Psalms 94–102

Psalms 94–102 WEB

^94:1LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. ²Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. ³LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? ⁴They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. ⁵They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage. ⁶They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. ⁷They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.” ⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? ¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. ¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. ¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law, ¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. ¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? ¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence. ¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up. ¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul. ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. ²²But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. ²³He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.

^95:1Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! ²Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs! ³For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods. ⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. ⁵The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. ⁶Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker, ⁷for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! ⁸Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, ⁹when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. ¹⁰Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.” ¹¹Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

^96:1Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth. ²Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! ³Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. ⁴For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods. ⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens. ⁶Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. ⁷Ascribe to the LORD, you families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. ⁸Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. ⁹Worship the LORD in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. ¹⁰Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. ¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! ¹²Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy ¹³before the LORD; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

^97:1The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad! ²Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. ³A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. ⁴His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. ⁵The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory. ⁷Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! ⁸Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, LORD. ⁹For you, LORD, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods. ¹⁰You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. ¹¹Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. ¹²Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

^98:1Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. ²The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! ⁵Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. ⁶With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD. ⁷Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. ⁸Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together. ⁹Let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

^99:1The LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved. ²The LORD is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples. ³Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! ⁴The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob. ⁵Exalt the LORD our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy! ⁶Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who call on his name. They called on the LORD, and he answered them. ⁷He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them. ⁸You answered them, LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings. ⁹Exalt the LORD, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for the LORD, our God, is holy!

^100:1Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands! ²Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. ³Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. ⁵For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

^101:1I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, LORD, I will sing praises. ²I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. ³I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. ⁴A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. ⁵I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited. ⁶My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. ⁷He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. ⁸Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD’s city.

^102:1Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you. ²Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. ³For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. ⁴My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. ⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. ⁷I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. ⁸My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse. ⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, ¹⁰because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away. ¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. ¹²But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations. ¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. ¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust. ¹⁵So the nations will fear the LORD’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory. ¹⁶For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. ¹⁷He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. ¹⁸This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD, ¹⁹for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth, ²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death, ²¹that men may declare the LORD’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, ²²when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. ²³He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. ²⁴I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations. ²⁵Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. ²⁷But you are the same. Your years will have no end. ²⁸The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”