PSALM 138

Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Favor.

A Psalm of David.

1 aI will give You thanks with all my heart;

I will sing praises to You before the bgods.

2 I will bow down atoward Your holy temple

And bgive thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your 1truth;

For You have cmagnified Your 2word 3according to all Your name.

3 On the day I acalled, You answered me;

You made me bold with bstrength in my soul.

4 aAll the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Lord,

When they have heard the words of Your mouth.

5 And they will asing of the ways of the Lord,

For bgreat is the glory of the Lord.

6 For athough the Lord is exalted,

Yet He bregards the lowly,

But the chaughty He knows from afar.

7 Though I awalk in the midst of trouble, You will 1brevive me;

You will cstretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,

And Your right hand will dsave me.

8 The Lord will aaccomplish what concerns me;

Your blovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;

cDo not forsake the dworks of Your hands.