Psalm 138

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

³For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.

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.

¹²I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.

¹³For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

⁴For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

⁴⁶I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

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.

¹⁰In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise,

²¹The Lord was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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

²Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

¹⁰And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

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.

⁴I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

⁵Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

²⁹He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

³⁰Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

¹²I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

¹⁵So the nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.

¹¹May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

²²when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the Lord.

²³Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

¹¹“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”

⁵Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.

¹²saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

¹¹For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Hosts.

¹¹Who among the gods is like You, O Lord? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

²Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

⁵Who is like the Lord our God, the One enthroned on high?

⁶He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

¹⁵For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

⁷The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

⁸He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.

³⁴He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.

⁶But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

²Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the Lord. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

³He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

²⁰Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

²¹You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

⁶Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

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.

²⁵Therefore the anger of the Lord burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

⁶being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

²I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

²⁴The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.

¹²O Lord, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

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—