My Soul Thirsts for You

63 A Psalm of David, swhen he was in the wilderness of Judah.

1  O God, you are my God; tearnestly I seek you;

umy soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you,

as in va dry and weary land where there is no water.

2  So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,

beholding wyour power and glory.

3  Because your xsteadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

4  So I will bless you yas long as I live;

in your zname I will alift up my hands.

5  My soul will be bsatisfied as with fat and rich food,

and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,

6  when I remember you cupon my bed,

and meditate on you in cthe watches of the night;

7  for you have been my help,

and in dthe shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

8  My soul eclings to you;

your right hand fupholds me.

9  But those who seek to destroy my life

gshall go down into hthe depths of the earth;

10  they shall be given over to the power of the sword;

they shall be a portion for jackals.

11  But ithe king shall rejoice in God;

all who jswear by him shall exult,

kfor the mouths of lliars will be stopped.

Hide Me from the Wicked

64 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1  Hear my voice, O God, in my mcomplaint;

preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

2  Hide me from nthe secret plots of the wicked,

from the throng of evildoers,

3  who owhet their tongues like swords,

who paim bitter words like arrows,

4  shooting from qambush at the blameless,

shooting at him suddenly and rwithout fear.

5  They shold fast to their evil purpose;

they talk of tlaying snares secretly,

thinking, u“Who can see them?”

6  They search out injustice,

saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”

For vthe inward mind and heart of a man are deep.

7  wBut God shoots his arrow at them;

they are wounded suddenly.

8  They are brought to ruin, with their own xtongues turned against them;

all who ysee them will zwag their heads.

9  Then all mankind yfears;

they atell what God has brought about

and ponder what he has done.

10  Let bthe righteous one rejoice in the Lord

and ctake refuge in him!

Let all dthe upright in heart exult!

O God of Our Salvation

65 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

1  Praise eis due to you,1 O God, in Zion,

and to you shall fvows be performed.

2  O you who ghear prayer,

to you hshall all flesh come.

3  When iiniquities prevail against me,

you jatone for our transgressions.

4  kBlessed is the one you choose and bring near,

to ldwell in your courts!

We shall be msatisfied with the goodness of your house,

the holiness of your temple!

5  By nawesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,

O God of our salvation,

the hope of all othe ends of the earth

and of the farthest seas;

6  the one who by his strength established the mountains,

being pgirded with might;

7  who qstills the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

rthe tumult of the peoples,

8  so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.

You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

9  You visit the earth and swater it;2

you greatly enrich it;

tthe river of God is full of water;

uyou provide their grain,

for so you have prepared it.

10  You water its furrows abundantly,

settling its ridges,

softening it with vshowers,

and blessing its growth.

11  You crown the year with your bounty;

your wagon tracks woverflow with abundance.

12  xThe pastures of the wilderness overflow,

the hills ygird themselves with joy,

13  zthe meadows clothe themselves with flocks,

the valleys deck themselves with grain,

they ashout and sing together for joy.

How Awesome Are Your Deeds

66 To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.

1  bShout for joy to God, all the earth;

2  sing the glory of his name;

cgive to him glorious praise!

3  Say to God, d“How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power that your enemies ecome cringing to you.

4  fAll the earth worships you

and sings praises to you;

they sing praises to your name.” Selah

5  gCome and see what God has done:

dhe is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.

6  He hturned the sea into dry land;

they ipassed through the river on foot.

There did we rejoice in him,

7  who rules by his might forever,

whose jeyes keep watch on the nations—

let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

8  Bless our God, O peoples;

let the sound of his praise be heard,

9  who has kept our soul among the living

and khas not let our feet slip.

10  For you, O God, have ltested us;

you have tried us as silver is tried.

11  You brought us into mthe net;

you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

12  you let men nride over our heads;

we went through fire and through owater;

yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

13  I will come into your house with burnt offerings;

I will pperform my vows to you,

14  that which my lips uttered

and my mouth promised qwhen I was in trouble.

15  I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,

with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;

I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

16  rCome and hear, all you who fear God,

and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

17  I cried to him with my mouth,

and high praise was on1 my tongue.2

18  If I had scherished iniquity in my heart,

tthe Lord would not have listened.

19  But truly uGod has listened;

he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20  Blessed be God,

because he has not rejected my prayer

or removed his steadfast love from me!

Make Your Face Shine upon Us

67 To the choirmaster: with vstringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

1  May God wbe gracious to us and bless us

and make his face to xshine upon us, Selah

2  that yyour way may be known on earth,

your zsaving power among all nations.

3  aLet the peoples praise you, O God;

let all the peoples praise you!

4  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,

for you bjudge the peoples with equity

and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

5  aLet the peoples praise you, O God;

let all the peoples praise you!

6  The earth has cyielded its increase;

God, our God, shall bless us.

7  God shall bless us;

let dall the ends of the earth fear him!

God Shall Scatter His Enemies

68 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

1  eGod shall arise, his enemies shall be fscattered;

and those who hate him shall flee before him!

2  As gsmoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;

has wax melts before fire,

so the wicked shall perish before God!

3  But ithe righteous shall be glad;

they shall exult before God;

they shall be jubilant with joy!

4  Sing to God, jsing praises to his name;

klift up a song to him who lrides through mthe deserts;

his name is nthe Lord;

exult before him!

5  oFather of the fatherless and pprotector of widows

is God in his holy habitation.

6  God qsettles the solitary in a home;

he rleads out the prisoners to prosperity,

but sthe rebellious dwell in ta parched land.

7  O God, when you uwent out before your people,

vwhen you marched through wthe wilderness, Selah

8  xthe earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,

before God, the One of Sinai,

before God1, the God of Israel.

9  yRain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;

you restored your inheritance as it languished;

10  your flock2 found a dwelling in it;

in your goodness, O God, you zprovided for the needy.

11  The Lord gives athe word;

bthe women who announce the news are a great host:

12  c“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!”

The women at home ddivide the spoil—

13  though you men lie among ethe sheepfolds—

the wings of a dove covered with silver,

its pinions with shimmering gold.

14  When the Almighty scatters kings there,

let snow fall on fZalmon.

15  O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan;

O many-peaked3 mountain, mountain of Bashan!

16  Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,

at the mount that God gdesired for his abode,

yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?

17  hThe chariots of God are twice ten thousand,

thousands upon thousands;

the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.

18  iYou ascended on high,

jleading a host of captives in your train

and kreceiving gifts among men,

even among lthe rebellious, mthat the Lord God may dwell there.

19  Blessed be the Lord,

who daily nbears us up;

God is our salvation. Selah

20  Our God is a God of salvation,

oand to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

21  pBut God will strike the heads of his enemies,

the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

22  The Lord said,

“I will bring them back qfrom Bashan,

rI will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

23  that you may sstrike your feet in their blood,

that tthe tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

24  Your procession is4 seen, O God,

the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—

25  uthe singers in front, vthe musicians last,

between them wvirgins playing tambourines:

26  x“Bless God in the great congregation,

the Lord, O you5 who are of yIsrael’s fountain!”

27  There is zBenjamin, the least of them, in the lead,

the princes of Judah in their throng,

the princes of aZebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

28  bSummon your power, O God,6

the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.

29  Because of your temple at Jerusalem

kings shall cbear gifts to you.

30  Rebuke dthe beasts that dwell among the reeds,

the herd of ebulls with the calves of the peoples.

fTrample underfoot those who lust after tribute;

scatter the peoples who delight in war.7

31  Nobles shall come from gEgypt;

hCush shall hasten to istretch out her hands to God.

32  jO kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;

sing praises to the Lord, Selah

33  to him kwho rides in lthe heavens, the ancient heavens;

behold, he msends out his voice, his mighty voice.

34  nAscribe power to God,

whose majesty is over Israel,

and whose opower is in pthe skies.

35  qAwesome is God from his8 rsanctuary;

the God of Israel—he is the one who gives spower and strength to his people.

Blessed be God!