Psalm 111

¹Of David. I give You thanks with all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.

¹Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly.

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

³⁰With my mouth I will thank the Lord profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.

³I will praise You, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.

¹⁸Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.

²⁴How many are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

¹⁴Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

¹⁴I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

¹⁹and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

⁴One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

⁵the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

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

¹¹They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,

¹⁰His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

¹²In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

¹³And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

¹⁴²Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

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—

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

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.

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

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

⁶to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

⁷In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

¹⁹Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.

²⁰When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

⁷²to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

³⁴I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

⁴And I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

⁵Then I said: “O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

⁸Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

⁸You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

¹³So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”

¹⁴There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man, because the Lord fought for Israel.

²With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

¹²He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

¹³He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

²⁰So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

³He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹⁶⁰The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

¹⁸For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

⁹The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true, being altogether righteous.

⁸The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

¹²⁷Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

³Let them praise Your great and awesome name—He is holy!

⁴⁹For the Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy is His name.

⁶⁸“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹²He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

²⁸And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

¹³When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

⁶Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

⁴⁴How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?