Psalm 63:5-68:25

English Standard Version

⁵ My soul will be ^(A)satisfied as with fat and rich food,
    and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
⁶ when I remember you ^(B)upon my bed,
    and meditate on you in ^(C)the watches of the night;
⁷ for you have been my help,
    and in ^(D)the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
⁸ My soul ^(E)clings to you;
    your right hand ^(F)upholds me.

⁹ But those who seek to destroy my life
    ^(G)shall go down into ^(H)the depths of the earth;
¹⁰ they shall be given over to the power of the sword;
    they shall be a portion for jackals.
¹¹ But ^(I)the king shall rejoice in God;
    all who ^(J)swear by him shall exult,
    ^(K)for the mouths of ^(L)liars will be stopped.

^7 (W)But God shoots his arrow at them;
    they are wounded suddenly.
⁸ They are brought to ruin, with their own ^(X)tongues turned against them;
    all who ^(Y)see them will ^(Z)wag their heads.
⁹ Then all mankind ^(AA)fears;
    they ^(AB)tell what God has brought about
    and ponder what he has done.

¹⁰ Let ^(AC)the righteous one rejoice in the Lord
    and ^(AD)take refuge in him!
Let all ^(AE)the upright in heart exult!

⁵ By ^(AO)awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
    O God of our salvation,
the hope of all ^(AP)the ends of the earth
    and of the farthest seas;
⁶ the one who by his strength established the mountains,
    being ^(AQ)girded with might;
⁷ who ^(AR)stills the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
    ^(AS)the tumult of the peoples,
⁸ so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

⁹ You visit the earth and ^(AT)water it;^[b]
    you greatly enrich it;
^(AU)the river of God is full of water;
    ^(AV)you provide their grain,
    for so you have prepared it.
¹⁰ You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with ^(AW)showers,
    and blessing its growth.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks ^(AX)overflow with abundance.
^12 (AY)The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
    the hills ^(AZ)gird themselves with joy,
^13 (BA)the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
    the valleys deck themselves with grain,
    they ^(BB)shout and sing together for joy.

^5 (BH)Come and see what God has done:
    ^(BI)he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
⁶ He ^(BJ)turned the sea into dry land;
    they ^(BK)passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
⁷     who rules by his might forever,
whose ^(BL)eyes keep watch on the nations—
    let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

⁸ Bless our God, O peoples;
    let the sound of his praise be heard,
⁹ who has kept our soul among the living
    and ^(BM)has not let our feet slip.
¹⁰ For you, O God, have ^(BN)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.
¹¹ You brought us into ^(BO)the net;
    you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
¹² you let men ^(BP)ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through ^(BQ)water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

¹³ I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will ^(BR)perform my vows to you,
¹⁴ that which my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised ^(BS)when I was in trouble.
¹⁵ I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,
    with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

^16 (BT)Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth,
    and high praise was on^[c] my tongue.^[d]
18 If I had ^(BU)cherished iniquity in my heart,
    ^(BV)the Lord would not have listened.
¹⁹ But truly ^(BW)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God,
    because he has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me!

⁴ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
    for you ^(CD)judge the peoples with equity
    and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
^5 (CE)Let the peoples praise you, O God;
    let all the peoples praise you!

⁶ The earth has ^(CF)yielded its increase;
    God, our God, shall bless us.
⁷ God shall bless us;
    let ^(CG)all the ends of the earth fear him!

⁴ Sing to God, ^(CM)sing praises to his name;
    ^(CN)lift up a song to him who ^(CO)rides through ^(CP)the deserts;
his name is ^(CQ)the Lord;
    exult before him!
^5 (CR)Father of the fatherless and ^(CS)protector of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.
⁶ God ^(CT)settles the solitary in a home;
    he ^(CU)leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
    but ^(CV)the rebellious dwell in ^(CW)a parched land.

⁷ O God, when you ^(CX)went out before your people,
    ^(CY)when you marched through ^(CZ)the wilderness, Selah
^8 (DA)the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,
    before God, the One of Sinai,
    before God,^[e] the God of Israel.
^9 (DB)Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
    you restored your inheritance as it languished;
¹⁰ your flock^[f] found a dwelling in it;
    in your goodness, O God, you ^(DC)provided for the needy.

¹¹ The Lord gives ^(DD)the word;
    ^(DE)the women who announce the news are a great host:
^{12     (DF)}“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!”
The women at home ^(DG)divide the spoil—
¹³     though you men lie among ^(DH)the sheepfolds—
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
    its pinions with shimmering gold.
¹⁴ When the Almighty scatters kings there,
    let snow fall on ^(DI)Zalmon.

¹⁵ O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan;
    O many-peaked^[g] mountain, mountain of Bashan!
¹⁶ Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,
    at the mount that God ^(DJ)desired for his abode,
    yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?
^17 (DK)The chariots of God are twice ten thousand,
    thousands upon thousands;
    the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.
^18 (DL)You ascended on high,
    ^(DM)leading a host of captives in your train
    and ^(DN)receiving gifts among men,
even among ^(DO)the rebellious, ^(DP)that the Lord God may dwell there.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily ^(DQ)bears us up;
    God is our salvation. Selah
²⁰ Our God is a God of salvation,
    ^(DR)and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
^21 (DS)But God will strike the heads of his enemies,
    the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
²² The Lord said,
    “I will bring them back ^(DT)from Bashan,
^(DU)I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
²³ that you may ^(DV)strike your feet in their blood,
    that ^(DW)the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

²⁴ Your procession is^[h] seen, O God,
    the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—
^25 (DX)the singers in front, ^(DY)the musicians last,
    between them ^(DZ)virgins playing tambourines: