Psalm 66-69

New King James Version

⁵ Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.
^6 (E)He turned the sea into dry land;
^(F)They went through the river on foot.
There we will rejoice in Him.
⁷ He rules by His power forever;
His eyes observe the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

⁸ Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
⁹ Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our feet to ^[a]be moved.
¹⁰ For ^(G)You, O God, have tested us;
^(H)You have refined us as silver is refined.
^11 (I)You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on our backs.
^12 (J)You have caused men to ride over our heads;
^(K)We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to ^[b]rich fulfillment.

^13 (L)I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;
^(M)I will pay You my ^[c]vows,
¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered
And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
¹⁵ I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
With the sweet aroma of rams;
I will offer bulls with goats. Selah

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare what He has done for my soul.
¹⁷ I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was ^[d]extolled with my tongue.
^18 (N)If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
¹⁹ But certainly God ^(O)has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!

³ Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
⁴ Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
For ^(S)You shall judge the people righteously,
And govern the nations on earth. Selah

⁵ Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
^6 (T)Then the earth shall ^[f]yield her increase;
God, our own God, shall bless us.
⁷ God shall bless us,
And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
^(Y)Extol^[g] Him who rides on the ^[h]clouds,
^(Z)By His name ^[i]Yah,
And rejoice before Him.

^5 (AA)A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
^6 (AB)God sets the solitary in families;
^(AC)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But ^(AD)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

⁷ O God, ^(AE)when You went out before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah
⁸ The earth shook;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
^9 (AF)You, O God, sent a plentiful rain,
Whereby You confirmed Your inheritance,
When it was weary.
¹⁰ Your congregation dwelt in it;
^(AG)You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.

¹¹ The Lord gave the word;
Great was the ^[j]company of those who proclaimed it:
¹² “Kings^(AH) of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home divides the ^[k]spoil.
^13 (AI)Though you lie down among the ^[l]sheepfolds,
^(AJ)You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her feathers with yellow gold.”
^14 (AK)When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
It was white as snow in Zalmon.

¹⁵ A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
¹⁶ Why do you ^[m]fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
^(AL)This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in;
Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.

^17 (AM)The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of thousands;
The Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.
^18 (AN)You have ascended on high,
^(AO)You have led captivity captive;
^(AP)You have received gifts among men,
Even from ^(AQ)the rebellious,
^(AR)That the Lord God might dwell there.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation! Selah
²⁰ Our God is the God of salvation;
And ^(AS)to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

²¹ But ^(AT)God will wound the head of His enemies,
^(AU)The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses.
²² The Lord said, “I will bring ^(AV)back from Bashan,
I will bring them back ^(AW)from the depths of the sea,
^23 (AX)That ^[n]your foot may crush them in blood,
^(AY)And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

²⁴ They have seen Your ^[o]procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
^25 (AZ)The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
Among them were the maidens playing timbrels.
²⁶ Bless God in the congregations,
The Lord, from ^(BA)the fountain of Israel.
^27 (BB)There is little Benjamin, their leader,
The princes of Judah and their ^[p]company,
The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

^28 [q]Your God has ^(BC)commanded your strength;
Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.
²⁹ Because of Your temple at Jerusalem,
^(BD)Kings will bring presents to You.
³⁰ Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
^(BE)The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Till everyone ^(BF)submits himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
^31 (BG)Envoys will come out of Egypt;
^(BH)Ethiopia will quickly ^(BI)stretch out her hands to God.

³² Sing to God, you ^(BJ)kingdoms of the earth;
Oh, sing praises to the Lord, Selah
³³ To Him ^(BK)who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old!
Indeed, He sends out His voice, a ^(BL)mighty voice.
^34 (BM)Ascribe strength to God;
His excellence is over Israel,
And His strength is in the clouds.
³⁵ O God, ^(BN)You are more awesome than Your holy places.
The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people.

Blessed be God!

⁴ Those who ^(BS)hate me without a cause
Are more than the hairs of my head;
They are mighty who would destroy me,
Being my enemies wrongfully;
Though I have stolen nothing,
I still must restore it.

⁵ O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not hidden from You.
⁶ Let not those who ^[t]wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
Let not those who seek You be ^[u]confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
⁷ Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
^8 (BT)I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;
^9 (BU)Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
^(BV)And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
¹¹ I also ^[v]made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
¹² Those who ^[w]sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of the ^(BW)drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to You,
O Lord, in the acceptable time;
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire,
And let me not sink;
Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
And out of the deep waters.
¹⁵ Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
¹⁷ And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me speedily.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ You know ^(BX)my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of ^[x]heaviness;
^(BY)I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for ^(BZ)comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They also gave me gall for my food,
^(CA)And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

^22 (CB)Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
^23 (CC)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake continually.
^24 (CD)Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
^25 (CE)Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.
²⁶ For they persecute the ones ^(CF)You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
^27 (CG)Add iniquity to their iniquity,
^(CH)And let them not come into Your righteousness.
²⁸ Let them ^(CI)be blotted out of the book of the living,
^(CJ)And not be written with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
^30 (CK)I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
^31 (CL)This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
^32 (CM)The humble shall see this and be glad;
And you who seek God, ^(CN)your hearts shall live.
³³ For the Lord hears the poor,
And does not despise ^(CO)His prisoners.

^34 (CP)Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas ^(CQ)and everything that moves in them.
^35 (CR)For God will save Zion
And build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
³⁶ Also, ^(CS)the ^[y]descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name shall dwell in it.