New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Praise to the Lord for His Fidelity to Israel.

1 The Lordreigns, let the peoples tremble;

He is enthronedabovethe cherubim, let the earth shake!

2 The Lordis great in Zion,

And He is exalted above all the peoples.

3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name;

Holy is He.

4 The strength of the King lovesjustice;

You have established equity;

You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

5 Exalt the Lordour God

And worship at His footstool;

Holy is He.

6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests,

And Samuel was among those who called on His name;

They called upon the Lordand He answered them.

7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;

They kept His testimonies

And the statute that He gave them.

8 O Lordour God, You answered them;

You were a forgiving God to them,

Andyetan avenger of theirevildeeds.

9 Exalt the Lordour God

And worship at His holy hill,

For holy is the Lordour God.

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All Men Exhorted to Praise God.

A Psalm for Thanksgiving.

1 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Serve the Lordwith gladness;

Come before Him with joyful singing.

3 Know that the LordHimself is God;

# It is He who has made us, andnot we ourselves;

We areHis people and the sheep of His pasture.

4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving

AndHis courts with praise.

Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

5 For the Lordis good;

His lovingkindness is everlasting

And His faithfulness to all generations.

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The Psalmist’s Profession of Uprightness.

A Psalm of David.

1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice,

To You, O Lord, I will sing praises.

2 I will give heed to theblameless way.

When will You come to me?

I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;

I hate the work of those who fall away;

It shall not fasten its grip on me.

4 A perverse heart shall depart from me;

I will know no evil.

5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;

No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

6 My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;

# He who walks in ablameless way is the one who will minister to me.

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

He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

8 Every morning I willdestroy all the wicked of the land,

So as to cut off from the city of the Lordall those who do iniquity.

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Prayer of an Afflicted Man for Mercy on Himself and on Zion.

A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.

1 Hear my prayer, O Lord!

And let my cry for help come to You.

2 Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;

Incline Your ear to me;

In the day when I call answer me quickly.

3 For my days have been consumed in smoke,

And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

4 My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,

Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

5 Because of the loudness of my groaning

My bones cling to my flesh.

6 I resemble a pelican of the wilderness;

I have become like an owl of the waste places.

7 I lie awake,

I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

8 My enemies have reproached me all day long;

Those who deride me have used mynameas a curse.

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread

And mingled my drink with weeping

10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,

For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

11 My days are like a lengthened shadow,

And I wither away like grass.

12 But You, O Lord, abide forever,

And Your name to all generations.

13 You will ariseandhave compassion on Zion;

For it is time to be gracious to her,

For the appointed time has come.

14 Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones

And feel pity for her dust.

15 So the nations will fear the name of the Lord

And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

16 For the Lordhas built up Zion;

He has appeared in His glory.

17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute

And has not despised their prayer.

18 This will be written for the generation to come,

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

19 For He looked down from His holy height;

From heaven the Lordgazed upon the earth,

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner,

To set free those who were doomed to death,

21 Thatmenmay tell of the name of the Lordin Zion

And His praise in Jerusalem,

22 When the peoples are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

23 He has weakened my strength in the way;

He has shortened my days.

24 I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days,

Your years are throughout all generations.

25 “Of old You founded the earth,

And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

26 “Even they will perish, but You endure;

And all of them will wear out like a garment;

Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

27 “But You are the same,

And Your years will not come to an end.

28 “The children of Your servants will continue,

And their descendants will be established before You.”

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Praise for the Lord’s Mercies.

A Psalm of David.

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And all that is within me,blessHis holy name.

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget none of His benefits;

3 Who pardons all your iniquities,

Who heals all your diseases;

4 Who redeems your life from the pit,

Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

5 Who satisfies youryears with good things,

So thatyour youth is renewed like the eagle.

6 The Lordperforms righteous deeds

And judgments for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known His ways to Moses,

His acts to the sons of Israel.

8 The Lordis compassionate and gracious,

Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

9 He will not always strivewith us,

Nor will He keepHis angerforever.

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

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

# So great is His lovingkindness toward those whofear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

13 Just as a father has compassion onhischildren,

So the Lordhas compassion on those who fear Him.

14 For He Himself knowsour frame;

He is mindful that we arebutdust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,

And its place acknowledges it no longer.

17 But the lovingkindness of the Lordis from everlasting to everlasting on those whofear Him,

And His righteousness to children’s children,

18 To those who keep His covenant

And remember His precepts to do them.

19 The Lordhas established His throne in the heavens,

# And Hissovereignty rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, you His angels,

Mighty in strength, who perform His word,

Obeying the voice of His word!

21 Bless the Lord, all you His hosts,

You who serve Him, doing His will.

22 Bless the Lord, all you works of His,

In all places of His dominion;

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

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The Lord’s Care over All His Works.

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lordmy God, You are very great;

You are clothed with splendor and majesty,

2 Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak,

Stretching out heaven like atentcurtain.

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

He makes the clouds His chariot;

He walks upon the wings of the wind;

4 He makesthe winds His messengers,

# Flaming fire His ministers.

5 He established the earth upon its foundations,

# So that it will nottotter forever and ever.

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

The waters were standing above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke they fled,

At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

8 The mountains rose; the valleys sank down

To the place which You established for them.

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

So that they will not return to cover the earth.

10 He sends forth springs in the valleys;

They flow between the mountains;

11 They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;

They lift uptheirvoices among the branches.

13 He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

And vegetation for the labor of man,

So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

15 And wine which makes man’s heart glad,

So that he may makehisface glisten with oil,

And food which sustains man’s heart.

16 The trees of the Lorddrink their fill,

The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

17 Where the birds build their nests,

Andthe stork, whose home is the fir trees.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim.

19 He made the moon for the seasons;

The sun knows the place of its setting.

20 You appoint darkness and it becomes night,

In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

21 The young lions roar after their prey

And seek their food from God.

22 Whenthe sun rises they withdraw

And lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes forth to his work

And to his labor until evening.

24 O Lord, how many are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all;

# The earth is full of Yourpossessions.

25 There is the sea, great and broad,

In which are swarms without number,

Animals both small and great.

26 There the ships move along,

# AndLeviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

27 They all wait for You

# To give them their food indue season.

28 You give to them, they gatheritup;

You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.

29 You hide Your face, they are dismayed;

# You take away theirspirit, they expire

And return to their dust.

30 You send forth YourSpirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the ground.

31 Let the glory of the Lordendure forever;

Let the Lordbe glad in His works;

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;

He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

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

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

34 Let my meditation be pleasing to Him;

As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord.

35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth

And let the wicked be no more.

Bless the Lord, O my soul.

Praise the Lord!

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The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the peoples.

2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

# Speak of all His wonders.

3 Glory in His holy name;

Let the heart of those who seek the Lordbe glad.

4 Seek the Lordand His strength;

Seek His face continually.

5 Remember His wonders which He has done,

His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

6 O seed of Abraham, His servant,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

7 He is the Lordour God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

8 He has remembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

9 Thecovenantwhich He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

10 Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

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

As the portion of your inheritance,”

12 When they were only a few men in number,

Very few, and strangers in it.

13 And they wandered about from nation to nation,

Fromonekingdom to another people.

14 He permitted no man to oppress them,

And He reproved kings for their sakes:

15 “Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

16 And He called for a famine upon the land;

He broke the whole staff of bread.

17 He sent a man before them,

Joseph,whowas sold as a slave.

18 They afflicted his feet with fetters,

He himself was laid in irons;

19 Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of the Lordtested him.

20 The king sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

21 He made him lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

22 To imprison his princes at will,

That he might teach his elders wisdom.

23 Israel also came into Egypt;

Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24 And He caused His people to be very fruitful,

And made them stronger than their adversaries.

25 He turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

26 He sent Moses His servant,

AndAaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They performed His wondrous acts among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness and madeitdark;

And they did not rebel against His words.

29 He turned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

30 Their land swarmed with frogs

Evenin the chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies

Andgnats in all their territory.

32 He gave them hail for rain,

Andflaming fire in their land.

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

And shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke, and locusts came,

And young locusts, even without number,

35 And ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ate up the fruit of their ground.

36 He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,

The first fruits of all their vigor.

37 Then He brought them out with silver and gold,

And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed,

For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for acovering,

And fire to illumine by night.

40 They asked, and He brought quail,

And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock and water flowed out;

It ran in the dry placeslikea river.

42 For He remembered His holy word

WithAbraham His servant;

43 And He brought forth His people with joy,

His chosen ones with a joyful shout.

44 He gave them also the lands of the nations,

That they might take possession ofthe fruit ofthe peoples’ labor,

45 So that they might keep His statutes

And observe His laws,

Praise the Lord!

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Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Lord’s Deliverances.

1 Praise the Lord!

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord,

Or can show forth all His praise?

3 How blessed are those who keep justice,

Who practice righteousness at all times!

4 Remember me, O Lord, inYourfavor toward Your people;

Visit me with Your salvation,

5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,

That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

# That I may glory with Yourinheritance.

6 We have sinned like our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;

They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses,

# But rebelled by the sea, at theRed Sea.

8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,

That He might make His power known.

9 Thus He rebuked theRed Sea and it dried up,

And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hatedthem,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 The waters covered their adversaries;

Not one of them was left.

12 Then they believed His words;

They sang His praise.

13 They quickly forgot His works;

They did not wait for His counsel,

14 But craved intensely in the wilderness,

And tempted God in the desert.

15 So He gave them their request,

But sent a wasting disease among them.

16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp,

And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And engulfed the company of Abiram.

18 And a fire blazed up in their company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

19 They made a calf in Horeb

And worshiped a molten image.

20 Thus they exchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God their Savior,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

22 Wonders in the land of Ham

# Andawesome things by theRed Sea.

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 destroyingthem.

24 Then they despised the pleasant land;

They did not believe in His word,

25 But grumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

26 Therefore He swore to them

That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations

And scatter them in the lands.

28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,

And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29 Thus they provokedHimto anger with their deeds,

And the plague broke out among them.

30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed,

And so the plague was stayed.

31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness,

To all generations forever.

32 They also provokedHimto wrath at the waters ofMeribah,

So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,

He spoke rashly with his lips.

34 They did not destroy the peoples,

As the Lordcommanded them,

35 But they mingled with the nations

And learned their practices,

36 And served their idols,

Which became a snare to them.

37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

38 And shed innocent blood,

The blood of their sons and their daughters,

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

And the land was polluted with the blood.

39 Thus they became unclean in their practices,

And played the harlot in their deeds.

40 Therefore the anger of the Lordwas kindled against His people

And He abhorred His inheritance.

41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

42 Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were subdued under their power.

43 Many times He would deliver them;

They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,

Andsosank down in their iniquity.

44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He heard their cry;

45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake,

And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

46 He also made themobjectsof compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

47 Save us, O Lordour God,

And gather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And glory in Your praise.

48 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

From everlasting even to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

Praise the Lord!

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BOOK 5

The Lord Delivers Men from Manifold Troubles.

1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

2 Let the redeemed of the Lordsayso,

Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary

3 And gathered from the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;

They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

5 They werehungry and thirsty;

Their soul fainted within them.

6 Then they cried out to the Lordin their trouble;

He delivered them out of their distresses.

7 He led them also by a straight way,

To go to an inhabited city.

8 Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His lovingkindness,

And for His wonders to the sons of men!

9 For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,

And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.

10 There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Prisoners in misery and chains,

11 Because they had rebelled against the words of God

And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

12 Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was none to help.

13 Then they cried out to the Lordin their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

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

And broke their bands apart.

15 Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His lovingkindness,

And for His wonders to the sons of men!

16 For He has shattered gates of bronze

And cut bars of iron asunder.

17 Fools, because of their rebellious way,

And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

18 Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they drew near to the gates of death.

19 Then they cried out to the Lordin their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

20 He sent His word and healed them,

# And deliveredthemfrom theirdestructions.

21 Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His lovingkindness,

And for His wonders to the sons of men!

22 Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And tell of His works with joyful singing.

23 Those who go down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on great waters;

24 They have seen the works of the Lord,

And His wonders in the deep.

25 For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,

Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

26 They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;

Their soul melted away intheirmisery.

27 They reeled and staggered like a drunken man,

# Andwere at their wits’ end.

28 Then they cried to the Lordin their trouble,

And He brought them out of their distresses.

29 He caused the storm to be still,

So that the waves of the sea were hushed.

30 Then they were glad because they were quiet,

So He guided them to their desired haven.

31 Let them give thanks to the Lordfor His lovingkindness,

And for His wonders to the sons of men!

32 Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people,

And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

33 Hechanges rivers into a wilderness

And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

34 A fruitful land into a salt waste,

Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

35 He changes a wilderness into a pool of water

And a dry land into springs of water;

36 And there He makes the hungry to dwell,

So that they may establish an inhabited city,

37 And sow fields and plant vineyards,

And gather a fruitful harvest.

38 Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,

And He does not let their cattle decrease.

39 When they are diminished and bowed down

Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

40 He pours contempt upon princes

And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

41 But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,

And makeshisfamilies like a flock.

42 The upright see it and are glad;

But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.

43 Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things,

And consider the lovingkindnesses of the Lord.

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God Praised and Supplicated to Give Victory.

A Song, a Psalm of David.

1 My heart is steadfast, O God;

I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul.

2 Awake, harp and lyre;

I will awaken the dawn!

3 I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples,

And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

4 For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens,

And Your truthreachesto the skies.

5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,

And Your glory above all the earth.

6 That Your beloved may be delivered,

Save with Your right hand, and answer me!

7 God has spoken in Hisholiness:

“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem

And measure out the valley of Succoth.

8 “Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim also is the helmet of My head;

# Judah is Myscepter.

9 “Moab is My washbowl;

Over Edom I shall throw My shoe;

Over Philistia I will shout aloud.”

10 Who will bring me into the besieged city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

11 Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?

And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

12 Oh give us help against the adversary,

For deliverance by man is in vain.

13 Through God we will do valiantly,

And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

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