Psalm 146

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

¹Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.

³⁵May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Hallelujah!

⁴⁵that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

⁴So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

³³I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

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

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹⁴But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.

¹⁵My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

⁹After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

⁸It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.

⁹It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.

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.

²²Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

¹²Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

³But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

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.

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

²⁹When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

⁷Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

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.”

⁶Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

³as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

⁷But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.

⁸He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

¹⁵Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

⁵For You are my hope, O Lord God, my confidence from my youth.

¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

¹²O Lord of Hosts, how blessed is the man who trusts in You!

¹¹The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

⁷And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”

¹¹For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

⁵By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

⁶He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

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

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁷“Oh, Lord God! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

⁶The Lord executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

⁶God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

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.

¹¹As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

⁷For the Lord is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

¹⁴The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

³⁰And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

¹⁸to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

⁵Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

⁵A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

¹⁹So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

⁶The Lord sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

²¹You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

²²You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

⁵“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

²⁵The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

¹⁶The Lord is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.

¹⁸The Lord will reign forever and ever!”

¹⁵Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

²⁶I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

¹⁴And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.