Psalms 65; Psalms 66; Psalms 67; Psalms 69; Psalms 70

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Psalms 65

1 You are praised with silence in Zion, O God, and vows [made] to you must be kept.

2 You are the one who hears prayers. Everyone will come to you.

3 Various sins overwhelm me. You are the one who forgives our rebellious acts.

4 Blessed is the person you choose and invite to live with you in your courtyards. We will be filled with good food from your house, from your holy temple.

5 You answer us with awe-inspiring acts [done] in righteousness, O God, our savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the most distant sea,

6 the one who set the mountains in place with his strength, the one who is clothed with power,

7 the one who calms the roar of the seas, their crashing waves, and the uproar of the nations.

8 Those who live at the ends of the earth are in awe of your miraculous signs. The lands of the morning sunrise and evening sunset sing joyfully.

9 You take care of the earth, and you water it. You make it much richer than it was. (The river of God is filled with water.) You provide grain for them. Indeed, you even prepare the ground.

10 You drench plowed fields [with rain] and level their clumps of soil. You soften them with showers and bless what grows in them.

11 You crown the year with your goodness, and richness overflows wherever you are.

12 The pastures in the desert overflow [with richness]. The hills are surrounded with joy.

13 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys are carpeted with grain. All of them shout triumphantly. Indeed, they sing.

Psalms 66

1 Shout happily to God, all the earth!

2 Make music to praise the glory of his name. Make his praise glorious.

3 Say to God, "How awe-inspiring are your deeds! Your power is so great that your enemies will cringe in front of you.

4 The whole earth will worship you. It will make music to praise you. It will make music to praise your name." Selah

5 Come and see what God has done-- his awe-inspiring deeds for Adam's descendants.

6 He turned the sea into dry land. They crossed the river on foot. We rejoiced because of what he did there.

7 He rules forever with his might. His eyes watch the nations. Rebels will not be able to oppose him. Selah

8 Thank our God, you nations. Make the sound of his praise heard.

9 He has kept us alive and has not allowed us to fall.

10 You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

11 You have trapped us in a net. You have laid burdens on our backs.

12 You let people ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, but then you brought us out and refreshed us.

13 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will keep my vows to you,

14 the vows made by my lips and spoken by my [own] mouth when I was in trouble.

15 I will offer you a sacrifice of fattened livestock for burnt offerings with the smoke from rams. I will offer cattle and goats. Selah

16 Come and listen, all who fear God, and I will tell you what he has done for me.

17 With my mouth I cried out to him. High praise was on my tongue.

18 If I had thought about doing anything sinful, the Lord would not have listened [to me].

19 But God has heard me. He has paid attention to my prayer.

20 Thanks be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or taken away his mercy from me.

Psalms 67

1 May God have pity on us and bless us! May he smile on us. Selah

2 Then your ways will be known on earth, your salvation throughout all nations.

3 Let everyone give thanks to you, O God. Let everyone give thanks to you.

4 Let the nations be glad and sing joyfully because you judge everyone with justice and guide the nations on the earth. Selah

5 Let the people give thanks to you, O God. Let all the people give thanks to you.

6 The earth has yielded its harvest. May God, our God, bless us.

7 May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth worship him.

Psalms 69

1 Save me, O God! The water is already up to my neck!

2 I am sinking in deep mud. There is nothing to stand on. I am in deep water. A flood is sweeping me away.

3 I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained [from] looking for my God.

4 Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. Those who want to destroy me are mighty. They have no reason to be my enemies. I am forced to pay back what I did not steal.

5 O God, you know my stupidity, and the things of which I am guilty are not hidden from you.

6 Do not let those who wait with hope for you be put to shame because of me, O Almighty LORD of Armies. Do not let those who come to you for help be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.

7 Indeed, for your sake I have endured insults. Humiliation has covered my face.

8 I have become a stranger to my [own] brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.

9 Indeed, devotion for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

10 I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.

11 I dressed myself in sackcloth, but I became the object of ridicule.

12 Those who sit at the gate gossip about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.

13 May my prayer come to you at an acceptable time, O LORD. O God, out of the greatness of your mercy, answer me with the truth of your salvation.

14 Rescue me from the mud. Do not let me sink [into it]. I want to be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.

15 Do not let floodwaters sweep me away. Do not let the ocean swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

16 Answer me, O LORD, because your mercy is good. Out of your unlimited compassion, turn to me.

17 I am in trouble, so do not hide your face from me. Answer me quickly!

18 Come close, and defend my soul. Set me free because of my enemies.

19 You know that I have been insulted, put to shame, and humiliated. All my opponents are in front of you.

20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none. I looked for people to comfort me, but I found no one.

21 They poisoned my food, and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let the table set for them become a trap and a snare for their friends.

23 Let their vision become clouded so that they cannot see. Let their thighs continually shake.

24 Pour your rage on them. Let your burning anger catch up with them.

25 Let their camp be deserted and their tents empty.

26 They persecute the one you have struck, and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.

27 Charge them with one crime after another. Do not let them be found innocent.

28 Let their [names] be erased from the Book of Life. Do not let them be listed with righteous people.

29 I am suffering and in pain. Let your saving power protect me, O God.

30 I want to praise the name of God with a song. I want to praise its greatness with a song of thanksgiving.

31 This will please the LORD more than [sacrificing] an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

32 Oppressed people will see [this] and rejoice. May the hearts of those who look to God for help be refreshed.

33 The LORD listens to needy people. He does not despise his own who are in prison.

34 Let heaven and earth, the seas, and everything that moves in them, praise him.

35 When God saves Zion, he will rebuild the cities of Judah. His servants will live there and take possession of it.

36 The descendants of his servants will inherit it. Those who love him will live there.

Psalms 70

1 Come quickly to rescue me, O God! Come quickly to help me, O LORD!

2 Let those who seek my life be confused and put to shame. Let those who want my downfall be turned back and disgraced.

3 Let those who say, "Aha! Aha!" be turned back because of their own shame.

4 Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad because of you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, "God is great!"

5 But I am oppressed and needy. O God, come to me quickly. You are my help and my savior. O LORD, do not delay!