New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The Lord’s Covenant with David, and Israel’s Afflictions.

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lordforever;

To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.

2 For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever;

In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”

3 “I have made a covenant with My chosen;

I have sworn to David My servant,

4 I will establish your seed forever

And build up your throne to all generations.” Selah.

5 The heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord;

Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

6 For who in the skies is comparable to the Lord?

Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord,

7 A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,

And awesome above all those who are around Him?

8 O LordGod of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Lord?

Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

9 You rule the swelling of the sea;

When its waves rise, You still them.

10 You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain;

You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;

# The world andall it contains, You have founded them.

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

Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

13 You have a strong arm;

Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted.

14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;

Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

15 How blessed are the people who know thejoyful sound!

O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance.

16 In Your name they rejoice all the day,

And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

17 For You are the glory of their strength,

And by Your favor our horn is exalted.

18 For our shield belongs to the Lord,

# And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

19 Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones,

And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty;

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

20 “I have found David My servant;

With My holy oil I have anointed him,

21 With whom My hand will be established;

My arm also will strengthen him.

22 “The enemy will notdeceive him,

Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

23 “But I shall crush his adversaries before him,

And strike those who hate him.

24 “My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him,

And in My name his horn will be exalted.

25 “I shall also set his hand on the sea

And his right hand on the rivers.

26 “He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,

My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

27 “I also shall make himMyfirstborn,

The highest of the kings of the earth.

28 “My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,

And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

29 “So I will establish his descendants forever

And his throne as the days of heaven.

30 “If his sons forsake My law

And do not walk in My judgments,

31 If theyviolate My statutes

And do not keep My commandments,

32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod

And their iniquity with stripes.

33 “But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,

Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

34 “My covenant I will not violate,

Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

35 “Once I have sworn by My holiness;

I will not lie to David.

36 “His descendants shall endure forever

And his throne as the sun before Me.

37 “It shall be established forever like the moon,

And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.

38 But You have cast off and rejected,

You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

39 You have spurned the covenant of Your servant;

You have profaned his crown in the dust.

40 You have broken down all his walls;

You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

41 All who pass along the way plunder him;

He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;

You have made all his enemies rejoice.

43 You also turn back the edge of his sword

And have not made him stand in battle.

44 You have made his splendor to cease

And cast his throne to the ground.

45 You have shortened the days of his youth;

You have covered him with shame. Selah.

46 How long, O Lord?

Will You hide Yourself forever?

Will Your wrath burn like fire?

47 Remember what my span of life is;

For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

48 What man can live and not see death?

Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

49 Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,

Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;

How I bear in my bosomthe reproach ofall the many peoples,

51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord,

With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

52 Blessed be the Lordforever!

Amen and Amen.

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BOOK 4

God’s Eternity and Man’s Transitoriness.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

1 Lord, You have been ourdwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born

Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

3 You turn man back into dust

And say, “Return, O children of men.”

4 For a thousand years in Your sight

Are like yesterday when it passes by,

Orasa watch in the night.

5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

6 In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew;

Toward evening it fades and withers away.

7 For we have been consumed by Your anger

And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

8 You have placed our iniquities before You,

Our secretsinsin the light of Your presence.

9 For all our days have declined in Your fury;

We have finished our years like a sigh.

10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,

Or if due to strength, eighty years,

Yet their pride isbutlabor and sorrow;

For soon it is gone and we fly away.

11 Who understands the power of Your anger

And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

12 So teach us to number our days,

That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

13 Do return, O Lord; how longwill it be?

And be sorry for Your servants.

14 O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,

That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,

# Andthe years we have seenevil.

16 Let Your work appear to Your servants

And Your majesty to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;

# Andconfirm for us the work of our hands;

Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

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Security of the One Who Trusts in the Lord.

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,

My God, in whom I trust!”

3 For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper

And from the deadly pestilence.

4 He will cover you with His pinions,

And under His wings you may seek refuge;

His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.

5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night,

Or of the arrow that flies by day;

6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

7 A thousand may fall at your side

And ten thousand at your right hand,

Butit shall not approach you.

8 You will only look on with your eyes

And see the recompense of the wicked.

9 For you have made the Lord, my refuge,

Eventhe Most High, your dwelling place.

10 No evil will befall you,

Nor will any plague come near your tent.

11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,

To guard you in all your ways.

12 They will bear you up in their hands,

That you do not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,

The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set himsecurelyon high, because he has known My name.

15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will rescue him and honor him.

16 “With a long life I will satisfy him

And let him see My salvation.”

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Praise for the Lord’s Goodness.

A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day.

1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord

And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning

And Your faithfulness by night,

3 With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,

With resounding music upon the lyre.

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.

5 How great are Your works, O Lord!

Your thoughts are very deep.

6 A senseless man has no knowledge,

Nor does a stupid man understand this:

7 That when the wicked sprouted up like grass

And all who did iniquity flourished,

Itwas onlythat they might be destroyed forevermore.

8 But You, O Lord, are on high forever.

9 For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord,

For, behold, Your enemies will perish;

All who do iniquity will be scattered.

10 But You have exalted my horn likethat ofthe wild ox;

I have been anointed with fresh oil.

11 And my eye has lookedexultantlyupon my foes,

My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

12 The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,

He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Planted in the house of the Lord,

They will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They will still yield fruit in old age;

# They shall befull of sap and very green,

15 To declare that the Lordis upright;

He ismy rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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The Majesty of the Lord.

1 The Lordreigns, He is clothed with majesty;

The Lordhas clothed and girded Himself with strength;

Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

2 Your throne is established from of old;

You are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord,

The floods have lifted up their voice,

The floods lift up their pounding waves.

4 More than the sounds of many waters,

Thanthe mighty breakers of the sea,

The Lordon high is mighty.

5 Your testimonies are fully confirmed;

Holiness befits Your house,

O Lord, forevermore.

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The Lord Implored to Avenge His People.

1 O Lord, God of vengeance,

God of vengeance, shine forth!

2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth,

Render recompense to the proud.

3 How long shall the wicked, O Lord,

How long shall the wicked exult?

4 They pour forthwords,they speak arrogantly;

All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.

5 They crush Your people, O Lord,

And afflict Your heritage.

6 They slay the widow and the stranger

And murder the orphans.

7 They have said, “The Lorddoes not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

8 Pay heed, you senseless among the people;

And when will you understand, stupid ones?

9 He who planted the ear, does He not hear?

He who formed the eye, does He not see?

10 He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,

EvenHe who teaches man knowledge?

11 The Lordknows the thoughts of man,

That they are amerebreath.

12 Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,

And whom You teach out of Your law;

13 That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity,

Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

14 For the Lordwill not abandon His people,

Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

15 For judgment will again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.

16 Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

17 If the Lordhad not been my help,

My soul would soon have dwelt inthe abode ofsilence.

18 If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”

Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

19 When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,

Your consolations delight my soul.

20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,

One which devises mischief by decree?

21 They band themselves together against the life of the righteous

And condemn the innocent to death.

22 But the Lordhas been my stronghold,

And my God the rock of my refuge.

23 He has brought back their wickedness upon them

And will destroy them in their evil;

The Lordour God will destroy them.

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Praise to the Lord, and Warning against Unbelief.

1 O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,

Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,

Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

3 For the Lordis a great God

And a great King above all gods,

4 In whose hand are the depths of the earth,

The peaks of the mountains are His also.

5 The sea is His, for it was He who made it,

And His hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the Lordour Maker.

7 For He is our God,

And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.

Today, if you would hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts, as atMeribah,

# As in the day ofMassah in the wilderness,

9 “When your fathers tested Me,

They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

10 “For forty years I loathedthatgeneration,

And said they are a people who err in their heart,

And they do not know My ways.

11 “Therefore I swore in My anger,

Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”

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A Call to Worship the Lord the Righteous Judge.

1 Sing to the Lorda new song;

Sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord, bless His name;

Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

3 Tell of His glory among the nations,

His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

4 For great is the Lordand greatly to be praised;

He is to be feared above all gods.

5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,

But the Lordmade the heavens.

6 Splendor and majesty are before Him,

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

7 Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,

Ascribe to the Lordglory and strength.

8 Ascribe to the Lordthe glory of His name;

Bring an offering and come into His courts.

9 Worship the Lordinholy attire;

Tremble before Him, all the earth.

10 Say among the nations, “The Lordreigns;

Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved;

# He will judge the peoples withequity.”

11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

Let the sea roar, and all it contains;

12 Let the field exult, and all that is in it.

Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

13 Before the Lord, for He is coming,

For He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

And the peoples in His faithfulness.

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The Lord’s Power and Dominion.

1 The Lordreigns, let the earth rejoice;

# Let the manyislands be glad.

2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him;

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

3 Fire goes before Him

And burns up His adversaries round about.

4 His lightnings lit up the world;

The earth saw and trembled.

5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,

At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 The heavens declare His righteousness,

And all the peoples have seen His glory.

7 Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,

Who boast themselves of idols;

Worship Him, all you gods.

8 Zion heardthisand was glad,

And the daughters of Judah have rejoiced

Because of Your judgments, O Lord.

9 For You are the LordMost High over all the earth;

You are exalted far above all gods.

10 Hate evil, you who love the Lord,

Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;

He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sownlike seedfor the righteous

And gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones,

And give thanks to His holy name.

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A Call to Praise the Lord for His Righteousness.

A Psalm.

1 O sing to the Lorda new song,

For He has done wonderful things,

# His right hand and His holy arm havegained the victory for Him.

2 The Lordhas made known His salvation;

He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

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.

4 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;

Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.

5 Sing praises to the Lordwith the lyre,

With the lyre and the sound of melody.

6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn

Shout joyfully before the King, the Lord.

7 Let the sea roar and all it contains,

The world and those who dwell in it.

8 Let the rivers clap their hands,

Let the mountains sing together for joy

9 Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;

He will judge the world with righteousness

And the peoples with equity.

—https://d1b84921e69nmq.cloudfront.net/80/32k/PSA/98-ef65c36c9df441e0368dc5c755ec106e.mp3?version_id=100—