Psalm 92-97

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ How great are your works, O Lord!
    Your thoughts are very deep!^(D)
6 The dullard cannot know;
    the stupid cannot understand this:
⁷ though the wicked sprout like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,^(E)
8     but you, O Lord, are on high forever.^(F)
9 For your enemies, O Lord,
    for your enemies shall perish;
    all evildoers shall be scattered.^(G)

¹⁰ But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
    you have anointed me with fresh oil.
¹¹ My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
    my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.^(H)

¹² The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.^(I)
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,^(J)
15 showing that the Lord is upright;
    he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.^(K)

³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
⁴ More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
    more majestic than the waves^[a] of the sea,
    majestic on high is the Lord!^(N)

⁵ Your decrees are very sure;
    holiness befits your house,
    O Lord, forevermore.^(O)

⁴ They pour out their arrogant words;
    all the evildoers boast.^(S)
5 They crush your people, O Lord,
    and afflict your heritage.
⁶ They kill the widow and the stranger;
    they murder the orphan,
⁷ and they say, “The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.”^(T)

⁸ Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?^(U)
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?^(V)
10 He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
    does he not chastise?^(W)
11 The Lord knows our thoughts,^[b]
    that they are but an empty breath.^(X)

¹² Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,^(Y)
13 giving them respite from days of trouble,
    until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not forsake his people;
    he will not abandon his heritage;^(Z)
15 for justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?^(AA)
17 If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.^(AB)
18 When I thought, “My foot is slipping,”
    your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.^(AC)
19 When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.^(AD)
20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who contrive mischief by statute?^(AE)
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn the innocent to death.^(AF)
22 But the Lord has become my stronghold
    and my God the rock of my refuge.^(AG)
23 He will repay them for their iniquity
    and wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.^(AH)

⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!^(AM)
7 For he is our God,
    and we are the people of his pasture
    and the sheep of his hand.

O that today you would listen to his voice!^(AN)
8     Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
    as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,^(AO)
9 when your ancestors tested me
    and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.^(AP)
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
    and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
    and they do not regard my ways.”^(AQ)
11 Therefore in my anger I swore,
    “They shall not enter my rest.”^(AR)

⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.^(AY)
8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering, and come into his courts.^(AZ)
9 Worship the Lord in holy splendor;
    tremble before him, all the earth.^(BA)

¹⁰ Say among the nations, “The Lord is king!
    The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved.
    He will judge the peoples with equity.”^(BB)
11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
    let the sea roar and all that fills it;^(BC)
12     let the field exult and everything in it.
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
¹³     before the Lord, for he is coming,
    for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
    and the peoples with his truth.^(BD)

⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
    and all the peoples behold his glory.
⁷ All servants of images are put to shame,
    those who make their boast in worthless idols;
    all gods bow down before him.^(BI)
8 Zion hears and is glad,
    and the towns^[c] of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments, O God.^(BJ)
9 For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;
    you are exalted far above all gods.^(BK)

¹⁰ You who love the Lord, hate evil;
    he guards the lives of his faithful;
    he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.^(BL)
11 Light dawns^[d] for the righteous
    and joy for the upright in heart.^(BM)
12 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
    and give thanks to his holy name!