Psalm 112-114

English Standard Version

The Righteous Will Never Be Moved

112 ^[a] ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
    who ^(C)greatly delights in his commandments!
²His ^(D)offspring will be mighty in the land;
    ^(E)the generation of the upright will be blessed.
³^(F)Wealth and riches are in his house,
    and his ^(G)righteousness endures forever.
⁴Light dawns in the darkness ^(H)for the upright;
    he is gracious, merciful, and ^(I)righteous.
⁵It is well with the man who ^(J)deals generously and lends;
    who conducts his affairs with justice.
⁶For the righteous will ^(K)never be moved;
    ^(L)he will be remembered forever.
⁷He is not ^(M)afraid of bad news;
    his ^(N)heart is firm, ^(O)trusting in the Lord.
⁸His heart is steady;^[b] he will not be afraid,
    until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
⁹He has ^(P)distributed freely; he has given to the poor;
    his righteousness endures forever;
    his ^(Q)horn is exalted in honor.
¹⁰The wicked man sees it and is angry;
    he ^(R)gnashes his teeth and ^(S)melts away;
    ^(T)the desire of the wicked will perish!

Who Is like the Lord Our God?

113 ^(U)Praise the Lord!
^(V)Praise, O ^(W)servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!

²^(X)Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore!
³^(Y)From the rising of the sun to its setting,
^(Z)the name of the Lord is ^(AA)to be praised!

⁴The Lord is ^(AB)high above all nations,
    and his ^(AC)glory above the heavens!
⁵^(AD)Who is like the Lord our God,
    who is seated on high,
⁶who ^(AE)looks far down
    on the heavens and the earth?
⁷He ^(AF)raises the poor from the dust
    and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
⁸to make them ^(AG)sit with princes,
    with the princes of his people.
⁹He ^(AH)gives the barren woman a home,
    making her the joyous mother of children.
^(AI)Praise the Lord!

Tremble at the Presence of the Lord

114 When ^(AJ)Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from ^(AK)a people of strange language,
²Judah became his ^(AL)sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.

³^(AM)The sea looked and fled;
^(AN)Jordan turned back.
⁴^(AO)The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.

⁵What ^(AP)ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
⁶O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

⁷^(AQ)Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸who turns ^(AR)the rock into ^(AS)a pool of water,
^(AT)the flint into a spring of water.

Footnotes

Psalm 112:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Psalm 112:8 Or established (compare 111:8)