Psalm 92

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

¹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

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

³Hallelujah, for the Lord is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

²²Because of the loving devotion of the Lord we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

¹A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the Lord forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

²For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

¹⁷For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁷I will make known the Lord’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the Lord has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

²⁵The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

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.

²⁷At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

⁵a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are to be in the courtyards of the house of the Lord.

¹⁶The Lord is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

¹⁴But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

³The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

⁶You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

¹³Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

¹⁴My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

⁴⁷and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!

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.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³⁴“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

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.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

¹⁷How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

³Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.

⁴One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

¹⁰But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹⁴The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

²²I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

⁸Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

²²“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

¹⁰For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

³⁸But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

¹⁸Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

¹⁹How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

³⁵I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

³⁶yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

¹Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

²For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

¹Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

²You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

¹⁸May they know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are Most High over all the earth.

¹¹Now I know that the Lord is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

³⁴But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

³⁵All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

²⁶They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

²⁷But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.

²²And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

²³Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

¹About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.

²⁰But the wicked and enemies of the Lord will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

²³Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

⁸Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.

⁹You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the Lord will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

²As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

⁷and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

⁸in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

¹⁷For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.

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

²¹Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

¹⁰“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

²⁰You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

⁷For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

⁸You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.

¹⁰My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

⁸His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.

³⁴Wait for the Lord and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

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.

³He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

⁸But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

⁵I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the Lord has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

³to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

²¹Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

⁵For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

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

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

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.

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.

²He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

¹¹filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁹Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

¹⁴What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

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

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

¹⁰Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

¹⁷The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.