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Psalm 33

1 All you who are righteous, shout joyfully to the LORD! It's right for those who do right to praise God.

1 Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising.

2 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre! Sing praises to him with the ten-stringed harp!

2 Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano!

3 Sing to him a new song! Play your best with joyful shouts!

3 Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare.

4 Because the LORD's word is right, his every act is done in good faith.

4 For God's Word is solid to the core; everything he makes is sound inside and out.

5 He loves righteousness and justice; the LORD's faithful love fills the whole earth.

5 He loves it when everything fits, when his world is in plumb-line true. Earth is drenched in God's affectionate satisfaction.

6 The skies were made by the LORD's word, all their starry multitude by the breath of his mouth.

6 The skies were made by God's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out.

7 He gathered the ocean waters into a heap; he put the deep seas into storerooms.

7 He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.

8 All the earth honors the LORD; all the earth's inhabitants stand in awe of him.

8 Earth-creatures, bow before God; world-dwellers - down on your knees!

9 Because when he spoke, it happened! When he commanded, there it was!

9 Here's why: he spoke and there it was, in place the moment he said so.

10 The LORD overrules what the nations plan; he frustrates what the peoples intend to do.

10 God takes the wind out of Babel pretense, he shoots down the world's power-schemes.

11 But the LORD's plan stands forever; what he intends to do lasts from one generation to the next.

11 God's plan for the world stands up, all his designs are made to last.

12 The nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom God has chosen as his possession, is truly happy!

12 Blessed is the country with God for God; blessed are the people he's put in his will.

13 The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees every human being.

13 From high in the skies God looks around, he sees all Adam's brood.

14 From his dwelling place God observes all who live on earth.

14 From where he sits he overlooks all us earth-dwellers.

15 God is the one who made all their hearts, the one who knows everything they do.

15 He has shaped each person in turn; now he watches everything we do.

16 Kings aren't saved by the strength of their armies; warriors aren't rescued by how much power they have.

16 No king succeeds with a big army alone, no warrior wins by brute strength.

17 A warhorse is a bad bet for victory; it can't save despite its great strength.

17 Horsepower is not the answer; no one gets by on muscle alone.

18 But look here: the LORD's eyes watch all who honor him, all who wait for his faithful love,

18 Watch this: God's eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love.

19 to deliver their lives from death and keep them alive during a famine.

19 He's ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together.

20 We put our hope in the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

20 We're depending on God; he's everything we need.

21 Our heart rejoices in God because we trust his holy name.

21 What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name.

22 LORD, let your faithful love surround us because we wait for you.

22 Love us, God, with all you've got - that's what we're depending on.