Psalm 34

¹⁸Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

¹⁷And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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.

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.

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.

²⁴But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

⁷⁴May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

⁸In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

¹⁵This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

¹⁶But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

²⁵In the Lord all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

³⁰I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

⁴⁶Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places.

²Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.

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!”

⁶And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

¹⁶May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The Lord be magnified!”

⁸Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of His praise be heard.

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.

⁷Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

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

²Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

³When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

²saying: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

²As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the Lord our God until He shows us mercy.

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

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

⁵Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

⁹For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

¹⁷The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

¹⁸The Lord is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

⁴To the Lord I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah

¹⁷You have heard, O Lord, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,

¹⁶Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

¹⁷I cried out to Him with my mouth and praised Him with my tongue.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

¹And David sang this song to the Lord on the day the Lord had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

¹¹For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

²²My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

¹⁴Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

³⁵And that very night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

¹⁷Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

¹Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

²When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.

¹⁰³How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!

⁴It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

⁵who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

²Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

³now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

¹⁴I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the Lord.

⁵My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

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

³²He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

¹⁹And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

³⁰For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

³¹But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.

²³Love the Lord, all His saints. The Lord preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

⁷In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

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

²¹The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

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

⁵²He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.

¹⁰The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

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; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

¹My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

²if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

⁹Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

¹⁶Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

¹⁰For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

¹¹He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

²⁰and that you may love the Lord your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

²so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the Lord your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

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.

⁴He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.

⁵In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

⁶The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

³Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

²³He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.

²²“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

¹⁹My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

⁹Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

²⁷Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

¹¹He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁴Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

⁹Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

¹⁸Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

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.”

¹⁷The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

¹⁸Surely the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

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

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

⁶This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

⁷The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

¹¹Therefore this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.

¹³O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

¹⁰If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

⁴Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix My eyes upon them for harm and not for good.”

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

¹⁹He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

²⁴Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

⁶This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

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

³He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

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.

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,

¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

²⁶I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

¹⁷The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

¹²Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

¹³But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.

⁶This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

¹⁷For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

³³I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

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

³⁶Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

¹⁰All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O Lord, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

¹²They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

²²My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

²³The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den, and when Daniel was lifted out of the den, no wounds whatsoever were found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

²³He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The Lord our God will destroy them.

¹¹Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

¹⁶For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

¹²The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

¹³but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

²³I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

⁹They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

⁴who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

⁵Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

⁹But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

²⁹And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,