Psalm 66

Psalm 66

For the choir director; a song; a psalm. 

¹Shout happily to God, all the earth! 

²Make music to praise the glory of his name. 

Make his praise glorious. 

³Say to God, 

“How awe-inspiring are your deeds! 

Your power is so great that your enemies will cringe in front of you. 

⁴The whole earth will worship you. 

It will make music to praise you. 

It will make music to praise your name.” 

Selah 

⁵Come and see what God has done— 

his awe-inspiring deeds for Adam’s descendants. 

⁶He turned the sea into dry land. 

They crossed the river on foot. 

We rejoiced because of what he did there. 

⁷He rules forever with his might. 

His eyes watch the nations. 

Rebels will not be able to oppose him. 

Selah 

⁸Thank our God, you nations. 

Make the sound of his praise heard. 

⁹He has kept us alive 

and has not allowed us to fall. 

¹⁰You have tested us, O God. 

You have refined us in the same way silver is refined. 

¹¹You have trapped us in a net. 

You have laid burdens on our backs. 

¹²You let people ride over our heads. 

We went through fire and water, 

but then you brought us out and refreshed us. 

¹³I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. 

I will keep my vows to you, 

¹⁴the vows made by my lips and spoken by my ⸤own⸥ mouth 

when I was in trouble. 

¹⁵I will offer you a sacrifice of fattened livestock for burnt offerings 

with the smoke from rams. 

I will offer cattle and goats. 

Selah 

¹⁶Come and listen, all who fear God, 

and I will tell you what he has done for me. 

¹⁷With my mouth I cried out to him. 

High praise was on my tongue. 

¹⁸If I had thought about doing anything sinful, 

the Lord would not have listened ⸤to me⸥. 

¹⁹But God has heard me. 

He has paid attention to my prayer. 

²⁰Thanks be to God, 

who has not rejected my prayer 

or taken away his mercy from me.