIV)

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, for men hotly pursue me; all day long they press their attack.

Psalm 56:2 (AMP)

² They that lie in wait for me would swallow me up or trample me all day long, for they are many who fight against me, O Most High!

Psalm 56:3 (NASB)

³ When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You.

Psalm 56:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

Psalm 56:5 (NIV)

⁵ All day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me.

Psalm 56:6 (NIV)

⁶ They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, eager to take my life.

Psalm 56:7 (NIV2011)

⁷ Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.

Psalm 56:8 (NIV)

⁸ Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll– are they not in your record?

Psalm 56:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.

Psalm 56:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ In God, whose word I praise, In the LORD, whose word I praise,

Psalm 56:11 (NIV)

¹¹ in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalm 56:12 (CJB)

¹² God, I have made vows to you; I will fulfill them with thank offerings to you.

Psalm 56:13 (NIV)

¹³ For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Psalm Chapter 57

Psalm 57:1 (NIV2011)-M

¹ Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed by.

Psalm 57:2 (NIV)

² I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills [his purpose] for me.

Psalm 57:3 (NIV)

³ He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me; Selah God sends his love and his faithfulness.

Psalm 57:4 (CJB)

⁴ I am surrounded by lions, I am lying down among people breathing fire, men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongues sharp-edged swords.

Psalm 57:5 (NIV)

⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

Psalm 57:6 (NIV)

⁶ They spread a net for my feet– I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path– but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Psalm 57:7 (AMP)

⁷ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is steadfast and confident! I will sing and make melody.

Psalm 57:8 (NIV)

⁸ Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Psalm 57:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

Psalm 57:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 57:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

Psalm Chapter 58

Psalm 58:1 (HCSB)

¹ Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly?

Psalm 58:2 (CJB)

² [No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs, your hands dispense violence in the land.

Psalm 58:3 (NKJV)

³ The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalm 58:4 (NIV)

⁴ Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

Psalm 58:5 (NIV)

⁵ that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.

Psalm 58:6 (NASB)

⁶ O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.

Psalm 58:7 (NIV2011)

⁷ Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.

Psalm 58:8 (CJB)

⁸ May they be like a slug that melts as it moves, like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.

Psalm 58:9 (CJB)

⁹ Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns, may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.

Psalm 58:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 58:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”

Psalm Chapter 59

Psalm 59:1 (NIV)

¹ Deliver me from my enemies, O God; protect me from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 59:2 (NIV)

² Deliver me from evildoers and save me from bloodthirsty men.

Psalm 59:3 (NIV)

³ See how they lie in wait for me! Fierce men conspire against me for no offense or sin of mine, O LORD.

Psalm 59:4 (NIV)

⁴ I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Arise to help me; look on my plight!

Psalm 59:5 (NIV)

⁵ O LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to wicked traitors. Selah

Psalm 59:6 (NIV)

⁶ They return at evening, snarling like dogs, and prowl about the city.

Psalm 59:7 (CJB)

⁷ Look what pours out of their mouth, what swords are on their lips, [as they say to themselves,] “No one is listening, anyway.”

Psalm 59:8 (NIV)

⁸ But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you scoff at all those nations.

Psalm 59:9 (CJB)

⁹ My Strength, I will watch for you, for God is my fortress.

Psalm 59:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ God, who gives me grace, will come to me; God will let me gaze in triumph at my foes.

Psalm 59:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ But do not kill them, Lord our shield, or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down.

Psalm 59:12 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 59:13 (NASB)

¹³ Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more; That men may know that God rules in Jacob To the ends of the earth. Selah.

Psalm 59:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ They return at evening, snarling like dogs, and prowl about the city.

Psalm 59:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ They wander about for food And growl if they are not satisfied.

Psalm 59:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

Psalm 59:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ O my Strength, I sing praise to you; you, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.

Psalm Chapter 60

Psalm 60:1 (CJB)

¹ God, you rejected us; you crushed us; you were angry; but now revive us.

Psalm 60:2 (NIV)

² You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.

Psalm 60:3 (NIV)

³ You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.

Psalm 60:4 (CJB)

⁴ To those who fear you because of the truth you gave a banner to rally around, (Selah)

Psalm 60:5 (NIV)

⁵ Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.

Psalm 60:6 (NASB)

⁶ God has spoken in His holiness: “I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Psalm 60:7 (NIV)

⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.

Psalm 60:8 (NIV)

⁸ Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

Psalm 60:9 (CJB)

⁹ Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Psalm 60:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?

Psalm 60:11 (NIV2011)

¹¹ Give us aid against the enemy, for human help is worthless.

Psalm 60:12 (NIV)

¹² With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

Psalm Chapter 61

Psalm 61:1 (NIV)

¹ Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.

Psalm 61:2 (NASB)

² From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psalm 61:3 (NASB)

³ For You have been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy.

Psalm 61:4 (NASB)

⁴ Let me dwell in Your tent forever; Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah.

Psalm 61:5 (NASB)

⁵ For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

Psalm 61:6 (CJB)

⁶ Prolong the life of the king! May his years go on for many generations.

Psalm 61:7 (NASB)

⁷ He will abide before God forever; Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

Psalm 61:8 (NASB)

⁸ So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.

Psalm Chapter 62

Psalm 62:1 (CJB)

¹ My soul waits in silence for God alone; my salvation comes from him.

Psalm 62:2 (NIV)

² He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Psalm 62:3 (NKJV)

³ How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.

Psalm 62:4 (NIV)

⁴ They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Selah

Psalm 62:5 (CJB)

⁵ My soul, wait in silence for God alone, because my hope comes from him.

Psalm 62:6 (NKJV)

⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved.

Psalm 62:7 (NIV)

⁷ My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

Psalm 62:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

Psalm 62:9 (NIV)

⁹ Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 62:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 62:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Once God has spoken; Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God;

Psalm 62:12 (NASB)

¹² And lovingkindness is Yours, O Lord, For You recompense a man according to his work.

Psalm Chapter 63

Psalm 63:1 (NIV2011)

¹ You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 63:2 (NIV)

² I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.

Psalm 63:3 (NASB)

³ Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.

Psalm 63:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm 63:5 (NASB)

⁵ My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

Psalm 63:6 (NIV)

⁶ On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.

Psalm 63:7 (NASB)

⁷ For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

Psalm 63:8 (AMP)

⁸ My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.

Psalm 63:9 (NIV)

⁹ They who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.

Psalm 63:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals.

Psalm 63:11 (NIV)

¹¹ But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God’s name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

Psalm Chapter 64

Psalm 64:1 (NIV)

¹ Hear me, O God, as I voice my complaint; protect my life from the threat of the enemy.

Psalm 64:2 (NIV2011)-M

² Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of the evil one.

Psalm 64:3 (NIV)

³ They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows.

Psalm 64:4 (NIV)

⁴ They shoot from ambush at the innocent man; they shoot at him suddenly, without fear.

Psalm 64:5 (NIV)

⁵ They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see them?”

Psalm 64:6 (NIV)

⁶ They plot injustice and say, “We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.

Psalm 64:7 (NIV)

⁷ But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be struck down.

Psalm 64:8 (NIV)

⁸ He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

Psalm 64:9 (NIV)

⁹ All mankind will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he has done.

Psalm 64:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him; let all the upright in heart praise him!

Psalm Chapter 65

Psalm 65:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.

Psalm 65:2 (NIV2011)

² You who answer prayer, to you all people will come.

Psalm 65:3 (NIV)

³ When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions.

Psalm 65:4 (CJB)

⁴ How blessed are those you choose and bring near, so that they can remain in your courtyards! We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the Holy Place of your temple.

Psalm 65:5 (NASB)

⁵ By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

Psalm 65:6 (NASB)

⁶ Who establishes the mountains by His strength, Being girded with might;

Psalm 65:7 (NASB)

⁷ Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.

Psalm 65:8 (NIV)

⁸ Those living far away fear your wonders; where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.

Psalm 65:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops.

Psalm 65:11 (NIV)

¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.

Psalm 65:12 (NIV)

¹² The grasslands of the desert overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.

Psalm 65:13 (NIV)

¹³ The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Psalm Chapter 66

Psalm 66:1 (NASB)

¹ Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

Psalm 66:2 (NASB)

² Sing the glory of His name; Make His praise glorious.

Psalm 66:3 (NIV)

³ Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you.

Psalm 66:4 (NIV)

⁴ All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing praise to your name.” Selah

Psalm 66:5 (NASB)

⁵ Come and see the works of God, Who is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.

Psalm 66:6 (CJB)

⁶ He turned the sea into dry land. They passed through the river on foot; there we rejoiced in him.

Psalm 66:7 (NIV)

⁷ He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations– let not the rebellious rise up against him. Selah

Psalm 66:8 (CJB)

⁸ Bless our God, you peoples! Let the sound of his praise be heard!

Psalm 66:9 (CJB)

⁹ He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from stumbling.

Psalm 66:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ For you, God, have tested us, refined us as silver is refined.

Psalm 66:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our backs.

Psalm 66:12 (NIV)

¹² You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.

Psalm 66:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will come to your temple with burnt offerings and fulfill my vows to you–

Psalm 66:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Which my lips uttered And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

Psalm 66:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I will sacrifice fat animals to you and an offering of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah

Psalm 66:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.

Psalm 66:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue.

Psalm 66:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear.

Psalm 66:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ But certainly God has heard me; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Psalm 66:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!

Psalm Chapter 67

Psalm 67:1 (NIV)

¹ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, Selah

Psalm 67:2 (NIV)

² that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

Psalm 67:3 (NIV)

³ May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you.

Psalm 67:4 (NIV)

⁴ May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. Selah

Psalm 67:5 (NIV)

⁵ May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you.

Psalm 67:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us.

Psalm 67:7 (NASB)

⁷ God blesses us, That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

Psalm Chapter 68

Psalm 68:1 (CJB)

¹ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee from his presence.

Psalm 68:2 (AMP)

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before the presence of God.

Psalm 68:3 (NASB)

³ But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Psalm 68:4 (NIV)

⁴ Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds– his name is the LORD– and rejoice before him.

Psalm 68:5 (CJB)

⁵ God, in his holy dwelling, is a father to orphans and defender of widows.

Psalm 68:6 (NASB)

⁶ God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Psalm 68:7 (NIV)

⁷ When you went out before your people, O God, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah

Psalm 68:8 (NIV)

⁸ the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

Psalm 68:9 (NIV)

⁹ You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.

Psalm 68:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, O God, you provided for the poor.

Psalm 68:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ The Lord gave the word; Great was the company of those who proclaimed it:

Psalm 68:12 (NIV)

¹² “Kings and armies flee in haste; in the camps men divide the plunder.

Psalm 68:13 (NKJV)

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.”

Psalm 68:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Zalmon.

Psalm 68:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains; rugged are the mountains of Bashan.

Psalm 68:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Why gaze in envy, O rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?

Psalm 68:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

Psalm 68:18 (7KB)

¹⁸ You have ascended on high [into heaven], leading the righteous captives into eternal freedom. You have given [dispersed] ministry gifts among men, even among the rebellious, That the LORD God might dwell there.

Psalm 68:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah.

Psalm 68:20 (NASB)

²⁰ God is to us a God of deliverances; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

Psalm 68:21 (NIV)

²¹ Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

Psalm 68:22 (NASB)

²² The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

Psalm 68:23 (NASB)

²³ That your foot may shatter them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

Psalm 68:24 (NASB)

²⁴ They have seen Your procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Psalm 68:25 (NIV)

²⁵ In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the maidens playing tambourines.

Psalm 68:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.

Psalm 68:27 (NASB)

²⁷ There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, The princes of Judah in their throng, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

Psalm 68:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Summon your power, O God; show us your strength, O God, as you have done before.

Psalm 68:29 (NASB)

²⁹ Because of Your temple at Jerusalem Kings will bring gifts to You.

Psalm 68:30 (AMP)

³⁰ Rebuke the wild beasts dwelling among the reeds [in Egypt], the herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples; trample underfoot those who lust for tribute money; scatter the peoples who delight in war.

Psalm 68:31 (AMP)

³¹ Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch out her hands [with the offerings of submission] to God.

Psalm 68:32 (NIV)

³² Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to the Lord, Selah

Psalm 68:33 (NIV)

³³ to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mighty voice.

Psalm 68:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.

Psalm 68:35 (NIV)

³⁵ You are awesome, O God, in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!

Psalm Chapter 69

Psalm 69:1 (NIV)

¹ Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

Psalm 69:2 (NIV)

² I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

Psalm 69:3 (NIV)

³ I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalm 69:4 (NIV)

⁴ Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

Psalm 69:5 (NKJV)

⁵ O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You.

Psalm 69:6 (NIV)

⁶ May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.

Psalm 69:7 (NIV)

⁷ For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.

Psalm 69:8 (NIV)

⁸ I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother’s sons;

Psalm 69:9 (NIV)

⁹ for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

Psalm 69:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

Psalm 69:11 (NIV)

¹¹ when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.

Psalm 69:12 (NIV)

¹² Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Psalm 69:13 (NIV)

¹³ But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.

Psalm 69:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.

Psalm 69:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.

Psalm 69:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Answer me, O LORD, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me.

Psalm 69:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.

Psalm 69:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Come near and rescue me; redeem me because of my foes.

Psalm 69:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you.

Psalm 69:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:21 (NIV)

²¹ They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.

Psalm 69:22 (NIV)

²² May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.

Psalm 69:23 (NIV)

²³ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

Psalm 69:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.

Psalm 69:25 (NIV)

²⁵ May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

Psalm 69:26 (NIV)

²⁶ For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.

Psalm 69:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.

Psalm 69:28 (NIV)

²⁸ May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.

Psalm 69:29 (NIV)

²⁹ I am in pain and distress; may your salvation, O God, protect me.

Psalm 69:30 (NIV)

³⁰ I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 69:31 (NIV)

³¹ This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hoofs.

Psalm 69:32 (NIV)

³² The poor will see and be glad– you who seek God, may your hearts live!

Psalm 69:33 (NIV)

³³ The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.

Psalm 69:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,

Psalm 69:35 (NIV)

³⁵ for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;

Psalm 69:36 (NIV)

³⁶ the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

Psalm Chapter 70

Psalm 70:1 (NIV)

¹ Hasten, O God, to save me; O LORD, come quickly to help me.

Psalm 70:2 (NIV)

² May those who seek my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Psalm 70:3 (NIV)

³ May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” turn back because of their shame.

Psalm 70:4 (NIV)

⁴ But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “Let God be exalted!”

Psalm 70:5 (NIV)

⁵ Yet I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

Psalm Chapter 71

Psalm 71:1 (NIV)

¹ In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

Psalm 71:2 (NIV)

² Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; turn your ear to me and save me.

Psalm 71:3 (NIV)

³ Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 71:4 (NIV)

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of evil and cruel men.

Psalm 71:5 (NIV)

⁵ For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.

Psalm 71:6 (NIV)

⁶ From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.

Psalm 71:7 (NASB)

⁷ I have become a marvel to many, For You are my strong refuge.

Psalm 71:8 (NIV)

⁸ My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long.

Psalm 71:9 (NASB)

⁹ Do not cast me off in the time of old age; Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

Psalm 71:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ For my enemies speak against me; those who wait to kill me conspire together.

Psalm 71:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and persecute and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Psalm 71:12 (NKJV)-M

¹² O God, do not be far from me; make haste to help me O my God!

Psalm 71:13 (NIV)

¹³ May my accusers perish in shame; may those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace.

Psalm 71:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.

Psalm 71:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of Your righteous acts and of Your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is more than I know.

Psalm 71:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ I will come in the strength and with the mighty acts of the Lord God; I will mention and praise Your righteousness, even Yours alone.

Psalm 71:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Since my youth, O God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

Psalm 71:18 (NIV2011)

¹⁸ Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

Psalm 71:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

Psalm 71:20 (CJB)

²⁰ You have made me see much trouble and hardship, but you will revive me again and bring me up from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 71:21 (NIV)

²¹ You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

Psalm 71:22 (NIV)

²² I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 71:23 (AMP)

²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to You, and my inner being, which You have redeemed.

Psalm 71:24 (NIV)

²⁴ My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.

Psalm Chapter 72

Psalm 72:1 (NASB)

¹ Give the king Your judgments, O God, And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Psalm 72:2 (NIV)

² He will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.

Psalm 72:3 (AMP)

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, through [the general establishment of] righteousness.

Psalm 72:4 (NASB)

⁴ May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, Save the children of the needy And crush the oppressor.

Psalm 72:5 (NASB)

⁵ Let them fear You while the sun endures, And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Psalm 72:6 (NASB)

⁶ May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 72:7 (AMP)

⁷ In His [Christ’s] days shall the [uncompromisingly] righteous flourish and peace abound till there is a moon no longer.

Psalm 72:8 (AMP)

⁸ He [Christ] shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.

Psalm 72:9 (AMP)

⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him and His enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalm 72:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the coasts shall bring offerings; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Psalm 72:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him.

Psalm 72:12 (AMP)

¹² For He delivers the needy when he calls out, the poor also and him who has no helper.

Psalm 72:13 (AMP)

¹³ He will have pity on the poor and weak and needy and will save the lives of the needy.

Psalm 72:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ He will rescue their life from oppression and violence, And their blood will be precious in his sight;

Psalm 72:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him and bless him all day long.

Psalm 72:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Let grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. Let its fruit flourish like Lebanon; let it thrive like the grass of the field.

Psalm 72:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. All nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed.

Psalm 72:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

Psalm 72:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 72:20 (NIV)

²⁰ This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.

Psalm Chapter 73

Psalm 73:1 (NIV)

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Psalm 73:2 (NASB)

² But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling, My steps had almost slipped.

Psalm 73:3 (NIV)

³ For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 73:4 (NIV)

⁴ They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.

Psalm 73:5 (NIV)

⁵ They are free from the burdens common to man; they are not plagued by human ills.

Psalm 73:6 (NIV)

⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

Psalm 73:7 (NIV)

⁷ From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.

Psalm 73:8 (NIV)

⁸ They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.

Psalm 73:9 (CJB)

⁹ They set their mouths against heaven; their tongues swagger through the earth.

Psalm 73:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Therefore his people return here and [thoughtlessly] suck up that whole cup of water.

Psalm 73:11 (NIV)

¹¹ They say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Psalm 73:12 (CJB)

¹² Yes, this is what the wicked are like; those free of misfortune keep increasing their wealth.

Psalm 73:13 (NIV)

¹³ Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure; in vain have I washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ for all day long I am plagued; my punishment comes every morning.

Psalm 73:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Had I spoken thus [and given expression to my feelings], I would have been untrue and have dealt treacherously against the generation of Your children.

Psalm 73:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ When I tried to understand all this, I found it too hard for me —

Psalm 73:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.

Psalm 73:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.

Psalm 73:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

Psalm 73:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

Psalm 73:21 (CJB)

²¹ When I had a sour attitude and felt stung by pained emotions,

Psalm 73:22 (NIV)

²² I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

Psalm 73:23 (CJB)

²³ Nevertheless, I am always with you; you hold my right hand.

Psalm 73:24 (NIV2011)

²⁴ You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.

Psalm 73:25 (NASB)-M

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you? And on earth, I have nothing I desire besides you.

Psalm 73:26 (NIV)

²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 73:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.

Psalm 73:28 (NIV)

²⁸ But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.

Psalm Chapter 74

Psalm 74:1 (NKJV)

¹ A Contemplation of Asaph. O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 74:2 (NIV)

² Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed– Mount Zion, where you dwelt.

Psalm 74:3 (NIV)

³ Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Psalm 74:4 (AMP)

⁴ In the midst of Your Holy Place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; they set up their own [idol] emblems for signs [of victory].

Psalm 74:5 (NIV)

⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:6 (AMP)

⁶ And then all the carved wood of the Holy Place they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

Psalm 74:7 (NASB)

⁷ They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

Psalm 74:8 (NIV)

⁸ They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

Psalm 74:9 (NIV)

⁹ We are given no miraculous signs; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.

Psalm 74:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ How long, O God, will the adversary revile, And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

Psalm 74:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!

Psalm 74:12 (CJB)

¹² God has been my king from earliest times, acting to save throughout all the earth.

Psalm 74:13 (AMP)

¹³ You did divide the [Red] Sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the [Egyptian] dragons in the waters.

Psalm 74:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt); You did give him as food for the creatures inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalm 74:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ You did cleave open [the rock bringing forth] fountains and streams; You dried up mighty, ever-flowing rivers (the Jordan).

Psalm 74:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.

Psalm 74:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ You have fixed all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter.

Psalm 74:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Remember how the enemy has mocked you, O LORD, how foolish people have reviled your name.

Psalm 74:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.

Psalm 74:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Psalm 74:21 (NIV)

²¹ Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace; may the poor and needy praise your name.

Psalm 74:22 (NIV)

²² Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long.

Psalm 74:23 (NIV)

²³ Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries, the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.

Psalm Chapter 75

Psalm 75:1 (NASB)

¹ We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks, For Your name is near; Men declare Your wondrous works.

Psalm 75:2 (NIV)

² You say, “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge uprightly.

Psalm 75:3 (NIV)

³ When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm. Selah

Psalm 75:4 (NIV)

⁴ To the arrogant I say, ‘Boast no more,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns.

Psalm 75:5 (NIV)

⁵ Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with outstretched neck.'”

Psalm 75:6 (NKJV)-M

⁶ For promotion comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south.

Psalm 75:7 (NKJV)

⁷ But God is the Judge: He puts down one and exalts another.

Psalm 75:8 (AMP)

⁸ For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup [of His wrath], and the wine foams and is red, well mixed; and He pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink its dregs.

Psalm 75:9 (NASB)

⁹ But as for me, I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 75:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

Psalm Chapter 76

Psalm 76:1 (NASB)

¹ God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

Psalm 76:2 (NIV)

² His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 76:3 (NIV)

³ There he broke the flashing arrows, the shields and the swords, the weapons of war. Selah

Psalm 76:4 (NIV)

⁴ You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains rich with game.

Psalm 76:6 (NIV)

⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and chariot lie still.

Psalm 76:7 (NIV)

⁷ You alone are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry?

Psalm 76:8 (CJB)

⁸ You pronounce sentence from heaven; the earth grows silent with fear

Psalm 76:9 (CJB)

⁹ when God arises to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. (Selah)

Psalm 76:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Surely your wrath against men brings you praise, and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Psalm 76:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them; let all the neighboring lands bring gifts to the One to be feared.

Psalm 76:12 (NIV)

¹² He breaks the spirit of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

Psalm Chapter 77

Psalm 77:1 (NIV)

¹ I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.

Psalm 77:2 (CJB)-M

² On the day of my distress I am seeking the Lord; my hands are lifted up; my tears flow all night without ceasing; my heart refuses comfort.

Psalm 77:3 (NIV)

³ I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalm 77:4 (NIV)

⁴ You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.

Psalm 77:5 (NIV)

⁵ I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;

Psalm 77:6 (NIV)

⁶ I remembered my songs in the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired:

Psalm 77:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?

Psalm 77:8 (NASB)

⁸ Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?

Psalm 77:9 (NIV)

⁹ Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah

Psalm 77:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Then I add, “That’s my weakness — [supposing] the Most High’s right hand could change.”

Psalm 77:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

Psalm 77:12 (NIV)

¹² I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.

Psalm 77:13 (NIV)

¹³ Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God?

Psalm 77:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

Psalm 77:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

Psalm 77:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.

Psalm 77:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.

Psalm 77:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

Psalm 77:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

Psalm 77:20 (NIV)

²⁰ You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm Chapter 78

Psalm 78:1 (NIV)

¹ O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 78:2 (CJB)

² I will speak to you in parables and explain mysteries from days of old.

Psalm 78:3 (CJB)

³ The things which we have heard and known, and which our fathers told us.

Psalm 78:4 (NIV)

⁴ We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.

Psalm 78:5 (NIV)

⁵ He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,

Psalm 78:6 (NIV)

⁶ so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

Psalm 78:7 (NASB)

⁷ That they should put their confidence in God And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments,

Psalm 78:8 (NIV)

⁸ They would not be like their forefathers– a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

Psalm 78:9 (NASB)

⁹ The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Psalm 78:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.

Psalm 78:11 (NIV)

¹¹ They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.

Psalm 78:12 (NASB)

¹² He wrought wonders before their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalm 78:13 (NIV)

¹³ He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.

Psalm 78:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.

Psalm 78:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ He broke apart the rocks in the desert and let them drink as if from boundless depths;

Psalm 78:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ He brought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalm 78:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalm 78:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ in their hearts they tested God by demanding food that would satisfy their cravings.

Psalm 78:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the desert?

Psalm 78:20 (NIV)

²⁰ When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?”

Psalm 78:21 (NIV)

²¹ When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,

Psalm 78:22 (NIV)

²² for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.

Psalm 78:23 (NIV)

²³ Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;

Psalm 78:24 (NIV)

²⁴ he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.

Psalm 78:25 (CJB)

²⁵ mortals ate the bread of angels; he provided for them to the full.

Psalm 78:26 (NASB)

²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens And by His power He directed the south wind.

Psalm 78:27 (CJB)

²⁷ and rained down meat on them like dust, birds flying thick as the sand on the seashore.

Psalm 78:28 (AMP)

²⁸ And He let [the birds] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

Psalm 78:29 (AMP)

²⁹ So they ate and were well filled; He gave them what they craved and lusted after.

Psalm 78:30 (AMP)

³⁰ But scarce had they stilled their craving, and while their meat was yet in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31 (NASB)

³¹ The anger of God rose against them And killed some of their stoutest ones, And subdued the choice men of Israel.

Psalm 78:32 (NIV)

³² In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

Psalm 78:33 (CJB)

³³ Therefore, he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

Psalm 78:34 (CJB)

³⁴ When he brought death among them, they would seek him; they would repent and seek God eagerly,

Psalm 78:35 (NIV)

³⁵ They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalm 78:36 (NIV)

³⁶ But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

Psalm 78:37 (NIV)

³⁷ their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

Psalm 78:38 (NIV)

³⁸ Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

Psalm 78:39 (NIV)

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalm 78:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!

Psalm 78:41 (NKJV)

⁴¹ Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:42 (NIV)

⁴² They did not remember his power– the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

Psalm 78:43 (NIV)

⁴³ the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

Psalm 78:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.

Psalm 78:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalm 78:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

Psalm 78:47 (NASB)

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

Psalm 78:48 (NASB)

⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning.

Psalm 78:49 (CJB)

⁴⁹ He sent over them his fierce anger, fury, indignation and trouble, with a company of destroying angels

Psalm 78:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

Psalm 78:51 (CJB)

⁵¹ striking all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalm 78:52 (CJB)

⁵² But his own people he led out like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.

Psalm 78:53 (NIV)

⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psalm 78:54 (NASB)

⁵⁴ So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

Psalm 78:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

Psalm 78:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

Psalm 78:57 (NIV)

⁵⁷ Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

Psalm 78:58 (NIV)

⁵⁸ They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 78:59 (CJB)-M

⁵⁹ God heard, and he was angry; he came to detest Israel completely.

Psalm 78:60 (NIV)

⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.

Psalm 78:61 (NIV)

⁶¹ He sent [the ark of] his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

Psalm 78:62 (CJB)

⁶² He gave his people over to the sword and grew angry with his own heritage.

Psalm 78:63 (NIV)

⁶³ Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;

Psalm 78:64 (NIV)

⁶⁴ their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

Psalm 78:65 (AMP)

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awakened as from sleep, as a strong man whose consciousness of power is heightened by wine.

Psalm 78:66 (NASB)

⁶⁶ He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.

Psalm 78:67 (NASB)

⁶⁷ He also rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalm 78:68 (NASB)

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.

Psalm 78:69 (NIV)

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

Psalm 78:70 (NIV)

⁷⁰ He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

Psalm 78:71 (NASB)

⁷¹ From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.

Psalm 78:72 (NIV)

⁷² And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

Psalm Chapter 79

Psalm 79:1 (NASB)

¹ O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 79:2 (CJB)

² They have given the corpses of your servants as food for the birds in the air, yes, the flesh of those faithful to you for the wild animals of the earth.

Psalm 79:3 (NASB)

³ They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.

Psalm 79:4 (NIV)

⁴ We are objects of reproach to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

Psalm 79:5 (NIV)

⁵ How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 79:6 (NIV)

⁶ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;

Psalm 79:7 (NIV)

⁷ for they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his homeland.

Psalm 79:8 (NIV)

⁸ Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Psalm 79:9 (NIV)

⁹ Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.

Psalm 79:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Why should the Gentile nations say, Where is their God? Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which is poured out be known among the nations in our sight [not delaying until some future generation].

Psalm 79:11 (CJB)

¹¹ Let the groaning of the captives come before you; by your great strength save those condemned to death.

Psalm 79:12 (NIV)

¹² Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.

Psalm 79:13 (NASB)

¹³ So we Your people and the sheep of Your pasture Will give thanks to You forever; To all generations we will tell of Your praise.

Psalm Chapter 80

Psalm 80:1 (NIV)

¹ Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

Psalm 80:2 (NASB)

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power And come to save us!

Psalm 80:3 (NASB)

³ O God, restore us And cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.

Psalm 80:4 (NASB)

⁴ O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people?

Psalm 80:5 (CJB)

⁵ You have fed them tears as their bread and made them drink tears in abundance.

Psalm 80:6 (NIV)

⁶ You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.

Psalm 80:7 (NIV)

⁷ Restore us, O God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Psalm 80:8 (NIV)

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

Psalm 80:9 (NASB)

⁹ You cleared the ground before it, And it took deep root and filled the land.

Psalm 80:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

Psalm 80:11 (NIV)

¹¹ It sent out its boughs to the Sea, its shoots as far as the River.

Psalm 80:12 (CJB)

¹² Why did you break down [the vineyard’s] wall, so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?

Psalm 80:13 (NIV)

¹³ Boars from the forest ravage it and the creatures of the field feed on it.

Psalm 80:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech You, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven and see, visit, and have regard for this vine!

Psalm 80:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ Protect what your right hand planted, the son you made strong for yourself.

Psalm 80:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.

Psalm 80:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Help the man at your right hand, the son of man you made strong for yourself.

Psalm 80:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.

Psalm 80:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ O LORD God of hosts, restore us; Cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.

Psalm Chapter 81

Psalm 81:1 (AMP)

¹ SING ALOUD to God our Strength! Shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

Psalm 81:2 (CJB)

² Start the music! Beat the drum! Play the sweet lyre and the lute!

Psalm 81:3 (NKJV)

³ Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

Psalm 81:4 (AMP)

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 81:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ He placed it as a testimony in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar voice say,

Psalm 81:6 (CJB)

⁶ “I lifted the load from his shoulder; his hands were freed from the [laborer’s] basket.

Psalm 81:7 (NIV)

⁷ In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Psalm 81:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ “‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning! Israel, if you would only listen to me!

Psalm 81:9 (CJB)

⁹ There is not to be with you any foreign god; you are not to worship an alien god.

Psalm 81:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “I, the LORD, am your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Psalm 81:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me.

Psalm 81:12 (AMP)

¹² So I gave them up to their own hearts’ lust and let them go after their own stubborn will, that they might follow their own counsels.

Psalm 81:13 (AMP)

¹³ Oh, that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!

Psalm 81:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.

Psalm 81:15 (CJB)-M

¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, while [Israel’s] time would last forever.

Psalm 81:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ They would be fed with the finest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks.”

Psalm Chapter 82

Psalm 82:1 (NIV)

¹ God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgment among the “gods”:

Psalm 82:2 (CJB)

² “How long will you go on judging unfairly, favoring the wicked? (Selah)

Psalm 82:3 (NIV)

³ Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalm 82:4 (NIV)

⁴ Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 82:5 (AMP)

⁵ [The magistrates and judges] know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction]; all the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles upon which rests the administration of justice] are shaking.

Psalm 82:6 (AMP)

⁶ I said, You are gods [since you judge on My behalf, as My representatives]; indeed, all of you are children of the Most High.

Psalm 82:7 (NIV2011)

⁷ But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.”

Psalm 82:8 (AMP)

⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth! For to You belong all the nations.

Psalm Chapter 83

Psalm 83:1 (NIV2011)

¹ O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

Psalm 83:2 (NASB)

² For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

Psalm 83:3 (NIV)

³ With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.

Psalm 83:4 (NKJV)

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.”

Psalm 83:5 (NIV)

⁵ With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you–

Psalm 83:6 (NASB)

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;

Psalm 83:7 (NASB)

⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psalm 83:8 (NASB)

⁸ Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

Psalm 83:9 (NIV)

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

Psalm 83:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became as dung for the ground.

Psalm 83:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Psalm 83:12 (NIV)

¹² who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”

Psalm 83:13 (NASB)

¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

Psalm 83:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Psalm 83:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with Your storm.

Psalm 83:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

Psalm 83:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

Psalm 83:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm Chapter 84

Psalm 84:1 (NIV)

¹ How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!

Psalm 84:2 (NIV)

² My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalm 84:3 (CJB)-M

³ As the sparrow finds herself a home and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young, [so my resting-place is] by your altars, O LORD Almighty, my king and my God.

Psalm 84:4 (NASB)

⁴ How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah.

Psalm 84:5 (NASB)

⁵ How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion!

Psalm 84:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ Passing through the [dry] Baca Valley, they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it with blessings.

Psalm 84:7 (NLT)-M

⁷ The Haredi Jews will continue to grow stronger, [from strength to strength] and each of them (or their descendants) will appear before God in Jerusalem.

Psalm 84:8 (NIV)

⁸ Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. Selah

Psalm 84:9 (NIV)

⁹ Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.

Psalm 84:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psalm 84:11 (NLT)-M

¹¹ For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 84:12 (NIV2011)-M

¹² O Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.

Psalm Chapter 85

Psalm 85:1 (NLT)-M

¹ O Lord, you poured out blessings upon your land! You restored Jacob’s prosperity.

Psalm 85:2 (NIV)

² You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins. Selah

Psalm 85:3 (NIV)

³ You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.

Psalm 85:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your anger toward us to cease.

Psalm 85:5 (CJB)

⁵ Are you to stay angry with us forever? Will your fury last through all generations?

Psalm 85:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?

Psalm 85:7 (NKJV)

⁷ Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation.

Psalm 85:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ I am listening. What will God, the Lord, say? For he will speak peace to his people, to his holy ones — but only if they don’t relapse into folly.

Psalm 85:9 (NIV)

⁹ Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.

Psalm 85:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ Grace and truth have met together; justice and peace have kissed each other.

Psalm 85:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.

Psalm 85:12 (CJB)-M

¹² The Lord will also grant prosperity; our land will yield its harvest.

Psalm 85:13 (NIV)

¹³ Righteousness goes before him and prepares the way for his steps.

Psalm Chapter 86

Psalm 86:1 (NASB)

¹ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.

Psalm 86:2 (NIV)

² Guard my life, for I am devoted to you. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.

Psalm 86:3 (NKJV)

³ Be merciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long.

Psalm 86:4 (NIV)

⁴ Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

Psalm 86:5 (NKJV)

⁵ For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

Psalm 86:6 (NIV)

⁶ Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy.

Psalm 86:7 (NIV)

⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me.

Psalm 86:8 (NASB)

⁸ There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, Nor are there any works like Yours.

Psalm 86:9 (NASB)

⁹ All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And they shall glorify Your name.

Psalm 86:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ For You are great and do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.

Psalm 86:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

Psalm 86:12 (NIV)

¹² I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.

Psalm 86:13 (KJV)

¹³ For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Psalm 86:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The arrogant are attacking me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life– men without regard for you.

Psalm 86:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:16 (NIV2011)-M

¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy on me; show your strength in behalf of your servant; save me, because I serve you …

Psalm 86:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ Give me a sign of your favor, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, because you, Lord, have helped and comforted me.

Psalm Chapter 87

Psalm 87:1 (NIV2011)

¹ He has founded his city on the holy mountain.

Psalm 87:2 (NASB)

² The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

Psalm 87:3 (NIV)

³ Glorious things are said of you, O city of God: Selah

Psalm 87:4 (NKJV)

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.’ “

Psalm 87:5 (NIV)

⁵ Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.”

Psalm 87:6 (NKJV)

⁶ The LORD will record, When He registers the peoples: “This one was born there.” Selah

Psalm 87:7 (CJB)

⁷ Singers and dancers alike say, “For me, you are the source of everything.”

Psalm Chapter 88

Psalm 88:1 (NASB)

¹ O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

Psalm 88:2 (NASB)

² Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!

Psalm 88:3 (NIV2011)

³ I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.

Psalm 88:4 (CJB)

⁴ I am counted among those going down to the pit, like a man who is beyond help,

Psalm 88:5 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 88:6 (NKJV)

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths.

Psalm 88:7 (NKJV)

⁷ Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah

Psalm 88:8 (NASB)

⁸ You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them; I am shut up and cannot go out.

Psalm 88:9 (NASB)

⁹ My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O LORD; I have spread out my hands to You.

Psalm 88:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Will You perform wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

Psalm 88:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?

Psalm 88:12 (NIV)

¹² Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

Psalm 88:13 (NKJV)

¹³ But to You I have cried out, O LORD, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Psalm 88:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Lord, why do You cast me off? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 88:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death; I have suffered your terrors and am in despair.

Psalm 88:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.

Psalm 88:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ They surge around me all day like a flood, from all sides they close in on me.

Psalm 88:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend.

Psalm Chapter 89

Psalm 89:1 (NIV)

¹ I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

Psalm 89:2 (NIV)

² I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

Psalm 89:3 (AMP)

³ [You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant,

Psalm 89:4 (NIV)

⁴ ‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.'” Selah

Psalm 89:5 (NIV)

⁵ The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

Psalm 89:6 (NKJV)

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?

Psalm 89:7 (NIV)

⁷ In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

Psalm 89:8 (NIV)

⁸ O LORD God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

Psalm 89:9 (NIV)

⁹ You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

Psalm 89:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

Psalm 89:11 (NASB)

¹¹ The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

Psalm 89:12 (CJB)-M

¹² You created north and south; Tabor and Hermon take joy in your name.

Psalm 89:13 (NIV)

¹³ Your arm is endued with power; your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.

Psalm 89:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

Psalm 89:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD.

Psalm 89:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

Psalm 89:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.

Psalm 89:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 89:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ There was a time when you spoke in a vision; you declared to your loyal [prophets], “I have given help to a warrior, I have raised up someone chosen from the people.

Psalm 89:20 (CJB)

²⁰ I have found David my servant and anointed him with my holy oil.

Psalm 89:21 (CJB)

²¹ My hand will always be with him, and my arm will give him strength.

Psalm 89:22 (NIV)

²² No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

Psalm 89:23 (CJB)

²³ I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

Psalm 89:24 (NASB)

²⁴ “My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted.

Psalm 89:25 (AMP)

²⁵ I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries].

Psalm 89:26 (NASB)

²⁶ “He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

Psalm 89:27 (CJB)

²⁷ I will give him the position of firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalm 89:28 (NIV)

²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.

Psalm 89:29 (CJB)

²⁹ I will establish his dynasty forever, and his throne as long as the heavens last.

Psalm 89:30 (CJB)-M

³⁰ “If his descendants abandon my Law and fail to live by my rulings,

Psalm 89:31 (NIV)

³¹ if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

Psalm 89:32 (CJB)

³² I will punish their disobedience with the rod and their guilt with lashes.

Psalm 89:33 (NIV)

³³ but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

Psalm 89:34 (NIV)

³⁴ I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalm 89:35 (CJB)

³⁵ I have sworn by my holiness once and for all; I will not lie to David —

Psalm 89:36 (CJB)

³⁶ his dynasty will last forever, his throne like the sun before me.

Psalm 89:37 (CJB)

³⁷ It will be established forever, like the moon, which remains a faithful witness in the sky.” (Selah)

Psalm 89:38 (CJB)

³⁸ But you spurned your anointed one, rejected and vented your rage on him.

Psalm 89:39 (CJB)

³⁹ You renounced the covenant with your servant and defiled his crown in the dust.

Psalm 89:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Psalm 89:41 (AMP)

⁴¹ All who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.

Psalm 89:42 (NIV)

⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

Psalm 89:43 (NASB)

⁴³ You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in battle.

Psalm 89:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

Psalm 89:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame. Selah

Psalm 89:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 89:47 (CJB)

⁴⁷ Remember how little time I have! Was it for no purpose that you created all humanity?

Psalm 89:48 (CJB)

⁴⁸ Who can live and not see death? Who can save himself from the power of the grave? (Selah)

Psalm 89:49 (NASB)

⁴⁹ Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Psalm 89:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

Psalm 89:51 (NASB)

⁵¹ With which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

Psalm 89:52 (NASB)

⁵² Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

Psalm Chapter 90

Psalm 90:1 (NIV)

¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.

Psalm 90:2 (AMP)

² Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed and given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Psalm 90:3 (CJB)

³ You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed, then say, “People, repent!”

Psalm 90:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 90:5 (NIV)

⁵ You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning–

Psalm 90:6 (NIV)

⁶ though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.

Psalm 90:7 (NIV)

⁷ We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.

Psalm 90:8 (NIV)

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psalm 90:9 (CJB)

⁹ All our days ebb away under your wrath; our years die away like a sigh.

Psalm 90:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ The span of our life is seventy years, or if we are strong, eighty; yet at best it is toil and sorrow, over in a moment, and then we are gone.

Psalm 90:11 (CJB)

¹¹ Who grasps the power of your anger and wrath to the degree that the fear due you should inspire?

Psalm 90:12 (NKJV)

¹² So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:13 (NIV)

¹³ Relent, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

Psalm 90:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Psalm 90:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer, for as many years as we experienced trouble.

Psalm 90:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.

Psalm 90:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

Psalm Chapter 91

Psalm 91:1 (KJV)-M

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:2 (KJV)-M

² I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Psalm 91:3 (AMP)-M

³ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

Psalm 91:4 (NKJV)

⁴ He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge; his truth shall be your shield and buckler.

Psalm 91:5 (NKJV)

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Psalm 91:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

Psalm 91:7 (NKJV)

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

Psalm 91:8 (KJV)-M

⁸ Only with your eyes shalt you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Psalm 91:9 (AMP)

⁹ Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

Psalm 91:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

Psalm 91:11 (KJV)-M

¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all thy ways.

Psalm 91:12 (AMP)

¹² They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Psalm 91:13 (KJV)-M

¹³ You shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon you shall trample under feet.

Psalm 91:14 (NKJV)-M

¹⁴ “Because you have set your love upon me, therefore I will deliver you; I will set you on high, because you have known my name.

Psalm 91:15 (NKJV)-M

¹⁵ You shall call upon me, and I will answer you; I will be with you in trouble; I will deliver you and honor you.

Psalm 91:16 (NKJV)-M

¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy you and show you my salvation.”

Psalm Chapter 92

Psalm 92:1 (NASB)

¹ It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

Psalm 92:2 (NASB)

² To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness by night,

Psalm 92:3 (AMP)

³ With an instrument of ten strings and with the lute, with a solemn sound upon the lyre.

Psalm 92:4 (NASB)

⁴ For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

Psalm 92:5 (NIV)

⁵ How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts!

Psalm 92:6 (NIV)

⁶ The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand,

Psalm 92:7 (NASB)

⁷ That when the wicked sprouted up like grass And all who did iniquity flourished, It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

Psalm 92:8 (NIV)

⁸ But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.

Psalm 92:9 (NIV)

⁹ For surely your enemies, O LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

Psalm 92:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.

Psalm 92:11 (CJB)

¹¹ My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies’ ruin, my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.

Psalm 92:12 (NIV)

¹² The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

Psalm 92:13 (NIV)

¹³ planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Psalm 92:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ Even in old age they will be vigorous, still full of sap and still bearing fruit,

Psalm 92:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Psalm Chapter 93

Psalm 93:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Psalm 93:2 (CJB)

² Your throne was established long ago; you have existed forever.

Psalm 93:3 (AMP)

³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up the roaring of their waves.

Psalm 93:4 (AMP)

⁴ The Lord on high is mightier and more glorious than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty breakers and waves of the sea.

Psalm 93:5 (NASB)

⁵ Your testimonies are fully confirmed; Holiness befits Your house, O LORD, forevermore.

Psalm Chapter 94

Psalm 94:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, the God who avenges, O God who avenges, shine forth.

Psalm 94:2 (NASB)

² Rise up, O Judge of the earth, Render recompense to the proud.

Psalm 94:3 (NASB)

³ How long shall the wicked, O LORD, How long shall the wicked exult?

Psalm 94:4 (AMP)

⁴ They pour out arrogant words, speaking hard things; all the evildoers boast loftily.

Psalm 94:5 (NIV)

⁵ They crush your people, O LORD; they oppress your inheritance.

Psalm 94:6 (NIV)

⁶ They slay the widow and the alien; they murder the fatherless.

Psalm 94:7 (AMP)

⁷ Yet they say, The Lord does not see, neither does the God of Jacob notice it.

Psalm 94:8 (NIV)

⁸ Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

Psalm 94:9 (CJB)

⁹ Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see?

Psalm 94:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge?

Psalm 94:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The LORD knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.

Psalm 94:12 (NIV)

¹² Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law;

Psalm 94:13 (NIV)

¹³ you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.

Psalm 94:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.

Psalm 94:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Psalm 94:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

Psalm 94:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

Psalm 94:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your love, O LORD, supported me.

Psalm 94:19 (NASB)-M

¹⁹ When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, your consolations comfort and delight my soul.

Psalm 94:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Can a corrupt throne be allied with you– one that brings on misery by its decrees?

Psalm 94:21 (NIV)

²¹ They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Psalm 94:22 (NASB)

²² But the LORD has been my stronghold, And my God the rock of my refuge.

Psalm 94:23 (NIV)

²³ He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.

Psalm Chapter 95

Psalm 95:1 (HCSB)

¹ Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!

Psalm 95:2 (HCSB)

² Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving; let us shout triumphantly to him in song.

Psalm 95:3 (HCSB)

³ For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Psalm 95:4 (NLT2)

⁴ He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains.

Psalm 95:5 (NLT2)-M

⁵ The sea belongs to him because he made it and his hands formed the dry land also.

Psalm 95:6 (NLT2)

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,

Psalm 95:7 (NLT2)

⁷ for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!

Psalm 95:8 (NLT2)-M

⁸ The Lord says, “Do not harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah and as they did in the wilderness of Massah.

Psalm 95:9 (NLT2)

⁹ For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.

Psalm 95:10 (NASB)-M

¹⁰ “For forty years I loathed that generation, and said they are a people who do err in their heart and whose hearts go astray. They do not know my ways and do not understand how I do things.

Psalm 95:11 (NLT2)-M

¹¹ So in my anger I swore an oath that they will never enter my place of rest.’”

Psalm Chapter 96

Psalm 96:1 (NLT2)-M

¹ Sing unto the Lord a new song! Let the whole earth sing to the Lord!

Psalm 96:2 (CJB)-M

² Sing to Lord, bless his name! Proclaim his victory day after day!

Psalm 96:3 (NIV)-M

³ Declare his glory among the nations and his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Psalm 96:4 (NIV)

⁴ For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 96:5 (NIV)

⁵ For all the gods of the (heathen) nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 96:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ In his presence are honor and majesty and in his sanctuary are strength and splendor.

Psalm 96:7 (NLT2)-M

⁷ Recognize the Lord, all you nations of the world, recognize that the Lord is glorious and strong. Ascribe to him both glory and strength!

Psalm 96:8 (NIV)

⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.

Psalm 96:9 (NLT2)

⁹ Worship the Lord in all his holy splendor. Let all the earth tremble before him.

Psalm 96:10 (NLT2)-M

¹⁰ Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken. He will judge all peoples fairly.

Psalm 96:11 (NLT2)

¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!

Psalm 96:12 (NLT2)

¹² Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise;

Psalm 96:13 (NIV)-M

¹³ they will sing before the Lord when he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and judge the peoples in his truth.

Psalm Chapter 97

Psalm 97:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice.

Psalm 97:2 (NASB)

² Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Psalm 97:3 (NIV)

³ Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side.

Psalm 97:4 (CJB)

⁴ His flashes of lightning light up the world; the earth sees it and trembles.

Psalm 97:5 (NIV)

⁵ The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.

Psalm 97:6 (CJB)

⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

Psalm 97:7 (NKJV)

⁷ Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.

Psalm 97:8 (NIV)

⁸ Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O LORD.

Psalm 97:9 (NASB)

⁹ For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

Psalm 97:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 97:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalm 97:12 (NASB)

¹² Be glad in the LORD, you righteous ones, And give thanks to His holy name.

Psalm Chapter 98

Psalm 98:1 (NIV)

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.

Psalm 98:2 (NASB)

² The LORD has made known His salvation; He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

Psalm 98:3 (NASB)

³ He has remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 98:4 (NASB)

⁴ Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.

Psalm 98:5 (NASB)

⁵ Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, With the lyre and the sound of melody.

Psalm 98:6 (NIV)

⁶ with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn– shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

Psalm 98:7 (NIV)

⁷ Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Psalm 98:8 (NASB)

⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy

Psalm 98:9 (NIV)

⁹ let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Psalm Chapter 99

Psalm 99:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.

Psalm 99:2 (NIV)

² Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.

Psalm 99:3 (NIV)

³ Let them praise your great and awesome name– he is holy.

Psalm 99:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ “Mighty king who loves justice, you established fairness, justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalm 99:5 (NASB)

⁵ Exalt the LORD our God And worship at His footstool; Holy is He.

Psalm 99:6 (NIV)

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the LORD and he answered them.

Psalm 99:7 (CJB)

⁷ He spoke to them in the column of cloud; they kept his instructions and the law that he gave them.

Psalm 99:8 (NIV)

⁸ O LORD our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.

Psalm 99:9 (NIV)

⁹ Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.

Psalm Chapter 100

Psalm 100:1 (NASB)

¹ Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.

Psalm 100:2 (NASB)

² Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing.

Psalm 100:3 (NASB)

³ Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 100:4 (NASB)

⁴ Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Psalm 100:5 (NASB)

⁵ For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm Chapter 101

Psalm 101:1 (NIV)

¹ I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will sing praise.

Psalm 101:2 (AMP)

² I will behave myself wisely and give heed to the blameless way—O when will You come to me? I will walk within my house in integrity and with a blameless heart.

Psalm 101:3 (NIV)

³ I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me.

Psalm 101:4 (NIV)

⁴ Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil.

Psalm 101:5 (NASB)

⁵ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

Psalm 101:6 (NASB)

⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.

Psalm 101:7 (NIV)

⁷ No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.

Psalm 101:8 (NASB)

⁸ Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, So as to cut off from the city of the LORD all those who do iniquity.

Psalm Chapter 102

Psalm 102:1 (NASB)

¹ Hear my prayer, O LORD! And let my cry for help come to You.

Psalm 102:2 (NIV)

² Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

Psalm 102:3 (NIV)

³ For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalm 102:4 (CJB)

⁴ I am stricken and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Psalm 102:5 (NIV)

⁵ Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones.

Psalm 102:6 (NIV)

⁶ I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

Psalm 102:7 (NKJV)

⁷ I lie awake, And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.

Psalm 102:8 (NASB)

⁸ My enemies have reproached me all day long; Those who deride me have used my name as a curse.

Psalm 102:9 (NIV)

⁹ For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears

Psalm 102:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

Psalm 102:11 (NIV)

¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12 (NIV)

¹² But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.

Psalm 102:13 (NIV)

¹³ You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.

Psalm 102:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ For your servants love her very stones; they take pity even on her dust.

Psalm 102:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.

Psalm 102:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.

Psalm 102:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ He has regarded the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer.

Psalm 102:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.

Psalm 102:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,

Psalm 102:20 (NIV)

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”

Psalm 102:21 (NIV)

²¹ So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem

Psalm 102:22 (NIV)

²² when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.

Psalm 102:23 (CJB)

²³ He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut short my days.

Psalm 102:24 (NASB)

²⁴ I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, Your years are throughout all generations.

Psalm 102:25 (NIV)

²⁵ In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Psalm 102:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.

Psalm 102:27 (NIV)

²⁷ But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

Psalm 102:28 (NASB)

²⁸ “The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.”

Psalm Chapter 103

Psalm 103:1 (NASB)

¹ Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Psalm 103:2 (NIV)

² Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits–

Psalm 103:3 (NIV)

³ who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,

Psalm 103:4 (NIV)

⁴ who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,

Psalm 103:5 (NIV)

⁵ who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ The Lord brings vindication and justice to all who are oppressed.

Psalm 103:7 (NIV)

⁷ He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel:

Psalm 103:8 (NIV)

⁸ The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Psalm 103:9 (CJB)

⁹ He will not always accuse, he will not keep his anger forever.

Psalm 103:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

Psalm 103:11 (NIV)

¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;

Psalm 103:12 (NLT)

¹² He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

Psalm 103:13 (NIV)

¹³ As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

Psalm 103:14 (NLT)

¹⁴ For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.

Psalm 103:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 103:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 103:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,

Psalm 103:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ To those who keep his covenant and remember his precepts to do them.

Psalm 103:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

Psalm 103:20 (CJB)-M

²⁰ Bless the Lord, you angels of his, you mighty warriors who obey his word, who carry out his orders!

Psalm 103:21 (NIV)

²¹ Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will.

Psalm 103:22 (NIV)

²² Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Psalm Chapter 104

Psalm 104:1 (NASB)

¹ Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty,

Psalm 104:2 (NIV)

² He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

Psalm 104:3 (NIV)

³ and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

Psalm 104:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.

Psalm 104:5 (NIV)

⁵ He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

Psalm 104:6 (NIV)

⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 104:7 (NIV)

⁷ But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

Psalm 104:8 (NIV)

⁸ they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.

Psalm 104:9 (NIV)

⁹ You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.

Psalm 104:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ He sends forth springs in the valleys; They flow between the mountains;

Psalm 104:11 (NASB)

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Psalm 104:12 (NIV)

¹² The birds of the air nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 104:13 (NASB)

¹³ He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

Psalm 104:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate– bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalm 104:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ wine that gladdens the human heart, oil to make faces glow, and food to sustain their strength.

Psalm 104:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ The trees of the LORD drink their fill, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

Psalm 104:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the pine trees.

Psalm 104:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the coneys.

Psalm 104:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ You made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set.

Psalm 104:20 (CJB)

²⁰ You bring darkness, and it is night, the time when all forest animals prowl.

Psalm 104:21 (CJB)

²¹ The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalm 104:22 (NASB)

²² When the sun rises they withdraw And lie down in their dens.

Psalm 104:23 (NIV)

²³ Then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening.

Psalm 104:24 (CJB)-M

²⁴ What variety there is in your works, O Lord! How many [of them there are]! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creations.

Psalm 104:25 (NIV)

²⁵ There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number– living things both large and small.

Psalm 104:26 (NIV)

²⁶ There the ships go to and fro, and the leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

Psalm 104:27 (CJB)

²⁷ All of them look to you to give them their food when they need it.

Psalm 104:28 (NIV)

²⁸ When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Psalm 104:29 (CJB)

²⁹ If you hide your face, they vanish; if you hold back their breath, they perish and return to their dust.

Psalm 104:30 (CJB)

³⁰ If you send out your breath, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.

Psalm 104:31 (NIV)

³¹ May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works–

Psalm 104:32 (CJB)

³² When he looks at the earth, it trembles; when he touches the mountains, they pour out smoke.

Psalm 104:33 (NASB)

³³ I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Psalm 104:34 (NIV)

³⁴ May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.

Psalm 104:35 (NASB)

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth And let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!

Psalm Chapter 105

Psalm 105:1 (NASB)

¹ Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples.

Psalm 105:2 (NIV)

² Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.

Psalm 105:3 (NIV)

³ Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Psalm 105:4 (NASB)-M

⁴ Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His presence continually.

Psalm 105:5 (NIV)

⁵ Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

Psalm 105:6 (NIV)

⁶ O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Psalm 105:7 (NASB)

⁷ He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

Psalm 105:8 (NIV)

⁸ He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,

Psalm 105:9 (NIV)

⁹ the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

Psalm 105:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Psalm 105:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”

Psalm 105:12 (CJB)

¹² When they were but few in number, and not only few, but aliens there too,

Psalm 105:13 (NIV)

¹³ they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Psalm 105:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:

Psalm 105:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

Psalm 105:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;

Psalm 105:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

Psalm 105:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

Psalm 105:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.

Psalm 105:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.

Psalm 105:21 (NIV)

²¹ He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,

Psalm 105:22 (CJB)

²² correcting his officers as he saw fit and teaching his counselors wisdom.

Psalm 105:23 (NIV)

²³ Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

Psalm 105:24 (NASB)

²⁴ And He caused His people to be very fruitful, And made them stronger than their adversaries.

Psalm 105:25 (NIV)

²⁵ whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

Psalm 105:26 (NASB)

²⁶ He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Psalm 105:27 (NASB)

²⁷ They performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham.

Psalm 105:28 (NASB)

²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.

Psalm 105:29 (NASB)

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood And caused their fish to die.

Psalm 105:30 (NASB)

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs Even in the chambers of their kings.

Psalm 105:31 (CJB)

³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of insects and lice throughout their land.

Psalm 105:32 (CJB)

³² He gave them hail instead of rain, with fiery [lightning] throughout their land.

Psalm 105:33 (NIV)

³³ he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

Psalm 105:34 (CJB)

³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came, also grasshoppers without number;

Psalm 105:35 (NASB)

³⁵ And ate up all vegetation in their land, And ate up the fruit of their ground.

Psalm 105:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.

Psalm 105:37 (KJV)

³⁷ He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Psalm 105:38 (NKJV)

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

Psalm 105:39 (AMP)

³⁹ The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night.

Psalm 105:40 (AMP)

⁴⁰ [The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Psalm 105:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.

Psalm 105:42 (NIV)

⁴² For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.

Psalm 105:43 (NKJV)

⁴³ He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.

Psalm 105:44 (AMP)

⁴⁴ And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples’ labor,

Psalm 105:45 (NASB)

⁴⁵ So that they might keep His statutes And observe His laws, Praise the LORD!

Psalm Chapter 106

Psalm 106:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Psalm 106:2 (NIV)

² Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD or fully declare his praise?

Psalm 106:3 (NASB)

³ How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!

Psalm 106:4 (NIV)

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,

Psalm 106:5 (NIV)

⁵ that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

Psalm 106:6 (NIV)

⁶ We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Psalm 106:7 (NIV)

⁷ When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.

Psalm 106:8 (NASB)

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.

Psalm 106:9 (NIV)

⁹ He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

Psalm 106:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalm 106:11 (CJB)

¹¹ The water closed over their adversaries; not one of them was left.

Psalm 106:12 (AMP)

¹² Then [Israel] believed His words [trusting in, relying on them]; they sang His praise.

Psalm 106:13 (NIV2011)

¹³ But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his plan to unfold.

Psalm 106:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test.

Psalm 106:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

Psalm 106:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.

Psalm 106:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and closed over Abiram’s allies.

Psalm 106:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

Psalm 106:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

Psalm 106:20 (NIV)

²⁰ They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

Psalm 106:21 (NASB)

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

Psalm 106:22 (AMP)

²² Wonders and miracles in the land of Ham, dreadful and awesome things at the Red Sea.

Psalm 106:23 (NASB)

²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Psalm 106:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.

Psalm 106:25 (NIV)

²⁵ They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.

Psalm 106:26 (NIV)

²⁶ So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,

Psalm 106:27 (NIV)

²⁷ make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Psalm 106:28 (NIV)

²⁸ They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

Psalm 106:29 (NIV)

²⁹ they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 106:30 (NIV)

³⁰ But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.

Psalm 106:31 (NIV)

³¹ This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

Psalm 106:32 (NIV)

³² By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

Psalm 106:33 (NIV)

³³ for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses’ lips.

Psalm 106:34 (NIV)

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

Psalm 106:35 (NIV)

³⁵ but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Psalm 106:36 (NIV)

³⁶ They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalm 106:37 (NIV)

³⁷ They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Psalm 106:38 (NIV)

³⁸ They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

Psalm 106:39 (NIV)

³⁹ They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

Psalm 106:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.

Psalm 106:41 (NASB)

⁴¹ Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

Psalm 106:42 (CJB)

⁴² Their enemies oppressed them and kept them in subjection to their power.

Psalm 106:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.

Psalm 106:44 (CJB)

⁴⁴ Still he took pity on their distress whenever he heard their cry.

Psalm 106:45 (CJB)

⁴⁵ For their sakes he kept in mind his covenant and in his limitless grace relented,

Psalm 106:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.

Psalm 106:47 (AMP)

⁴⁷ Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name and glory in praising You.

Psalm 106:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 107

Psalm 107:1 (NKJV)

¹ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

Psalm 107:2 (NIV2011)

² Let the redeemed of the LORD tell their story— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,

Psalm 107:3 (NIV)

³ those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.

Psalm 107:4 (NKJV)

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.

Psalm 107:5 (AMP)

⁵ Hungry and thirsty, they fainted; their lives were near to being extinguished.

Psalm 107:6 (AMP)

⁶ Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:7 (NIV)

⁷ He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

Psalm 107:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind,

Psalm 107:9 (NIV)

⁹ for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Psalm 107:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons,

Psalm 107:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Psalm 107:12 (AMP)

¹² Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled and fell down, and there was none to help.

Psalm 107:13 (AMP)

¹³ Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke apart the bonds that held them.

Psalm 107:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalm 107:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ For He has shattered gates of bronze And cut bars of iron asunder.

Psalm 107:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ There were foolish people who suffered affliction because of their crimes and sins;

Psalm 107:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.

Psalm 107:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:20 (NASB)

²⁰ He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalm 107:21 (NKJV)

²¹ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalm 107:22 (NASB)

²² Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, And tell of His works with joyful singing.

Psalm 107:23 (NIV2011)

²³ Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters.

Psalm 107:24 (NIV)

²⁴ They saw the works of the LORD, his wonderful deeds in the deep.

Psalm 107:25 (CJB)

²⁵ For at his word the storm-wind arose, lifting up towering waves.

Psalm 107:26 (CJB)

²⁶ The sailors were raised up to the sky, then plunged into the depths. At the danger, their courage failed them,

Psalm 107:27 (NIV)

²⁷ They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their wits’ end.

Psalm 107:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:29 (NASB)

²⁹ He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed.

Psalm 107:30 (NIV)

³⁰ They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided them to their desired haven.

Psalm 107:31 (NIV)

³¹ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men.

Psalm 107:32 (NIV)

³² Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

Psalm 107:33 (CJB)

³³ He turns rivers into desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground,

Psalm 107:34 (NIV)

³⁴ and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 107:35 (CJB)

³⁵ But he also turns desert into pools of water, dry land into flowing springs;

Psalm 107:36 (CJB)

³⁶ there he gives the hungry a home, and they build a city to live in;

Psalm 107:37 (CJB)

³⁷ there they sow fields and plant vineyards, which yield an abundant harvest.

Psalm 107:38 (NIV)

³⁸ he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish.

Psalm 107:39 (AMP)

³⁹ When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

Psalm 107:40 (AMP)

⁴⁰ He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wander in waste places where there is no road.

Psalm 107:41 (AMP)

⁴¹ Yet He raises the poor and needy from affliction and makes their families like a flock.

Psalm 107:42 (NIV)

⁴² The upright see and rejoice, but all the wicked shut their mouths.

Psalm 107:43 (CJB)-M

⁴³ Let whoever is wise observe these things and consider the Lord’s loving deeds.

Psalm Chapter 108

Psalm 108:1 (NIV)

¹ My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul.

Psalm 108:2 (NIV)

² Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Psalm 108:3 (NIV)

³ I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

Psalm 108:4 (NIV)

⁴ For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 108:5 (NIV)

⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.

Psalm 108:6 (NIV)

⁶ Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.

Psalm 108:7 (NIV)

⁷ God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.

Psalm 108:8 (NIV)

⁸ Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.

Psalm 108:9 (NASB)

⁹ “Moab is My washbowl; Over Edom I shall throw My shoe; Over Philistia I will shout aloud.”

Psalm 108:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Psalm 108:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?

Psalm 108:12 (NIV)

¹² Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

Psalm 108:13 (NIV)

¹³ With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

Psalm Chapter 109

Psalm 109:1 (NIV)

¹ O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,

Psalm 109:2 (NIV)

² for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 109:3 (NIV)

³ With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.

Psalm 109:4 (NIV)

⁴ In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Psalm 109:5 (NIV)

⁵ They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Psalm 109:6 (NASB)

⁶ Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Psalm 109:7 (CJB)

⁷ When he is tried, let him be found guilty, may even his plea be counted a sin.

Psalm 109:8 (CJB)

⁸ May his days be few, may someone else take his position.

Psalm 109:9 (CJB)

⁹ May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psalm 109:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.

Psalm 109:11 (NIV)

¹¹ May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psalm 109:12 (NIV)

¹² May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

Psalm 109:13 (NIV)

¹³ May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

Psalm 109:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Psalm 109:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 109:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ For he did not remember to show kindness but hounded the downtrodden, the poor and the brokenhearted to death.

Psalm 109:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He loved to pronounce a curse– may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing– may it be far from him.

Psalm 109:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered into his body like water And like oil into his bones.

Psalm 109:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Psalm 109:20 (NIV)

²⁰ May this be the LORD’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

Psalm 109:21 (NIV)

²¹ But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

Psalm 109:22 (NIV)

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalm 109:23 (NIV)

²³ I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 109:24 (NIV)

²⁴ My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

Psalm 109:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalm 109:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.

Psalm 109:27 (CJB)-M

²⁷ so that they will know that this comes from your hand, that you, Lord, have done it.

Psalm 109:28 (NIV2011)

²⁸ While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice.

Psalm 109:29 (NIV)

²⁹ My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

Psalm 109:30 (NIV)

³⁰ With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.

Psalm 109:31 (NIV)

³¹ For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.

Psalm Chapter 110

Psalm 110:1 (AMP)

¹ THE LORD (God) says to my Lord (the Messiah), Sit at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool.

Psalm 110:2 (NASB)

² The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Psalm 110:3 (CJB)

³ On the day your forces mobilize, your people willingly offer themselves in holy splendors from the womb of the dawn; the dew of your youth is yours.

Psalm 110:4 (NASB)

⁴ The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 110:5 (NASB)

⁵ The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.

Psalm 110:6 (NIV)

⁶ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

Psalm 110:7 (AMP)

⁷ He will drink of the brook by the way; therefore will He lift up His head [triumphantly].

Psalm Chapter 111

Psalm 111:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

Psalm 111:2 (NASB)

² Great are the works of the LORD; They are studied by all who delight in them.

Psalm 111:3 (NASB)

³ Splendid and majestic is His work, And His righteousness endures forever.

Psalm 111:4 (NASB)

⁴ He has made His wonders to be remembered; The LORD is gracious and compassionate.

Psalm 111:5 (NASB)

⁵ He has given food to those who fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever.

Psalm 111:6 (NIV)

⁶ He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.

Psalm 111:7 (NIV)

⁷ The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

Psalm 111:8 (NIV)

⁸ They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.

Psalm 111:9 (NIV)

⁹ He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever– holy and awesome is his name.

Psalm 111:10 (NASB)

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 Chapter 112

Psalm 112:1 (NASB)

¹ Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who greatly delights in His commandments.

Psalm 112:2 (NASB)

² His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalm 112:3 (NASB)

³ Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.

Psalm 112:4 (CJB)

⁴ To the upright he shines like a light in the dark, merciful, compassionate and righteous.

Psalm 112:5 (NIV)

⁵ Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 112:6 (NIV)

⁶ Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever.

Psalm 112:7 (NIV)

⁷ He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

Psalm 112:8 (CJB)

⁸ His heart is set firm, he will not be afraid, till finally he looks in triumph at his enemies.

Psalm 112:9 (CJB)

⁹ He distributes freely, he gives to the poor; his righteousness stands forever. His power will be increased honorably.

Psalm 112:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ The wicked will see it and be vexed, He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked will perish.

Psalm Chapter 113

Psalm 113:1 (NASB)

¹ Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, Praise the name of the LORD.

Psalm 113:2 (NIV)

² Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.

Psalm 113:3 (NASB)

³ From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised.

Psalm 113:4 (NIV)

⁴ The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.

Psalm 113:5 (NIV)

⁵ Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,

Psalm 113:6 (AMP)

⁶ Who humbles Himself to regard the heavens and the earth!

Psalm 113:7 (NIV)

⁷ He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;

Psalm 113:8 (NASB)

⁸ To make them sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

Psalm 113:9 (NIV)

⁹ He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 114

Psalm 114:1 (NIV)

¹ When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Psalm 114:2 (AMP)

² Judah became [God’s] sanctuary (the Holy Place of His habitation), and Israel His dominion.

Psalm 114:3 (AMP)

³ The [Red] Sea looked and fled; the Jordan [River] was turned back.

Psalm 114:4 (CJB)

⁴ the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

Psalm 114:5 (AMP)

⁵ What ails you, O [Red] Sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Psalm 114:6 (CJB)

⁶ Why, mountains, do you skip like rams; and you hills like young sheep?

Psalm 114:7 (NIV)

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

Psalm 114:8 (NASB)

⁸ Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.

Psalm Chapter 115

Psalm 115:1 (NIV)

¹ Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Psalm 115:2 (CJB)

² Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?”

Psalm 115:3 (CJB)

³ Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

Psalm 115:4 (CJB)

⁴ Their idols are mere silver and gold, made by human hands.

Psalm 115:5 (CJB)

⁵ They have mouths, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see;

Psalm 115:6 (NASB)

⁶ They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell;

Psalm 115:7 (NASB)

⁷ They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; They cannot make a sound with their throat.

Psalm 115:8 (CJB)

⁸ The people who make them will become like them, along with everyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 115:9 (NASB)

⁹ O Israel, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.

Psalm 115:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.

Psalm 115:11 (NASB)

¹¹ You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.

Psalm 115:12 (NIV)

¹² The LORD remembers us and will bless us: He will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron,

Psalm 115:13 (NIV)

¹³ he will bless those who fear the LORD– small and great alike.

Psalm 115:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ May the LORD make you increase, both you and your children.

Psalm 115:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 115:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man.

Psalm 115:17 (NIV2011)

¹⁷ It is not the dead who praise the LORD, those who go down to the place of silence;

Psalm 115:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ But as for us, we will bless the LORD From this time forth and forever. Praise the LORD!

Psalm Chapter 116

Psalm 116:1 (NASB)

¹ I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications.

Psalm 116:2 (NASB)

² Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:3 (NIV)

³ The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came upon me; I was overcome by trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 116:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, save me!”

Psalm 116:5 (NIV)

⁵ The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

Psalm 116:6 (NIV2011)

⁶ The LORD protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me.

Psalm 116:7 (NASB)

⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

Psalm 116:8 (CJB)

⁸ Yes, you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling.

Psalm 116:9 (NASB)

⁹ I shall walk before the LORD In the land of the living.

Psalm 116:10 (NIV2011)

¹⁰ I trusted in the LORD when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”;

Psalm 116:11 (CJB)

¹¹ even when, in my panic, I declare, “Everything human is deceptive.”

Psalm 116:12 (NIV)

¹² How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?

Psalm 116:13 (CJB)-M

¹³ I will raise the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.

Psalm 116:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

Psalm 116:15 (CJB)-M

¹⁵ From the Lord’s point of view, the death of those faithful to him is costly.

Psalm 116:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.

Psalm 116:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And call upon the name of the LORD.

Psalm 116:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,

Psalm 116:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ In the courts of the LORD’S house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

Psalm Chapter 117

Psalm 117:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.

Psalm 117:2 (NIV)

² For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 118

Psalm 118:1 (NIV)

¹ Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Psalm 118:2 (NIV)

² Let Israel say: “His love endures forever.”

Psalm 118:3 (NIV)

³ Let the house of Aaron say: “His love endures forever.”

Psalm 118:4 (NIV)

⁴ Let those who fear the LORD say: “His love endures forever.”

Psalm 118:5 (NASB)

⁵ From my distress I called upon the LORD; The LORD answered me and set me in a large place.

Psalm 118:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalm 118:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 118:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in humans.

Psalm 118:9 (NIV)

⁹ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

Psalm 118:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalm 118:11 (CJB)-M

¹¹ They surrounded me on every side in the name of the Lord I cut them down.

Psalm 118:12 (CJB)-M

¹² They surrounded me like bees but were extinguished [as quickly] as a fire in thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them down.

Psalm 118:13 (NIV)

¹³ I was pushed back and about to fall, but the LORD helped me.

Psalm 118:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Psalm 118:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The LORD’s right hand has done mighty things!

Psalm 118:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The LORD’s right hand is lifted high; the LORD’s right hand has done mighty things!”

Psalm 118:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ I will not die, but live, and tell of the works of the Lord.

Psalm 118:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ The LORD has disciplined me severely, But He has not given me over to death.

Psalm 118:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the LORD.

Psalm 118:20 (NIV)

²⁰ This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter.

Psalm 118:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.

Psalm 118:22 (NASB)

²² The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone.

Psalm 118:23 (NASB)

²³ This is the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.

Psalm 118:24 (NASB)

²⁴ This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:25 (NKJV)

²⁵ Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.

Psalm 118:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.

Psalm 118:27 (NASB)

²⁷ The LORD is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 118:28 (NIV)

²⁸ You are my God, and I will give you thanks; you are my God, and I will exalt you.

Psalm 118:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Psalm Chapter 119

Psalm 119:1 (NASB)

¹ How blessed are those whose way is blameless, Who walk in the law of the LORD.

Psalm 119:2 (NASB)

² How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.

Psalm 119:3 (CJB)

³ They do nothing wrong but live by his ways.

Psalm 119:4 (NASB)

⁴ You have ordained Your precepts, That we should keep them diligently.

Psalm 119:5 (NIV)

⁵ Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!

Psalm 119:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.

Psalm 119:7 (NASB)

⁷ I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.

Psalm 119:8 (CJB)

⁸ I will observe your laws; don’t completely abandon me!

Psalm 119:9 (NIV)

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Psalm 119:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.

Psalm 119:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:12 (CJB)-M

¹² Blessed are you, O Lord! Teach me your laws.

Psalm 119:13 (NIV)

¹³ With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.

Psalm 119:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.

Psalm 119:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.

Psalm 119:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

Psalm 119:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word.

Psalm 119:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.

Psalm 119:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.

Psalm 119:20 (NIV)

²⁰ My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.

Psalm 119:21 (NASB)

²¹ You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed, Who wander from Your commandments.

Psalm 119:22 (CJB)

²² Remove scorn and contempt from me, because I observe your instruction.

Psalm 119:23 (CJB)

²³ Even when princes sit and plot against me, your servant meditates on your laws.

Psalm 119:24 (CJB)

²⁴ Also your instructions are my delight; they are my counselors.

Psalm 119:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.

Psalm 119:26 (AMP)

²⁶ I have declared my ways and opened my griefs to You, and You listened to me; teach me Your statutes.

Psalm 119:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Let me understand the teaching of your precepts; then I will meditate on your wonders.

Psalm 119:28 (NIV)

²⁸ My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

Psalm 119:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me through your law.

Psalm 119:30 (NIV)

³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws.

Psalm 119:31 (NIV)

³¹ I hold fast to your statutes, O LORD; do not let me be put to shame.

Psalm 119:32 (NASB)

³² I shall run the way of Your commandments, For You will enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:33 (NIV)

³³ Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end.

Psalm 119:34 (NASB)

³⁴ Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law And keep it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:35 (AMP)

³⁵ Make me go in the path of Your commandments, for in them do I delight.

Psalm 119:36 (CJB)

³⁶ Bend my heart toward your instructions and not toward selfish gain.

Psalm 119:37 (NIV)

³⁷ Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.

Psalm 119:38 (NIV)

³⁸ Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared.

Psalm 119:39 (NKJV)

³⁹ Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your judgments are good.

Psalm 119:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness.

Psalm 119:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ May your unfailing love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise;

Psalm 119:42 (NASB)

⁴² So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, For I trust in Your word.

Psalm 119:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.

Psalm 119:44 (NASB)

⁴⁴ So I will keep Your law continually, Forever and ever.

Psalm 119:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

Psalm 119:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame,

Psalm 119:47 (AMP)

⁴⁷ For I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.

Psalm 119:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees.

Psalm 119:49 (NKJV)

⁴⁹ Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have caused me to hope.

Psalm 119:50 (NKJV)

⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.

Psalm 119:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ The arrogant mock me without restraint, but I do not turn from your law.

Psalm 119:52 (NIV)

⁵² I remember your ancient laws, O LORD, and I find comfort in them.

Psalm 119:53 (NASB)

⁵³ Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked, Who forsake Your law.

Psalm 119:54 (CJB)

⁵⁴ Your laws have become my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 119:55 (NASB)

⁵⁵ O LORD, I remember Your name in the night, And keep Your law.

Psalm 119:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:57 (NASB)

⁵⁷ The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.

Psalm 119:58 (NASB)

⁵⁸ I sought Your favor with all my heart; Be gracious to me according to Your word.

Psalm 119:59 (NIV)

⁵⁹ I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes.

Psalm 119:60 (NIV)

⁶⁰ I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.

Psalm 119:61 (NASB)

⁶¹ The cords of the wicked have encircled me, But I have not forgotten Your law.

Psalm 119:62 (NIV)

⁶² At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.

Psalm 119:63 (NIV)

⁶³ I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.

Psalm 119:64 (NIV)

⁶⁴ The earth is filled with your love, O LORD; teach me your decrees.

Psalm 119:65 (NASB)

⁶⁵ You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word.

Psalm 119:66 (NIV)

⁶⁶ Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I believe in your commands.

Psalm 119:67 (NIV)

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.

Psalm 119:68 (NIV)

⁶⁸ You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.

Psalm 119:69 (NASB)

⁶⁹ The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.

Psalm 119:70 (NIV)

⁷⁰ Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.

Psalm 119:71 (CJB)

⁷¹ It is for my good that I have been humbled; it was so that I would learn your laws.

Psalm 119:72 (NASB)

⁷² The law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 119:73 (NIV)

⁷³ Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn your commands.

Psalm 119:74 (NIV)

⁷⁴ May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 119:75 (CJB)-M

⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that your rulings are righteous, that even when you humble me you are faithful.

Psalm 119:76 (CJB)

⁷⁶ Let your grace comfort me, in keeping with your promise to your servant.

Psalm 119:77 (NIV)

⁷⁷ Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:78 (NIV)

⁷⁸ May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalm 119:79 (CJB)

⁷⁹ Let those who fear you turn to me, along with those who know your instruction.

Psalm 119:80 (NIV)

⁸⁰ May my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.

Psalm 119:81 (NIV)

⁸¹ My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 119:82 (NASB)

⁸² My eyes fail with longing for Your word, While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

Psalm 119:83 (NIV)

⁸³ Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.

Psalm 119:84 (NIV)

⁸⁴ How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?

Psalm 119:85 (NASB)

⁸⁵ The arrogant have dug pits for me, Men who are not in accord with Your law.

Psalm 119:86 (NIV)

⁸⁶ All your commands are trustworthy; help me, for men persecute me without cause.

Psalm 119:87 (CJB)

⁸⁷ They have nearly ended my life on earth, but I have not abandoned your precepts.

Psalm 119:88 (NIV)

⁸⁸ Preserve my life according to your love, and I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

Psalm 119:89 (NASB)

⁸⁹ Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.

Psalm 119:90 (NIV)

⁹⁰ Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.

Psalm 119:91 (AMP)

⁹¹ All [the whole universe] are Your servants; therefore they continue this day according to Your ordinances.

Psalm 119:92 (NIV)

⁹² If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 119:93 (NIV)

⁹³ I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

Psalm 119:94 (NKJV)

⁹⁴ I am Yours, save me; For I have sought Your precepts.

Psalm 119:95 (NASB)-M

⁹⁵ The wicked wait for me hoping to destroy me; but I focus on your instruction.

Psalm 119:96 (NIV)

⁹⁶ To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless.

Psalm 119:97 (NIV)

⁹⁷ Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.

Psalm 119:98 (NIV)

⁹⁸ Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

Psalm 119:99 (CJB)

⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, because I meditate on your instruction.

Psalm 119:100 (NIV)

¹⁰⁰ I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:101 (NIV)

¹⁰¹ I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.

Psalm 119:102 (NASB)

¹⁰² I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, For You Yourself have taught me.

Psalm 119:103 (NASB)

¹⁰³ How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:104 (NASB)

¹⁰⁴ From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.

Psalm 119:105 (NASB)

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Psalm 119:106 (NIV)

¹⁰⁶ I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.

Psalm 119:107 (NIV)

¹⁰⁷ I have suffered much; preserve my life, O LORD, according to your word.

Psalm 119:108 (NIV)

¹⁰⁸ Accept, O LORD, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.

Psalm 119:109 (NIV)

¹⁰⁹ Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.

Psalm 119:110 (CJB)

¹¹⁰ The wicked have set a trap for me, yet I haven’t strayed from your precepts.

Psalm 119:111 (NIV)

¹¹¹ Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:112 (NIV)

¹¹² My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.

Psalm 119:113 (NIV)

¹¹³ I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Psalm 119:114 (NIV)

¹¹⁴ You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 119:115 (NKJV)

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you evildoers, For I will keep the commandments of my God!

Psalm 119:116 (CJB)

¹¹⁶ Uphold me, as you promised; and I will live; don’t disappoint me in my hope.

Psalm 119:117 (NASB)

¹¹⁷ Uphold me that I may be safe, That I may have regard for Your statutes continually.

Psalm 119:118 (NIV)

¹¹⁸ You reject all who stray from your decrees, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

Psalm 119:119 (NIV)

¹¹⁹ All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross; therefore I love your statutes.

Psalm 119:120 (NIV)

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles in fear of you; I stand in awe of your laws.

Psalm 119:121 (NIV)

¹²¹ I have done what is righteous and just; do not leave me to my oppressors.

Psalm 119:122 (NIV)

¹²² Ensure your servant’s well-being; let not the arrogant oppress me.

Psalm 119:123 (NIV)

¹²³ My eyes fail, looking for your salvation, looking for your righteous promise.

Psalm 119:124 (NIV)

¹²⁴ Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.

Psalm 119:125 (CJB)

¹²⁵ I am your servant; give me understanding, so that I can know your instruction.

Psalm 119:126 (NASB)

¹²⁶ It is time for the LORD to act, For they have broken Your law.

Psalm 119:127 (AMP)

¹²⁷ Therefore I love Your commandments more than [resplendent] gold, yes, more than [perfectly] refined gold.

Psalm 119:128 (NIV)

¹²⁸ and because I consider all your precepts right, I hate every wrong path.

Psalm 119:129 (NIV)

¹²⁹ Your statutes are wonderful; therefore I obey them.

Psalm 119:130 (NIV)

¹³⁰ The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

Psalm 119:131 (CJB)-M

¹³¹ My mouth is wide open, as I pant with longing for your commandments.

Psalm 119:132 (NIV)

¹³² Turn to me and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Psalm 119:133 (NIV)

¹³³ Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

Psalm 119:134 (CJB)

¹³⁴ Redeem me from human oppression, and I will observe your precepts.

Psalm 119:135 (CJB)

¹³⁵ Make your face shine on your servant, and teach me your laws.

Psalm 119:136 (NIV)

¹³⁶ Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.

Psalm 119:137 (NASB)

¹³⁷ Righteous are You, O LORD, And upright are Your judgments.

Psalm 119:138 (NIV)

¹³⁸ The statutes you have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy.

Psalm 119:139 (NASB)

¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me, Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

Psalm 119:140 (NASB)

¹⁴⁰ Your word is very pure, Therefore Your servant loves it.

Psalm 119:141 (NIV)

¹⁴¹ Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts.

Psalm 119:142 (NIV)

¹⁴² Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.

Psalm 119:143 (NIV)

¹⁴³ Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your commands are my delight.

Psalm 119:144 (NIV2011)

¹⁴⁴ Your statutes are always righteous; give me understanding that I may live.

Psalm 119:145 (CJB)-M

¹⁴⁵ Wholeheartedly I am calling on you; answer me, O Lord; I will keep your laws.

Psalm 119:146 (CJB)

¹⁴⁶ I am calling on you; save me; and I will observe your instruction.

Psalm 119:147 (NIV)

¹⁴⁷ I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 119:148 (NKJV)

¹⁴⁸ My eyes are awake through the night watches, That I may meditate on Your word.

Psalm 119:149 (NIV)

¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice in accordance with your love; preserve my life, O LORD, according to your laws.

Psalm 119:150 (NIV)

¹⁵⁰ Those who devise wicked schemes are near, but they are far from your law.

Psalm 119:151 (NIV)

¹⁵¹ Yet you are near, O LORD, and all your commands are true.

Psalm 119:152 (CJB)

¹⁵² Long ago I learned from your instruction that you established it forever.

Psalm 119:153 (AMP)

¹⁵³ Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 119:154 (NIV)

¹⁵⁴ Defend my cause and redeem me; preserve my life according to your promise.

Psalm 119:155 (CJB)

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far away from the wicked, because they don’t seek your laws.

Psalm 119:156 (NIV)

¹⁵⁶ Your compassion is great, O LORD; preserve my life according to your laws.

Psalm 119:157 (CJB)

¹⁵⁷ Although my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned away from your instruction.

Psalm 119:158 (NASB)

¹⁵⁸ I behold the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word.

Psalm 119:159 (NIV)

¹⁵⁹ See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, O LORD, according to your love.

Psalm 119:160 (NIV)

¹⁶⁰ All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.

Psalm 119:161 (NIV)

¹⁶¹ Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.

Psalm 119:162 (NKJV)

¹⁶² I rejoice at Your word As one who finds great treasure.

Psalm 119:163 (NIV)

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood but I love your law.

Psalm 119:164 (NIV)

¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws.

Psalm 119:165 (NIV)

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.

Psalm 119:166 (NIV2011)-M

¹⁶⁶ I wait for your salvation, Lord, and I follow your commands.

Psalm 119:167 (NIV)

¹⁶⁷ I obey your statutes, for I love them greatly.

Psalm 119:168 (NIV)

¹⁶⁸ I obey your precepts and your statutes, for all my ways are known to you.

Psalm 119:169 (NIV)

¹⁶⁹ May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word.

Psalm 119:170 (NASB)

¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.

Psalm 119:171 (CJB)

¹⁷¹ Let my lips speak praise, because you teach me your laws.

Psalm 119:172 (NASB)

¹⁷² Let my tongue sing of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.

Psalm 119:173 (NIV)

¹⁷³ May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:174 (NASB)

¹⁷⁴ I long for Your salvation, O LORD, And Your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:175 (NIV)

¹⁷⁵ Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me.

Psalm 119:176 (NIV)

¹⁷⁶ I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

Psalm Chapter 120

Psalm 120:1 (AMP)

¹ IN MY distress I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

Psalm 120:2 (NIV)

² Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

Psalm 120:3 (CJB)

³ What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue? What more will he do to you?

Psalm 120:4 (NIV)

⁴ He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.

Psalm 120:5 (AMP)

⁵ Woe is me that I sojourn with Meshech, that I dwell beside the tents of Kedar [as if among notoriously barbarous people]!

Psalm 120:6 (NIV)

⁶ Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.

Psalm 120:7 (NIV)

⁷ I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm Chapter 121

Psalm 121:1 (NKJV)

¹ I will lift up my eyes to the hills-from whence comes my help?

Psalm 121:2 (NKJV)

² My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:3 (NKJV)

³ He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

Psalm 121:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Psalm 121:5 (NKJV)

⁵ The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.

Psalm 121:6 (NKJV)

⁶ The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

Psalm 121:7 (NKJV)

⁷ The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; he shall preserve your soul.

Psalm 121:8 (NKJV)

⁸ The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.

Psalm Chapter 122

Psalm 122:1 (NASB)

¹ I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

Psalm 122:2 (NASB)

² Our feet are standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

Psalm 122:3 (CJB)-M

³ Jerusalem, built as a city fostering friendship and unity.

Psalm 122:4 (NIV)

⁴ That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.

Psalm 122:5 (CJB)

⁵ For there the thrones of justice were set up, the thrones of the house of David.

Psalm 122:6 (NASB)

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

Psalm 122:7 (NASB)

⁷ “May peace be within your walls, And prosperity within your palaces.”

Psalm 122:8 (NIV)

⁸ For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

Psalm 122:9 (NIV)

⁹ For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Psalm Chapter 123

Psalm 123:1 (NASB)

¹ To You I lift up my eyes, O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Psalm 123:2 (NIV)

² As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.

Psalm 123:3 (NIV)

³ Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalm 123:4 (NIV)

⁴ We have endured much ridicule from the proud, much contempt from the arrogant.

Psalm Chapter 124

Psalm 124:1 (NIV)

¹ If the LORD had not been on our side– let Israel say–

Psalm 124:2 (NIV)

² if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

Psalm 124:3 (NIV)

³ when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive;

Psalm 124:4 (NIV)

⁴ the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,

Psalm 124:5 (NIV)

⁵ the raging waters would have swept us away.

Psalm 124:6 (NIV)

⁶ Praise be to the LORD, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.

Psalm 124:7 (NIV)

⁷ We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.

Psalm 124:8 (NIV)

⁸ Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm Chapter 125

Psalm 125:1 (NASB)

¹ Those who trust in the LORD Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Psalm 125:2 (NASB)

² As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people From this time forth and forever.

Psalm 125:3 (CJB)

³ For the scepter of wickedness will not rule the inheritance of the righteous, so that the righteous will not themselves turn their hands to evil.

Psalm 125:4 (NIV)

⁴ Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in heart.

Psalm 125:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ But as for those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, may the Lord turn them away, along with those who do evil. Shalom on Israel!

Psalm Chapter 126

Psalm 126:1 (CJB)

¹ When Adonai restored Zion’s fortunes, we thought we were dreaming.

Psalm 126:2 (CJB)-M

² Our mouths were full of laughter, and our tongues shouted for joy. Among the nations it was said, “the Lord has done great things for them!”

Psalm 126:3 (NIV)

³ The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.

Psalm 126:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ Return our people from exile, O Lord, as streams fill wadis in the Negev.

Psalm 126:5 (NKJV)

⁵ Those who sow in tears Shall reap in joy.

Psalm 126:6 (CJB)

⁶ He who goes out weeping as he carries his sack of seed will come home with cries of joy as he carries his sheaves of grain.

Psalm Chapter 127

Psalm 127:1 (NIV)

¹ Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.

Psalm 127:2 (NIV)

² In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat– for he grants sleep to those he loves.

Psalm 127:3 (NASB)

³ Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalm 127:4 (NKJV)-M

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children trained from their youth

Psalm 127:5 (NASB)

⁵ How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Psalm Chapter 128

Psalm 128:1 (CJB)-M

¹ How happy is everyone who fears the Lord, who lives by his ways.

Psalm 128:2 (NIV)

² You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Psalm 128:3 (NIV)

³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.

Psalm 128:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ This is the kind of blessing that will fall on him who fears the Lord.

Psalm 128:5 (NIV)

⁵ May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,

Psalm 128:6 (NIV)

⁶ and may you live to see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm Chapter 129

Psalm 129:1 (NIV)

¹ They have greatly oppressed me from my youth– let Israel say–

Psalm 129:2 (CJB)

² since I was young they have often attacked me, but they haven’t overcome me.

Psalm 129:3 (NIV)

³ Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.

Psalm 129:4 (NIV)

⁴ But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.

Psalm 129:5 (NIV)

⁵ May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

Psalm 129:6 (NIV)

⁶ May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;

Psalm 129:7 (CJB)

⁷ and never fills the reaper’s hands or the arms of the one who binds sheaves,

Psalm 129:8 (NIV)

⁸ May those who pass by not say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

Psalm Chapter 130

Psalm 130:1 (NASB)

¹ Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.

Psalm 130:2 (NIV)

² O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.

Psalm 130:3 (NASB)

³ If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 130:4 (NIV)

⁴ But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

Psalm 130:5 (NIV)

⁵ I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Psalm 130:6 (NIV)

⁶ My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.

Psalm 130:7 (NKJV)

⁷ O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is mercy, And with Him is abundant redemption.

Psalm 130:8 (NIV)

⁸ He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Psalm Chapter 131

Psalm 131:1 (NKJV)

¹ A song of Ascents. Of David. 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.

Psalm 131:2 (NLT2)

² Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries out demanding his mother’s milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalm 131:3 (NIV)

³ O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

Psalm Chapter 132

Psalm 132:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, remember David and all the hardships he endured.

Psalm 132:2 (NIV)

² He swore an oath to the LORD and made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Psalm 132:3 (NIV)

³ “I will not enter my house or go to my bed–

Psalm 132:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will allow no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids,

Psalm 132:5 (NIV)

⁵ till I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Psalm 132:6 (NIV)

⁶ We heard it in Ephrathah, we came upon it in the fields of Jaar

Psalm 132:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool–

Psalm 132:8 (NIV)

⁸ arise, O LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.

Psalm 132:9 (NASB)

⁹ Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your godly ones sing for joy.

Psalm 132:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

Psalm 132:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The LORD swore an oath to David, a sure oath that he will not revoke: “One of your own descendants I will place on your throne–

Psalm 132:12 (NIV)

¹² if your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”

Psalm 132:13 (NIV)

¹³ For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling:

Psalm 132:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Psalm 132:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor will I satisfy with food.

Psalm 132:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.

Psalm 132:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ There I will make the horn of David grow; I will prepare a lamp for My Anointed.

Psalm 132:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ His enemies I will clothe with shame, But upon Himself His crown shall flourish.”

Psalm Chapter 133

Psalm 133:1 (NASB)

¹ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:2 (NASB)-M

² It is like the precious oil [sacred anointing oil] upon the head, Coming down upon the beard, Even Aaron’s beard, Coming down upon the edge of his robes.

Psalm 133:3 (NKJV)

³ It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing– Life forevermore.

Psalm Chapter 134

Psalm 134:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.

Psalm 134:2 (NIV)

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

Psalm 134:3 (NASB)

³ May the LORD bless you from Zion, He who made heaven and earth.

Psalm Chapter 135

Psalm 135:1 (NASB)

¹ Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; Praise Him, O servants of the LORD,

Psalm 135:2 (NIV)

² you who minister in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.

Psalm 135:3 (NASB)

³ Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; Sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

Psalm 135:4 (NIV)

⁴ For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own, Israel to be his treasured possession.

Psalm 135:5 (NIV)

⁵ I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods.

Psalm 135:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.

Psalm 135:7 (NASB)

⁷ He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Psalm 135:8 (NIV)

⁸ He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, the firstborn of men and animals.

Psalm 135:9 (NIV)

⁹ He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

Psalm 135:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ He struck many nations, and slaughtered mighty kings —

Psalm 135:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan and all the kings of Canaan–

Psalm 135:12 (NIV)

¹² and he gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to his people Israel.

Psalm 135:13 (NIV)

¹³ Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, through all generations.

Psalm 135:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.

Psalm 135:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are but silver and gold, The work of man’s hands.

Psalm 135:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see;

Psalm 135:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ they have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.

Psalm 135:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Psalm 135:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ O house of Israel, praise the LORD; O house of Aaron, praise the LORD;

Psalm 135:20 (NIV)

²⁰ O house of Levi, praise the LORD; you who fear him, praise the LORD.

Psalm 135:21 (NIV)

²¹ Praise be to the LORD from Zion, to him who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 136

Psalm 136:1 (NIV)

¹ Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:2 (NIV)

² Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:3 (NIV)

³ Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:4 (NIV)

⁴ to him who alone does great wonders, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:5 (NIV)

⁵ who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:6 (NIV)

⁶ who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:7 (NIV)

⁷ who made the great lights– His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:8 (NIV)

⁸ the sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:9 (NIV)

⁹ the moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:11 (NIV)

¹¹ and brought Israel out from among them His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:12 (NIV)

¹² with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:13 (NIV)

¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea asunder His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ and brought Israel through the midst of it, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea; His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ to him who led his people through the desert, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ who struck down great kings, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ and killed mighty kings– His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:20 (NIV)

²⁰ and Og king of Bashan– His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:21 (NIV)

²¹ and gave their land as an inheritance, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:22 (NIV)

²² an inheritance to his servant Israel; His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:23 (NIV)

²³ to the One who remembered us in our low estate His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:24 (NIV)

²⁴ and freed us from our enemies, His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:25 (NIV)

²⁵ and who gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.

Psalm Chapter 137

Psalm 137:1 (NASB)

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:2 (NASB)

² Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.

Psalm 137:3 (NIV)

³ for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psalm 137:4 (NIV)

⁴ How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

Psalm 137:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand wither away!

Psalm 137:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I fail to count Jerusalem the greatest of all my joys.

Psalm 137:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ Remember, Adonai, against the people of Edom the day of Jerusalem’s fall, how they cried, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Raze it to the ground!”

Psalm 137:8 (NIV)

⁸ O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us–

Psalm 137:9 (CJB)

⁹ A blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and smashes them against a rock!

Psalm Chapter 138

Psalm 138:1 (NASB)

¹ I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing praises to You before the gods.

Psalm 138:2 (CJB)

² I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your grace and truth; for you have made your word [even] greater than the whole of your reputation.

Psalm 138:3 (CJB)

³ When I called, you answered me, you made me bold and strong.

Psalm 138:4 (NIV)

⁴ May all the kings of the earth praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth.

Psalm 138:5 (NIV)

⁵ May they sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great.

Psalm 138:6 (NASB)

⁶ For though the LORD is exalted, Yet He regards the lowly, But the haughty He knows from afar.

Psalm 138:7 (NASB)

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.

Psalm 138:8 (NIV)

⁸ The LORD will fulfill [his purpose] for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever– do not abandon the works of your hands.

Psalm Chapter 139

Psalm 139:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

Psalm 139:2 (NIV)

² You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 139:3 (NIV)

³ You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Psalm 139:4 (NIV)

⁴ Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

Psalm 139:5 (NASB)

⁵ You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.

Psalm 139:6 (NIV)

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Psalm 139:7 (NASB)

⁷ Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalm 139:8 (NIV)

⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Psalm 139:9 (NASB)

⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Psalm 139:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalm 139:11 (NASB)

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”

Psalm 139:12 (NASB)

¹² Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

Psalm 139:13 (CJB)

¹³ For you fashioned my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalm 139:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

Psalm 139:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Psalm 139:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

Psalm 139:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Psalm 139:20 (NASB)

²⁰ For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.

Psalm 139:21 (NIV)

²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?

Psalm 139:22 (NASB)

²² I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.

Psalm 139:23 (CJB)

²³ Examine me, God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts.

Psalm 139:24 (NIV)

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm Chapter 140

Psalm 140:1 (NIV)

¹ Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,

Psalm 140:2 (CJB)

² They plan evil things in their hearts — they continually stir up bitter strife.

Psalm 140:3 (NIV)

³ They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Psalm 140:4 (NIV)

⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.

Psalm 140:5 (NIV)

⁵ Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. Selah

Psalm 140:6 (NIV)

⁶ O LORD, I say to you, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.

Psalm 140:7 (NASB)

⁷ “O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalm 140:8 (NIV)

⁸ do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah

Psalm 140:9 (CJB)

⁹ May the heads of those who surround me be engulfed in the evil they spoke of, themselves.

Psalm 140:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.

Psalm 140:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.

Psalm 140:12 (NASB)

¹² I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted And justice for the poor.

Psalm 140:13 (NASB)

¹³ Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; The upright will dwell in Your presence.

Psalm Chapter 141

Psalm 141:1 (NIV)

¹ O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.

Psalm 141:2 (NIV)

² May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 141:3 (NASB)

³ Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.

Psalm 141:4 (CJB)

⁴ Don’t let my heart turn to anything evil or allow me to act wickedly with men who are evildoers; keep me from eating their delicacies.

Psalm 141:5 (NKJV)

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.

Psalm 141:6 (NIV)

⁶ their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

Psalm 141:7 (AMP)

⁷ The unburied bones [of slaughtered rulers] shall lie scattered at the mouth of Sheol, [as unregarded] as the lumps of soil behind the plowman when he breaks open the ground.

Psalm 141:8 (NIV)

⁸ But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge–do not give me over to death.

Psalm 141:9 (NASB)

⁹ Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me, And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Psalm 141:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

Psalm Chapter 142

Psalm 142:1 (NIV)

¹ I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.

Psalm 142:2 (NASB)

² I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

Psalm 142:3 (NIV)

³ When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way. In the path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me.

Psalm 142:4 (NIV)

⁴ Look to my right and see; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

Psalm 142:5 (NIV)

⁵ I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Psalm 142:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.

Psalm 142:7 (NASB)

⁷ “Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.”

Psalm Chapter 143

Psalm 143:1 (NASB)

¹ Hear my prayer, O LORD, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

Psalm 143:2 (NASB)

² And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

Psalm 143:3 (NIV)

³ The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

Psalm 143:4 (NIV)

⁴ So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.

Psalm 143:5 (CJB)

⁵ I remember the days of old, reflecting on all your deeds, thinking about the work of your hands.

Psalm 143:6 (NIV)

⁶ I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 143:7 (NIV2011)-M

⁷ Answer me quickly, Lord; my soul is fainting. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 143:8 (NIV2011)

⁸ Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

Psalm 143:9 (NASB)

⁹ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies; I take refuge in You.

Psalm 143:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Psalm 143:11 (NIV)

¹¹ For your name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.

Psalm 143:12 (CJB)

¹² In your grace, cut off my enemies; destroy all those harassing me; because I am your servant.

Psalm Chapter 144

Psalm 144:1 (NASB)

¹ Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle;

Psalm 144:2 (NIV)

² He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Psalm 144:3 (NKJV)

³ LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?

Psalm 144:4 (NASB)

⁴ Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 144:5 (NIV)

⁵ Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

Psalm 144:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

Psalm 144:7 (NKJV)

⁷ Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,

Psalm 144:8 (NASB)

⁸ Whose mouths speak deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:9 (NASB)

⁹ I will sing a new song to You, O God; Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,

Psalm 144:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ You give kings their victories; you save your servant David from the cruel sword.

Psalm 144:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaks deceit And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:12 (NIV)

¹² Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Psalm 144:13 (NIV)

¹³ Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

Psalm 144:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ our oxen are well-fed, our city walls have no breach, our people are not taken captive, and there are no cries of protest in our cities’ open places.

Psalm 144:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ How blessed are the people who are so situated; How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!

Psalm Chapter 145

Psalm 145:1 (NASB)

¹ I will extol You, my God, O King, And I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Psalm 145:2 (NIV)

² Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.

Psalm 145:3 (NASB)

³ Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable.

Psalm 145:4 (CJB)

⁴ Each generation will praise your works to the next and proclaim your mighty acts.

Psalm 145:5 (NIV)

⁵ They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works.

Psalm 145:6 (NIV)

⁶ They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and I will proclaim your great deeds.

Psalm 145:7 (NIV)

⁷ They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

Psalm 145:8 (NKJV)

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.

Psalm 145:9 (NIV)

⁹ The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

Psalm 145:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ All you have made will praise you, O LORD; your saints will extol you.

Psalm 145:11 (NIV)

¹¹ They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might,

Psalm 145:12 (NASB)

¹² To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts And the glory of the majesty of Your kingdom.

Psalm 145:13 (NASB)

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And Your dominion endures throughout all generations.

Psalm 145:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ The Lord supports all who fall and lifts up all who are bent over.

Psalm 145:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ The eyes of all look expectantly to You, And You give them their food in due season.

Psalm 145:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Psalm 145:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ The Lord is righteous in all his ways, full of grace in all he does.

Psalm 145:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

Psalm 145:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 145:21 (NIV)

²¹ My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.

Psalm Chapter 146

Psalm 146:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Psalm 146:2 (NIV)

² I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Psalm 146:3 (NIV)

³ Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.

Psalm 146:4 (NIV)

⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.

Psalm 146:5 (NASB)

⁵ How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Psalm 146:6 (NIV)

⁶ the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them– the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

Psalm 146:7 (NIV)

⁷ He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,

Psalm 146:8 (NIV)

⁸ the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Psalm 146:9 (NIV)

⁹ The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Psalm 146:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 147

Psalm 147:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Halleluiah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! How sweet, how fitting to praise him!

Psalm 147:2 (NIV)

² The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel.

Psalm 147:3 (NIV)

³ He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 147:4 (NIV)

⁴ He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

Psalm 147:5 (NIV)

⁵ Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.

Psalm 147:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 147:7 (NIV)

⁷ Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music to our God on the harp.

Psalm 147:8 (CJB)

⁸ He veils the sky with clouds; he provides the earth with rain; he makes grass grow on the hills;

Psalm 147:9 (CJB)

⁹ he gives food to the animals, even to the young ravens when they cry.

Psalm 147:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man.

Psalm 147:11 (NIV)

¹¹ the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Psalm 147:12 (NIV)

¹² Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,

Psalm 147:13 (NIV)

¹³ for he strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.

Psalm 147:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.

Psalm 147:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.

Psalm 147:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.

Psalm 147:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy blast?

Psalm 147:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He sends his word and melts them; he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.

Psalm 147:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He has revealed his word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to Israel.

Psalm 147:20 (NIV)

²⁰ He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 148

Psalm 148:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise him in the heights above.

Psalm 148:2 (NIV)

² Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his heavenly hosts.

Psalm 148:3 (NIV)

³ Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars.

Psalm 148:4 (NIV)

⁴ Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.

Psalm 148:5 (NASB)

⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created.

Psalm 148:6 (NIV)

⁶ He set them in place forever and ever; he gave a decree that will never pass away.

Psalm 148:7 (NIV)

⁷ Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,

Psalm 148:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;

Psalm 148:9 (AMP)

⁹ Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars!

Psalm 148:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds,

Psalm 148:11 (NIV)

¹¹ kings of the earth and all nations, you princes and all rulers on earth,

Psalm 148:12 (NIV)

¹² young men and maidens, old men and children.

Psalm 148:13 (NASB)

¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.

Psalm 148:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ He has lifted up a horn for His people [giving them power, prosperity, dignity, and preeminence], a song of praise for all His godly ones, for the people of Israel, who are near to Him. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Psalm Chapter 149

Psalm 149:1 (CJB)-M

¹ Halleluiah! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

Psalm 149:2 (NIV)

² Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King.

Psalm 149:3 (NIV)

³ Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp.

Psalm 149:4 (NIV)

⁴ For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation.

Psalm 149:5 (CJB)

⁵ Let the faithful exult gloriously, let them sing for joy on their beds.

Psalm 149:6 (NIV)

⁶ May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands,

Psalm 149:7 (CJB)

⁷ to carry out vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

Psalm 149:8 (CJB)

⁸ to bind their kings with chains and put their nobles in irons,

Psalm 149:9 (NIV)

⁹ to carry out the sentence written against them. This is the glory of all his saints. Praise the LORD.

Psalm Chapter 150

Psalm 150:1 (NIV)

¹ Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.

Psalm 150:2 (NIV)

² Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Psalm 150:3 (NIV)

³ Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,

Psalm 150:4 (NIV)

⁴ praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,

Psalm 150:5 (NIV)

⁵ praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

Psalm 150:6 (NIV)

⁶ Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

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