Psalm 101–150

Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

¹I will sing of your love^s and justice;

to you, Lord, I will sing praise.

²I will be careful to lead a blameless life^t—

when will you come to me?

I will conduct the affairs^u of my house

with a blameless heart.

³I will not look with approval

on anything that is vile.^v

I hate what faithless people do;^w

I will have no part in it.

⁴The perverse of heart^x shall be far from me;

I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

⁵Whoever slanders their neighbor^y in secret,

I will put to silence;

whoever has haughty eyes^z and a proud heart,

I will not tolerate.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

the one whose walk is blameless^a

will minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit

will dwell in my house;

no one who speaks falsely

will stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning^b I will put to silence

all the wicked^c in the land;

I will cut off every evildoer^d

from the city of the Lord.^e

Psalm 102^a

A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

¹Hear my prayer,^f Lord;

let my cry for help^g come to you.

²Do not hide your face^h from me

when I am in distress.

Turn your earⁱ to me;

when I call, answer me quickly.

³For my days vanish like smoke;^j

my bones^k burn like glowing embers.

⁴My heart is blighted and withered like grass;^l

I forget to eat my food.^m

⁵In my distress I groan aloudⁿ

and am reduced to skin and bones.

⁶I am like a desert owl,^o

like an owl among the ruins.

⁷I lie awake;^p I have become

like a bird alone^q on a roof.

⁸All day long my enemies^r taunt me;^s

those who rail against me use my name as a curse.^t

⁹For I eat ashes^u as my food

and mingle my drink with tears^v

¹⁰because of your great wrath,^w

for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.

¹¹My days are like the evening shadow;^x

I wither^y away like grass.

¹²But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;^z

your renown endures^a through all generations.^b

¹³You will arise^c and have compassion^d on Zion,

for it is time^e to show favor^f to her;

the appointed time^g has come.

¹⁴For her stones are dear to your servants;

her very dust moves them to pity.

¹⁵The nations will fear^h the name of the Lord,

all the kingsⁱ of the earth will revere your glory.

¹⁶For the Lord will rebuild Zion^j

and appear in his glory.^k

¹⁷He will respond to the prayer^l of the destitute;

he will not despise their plea.

¹⁸Let this be written^m for a future generation,

that a people not yet createdⁿ may praise the Lord:

¹⁹“The Lord looked down^o from his sanctuary on high,

from heaven he viewed the earth,

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners^p

and release those condemned to death.”

²¹So the name of the Lord will be declared^q in Zion

and his praise^r in Jerusalem

²²when the peoples and the kingdoms

assemble to worship^s the Lord.

²³In the course of my life^b he broke my strength;

he cut short my days.^t

²⁴So I said:

“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;

your years go on^u through all generations.

²⁵In the beginning^v you laid the foundations of the earth,

and the heavens^w are the work of your hands.^x

²⁶They will perish,^y but you remain;

they will all wear out like a garment.

Like clothing you will change them

and they will be discarded.

²⁷But you remain the same,^z

and your years will never end.^a

²⁸The children of your servants^b will live in your presence;

their descendants^c will be established before you.”

Psalm 103

Of David.

¹Praise the Lord,^d my soul;^e

all my inmost being, praise his holy name.^f

²Praise the Lord,^g my soul,

and forget not^h all his benefits—

³who forgives all your sinsⁱ

and heals^j all your diseases,

⁴who redeems your life^k from the pit

and crowns you with love and compassion,^l

⁵who satisfies^m your desires with good things

so that your youth is renewedⁿ like the eagle’s.^o

⁶The Lord works righteousness^p

and justice for all the oppressed.^q

⁷He made known^r his ways^s to Moses,

his deeds^t to the people of Israel:

⁸The Lord is compassionate and gracious,^u

slow to anger, abounding in love.

⁹He will not always accuse,

nor will he harbor his anger forever;^v

¹⁰he does not treat us as our sins deserve^w

or repay us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his love^x for those who fear him;^y

¹²as far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions^z from us.

¹³As a father has compassion^a on his children,

so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

¹⁴for he knows how we are formed,^b

he remembers that we are dust.^c

¹⁵The life of mortals is like grass,^d

they flourish like a flower^e of the field;

¹⁶the wind blows^f over it and it is gone,

and its place^g remembers it no more.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting

the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,

and his righteousness with their children’s children^h—

¹⁸with those who keep his covenantⁱ

and remember^j to obey his precepts.^k

¹⁹The Lord has established his throne^l in heaven,

and his kingdom rules^m over all.

²⁰Praise the Lord,ⁿ you his angels,^o

you mighty ones^p who do his bidding,^q

who obey his word.

²¹Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,^r

you his servants^s who do his will.

²²Praise the Lord, all his works^t

everywhere in his dominion.

Praise the Lord, my soul.^u

Psalm 104

¹Praise the Lord, my soul.^v

Lord my God, you are very great;

you are clothed with splendor and majesty.^w

²The Lord wraps^x himself in light^y as with a garment;

he stretches^z out the heavens^a like a tent^b

³and lays the beams^c of his upper chambers on their waters.^d

He makes the clouds^e his chariot^f

and rides on the wings of the wind.^g

⁴He makes winds his messengers,^ah

flames of fireⁱ his servants.

⁵He set the earth^j on its foundations;^k

it can never be moved.

⁶You covered it^l with the watery depths^m as with a garment;

the waters stoodⁿ above the mountains.

⁷But at your rebuke^o the waters fled,

at the sound of your thunder^p they took to flight;

⁸they flowed over the mountains,

they went down into the valleys,

to the place you assigned^q for them.

⁹You set a boundary^r they cannot cross;

never again will they cover the earth.

¹⁰He makes springs^s pour water into the ravines;

it flows between the mountains.

¹¹They give water^t to all the beasts of the field;

the wild donkeys^u quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the sky^v nest by the waters;

they sing among the branches.^w

¹³He waters the mountains^x from his upper chambers;^y

the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.^z

¹⁴He makes grass grow^a for the cattle,

and plants for people to cultivate—

bringing forth food^b from the earth:

¹⁵wine^c that gladdens human hearts,

oil^d to make their faces shine,

and bread that sustains^e their hearts.

¹⁶The trees of the Lord^f are well watered,

the cedars of Lebanon^g that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds^h make their nests;

the stork has its home in the junipers.

¹⁸The high mountains belong to the wild goats;ⁱ

the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.^j

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the seasons,^k

and the sun^l knows when to go down.

²⁰You bring darkness,^m it becomes night,ⁿ

and all the beasts of the forest^o prowl.

²¹The lions roar for their prey^p

and seek their food from God.^q

²²The sun rises, and they steal away;

they return and lie down in their dens.^r

²³Then people go out to their work,^s

to their labor until evening.^t

²⁴How many are your works,^u Lord!

In wisdom you made^v them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.^w

²⁵There is the sea,^x vast and spacious,

teeming with creatures beyond number—

living things both large and small.^y

²⁶There the ships^z go to and fro,

and Leviathan,^a which you formed to frolic^b there.^c

²⁷All creatures look to you

to give them their food^d at the proper time.

²⁸When you give it to them,

they gather it up;

when you open your hand,

they are satisfied^e with good things.

²⁹When you hide your face,^f

they are terrified;

when you take away their breath,

they die and return to the dust.^g

³⁰When you send your Spirit,^h

they are created,

and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the Lordⁱ endure forever;

may the Lord rejoice in his works^j—

³²he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,^k

who touches the mountains,^l and they smoke.^m

³³I will singⁿ to the Lord all my life;

I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him,

as I rejoice^o in the Lord.

³⁵But may sinners vanish^p from the earth

and the wicked be no more.^q

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Praise the Lord.^br

Psalm 105

105:1–15pp—1Ch 16:8–22

¹Give praise to the Lord,^s proclaim his name;^t

make known among the nations what he has done.

²Sing to him,^u sing praise to him;^v

tell of all his wonderful acts.^w

³Glory in his holy name;^x

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴Look to the Lord and his strength;

seek his face^y always.

⁵Remember the wonders^z he has done,

his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,^a

⁶you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,^b

his chosen^c ones, the children of Jacob.

⁷He is the Lord our God;

his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant^d forever,

the promise he made, for a thousand generations,

⁹the covenant he made with Abraham,^e

the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He confirmed it^f to Jacob as a decree,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant:^g

¹¹“To you I will give the land of Canaan^h

as the portion you will inherit.”ⁱ

¹²When they were but few in number,^j

few indeed, and strangers in it,^k

¹³they wandered from nation to nation,^l

from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴He allowed no one to oppress^m them;

for their sake he rebuked kings:ⁿ

¹⁵“Do not touch^o my anointed ones;

do my prophets^p no harm.”

¹⁶He called down famine^q on the land

and destroyed all their supplies of food;

¹⁷and he sent a man before them—

Joseph, sold as a slave.^r

¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles,^s

his neck was put in irons,

¹⁹till what he foretold^t came to pass,

till the word^u of the Lord proved him true.

²⁰The king sent and released him,

the ruler of peoples set him free.^v

²¹He made him master of his household,

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