Psalm 66

²³Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.

²⁴Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.

¹A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

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

⁶Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

²⁸So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

³Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

¹³And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

¹²Let them give glory to the Lord and declare His praise in the islands.

⁵Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

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!”

⁹And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

⁴⁴When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

⁵With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

¹⁵Those who hate the Lord would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

²How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth!

³⁵And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

³⁶But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

¹⁹Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

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

¹Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!

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

²Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim His salvation day after day.

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.

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.”

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.

¹A song of ascents. When the Lord restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

²Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

²³For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

²Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

⁸Come, see the works of the Lord, who brings devastation upon the earth.

³Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

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

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.

²¹Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

²²and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

¹³He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

¹⁴So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

¹Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.

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.

¹³He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

¹⁴and led Israel through the midst, His loving devotion endures forever.

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.

⁹For the eyes of the Lord roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”

¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

⁴God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

²⁰But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.

²¹He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

⁴I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

⁵Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

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

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

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.

²Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

¹⁰Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

¹¹And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

³He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.

⁶Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

¹⁸If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O Lord, supports me.

²³The steps of a man are ordered by the Lord who takes delight in his journey.

²⁴Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the Lord is holding his hand.

⁹He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

³For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

⁴When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

¹⁰See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

³You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

⁶In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

⁷so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

³A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

¹⁰Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

⁹This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

¹³He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

¹³But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

⁶then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

¹²As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

¹¹Bless his substance, O Lord, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”

¹But now, this is what the Lord says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

²³I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

¹¹See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

¹⁶Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

²²strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

⁴When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

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

¹²Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

¹⁷I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.

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

¹⁴I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the Lord.

³⁵As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back.”

³⁶“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me as you have said, for the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”

¹¹And she made a vow, saying, “O Lord of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

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.

⁷In my distress I called upon the Lord; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

²If a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

⁸But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the Lord will absolve her.

¹⁹Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.

¹⁴and he is to present an offering to the Lord of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering—

¹³When those carrying the ark of the Lord had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

⁵eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the Lord.

¹So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

²When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

¹⁸When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.

¹¹Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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

¹⁶At that time those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the Lord and honored His name.

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.

⁵Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.

³We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

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

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.

¹A Psalm. A song for the dedication of the temple. Of David. I will exalt You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

¹²How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?

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

⁸To You, O Lord, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy:

³¹We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

⁹Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

²⁹The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

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

¹⁵When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

³And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

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.

⁷During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

⁵⁵I called on Your name, O Lord, out of the depths of the Pit.

⁵⁶You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

⁹The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.

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

²⁰Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

²¹Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

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.

³⁵O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

¹¹Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

¹⁴I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

¹⁵But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

²⁴For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.