Psalm 118

³⁴Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

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

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

¹¹the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the Lord, saying: ‘Give thanks to the Lord of Hosts, for the Lord is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the Lord.

²⁹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

⁸“Give thanks to the Lord; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

⁹O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and shield.

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

¹⁹O house of Israel, bless the Lord; O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

²⁰O house of Levi, bless the Lord; you who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

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

²⁰He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

¹A song of ascents. Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who serve by night in the house of the Lord!

²Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the Lord!

⁸When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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.

⁷The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

⁸And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

⁶who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

²³You who fear the Lord, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!

⁵Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God, all you who serve Him, and those who fear Him, small and great alike!”

¹⁹He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

⁶In my distress I called upon the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

¹A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

¹A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord!

²O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

⁸You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

⁶So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

³¹What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁴In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

¹¹in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

⁸Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

⁹Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the Lord, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

¹Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

²When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

¹⁰My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

⁴Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

⁷For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

¹⁸He redeems my soul in peace from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

¹¹My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

⁸His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.

⁴Blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

⁵This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord.

⁶He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

⁸Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

⁹Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

⁵Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

⁶For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

³Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

⁴When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

⁷When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

¹Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the Lord.

²They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

³But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

⁸“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

¹⁵For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”

¹⁶“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

¹⁷All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

⁸and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.

⁹And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

⁴⁰You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.

¹Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

²And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

¹Behold, a day of the Lord is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

²For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

¹Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

²David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

¹⁷All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

¹²Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

¹³They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

²⁶Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

¹⁰When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

⁴⁴Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.

⁴⁵But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

⁵May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your petitions.

⁶For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

⁶But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

⁴Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

¹⁷Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

⁸Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

¹⁷He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

¹⁸They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord was my support.

¹Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

²After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

²⁹And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the Lord your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

¹Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

³The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name.

²¹She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

²²All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

²²Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

²³By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

¹³Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.

⁴⁶With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,

⁴⁷praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

¹²With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

¹A Psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.

⁶Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has shattered the enemy.

⁵¹He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

⁶Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has shattered the enemy.

³²God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

³³Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

⁴When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

¹⁸Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

¹⁶O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

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.

⁵For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

²⁸But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.

¹²Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Lord, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

⁹unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

¹⁷Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

¹¹My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, and do not loathe His rebuke;

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

¹²Blessed is the man You discipline, O Lord, and teach from Your law,

¹³to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

⁹Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

²Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

¹⁴Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

¹³Be merciful to me, O Lord; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.

⁴Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.

²²And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”

¹⁸I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people,

¹⁹in the courts of the Lord’s house, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

²⁴By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

²⁵Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

²Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

⁷Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

⁹Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

³Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

⁸And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.

⁹No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.

¹I love the Lord, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

¹⁴The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

⁸This is what the Lord says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

³³For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

¹⁷But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

⁴²Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

⁴As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹¹This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

¹⁰Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

¹¹This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

²⁰built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

²¹In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

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

²⁰which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

⁴¹‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

¹³When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus.

³¹God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

³²We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

¹⁴You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

¹⁵You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

¹³If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the Lord’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,

¹⁰Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

²⁶On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they blessed the Lord. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Beracah to this day.

²⁷Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.

⁶⁶On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the Lord had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.

¹⁰On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

¹⁷May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—yes, establish the work of our hands!

¹³But my prayer to You, O Lord, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

⁹O Lord, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

³⁸“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

⁹The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

¹³They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!”

³⁹For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

⁹The ones who went ahead and those who followed were shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”

¹⁰“Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

³⁵Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

²⁸For You, O Lord, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

¹²Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁶For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.

¹Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

²The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

¹O Lord, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.

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

²The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

⁹And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

¹¹And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord had been laid.

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

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—

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.