Psalms 89; Psalms 96; Psalms 100; Psalms 101; Psalms 105; Psalms 132

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Psalms 89

1 O Lord, I will always sing of your constant love; I will proclaim your faithfulness forever.

2 I know that your love will last for all time, that your faithfulness is as permanent as the sky.

3 You said, "I have made a covenant with the man I chose; I have promised my servant David,

4 "A descendant of yours will always be king; I will preserve your dynasty forever.' "

5 The heavens sing of the wonderful things you do; the holy ones sing of your faithfulness, Lord.

6 No one in heaven is like you, Lord; none of the heavenly beings is your equal.

7 You are feared in the council of the holy ones; they all stand in awe of you.

8 Lord God Almighty, none is as mighty as you; in all things you are faithful, O Lord.

9 You rule over the powerful sea; you calm its angry waves.

10 You crushed the monster Rahab and killed it; with your mighty strength you defeated your enemies.

11 Heaven is yours, the earth also; you made the world and everything in it.

12 You created the north and the south; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon sing to you for joy.

13 How powerful you are! How great is your strength!

14 Your kingdom is founded on righteousness and justice; love and faithfulness are shown in all you do.

15 How happy are the people who worship you with songs, who live in the light of your kindness!

16 Because of you they rejoice all day long, and they praise you for your goodness.

17 You give us great victories; in your love you make us triumphant.

18 You, O Lord, chose our protector; you, the Holy God of Israel, gave us our king.

19 In a vision long ago you said to your faithful servants, "I have given help to a famous soldier; I have given the throne to one I chose from the people.

20 I have made my servant David king by anointing him with holy oil.

21 My strength will always be with him, my power will make him strong.

22 His enemies will never succeed against him; the wicked will not defeat him.

23 I will crush his foes and kill everyone who hates him.

24 I will love him and be loyal to him; I will make him always victorious.

25 I will extend his kingdom from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River.

26 He will say to me, "You are my father and my God; you are my protector and savior.'

27 I will make him my first-born son, the greatest of all kings.

28 I will always keep my promise to him, and my covenant with him will last forever.

29 His dynasty will be as permanent as the sky; a descendant of his will always be king.

30 "But if his descendants disobey my law and do not live according to my commands,

31 if they disregard my instructions and do not keep my commandments,

32 then I will punish them for their sins; I will make them suffer for their wrongs.

33 But I will not stop loving David or fail to keep my promise to him.

34 I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

35 "Once and for all I have promised by my holy name: I will never lie to David.

36 He will always have descendants, and I will watch over his kingdom as long as the sun shines.

37 It will be as permanent as the moon, that faithful witness in the sky."

38 But you are angry with your chosen king; you have deserted and rejected him.

39 You have broken your covenant with your servant and thrown his crown in the dirt.

40 You have torn down the walls of his city and left his forts in ruins.

41 All who pass by steal his belongings; all his neighbors laugh at him.

42 You have given the victory to his enemies; you have made them all happy.

43 You have made his weapons useless and let him be defeated in battle.

44 You have taken away his royal scepter and knocked his throne to the ground.

45 You have made him old before his time and covered him with disgrace.

46 Lord, will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

48 Who can live and never die? How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

49 Lord, where are the former proofs of your love? Where are the promises you made to David?

50 Don't forget how I, your servant, am insulted, how I endure all the curses of the heathen.

51 Your enemies insult your chosen king, O Lord! They insult him wherever he goes.

52 Praise the Lord forever! Amen! Amen!

Psalms 96

1 Sing a new song to the Lord! Sing to the Lord, all the world!

2 Sing to the Lord, and praise him! Proclaim every day the good news that he has saved us.

3 Proclaim his glory to the nations, his mighty deeds to all peoples.

4 The Lord is great and is to be highly praised; he is to be honored more than all the gods.

5 The gods of all other nations are only idols, but the Lord created the heavens.

6 Glory and majesty surround him; power and beauty fill his Temple.

7 Praise the Lord, all people on earth; praise his glory and might.

8 Praise the Lord's glorious name; bring an offering and come into his Temple.

9 Bow down before the Holy One when he appears; tremble before him, all the earth!

10 Say to all the nations, "The Lord is king! The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with justice."

11 Be glad, earth and sky! Roar, sea, and every creature in you;

12 be glad, fields, and everything in you! The trees in the woods will shout for joy

13 when the Lord comes to rule the earth. He will rule the peoples of the world with justice and fairness.

Psalms 100

1 Sing to the Lord, all the world!

2 Worship the Lord with joy; come before him with happy songs!

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

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

5 The Lord is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.

Psalms 101

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

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

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.

4 I will not be dishonest and will have no dealings with evil.

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

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.

7 No liar will live in my palace; no hypocrite will remain in my presence.

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.

Psalms 105

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

2 Sing praise to the Lord; tell the wonderful things he has done.

3 Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice.

4 Go to the Lord for help; and worship him continually.

5 You descendants of Abraham, his servant; you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose: remember the miracles that God performed and the judgments that he gave.

7 The Lord is our God; his commands are for all the world.

8 He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.

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

10 The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

11 "I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."

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

13 They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.

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

15 "Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

16 The Lord sent famine to their country and took away all their food.

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

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

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

20 Then the king of Egypt had him released; the ruler of nations set him free.

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

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

23 Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.

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

25 He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.

26 Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27 They did God's mighty acts and performed miracles in Egypt.

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

29 He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.

30 Their country was overrun with frogs; even the palace was filled with them.

31 God commanded, and flies and gnats swarmed throughout the whole country.

32 He sent hail and lightning on their land instead of rain;

33 he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees and broke down all the trees.

34 He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;

35 they ate all the plants in the land; they ate all the crops.

36 He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.

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

38 The Egyptians were afraid of them and were glad when they left.

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

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

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

42 He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

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

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

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

Psalms 132

1 Lord, do not forget David and all the hardships he endured.

2 Remember, Lord, what he promised, the vow he made to you, the Mighty God of Jacob:

3 "I will not go home or go to bed;

4 I will not rest or sleep,

5 until I provide a place for the Lord, a home for the Mighty God of Jacob."

6 In Bethlehem we heard about the Covenant Box, and we found it in the fields of Jearim.

7 We said, "Let us go to the Lord's house; let us worship before his throne."

8 Come to the Temple, Lord, with the Covenant Box, the symbol of your power, and stay here forever.

9 May your priests do always what is right; may your people shout for joy!

10 You made a promise to your servant David; do not reject your chosen king, Lord.

11 You made a solemn promise to David - a promise you will not take back: "I will make one of your sons king, and he will rule after you.

12 If your sons are true to my covenant and to the commands I give them, their sons, also, will succeed you for all time as kings."

13 The Lord has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:

14 "This is where I will live forever; this is where I want to rule.

15 I will richly provide Zion with all she needs; I will satisfy her poor with food.

16 I will bless her priests in all they do, and her people will sing and shout for joy.

17 Here I will make one of David's descendants a great king; here I will preserve the rule of my chosen king.

18 I will cover his enemies with shame, but his kingdom will prosper and flourish."