The Holy Bible

[99:1] The Lord is king, and the people tremble. He sits on his throne above the winged creatures, and the earth shakes.

[99:2] The Lord is mighty in Zion; he is supreme over all the nations.

[99:3] Everyone will praise his great and majestic name. Holy is he!

[99:4] Mighty king, you love what is right; you have established justice in Israel; you have brought righteousness and fairness.

[99:5] Praise the Lord our God; worship before his throne! Holy is he!

[99:6] Moses and Aaron were his priests, and Samuel was one who prayed to him; they called to the Lord, and he answered them.

[99:7] He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they obeyed the laws and commands that he gave them.

[99:8] O Lord, our God, you answered your people; you showed them that you are a God who forgives, even though you punished them for their sins.

[99:9] Praise the Lord our God, and worship at his sacred hill! The Lord our God is holy.

[100:1] Sing to the Lord, all the world!

[100:2] Worship the Lord with joy; come before him with happy songs!

[100:3] Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, we are his flock.

[100:4] Enter the Temple gates with thanksgiving; go into its courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise him.

[100:5] The Lord is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.

[101:1] My song is about loyalty and justice, and I sing it to you, O Lord.

[101:2] My conduct will be faultless. When will you come to me? I will live a pure life in my house

[101:3] and will never tolerate evil. I hate the actions of those who turn away from God; I will have nothing to do with them.

[101:4] I will not be dishonest and will have no dealings with evil.

[101:5] I will get rid of anyone who whispers evil things about someone else; I will not tolerate anyone who is proud and arrogant.

[101:6] I will approve of those who are faithful to God and will let them live in my palace. Those who are completely honest will be allowed to serve me.

[101:7] No liar will live in my palace; no hypocrite will remain in my presence.

[101:8] Day after day I will destroy the wicked in our land; I will expel all who are evil from the city of the Lord.

[102:1] Listen to my prayer, O Lord, and hear my cry for help!

[102:2] When I am in trouble, don't turn away from me! Listen to me, and answer me quickly when I call!

[102:3] My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.

[102:4] I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.

[102:5] I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.

[102:6] I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.

[102:7] I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.

[102:8] All day long my enemies insult me; those who mock me use my name in cursing. ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.

[102:11] My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.

[102:12] But you, O Lord, are king forever; all generations will remember you.

[102:13] You will rise and take pity on Zion; the time has come to have mercy on her; this is the right time.

[102:14] Your servants love her, even though she is destroyed; they have pity on her, even though she is in ruins.

[102:15] The nations will fear the Lord; all the kings of the earth will fear his power.

[102:16] When the Lord rebuilds Zion, he will reveal his greatness.

[102:17] He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer.

[102:18] Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done, so that people not yet born will praise him.

[102:19] The Lord looked down from his holy place on high, he looked down from heaven to earth.

[102:20] He heard the groans of prisoners and set free those who were condemned to die.

[102:21] And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion, and he will be praised in Jerusalem

[102:22] when nations and kingdoms come together and worship the Lord.

[102:23] The Lord has made me weak while I am still young; he has shortened my life.

[102:24] O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O Lord, you live forever;

[102:25] long ago you created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.

[102:26] They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes. You will discard them like clothes, and they will vanish.

[102:27] But you are always the same, and your life never ends.

[102:28] Our children will live in safety, and under your protection their descendants will be secure.

[103:1] Praise the Lord, my soul! All my being, praise his holy name!

[103:2] Praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget how kind he is.

[103:3] He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.

[103:4] He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy.

[103:5] He fills my life with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.

[103:6] The Lord judges in favor of the oppressed and gives them their rights.

[103:7] He revealed his plans to Moses and let the people of Israel see his mighty deeds.

[103:8] The Lord is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love.

[103:9] He does not keep on rebuking; he is not angry forever.

[103:10] He does not punish us as we deserve or repay us according to our sins and wrongs.

[103:11] As high as the sky is above the earth, so great is his love for those who honor him.

[103:12] As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us.

[103:13] As a father is kind to his children, so the Lord is kind to those who honor him.

[103:14] He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.

[103:15] As for us, our life is like grass. We grow and flourish like a wild flower;

[103:16] then the wind blows on it, and it is gone— no one sees it again.

[103:17] But for those who honor the Lord, his love lasts forever, and his goodness endures for all generations

[103:18] of those who are true to his covenant and who faithfully obey his commands.

[103:19] The Lord placed his throne in heaven; he is king over all.

[103:20] Praise the Lord, you strong and mighty angels, who obey his commands, who listen to what he says.

[103:21] Praise the Lord, all you heavenly powers, you servants of his, who do his will!

[103:22] Praise the Lord, all his creatures in all the places he rules. Praise the Lord, my soul!

[104:1] Praise the Lord, my soul! O Lord, my God, how great you are! You are clothed with majesty and glory;

[104:2] you cover yourself with light. You have spread out the heavens like a tent

[104:3] and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.

[104:4] You use the winds as your messengers and flashes of lightning as your servants.

[104:5] You have set the earth firmly on its foundations, and it will never be moved.

[104:6] You placed the ocean over it like a robe, and the water covered the mountains.

[104:7] When you rebuked the waters, they fled; they rushed away when they heard your shout of command.

[104:8] They flowed over the mountains and into the valleys, to the place you had made for them.

[104:9] You set a boundary they can never pass, to keep them from covering the earth again.

[104:10] You make springs flow in the valleys, and rivers run between the hills.

[104:11] They provide water for the wild animals; there the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

[104:12] In the trees near by, the birds make their nests and sing.

[104:13] From the sky you send rain on the hills, and the earth is filled with your blessings.

[104:14] You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our crops

[104:15] and produce wine to make us happy, olive oil to make us cheerful, and bread to give us strength.

[104:16] The cedars of Lebanon get plenty of rain— the Lord's own trees, which he planted.

[104:17] There the birds build their nests; the storks nest in the fir trees.

[104:18] The wild goats live in the high mountains, and the rock badgers hide in the cliffs.

[104:19] You created the moon to mark the months; the sun knows the time to set.

[104:20] You made the night, and in the darkness all the wild animals come out.

[104:21] The young lions roar while they hunt, looking for the food that God provides.

[104:22] When the sun rises, they go back and lie down in their dens.

[104:23] Then people go out to do their work and keep working until evening.

[104:24] Lord, you have made so many things! How wisely you made them all! The earth is filled with your creatures.

[104:25] There is the ocean, large and wide, where countless creatures live, large and small alike.

[104:26] The ships sail on it, and in it plays Leviathan, that sea monster which you made.

[104:27] All of them depend on you to give them food when they need it.

[104:28] You give it to them, and they eat it; you provide food, and they are satisfied.

[104:29] When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

[104:30] But when you give them breath, they are created; you give new life to the earth.

[104:31] May the glory of the Lord last forever! May the Lord be happy with what he has made!

[104:32] He looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

[104:33] I will sing to the Lord all my life; as long as I live I will sing praises to my God.

[104:34] May he be pleased with my song, for my gladness comes from him.

[104:35] May sinners be destroyed from the earth; may the wicked be no more. Praise the Lord, my soul! Praise the Lord!

[105:1] Give thanks to the Lord, proclaim his greatness; tell the nations what he has done.

[105:2] Sing praise to the Lord; tell the wonderful things he has done.

[105:3] Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice.

[105:4] Go to the Lord for help; and worship him continually. you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose: remember the miracles that God performed and the judgments that he gave.

[105:7] The Lord is our God; his commands are for all the world.

[105:8] He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.

[105:9] He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.

[105:10] The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

[105:11] “I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said. “It will be your own possession.”

[105:12] God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.

[105:13] They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.

[105:14] But God let no one oppress them; to protect them, he warned the kings:

[105:15] “Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets.”

[105:16] The Lord sent famine to their country and took away all their food.

[105:17] But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

[105:18] His feet were kept in chains, and an iron collar was around his neck,

[105:19] until what he had predicted came true. The word of the Lord proved him right.

[105:20] Then the king of Egypt had him released; the ruler of nations set him free.

[105:21] He put him in charge of his government and made him ruler over all the land,

[105:22] with power over the king's officials and authority to instruct his advisers.

[105:23] Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.

[105:24] The Lord gave many children to his people and made them stronger than their enemies.

[105:25] He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.

[105:26] Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

[105:27] They did God's mighty acts and performed miracles in Egypt.

[105:28] God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

[105:29] He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.

[105:30] Their country was overrun with frogs; even the palace was filled with them.

[105:31] God commanded, and flies and gnats swarmed throughout the whole country.

[105:32] He sent hail and lightning on their land instead of rain;

[105:33] he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees and broke down all the trees.

[105:34] He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;

[105:35] they ate all the plants in the land; they ate all the crops.

[105:36] He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.

[105:37] Then he led the Israelites out; they carried silver and gold, and all of them were healthy and strong.

[105:38] The Egyptians were afraid of them and were glad when they left.

[105:39] God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.

[105:40] They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.

[105:41] He opened a rock, and water gushed out, flowing through the desert like a river.

[105:42] He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

[105:43] So he led his chosen people out, and they sang and shouted for joy.

[105:44] He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,

[105:45] so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the Lord!

[106:1] Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good; his love is eternal.

[106:2] Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough?

[106:3] Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.

[106:4] Remember me, Lord, when you help your people; include me when you save them.

[106:5] Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

[106:6] We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.

[106:7] Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.

[106:8] But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.

[106:9] He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.

[106:10] He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.

[106:11] But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.

[106:12] Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.

[106:13] But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.

[106:14] They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;

[106:15] so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.

[106:16] There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the Lord's holy servant.

[106:17] Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;

[106:18] fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.

[106:19] They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;

[106:20] they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.

[106:21] They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.

[106:22] What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!

[106:23] When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.

[106:24] Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.

[106:25] They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the Lord.

[106:26] So he gave them a solemn warning that he would make them die in the desert

[106:27] and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.

[106:28] Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.

[106:29] They stirred up the Lord's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.

[106:30] But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.

[106:31] This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.

[106:32] At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.

[106:33] They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.

[106:34] They did not kill the heathen, as the Lord had commanded them to do,

[106:35] but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.

[106:36] God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.

[106:37] They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.

[106:38] They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.

[106:39] They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.

[106:40] So the Lord was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.

[106:41] He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.

[106:42] They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.

[106:43] Many times the Lord rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.

[106:44] Yet the Lord heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.

[106:45] For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.

[106:46] He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.

[106:47] Save us, O Lord our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.

[106:48] Praise the Lord, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, “Amen!”

[107:1] “Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good; his love is eternal!”

[107:2] Repeat these words in praise to the Lord, all you whom he has saved. He has rescued you from your enemies

[107:3] and has brought you back from foreign countries, from east and west, from north and south.

[107:4] Some wandered in the trackless desert and could not find their way to a city to live in.

[107:5] They were hungry and thirsty and had given up all hope.

[107:6] Then in their trouble they called to the Lord, and he saved them from their distress.

[107:7] He led them by a straight road to a city where they could live.

[107:8] They must thank the Lord for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

[107:9] He satisfies those who are thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

[107:10] Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

[107:11] because they had rebelled against the commands of Almighty God and had rejected his instructions.

[107:12] They were worn out from hard work; they would fall down, and no one would help.

[107:13] Then in their trouble they called to the Lord, and he saved them from their distress.

[107:14] He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains in pieces.

[107:15] They must thank the Lord for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

[107:16] He breaks down doors of bronze and smashes iron bars.

[107:17] Some were fools, suffering because of their sins and because of their evil;

[107:18] they couldn't stand the sight of food and were close to death.

[107:19] Then in their trouble they called to the Lord, and he saved them from their distress.

[107:20] He healed them with his command and saved them from the grave.

[107:21] They must thank the Lord for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

[107:22] They must thank him with sacrifices, and with songs of joy must tell all that he has done.

[107:23] Some sailed over the ocean in ships, earning their living on the seas.

[107:24] They saw what the Lord can do, his wonderful acts on the seas.

[107:25] He commanded, and a mighty wind began to blow and stirred up the waves.

[107:26] The ships were lifted high in the air and plunged down into the depths. In such danger the sailors lost their courage;

[107:27] they stumbled and staggered like drunks— all their skill was useless.

[107:28] Then in their trouble they called to the Lord, and he saved them from their distress.

[107:29] He calmed the raging storm, and the waves became quiet.

[107:30] They were glad because of the calm, and he brought them safe to the port they wanted.

[107:31] They must thank the Lord for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

[107:32] They must proclaim his greatness in the assembly of the people and praise him before the council of the leaders.

[107:33] The Lord made rivers dry up completely and stopped springs from flowing.

[107:34] He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

[107:35] He changed deserts into pools of water and dry land into flowing springs.

[107:36] He let hungry people settle there, and they built a city to live in.

[107:37] They sowed the fields and planted grapevines and reaped an abundant harvest.

[107:38] He blessed his people, and they had many children; he kept their herds of cattle from decreasing.

[107:39] When God's people were defeated and humiliated by cruel oppression and suffering,

[107:40] he showed contempt for their oppressors and made them wander in trackless deserts.

[107:41] But he rescued the needy from their misery and made their families increase like flocks.

[107:42] The righteous see this and are glad, but all the wicked are put to silence.

[107:43] May those who are wise think about these things; may they consider the Lord's constant love.

[108:1] I have complete confidence, O God! I will sing and praise you! Wake up, my soul!

[108:2] Wake up, my harp and lyre! I will wake up the sun.

[108:3] I will thank you, O Lord, among the nations. I will praise you among the peoples.

[108:4] Your constant love reaches above the heavens; your faithfulness touches the skies.

[108:5] Show your greatness in the sky, O God, and your glory over all the earth.

[108:6] Save us by your might; answer my prayer, so that the people you love may be rescued.

[108:7] From his sanctuary God has said, “In triumph I will divide Shechem and distribute Sukkoth Valley to my people.

[108:8] Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too; Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my royal scepter.

[108:9] But I will use Moab as my washbowl, and I will throw my sandals on Edom, as a sign that I own it. I will shout in triumph over the Philistines.”

[108:10] Who, O God, will take me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

[108:11] Have you really rejected us? Aren't you going to march out with our armies?

[108:12] Help us against the enemy; human help is worthless.

[108:13] With God on our side we will win; he will defeat our enemies.