Psalm 100:1–102:28

¹Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands!

²Serve the Lord with gladness!

Come into his presence with singing!

³Know that the Lord is God!

It is he that made us, and we are his;

we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

and his courts with praise!

Give thanks to him, bless his name!

⁵For the Lord is good;

his steadfast love endures for ever,

and his faithfulness to all generations.

PSALM 101

A Psalm of David.

¹I will sing of loyalty and of justice;

to thee, O Lord, I will sing.

²I will give heed to the way that is blameless.

Oh when wilt thou come to me?

I will walk with integrity of heart

within my house;

³I will not set before my eyes

anything that is base.

I hate the work of those who fall away;

it shall not cleave to me.

⁴Perverseness of heart shall be far from me;

I will know nothing of evil.

⁵Him who slanders his neighbor secretly

I will destroy.

The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart

I will not endure.

⁶I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he who walks in the way that is blameless

shall minister to me.

⁷No man who practices deceit

shall dwell in my house;

no man who utters lies

shall continue in my presence.

⁸Morning by morning I will destroy

all the wicked in the land,

cutting off all the evildoers

from the city of the Lord.

PSALM 102

A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.

¹Hear my prayer, O Lord;

let my cry come to thee!

²Do not hide thy face from me

in the day of my distress!

Incline thy ear to me;

answer me speedily in the day when I call!

³For my days pass away like smoke,

and my bones burn like a furnace.

⁴My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;

I forget to eat my bread.

⁵Because of my loud groaning

my bones cleave to my flesh.

⁶I am like a vulture of the wilderness,

like an owl of the waste places;

⁷I lie awake,

I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

⁸All the day my enemies taunt me,

those who deride me use my name for a curse.

⁹For I eat ashes like bread,

and mingle tears with my drink,

¹⁰because of thy indignation and anger;

for thou hast taken me up and thrown me away.

¹¹My days are like an evening shadow;

I wither away like grass.

¹²But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever;

thy name endures to all generations.

¹³Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion;

it is the time to favor her;

the appointed time has come.

¹⁴For thy servants hold her stones dear,

and have pity on her dust.

¹⁵The nations will fear the name of the Lord,

and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

¹⁶For the Lord will build up Zion,

he will appear in his glory;

¹⁷he will regard the prayer of the destitute,

and will not despise their supplication.

¹⁸Let this be recorded for a generation to come,

so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:

¹⁹that he looked down from his holy height,

from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners,

to set free those who were doomed to die;

²¹that men may declare in Zion the name of the Lord,

and in Jerusalem his praise,

²²when peoples gather together,

and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.

²³He has broken my strength in mid-course;

he has shortened my days.

²⁴“O my God,” I say, “take me not hence

in the midst of my days,

thou whose years endure

throughout all generations!”

²⁵Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth,

and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

²⁶They will perish, but thou dost endure;

they will all wear out like a garment.

Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;

²⁷but thou art the same, and thy years have no end.

²⁸The children of thy servants shall dwell secure;

their posterity shall be established before thee.