Psalm 97

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

¹¹Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

¹The Lord reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!

¹³He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

¹The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty; the Lord has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

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.

¹⁷saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

⁹The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the Lord what the people had said.

¹²Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

⁸But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.

⁹You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”

²⁵Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

⁴The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

³Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

²⁹“For our God is a consuming fire.”

¹“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

⁸Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

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

¹⁰A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.

¹⁸Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

¹⁹Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

¹⁶On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

¹⁷Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

³²He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

⁶He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

⁵The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.

³For behold, the Lord comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

¹⁹The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

²⁰The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

¹If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

²as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

⁶He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

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

¹⁸“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

⁶And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

⁴⁷The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

⁶so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.

⁴Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah

¹⁴Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

⁶And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

¹⁷But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

¹“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the Lord your God.

¹¹Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.

¹²In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

⁴You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

²⁰Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.

⁹Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

⁴This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

⁵“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

⁸Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the Lord returns to Zion.

³For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.

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

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

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

⁹Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

⁴For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

¹³To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

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

¹⁴Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

²¹I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

²⁰The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

²⁸Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

⁴⁶I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

⁷Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

⁸You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

¹⁸The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

¹Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

²For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

²⁸Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

⁴Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

⁴Sing to the Lord, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.

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

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

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹⁴Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

¹⁵The Lord has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the Lord, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.

¹⁷Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

¹⁸yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!