Psalms 105 to 116

Psalm 105

¹Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name!

Make his doings known among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praises to him!

Tell of all his marvelous works.

³Glory in his holy name.

Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴Seek the LORD and his strength.

Seek his face forever more.

⁵Remember his marvelous works that he has done:

his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶you offspring of Abraham, his servant,

you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is the LORD, our God.

His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has remembered his covenant forever,

the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹the covenant which he made with Abraham,

his oath to Isaac,

¹⁰and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;

to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,

the lot of your inheritance,”

¹²when they were but a few men in number,

yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

¹³They went about from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He allowed no one to do them wrong.

Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵“Don’t touch my anointed ones!

Do my prophets no harm!”

¹⁶He called for a famine on the land.

He destroyed the food supplies.

¹⁷He sent a man before them.

Joseph was sold for a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles.

His neck was locked in irons,

¹⁹until the time that his word happened,

and the LORD’s word proved him true.

²⁰The king sent and freed him,

even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house,

and ruler of all of his possessions,

²²to discipline his princes at his pleasure,

and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt.

Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

²⁴He increased his people greatly,

and made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people,

to conspire against his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses, his servant,

and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed miracles among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark.

They didn’t rebel against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood,

and killed their fish.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,

even in the rooms of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and swarms of flies came,

and lice in all their borders.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

with lightning in their land.

³³He struck their vines and also their fig trees,

and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came

with the grasshoppers, without number.

³⁵They ate up every plant in their land,

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He struck also all the firstborn in their land,

the first fruits of all their manhood.

³⁷He brought them out with silver and gold.

There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,

for the fear of them had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,

fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails,

and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.

They ran as a river in the dry places.

⁴²For he remembered his holy word,

and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³He brought his people out with joy,

his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations.

They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

⁴⁵that they might keep his statutes,

and observe his laws.

Praise the LORD!

Psalm 106

¹Praise the LORD!

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,

for his loving kindness endures forever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD,

or fully declare all his praise?

³Blessed are those who keep justice.

Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

⁴Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people.

Visit me with your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,

that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,

that I may glory with your inheritance.

We have sinned with our fathers.

We have committed iniquity.

We have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt.

They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,

but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,

that he might make his mighty power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;

so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,

and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their adversaries.

There was not one of them left.

¹²Then they believed his words.

They sang his praise.

They soon forgot his works.

They didn’t wait for his counsel,

¹⁴but gave in to craving in the desert,

and tested God in the wasteland.

¹⁵He gave them their request,

but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp,

and Aaron, the LORD’s saint.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸A fire was kindled in their company.

The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb,

and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they exchanged their glory

for an image of a bull that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God, their Savior,

who had done great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham,

and awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,

to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

²⁴Yes, they despised the pleasant land.

They didn’t believe his word,

²⁵but murmured in their tents,

and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.

²⁶Therefore he swore to them

that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations,

and scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,

and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.

The plague broke in on them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment,

so the plague was stopped.

³¹That was credited to him for righteousness,

for all generations to come.

³²They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,

so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

³³because they were rebellious against his spirit,

he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They didn’t destroy the peoples,

as the LORD commanded them,

³⁵but mixed themselves with the nations,

and learned their works.

³⁶They served their idols,

which became a snare to them.

³⁷Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁸They shed innocent blood,

even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.

The land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus they were defiled with their works,

and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people.

He abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹He gave them into the hand of the nations.

Those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them.

They were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³He rescued them many times,

but they were rebellious in their counsel,

and were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress,

when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵He remembered for them his covenant,

and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied

by all those who carried them captive.

Save us, LORD, our God,

gather us from among the nations,

to give thanks to your holy name,

to triumph in your praise!

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,

from everlasting even to everlasting!

Let all the people say, “Amen.”

Praise the LORD!

Psalm 107

BOOK 5

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,

for his loving kindness endures forever.

²Let the redeemed by the LORD say so,

whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

³and gathered out of the lands,

from the east and from the west,

from the north and from the south.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.

They found no city to live in.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷He led them also by a straight way,

that they might go to a city to live in.

⁸Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

For he satisfies the longing soul.

He fills the hungry soul with good.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God,

and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labor.

They fell down, and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

and broke away their chains.

¹⁵Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

For he has broken the gates of bronze,

and cut through bars of iron.

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,

and because of their iniquities.

¹⁸Their soul abhors all kinds of food.

They draw near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,

and he saves them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sends his word, and heals them,

and delivers them from their graves.

²¹Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

and declare his deeds with singing.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,

who do business in great waters,

²⁴these see the LORD’s deeds,

and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵For he commands, and raises the stormy wind,

which lifts up its waves.

²⁶They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.

Their soul melts away because of trouble.

²⁷They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,

and are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,

and he brings them out of their distress.

²⁹He makes the storm a calm,

so that its waves are still.

³⁰Then they are glad because it is calm,

so he brings them to their desired haven.

³¹Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,

and praise him in the seat of the elders.

He turns rivers into a desert,

water springs into a thirsty ground,

³⁴and a fruitful land into a salt waste,

for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

³⁵He turns a desert into a pool of water,

and a dry land into water springs.

³⁶There he makes the hungry live,

that they may prepare a city to live in,

³⁷sow fields, plant vineyards,

and reap the fruits of increase.

³⁸He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.

He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

³⁹Again, they are diminished and bowed down

through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰He pours contempt on princes,

and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

⁴¹Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,

and increases their families like a flock.

⁴²The upright will see it, and be glad.

All the wicked will shut their mouths.

⁴³Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.

They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.

Psalm 108

A Song. A Psalm by David.

¹My heart is steadfast, God.

I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

²Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

³I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations.

I will sing praises to you among the peoples.

⁴For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.

Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

⁵Be exalted, God, above the heavens!

Let your glory be over all the earth.

⁶That your beloved may be delivered,

save with your right hand, and answer us.

⁷God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph,

I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.

Ephraim also is my helmet.

Judah is my scepter.

⁹Moab is my wash pot.

I will toss my sandal on Edom.

I will shout over Philistia.”

¹⁰Who will bring me into the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹Haven’t you rejected us, God?

You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

¹²Give us help against the enemy,

for the help of man is vain.

¹³Through God, we will do valiantly,

for it is he who will tread down our enemies.

Psalm 109

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

¹God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

²for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.

They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,

and fought against me without a cause.

⁴In return for my love, they are my adversaries;

but I am in prayer.

⁵They have rewarded me evil for good,

and hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him.

Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him come out guilty.

Let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸Let his days be few.

Let another take his office.

⁹Let his children be fatherless,

and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be wandering beggars.

Let them be sought from their ruins.

¹¹Let the creditor seize all that he has.

Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

¹²Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,

neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

¹³Let his posterity be cut off.

In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD.

Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually,

that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

¹⁶because he didn’t remember to show kindness,

but persecuted the poor and needy man,

the broken in heart, to kill them.

¹⁷Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.

He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.

It came into his inward parts like water,

like oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,

for the belt that is always around him.

²⁰This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD,

of those who speak evil against my soul.

But deal with me, GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake,

because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

²²for I am poor and needy.

My heart is wounded within me.

²³I fade away like an evening shadow.

I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting.

My body is thin and lacks fat.

²⁵I have also become a reproach to them.

When they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶Help me, LORD, my God.

Save me according to your loving kindness;

²⁷that they may know that this is your hand;

that you, LORD, have done it.

²⁸They may curse, but you bless.

When they arise, they will be shamed,

but your servant shall rejoice.

²⁹Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.

Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth.

Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,

to save him from those who judge his soul.

Psalm 110

A Psalm by David.

¹The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

²The LORD will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion.

Rule among your enemies.

³Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.

Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

⁴The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind:

“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵The Lord is at your right hand.

He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶He will judge among the nations.

He will heap up dead bodies.

He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

⁷He will drink of the brook on the way;

therefore he will lift up his head.

Psalm 111

¹Praise the LORD!

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart,

in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

²The LORD’s works are great,

pondered by all those who delight in them.

³His work is honor and majesty.

His righteousness endures forever.

⁴He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.

The LORD is gracious and merciful.

⁵He has given food to those who fear him.

He always remembers his covenant.

⁶He has shown his people the power of his works,

in giving them the heritage of the nations.

⁷The works of his hands are truth and justice.

All his precepts are sure.

⁸They are established forever and ever.

They are done in truth and uprightness.

⁹He has sent redemption to his people.

He has ordained his covenant forever.

His name is holy and awesome!

¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

All those who do his work have a good understanding.

His praise endures forever!

Psalm 112

¹Praise the LORD!

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,

who delights greatly in his commandments.

²His offspring will be mighty in the land.

The generation of the upright will be blessed.

³Wealth and riches are in his house.

His righteousness endures forever.

⁴Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,

gracious, merciful, and righteous.

⁵It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.

He will maintain his cause in judgment.

⁶For he will never be shaken.

The righteous will be remembered forever.

⁷He will not be afraid of evil news.

His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

⁸His heart is established.

He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

⁹He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.

His righteousness endures forever.

His horn will be exalted with honor.

¹⁰The wicked will see it, and be grieved.

He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.

The desire of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 113

¹Praise the LORD!

Praise, you servants of the LORD,

praise the LORD’s name.

²Blessed be the LORD’s name,

from this time forward and forever more.

³From the rising of the sun to its going down,

the LORD’s name is to be praised.

⁴The LORD is high above all nations,

his glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD, our God,

who has his seat on high,

⁶who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?

⁷He raises up the poor out of the dust,

and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

⁸that he may set him with princes,

even with the princes of his people.

⁹He settles the barren woman in her home

as a joyful mother of children.

Praise the LORD!

Psalm 114

¹When Israel went out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea saw it, and fled.

The Jordan was driven back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the little hills like lambs.

⁵What was it, you sea, that you fled?

You Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶You mountains, that you skipped like rams?

You little hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool of water,

the flint into a spring of waters.

Psalm 115

¹Not to us, LORD, not to us,

but to your name give glory,

for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

²Why should the nations say,

“Where is their God, now?”

³But our God is in the heavens.

He does whatever he pleases.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold,

the work of men’s hands.

⁵They have mouths, but they don’t speak.

They have eyes, but they don’t see.

⁶They have ears, but they don’t hear.

They have noses, but they don’t smell.

⁷They have hands, but they don’t feel.

They have feet, but they don’t walk,

neither do they speak through their throat.

⁸Those who make them will be like them;

yes, everyone who trusts in them.

⁹Israel, trust in the LORD!

He is their help and their shield.

¹⁰House of Aaron, trust in the LORD!

He is their help and their shield.

¹¹You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD!

He is their help and their shield.

¹²The LORD remembers us. He will bless us.

He will bless the house of Israel.

He will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless those who fear the LORD,

both small and great.

¹⁴May the LORD increase you more and more,

you and your children.

¹⁵Blessed are you by the LORD,

who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are the LORD’s heavens,

but he has given the earth to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead don’t praise the LORD,

nor any who go down into silence,

¹⁸but we will bless the LORD,

from this time forward and forever more.

Praise the LORD!

Psalm 116

¹I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice,

and my cries for mercy.

²Because he has turned his ear to me,

therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

³The cords of death surrounded me,

the pains of Sheol got a hold of me.

I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴Then I called on the LORD’s name:

“LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

⁵The LORD is gracious and righteous.

Yes, our God is merciful.

⁶The LORD preserves the simple.

I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷Return to your rest, my soul,

for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸For you have delivered my soul from death,

my eyes from tears,

and my feet from falling.

⁹I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁰I believed, therefore I said,

“I was greatly afflicted.”

¹¹I said in my haste,

“All people are liars.”

¹²What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the LORD’s name.

¹⁴I will pay my vows to the LORD,

yes, in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵Precious in the LORD’s sight is the death of his saints.

¹⁶LORD, truly I am your servant.

I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.

You have freed me from my chains.

¹⁷I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,

and will call on the LORD’s name.

¹⁸I will pay my vows to the LORD,

yes, in the presence of all his people,

¹⁹in the courts of the LORD’s house,

in the middle of you, Jerusalem.

Praise the LORD!