Psalm 103

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul.

²I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

⁷My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

⁸Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

¹⁵What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

²⁴God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

²²Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

⁷I will make known the Lord’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the Lord has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

¹²How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?

⁵Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

¹⁵When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

¹⁶He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.

¹²be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁸You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

²⁶saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

⁵But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

¹⁴Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

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

³The Lord will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

⁴I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

³He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

¹³For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

⁴And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

²²The Lord redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

¹²Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

³¹But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

⁹For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

¹⁷Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

¹⁶Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

⁵My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

²⁸When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

⁵“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

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

³¹Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

⁷He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,

¹²For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

²²Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

²³for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

¹³Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

¹⁹He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

¹¹They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

¹⁴You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

²⁰You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

¹⁰Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face—

¹⁵But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

¹³So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

⁶Then the Lord passed in front of Moses and called out: “The Lord, the Lord God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

⁷maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

⁸The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

³The Lord is slow to anger and great in power; the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

⁵For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

¹⁶For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.

⁵For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

¹⁸Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

⁵Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

¹²Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the Lord. ‘I will not be angry forever.

¹³After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

³¹But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

²²Because of the loving devotion of the Lord we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

³If You, O Lord, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

¹⁸Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

¹⁹O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

⁶and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

¹⁰For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁵⁰His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁴But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

³As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

²⁵I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

⁷But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

¹⁸Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁷Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

³⁴No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

²If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

¹¹What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

⁵And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

⁶For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

²¹The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

²²But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

²⁰Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord.

¹²for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

⁷before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁹Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

³⁸And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

⁴⁷Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

²¹Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

¹⁰But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

¹¹For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

⁶A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

⁷The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

¹²“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

¹Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

¹“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

²Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

⁷The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

⁹The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

¹⁰But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

⁷Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

²⁴Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

²⁰Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

²¹The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

⁵For the Lord is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.

⁴But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

⁹He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

⁶but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

¹⁷For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

⁹Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

¹²If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

²⁰and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

⁶Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

⁸So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

²How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth!

⁹Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

⁷But the Lord abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.

⁴The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

³⁴But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

³⁵All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

¹⁴Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

²Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.

¹⁹“I am Gabriel,” replied the angel. “I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

⁵³Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

¹³And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:

¹⁴“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!”

³⁵And that very night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

¹⁹Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

⁶You alone are the Lord. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

¹³And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:

⁴He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

¹⁴“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the Lord’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”

⁸And I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

⁹But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

¹⁰Sing to the Lord a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

¹¹Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

¹⁰All You have made will give You thanks, O Lord, and Your saints will bless You.

³Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.

⁴Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

⁶Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

²³Sing for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.