Psalm 33

¹¹Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

¹Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

¹²Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones, and praise His holy name.

¹⁵Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord performs with valor!

⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

³Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.

⁴Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

⁴Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!

⁵Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.

⁹I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

⁶All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.

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.

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

¹Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

⁷Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the Lord, they numbered 288.

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.

⁸David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

⁶The words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.

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

²in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

⁵Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

³⁷Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

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

⁶⁴The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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

⁷You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

¹⁷Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

³By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

⁴The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁵But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

²He was with God in the beginning.

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

¹⁶the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

⁸At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

¹³When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

⁹And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

¹⁰God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

¹⁵You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

⁶You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

⁶Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

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.”

⁹Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁰Declare among the nations: “The Lord reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

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

⁷Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

⁸But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

⁷You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

³And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

⁶By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

⁵Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He gave the command and they were created.

⁶He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

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.”

¹⁶For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁷He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

³By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

¹¹Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

¹²He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

¹³He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

²⁵who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

³⁰There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the Lord.

³¹Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

⁸Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not promote their evil plans, lest they be exalted. Selah

²¹Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the Lord will prevail.

¹⁰I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

¹³But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

¹¹For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

³⁷Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

⁸“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

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

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.

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

⁶For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

⁷The Lord did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

²⁹Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

⁴For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

²⁴For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

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.

²God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

³The eyes of the Lord are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

²³“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?”

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

³⁹be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—

⁴³then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

¹⁶He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

¹This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

²So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

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.

¹⁹the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

²But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

²¹would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

⁸Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

⁸But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

²³This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

⁶For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

⁷For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.

²Then the Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

²⁸The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

⁸With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

⁹Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:

³¹A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the Lord.

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

¹⁰He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹⁹Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

²⁰Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

³Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

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

¹²For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

¹¹The Lord is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.

⁷He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

¹⁵The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

¹⁶But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

⁵But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁹In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

³The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

¹⁹He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

¹⁶he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

³¹Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

³²For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

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.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

⁵I wait for the Lord; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

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.

⁵Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

⁶He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

²⁰And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

⁵But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

⁷Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the Lord.

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!”

¹⁰Hear me, O Lord, and have mercy; O Lord, be my helper.”

¹¹You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

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.”

⁵But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

⁷⁶May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

²⁹Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

¹¹But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

¹²For surely You, O Lord, bless the righteous; You surround them with the shield of Your favor.

⁴⁹Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

¹⁰Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.