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¹I will sing of the LORD’s unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.

²Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

³The LORD said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him:

⁴‘I will establish your descendants as kings forever; they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.’” Interlude

⁵All heaven will praise your great wonders, LORD; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.

⁶For who in all of heaven can compare with the LORD? What mightiest angel is anything like the LORD?

⁷The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.

⁸O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O LORD? You are entirely faithful.

⁹You rule the oceans. You subdue their storm-tossed waves.

¹⁰You crushed the great sea monster. You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

¹¹The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours — you created it all.

¹²You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.

¹³Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.

¹⁵Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

¹⁶They rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation. They exult in your righteousness.

¹⁷You are their glorious strength. It pleases you to make us strong.

¹⁸Yes, our protection comes from the LORD, and he, the Holy One of Israel, has given us our king.

¹⁹Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, “I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.

²⁰I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

²¹I will steady him with my hand; with my powerful arm I will make him strong.

²²His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him.

²³I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and by my authority he will grow in power.

²⁵I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.

²⁶And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.

²⁸I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

²⁹I will preserve an heir for him; his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.

³⁰But if his descendants forsake my instructions and fail to obey my regulations,

³¹if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their disobedience with beating.

³³But I will never stop loving him nor fail to keep my promise to him.

³⁴No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.

³⁵I have sworn an oath to David, and in my holiness I cannot lie:

³⁶His dynasty will go on forever; his kingdom will endure as the sun.

³⁷It will be as eternal as the moon, my faithful witness in the sky!” Interlude

³⁸But now you have rejected him and cast him off. You are angry with your anointed king.

³⁹You have renounced your covenant with him; you have thrown his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.

⁴¹Everyone who comes along has robbed him, and he has become a joke to his neighbors.

⁴²You have strengthened his enemies and made them all rejoice.

⁴³You have made his sword useless and refused to help him in battle.

⁴⁴You have ended his splendor and overturned his throne.

⁴⁵You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him. Interlude

⁴⁶O LORD, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

⁴⁸No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave. Interlude

⁴⁹Lord, where is your unfailing love? You promised it to David with a faithful pledge.

⁵⁰Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced! I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.

⁵¹Your enemies have mocked me, O LORD; they mock your anointed king wherever he goes.

⁵²Praise the LORD forever! Amen and amen!

¹Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!

²Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.

³You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!”

⁴For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours.

⁵You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.

⁶In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.

⁷We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.

⁸You spread out our sins before you — our secret sins — and you see them all.

⁹We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.

¹⁰Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

¹¹Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.

¹²Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

¹³O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.

¹⁵Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.

¹⁶Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory.

¹⁷And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!

¹Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

²This I declare about the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him.

³For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.

⁴He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

⁵Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day.

⁶Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday.

⁷Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.

⁸Just open your eyes, and see how the wicked are punished.

⁹If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter,

¹⁰no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.

¹¹For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.

¹²They will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.

¹³You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!

¹⁴The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.

¹⁵When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.

¹⁶I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.”

¹It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to the Most High.

²It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening,

³accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, a harp, and the melody of a lyre.

⁴You thrill me, LORD, with all you have done for me! I sing for joy because of what you have done.

⁵O LORD, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.

⁶Only a simpleton would not know, and only a fool would not understand this:

⁷Though the wicked sprout like weeds and evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

⁸But you, O LORD, will be exalted forever.

⁹Your enemies, LORD, will surely perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰But you have made me as strong as a wild ox. You have anointed me with the finest oil.

¹¹My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the defeat of my wicked opponents.

¹²But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

¹³For they are transplanted to the LORD’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green.

¹⁵They will declare, “The LORD is just! He is my rock! There is no evil in him!”

¹The LORD is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.

²Your throne, O LORD, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past.

³The floods have risen up, O LORD. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.

⁴But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore — the LORD above is mightier than these!

⁵Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O LORD, is holy forever and ever.

¹O LORD, the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth!

²Arise, O Judge of the earth. Give the proud what they deserve.

³How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

⁴How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?

⁵They crush your people, LORD, hurting those you claim as your own.

⁶They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.

⁷“The LORD isn’t looking,” they say, “and besides, the God of Israel doesn’t care.”

⁸Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?

⁹Is he deaf — the one who made your ears? Is he blind — the one who formed your eyes?

¹⁰He punishes the nations — won’t he also punish you? He knows everything — doesn’t he also know what you are doing?

¹¹The LORD knows people’s thoughts; he knows they are worthless!

¹²Joyful are those you discipline, LORD, those you teach with your instructions.

¹³You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked.

¹⁴The LORD will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession.

¹⁵Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.

¹⁶Who will protect me from the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

¹⁸I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me.

¹⁹When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.

²⁰Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side — leaders whose decrees permit injustice?

²¹They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD is my fortress; my God is the mighty rock where I hide.

²³God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. The LORD our God will destroy them.