Psalm 100-108

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Enter His gates ^(G)with ^[d]thanksgiving,
And His courtyards with praise.
Give thanks to Him, ^(H)bless His name.
⁵ For ^(I)the Lord is good;
^(J)His mercy is everlasting
And His ^(K)faithfulness is to all generations.

⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;
One who walks in a ^[j](T)blameless way is one who will serve me.
⁷ One who ^(U)practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
One who speaks lies ^(V)shall not ^[k]maintain his position before me.
^8 (W)Every morning I will ^[l](X)destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to ^(Y)eliminate from the ^(Z)city of the Lord all those who do injustice.

⁸ My enemies ^(AN)have taunted me all day long;
Those who ^[q](AO)deride me ^[r]have used my name as a ^(AP)curse.
⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And ^(AQ)mixed my drink with weeping
^10 (AR)Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have ^(AS)lifted me up and thrown me away.
¹¹ My days are like a ^[s](AT)lengthened shadow,
And ^[t]I ^(AU)wither away like ^[u]grass.

¹² But You, Lord, ^[v](AV)remain forever,
And Your ^[w](AW)name remains to all generations.
¹³ You will ^(AX)arise and have ^(AY)compassion on Zion;
For ^(AZ)it is time to be gracious to her,
For the ^(BA)appointed time has come.
¹⁴ Surely Your servants ^[x]take pleasure in her stones,
And feel pity for her dust.
^15 [y]So the ^[z](BB)nations will fear the name of the Lord,
And ^(BC)all the kings of the earth, Your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord has ^(BD)built up Zion;
He has ^(BE)appeared in His glory.
¹⁷ He has ^(BF)turned His attention to the prayer of the ^[aa]destitute
And has not despised their prayer.

^18 [ab]This will be ^(BG)written for the ^(BH)generation to come,
^[ac]That ^(BI)a people yet to be created ^[ad]may praise ^[ae]the Lord:
¹⁹ For He ^(BJ)looked down from His holy height;
^(BK)From heaven the Lord looked ^[af]upon the earth,
²⁰ To hear the ^(BL)groaning of the prisoner,
To ^(BM)set free ^[ag]those who were doomed to death,
²¹ So that people may ^(BN)tell of the name of the Lord in Zion,
And His praise in Jerusalem,
²² When ^(BO)the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

²³ He has broken my strength in the way;
He has ^(BP)shortened my days.
²⁴ I say, “My God, ^(BQ)do not take me away in the middle of my days,
Your ^(BR)years are ^[ah]throughout all generations.
²⁵ In time of old You ^(BS)founded the earth,
And the ^(BT)heavens are the work of Your hands.
^26 [ai]Even they will ^(BU)perish, but You endure;
All of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will pass away.
²⁷ But You are ^[aj](BV)the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.
²⁸ The ^(BW)children of Your servants will continue,
And their ^[ak](BX)descendants will be established before You.”

⁶ The Lord ^(CH)performs ^[am]righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are ^(CI)oppressed.
⁷ He ^(CJ)made known His ways to Moses,
His ^(CK)deeds to the sons of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is ^(CL)compassionate and gracious,
^(CM)Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.
⁹ He ^(CN)will not always contend with us,
Nor will He ^(CO)keep His anger forever.
¹⁰ He has ^(CP)not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds.
¹¹ For as high ^(CQ)as the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who ^[an]fear Him.
¹² As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He ^(CR)removed our wrongdoings from us.
¹³ Just ^(CS)as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who ^[ao]fear Him.
¹⁴ For ^(CT)He Himself knows ^[ap]our form;
He ^(CU)is mindful that we are nothing but ^(CV)dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are ^(CW)like grass;
Like a ^(CX)flower of the field, so he flourishes.
¹⁶ When the ^(CY)wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its ^(CZ)place no longer knows about it.
¹⁷ But the ^[aq](DA)mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who ^[ar]fear Him,
And His justice ^(DB)to the children’s children,
¹⁸ To ^(DC)those who keep His covenant
And remember His precepts, so as to do them.

¹⁹ The Lord has established His ^(DD)throne in the heavens,
And His ^[as](DE)sovereignty rules over ^[at]all.
²⁰ Bless the Lord, you ^(DF)His angels,
^(DG)Mighty in strength, who ^(DH)perform His word,
^(DI)Obeying the voice of His word!
²¹ Bless the Lord, all you ^(DJ)His ^[au]angels,
You ^(DK)who serve Him, doing His will.
²² Bless the Lord, ^(DL)all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, my soul!

⁵ He ^(DV)established the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not ^[bb]totter forever and ever.
⁶ You ^(DW)covered it with the deep sea as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.
⁷ They fled from Your ^(DX)rebuke,
At the ^(DY)sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
⁸ The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the ^(DZ)place which You established for them.
⁹ You set a ^(EA)boundary so that they will not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

^10 [bc]He sends forth ^(EB)springs in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;
¹¹ They ^(EC)give drink to every animal of the field;
The ^(ED)wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² The birds of the sky ^(EE)dwell ^[bd]beside them;
They ^[be]lift up their voices from among the branches.
^13 [bf]He ^(EF)waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
^(EG)The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

^14 [bg]He causes the ^(EH)grass to grow for the ^[bh]cattle,
And ^(EI)vegetation for the labor of mankind,
So that ^[bi]they may produce ^[bj]food ^(EJ)from the earth,
¹⁵ And ^(EK)wine, which makes a human heart cheerful,
^(EL)So that he makes his face gleam with oil,
And ^[bk]food, which ^(EM)sustains a human heart.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord ^[bl]drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
¹⁷ Where the ^(EN)birds build their nests,
And the ^(EO)stork, whose home is the juniper trees.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the ^(EP)wild goats;
The ^(EQ)cliffs are a refuge for the ^(ER)rock hyrax.
¹⁹ He made the moon ^(ES)for the seasons;
The ^(ET)sun knows the place of its setting.
²⁰ You ^(EU)appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the ^(EV)animals of the forest ^[bm]prowl about.
²¹ The ^(EW)young lions roar for their prey
^[bn]And ^(EX)seek their food from God.
²² When the sun rises they withdraw,
And they lie down in their ^(EY)dens.
²³ A person goes out to ^(EZ)his work
And to his labor until evening.

²⁴ Lord, how ^(FA)many are Your works!
^[bo]In ^(FB)wisdom You have made them all;
The ^(FC)earth is full of Your ^[bp]possessions.
^25 [bq]There is the ^(FD)sea, great and ^[br]broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.
²⁶ The ^(FE)ships move along there,
And ^[bs](FF)Leviathan, which You have formed to have fun in it.

²⁷ They all ^(FG)wait for You
To ^(FH)give them their food in ^[bt]due season.
²⁸ You give to them, they gather it up;
You ^(FI)open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ You ^(FJ)hide Your face, they are terrified;
You ^(FK)take away their breath, they perish
And ^(FL)return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth Your ^[bu](FM)Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.

³¹ May the ^(FN)glory of the Lord endure forever;
May the Lord ^(FO)rejoice in His works;
^32 [bv]He ^(FP)looks at the earth, and it ^(FQ)trembles;
He ^(FR)touches the mountains, and they smoke.
^33 [bw]I will sing to the Lord ^[bx](FS)as long as I live;
^[by]I will ^(FT)sing praise to my God ^[bz]while I have my being.
³⁴ May my ^(FU)praise be pleasing to Him;
As for me, I shall ^(FV)rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵ May sinners be ^(FW)removed from the earth
And may the ^(FX)wicked be no more.
^(FY)Bless the Lord, my soul.
^[ca](FZ)Praise ^[cb]the Lord!

⁸ He has ^(GO)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a ^(GP)thousand generations,
⁹ The ^(GQ)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(GR)oath to Isaac.
¹⁰ Then He ^(GS)confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ Saying, “^(GT)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the ^[ch](GU)portion of your inheritance,”
¹² When they were only a ^(GV)few people in number,
Very few, and ^(GW)strangers in it.
¹³ And they wandered from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ He ^(GX)allowed no one to oppress them,
And He ^[ci](GY)rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
¹⁵ “^(GZ)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶ And He ^(HA)called for a famine upon the land;
He ^(HB)broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷ He ^(HC)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(HD)sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They forced his ^(HE)feet into shackles,
^[cj]He was put in irons;
¹⁹ Until the time that his ^(HF)word came to pass,
The word of the Lord ^(HG)refined him.
²⁰ The ^(HH)king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹ He ^(HI)made him lord of his house,
And ruler over all his possessions,
²² To ^[ck]imprison his high officials ^[cl](HJ)at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
^23 (HK)Israel also came into Egypt;
So Jacob ^(HL)lived in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And He ^(HM)made His people very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ He ^(HN)turned their heart to hate His people,
To ^(HO)deal cunningly with His servants.
²⁶ He ^(HP)sent His servant Moses,
And ^(HQ)Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They ^[cm](HR)performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He ^(HS)sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not ^(HT)rebel against His words.
²⁹ He ^(HU)turned their waters into blood,
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with ^(HV)frogs
Even in the ^(HW)chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and a ^(HX)swarm of flies
And ^(HY)gnats invaded all their territory.
³² He ^[cn]gave them ^(HZ)hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³ He also ^(IA)struck their vines and their fig trees,
And smashed the trees of their territory.
³⁴ He spoke, and ^(IB)locusts came,
And creeping locusts, beyond number,
³⁵ And they ate all the vegetation in their land,
And ate the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He also ^(IC)fatally struck all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(ID)first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought ^[co]the Israelites out with ^(IE)silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was ^(IF)glad when they departed,
For the ^(IG)dread of them had fallen upon ^[cp]the Egyptians.
³⁹ He spread out a ^(IH)cloud as a ^[cq]covering,
And ^(II)fire to illumine by night.
^40 [cr]They ^(IJ)asked, and He brought ^(IK)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^[cs](IL)bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the ^[ct]rock and ^(IM)water flowed out;
^[cu]It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴² For He ^(IN)remembered His holy word
With His servant Abraham;
⁴³ And He led out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful ^(IO)shout.
⁴⁴ He also ^(IP)gave them the lands of the ^[cv]nations,
So that they ^(IQ)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵ And that they might ^(IR)keep His statutes
And comply with His laws;
^[cw]Praise ^[cx]the Lord!

⁴ Remember me, Lord, in Your ^(IX)favor ^[dc]toward Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ So that I may see the ^(IY)prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may ^(IZ)rejoice in the joy of Your nation,
That I may ^(JA)boast with Your ^[dd]inheritance.

^6 (JB)We have sinned ^[de](JC)like our fathers,
We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ^[df]wonders;
They ^(JD)did not remember ^[dg]Your abundant kindnesses,
But ^(JE)rebelled by the sea, at the ^[dh]Red Sea.
⁸ Nevertheless He saved them ^(JF)for the sake of His name,
So that He might ^(JG)make His power known.
⁹ So He ^(JH)rebuked the ^[di]Red Sea and it ^(JI)dried up,
And He ^(JJ)led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰ So He ^(JK)saved them from the ^[dj]hand of one who hated them,
And ^(JL)redeemed them from the ^[dk]hand of the enemy.
^11 (JM)The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
¹² Then they ^(JN)believed His words;
They ^(JO)sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly ^(JP)forgot His works;
They ^(JQ)did not wait for His plan,
¹⁴ But ^(JR)became lustfully greedy in the wilderness,
And ^(JS)put God to the test in the desert.
¹⁵ So He ^(JT)gave them their request,
But ^(JU)sent a ^[dl]wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When they became ^(JV)envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷ The ^(JW)earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the ^[dm]company of Abiram.
¹⁸ And a ^(JX)fire blazed up in their ^[dn]company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They ^(JY)made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped a cast metal image.
²⁰ So they ^(JZ)exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They ^(KA)forgot God their Savior,
Who had done ^(KB)great things in Egypt,
^22 [do](KC)Wonders in the land of Ham,
And awesome things by the ^[dp]Red Sea.
²³ Therefore ^(KD)He said that He would destroy them,
If ^(KE)Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
²⁴ Then they ^(KF)rejected the ^(KG)pleasant land;
They ^(KH)did not believe His word,
²⁵ But ^(KI)grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ Therefore He ^[dq](KJ)swore to them
That He would have them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷ And that He would ^(KK)bring down their ^[dr]descendants among the nations,
And ^(KL)scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They also ^(KM)followed ^[ds]Baal-peor,
And ate ^(KN)sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ So they ^(KO)provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then Phinehas ^(KP)stood up and ^[dt]intervened,
And so the ^(KQ)plague was brought to a halt.
³¹ And it was ^(KR)credited to him as righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² They also ^(KS)provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ^[du]Meribah,
So that it ^(KT)went badly for Moses on their account.
³³ Because they ^(KU)were rebellious against ^[dv]His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They ^(KV)did not destroy the peoples,
As ^(KW)the Lord had commanded them,
³⁵ But ^(KX)they got involved with the nations
And learned their ^[dw]practices,
³⁶ And ^(KY)served their idols,
^(KZ)Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even ^(LA)sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the ^(LB)demons,
³⁸ And shed ^(LC)innocent blood,
The blood of their ^(LD)sons and their daughters
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was ^(LE)defiled with the blood.
³⁹ So they became ^(LF)unclean in their ^[dx]practices,
And ^[dy](LG)were unfaithful in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the ^(LH)anger of the Lord was kindled against His people,
And He ^(LI)loathed His ^[dz](LJ)inheritance.
⁴¹ So ^(LK)He handed them over to the ^[ea]nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also ^(LL)oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their ^[eb]power.
⁴³ Many times He would ^(LM)rescue them;
They, however, were rebellious in their ^(LN)plan,
And they ^(LO)sank down into their guilt.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked at their distress
When He ^(LP)heard their cry;
⁴⁵ And He ^(LQ)remembered His covenant for their sake,
And ^[ec](LR)relented ^(LS)according to the greatness of His mercy.
⁴⁶ He also made them ^(LT)objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

^47 (LU)Save us, Lord our God,
And ^(LV)gather us from the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And ^(LW)glory in Your praise.
^48 (LX)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
And all the people shall say, “Amen.”
^[ed]Praise ^[ee]the Lord!

⁴ They ^(MD)wandered in the wilderness in a ^[eg]desert region;
They did not find a way to ^[eh]an inhabited ^(ME)city.
⁵ They were hungry ^[ei]and thirsty;
Their ^(MF)souls felt weak within them.
⁶ Then they ^(MG)cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them from their distresses.
⁷ He also had them walk on a ^[ej](MH)straight way,
To go to ^[ek](MI)an inhabited city.
^8 (MJ)They shall give thanks to the Lord for His mercy,
And for His ^[el]wonders to the sons of mankind!
⁹ For He has ^(MK)satisfied the ^[em]thirsty soul,
And He has filled the ^(ML)hungry soul with what is good.

¹⁰ There were those who ^(MM)lived in darkness and in ^[en]the shadow of death,
^(MN)Prisoners in misery and ^[eo]chains,
¹¹ Because they had ^(MO)rebelled against the words of God
And ^(MP)rejected the ^(MQ)plan of the Most High.
¹² Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;
They stumbled and there was ^(MR)no one to help.
¹³ Then they ^(MS)cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them from their distresses.
¹⁴ He ^(MT)brought them out of darkness and ^[ep]the shadow of death
And ^(MU)broke their bands apart.
^15 (MV)They shall give thanks to the Lord for His mercy,
And for His ^[eq]wonders to the sons of mankind!
¹⁶ For He has ^(MW)shattered gates of bronze
And cut off bars of iron.

¹⁷ Fools, because of ^[er]their rebellious way,
And ^(MX)because of their guilty deeds, were afflicted.
¹⁸ Their ^(MY)souls loathed all kinds of food,
And they ^(MZ)came close to the ^(NA)gates of death.
¹⁹ Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them from their distresses.
²⁰ He ^(NB)sent His word and ^(NC)healed them,
And ^(ND)saved them from their ^[es]destruction.
^21 (NE)They shall give thanks to the Lord for His mercy,
And for His ^[et]wonders to the sons of mankind!
²² They shall also offer ^(NF)sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And ^(NG)tell of His works with joyful singing.

²³ Those who ^(NH)go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;
²⁴ They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His ^[eu]wonders in the deep.
²⁵ For He ^(NI)spoke and raised a ^(NJ)stormy wind,
Which ^(NK)lifted the waves ^[ev]of the sea.
²⁶ They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul ^(NL)melted away in their misery.
²⁷ They reeled and ^(NM)staggered like a drunken person,
And ^[ew]were at their wits’ end.
²⁸ Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.
²⁹ He ^(NN)caused the storm to be still,
So that the waves ^[ex]of the sea were hushed.
³⁰ Then they were glad because they were quiet,
So He guided them to their desired harbor.
^31 (NO)They shall give thanks to the Lord for His mercy,
And for His ^[ey](NP)wonders to the sons of mankind!
³² They shall also ^(NQ)exalt Him ^(NR)in the congregation of the people,
And ^(NS)praise Him at the seat of the elders.

³³ He ^(NT)turns rivers into a ^[ez]wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
³⁴ And a ^(NU)fruitful land into a ^(NV)salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
³⁵ He ^(NW)turns a ^[fa]wilderness into a pool of water,
And a dry land into springs of water;
³⁶ And He has the hungry live there,
So that they may establish ^[fb](NX)an inhabited city,
³⁷ And sow fields and ^(NY)plant vineyards,
And ^[fc]gather a fruitful harvest.
³⁸ He also blesses them and they ^(NZ)multiply greatly,
And He ^(OA)does not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹ When they ^(OB)become few and ^(OC)lowly
Because of oppression, misery, and sorrow,
⁴⁰ He ^(OD)pours contempt upon noblemen
And ^(OE)makes them wander ^(OF)in a pathless wasteland.
⁴¹ But He ^(OG)sets the needy ^[fd]securely on high, away from affliction,
And ^(OH)makes his families like a flock.
⁴² The ^(OI)upright see it and are glad;
But all ^(OJ)injustice shuts its mouth.
⁴³ Who is ^(OK)wise? He is to pay attention to these things,
And consider the ^(OL)mercy of the Lord.

⁷ God has spoken in His ^[ff]holiness:
“I will triumph, I will divide up Shechem,
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
⁸ Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the ^[fg]helmet of My head;
^(OR)Judah is My ^[fh]scepter.
⁹ Moab is My washbowl;
I will throw My sandal over Edom;
I will shout aloud over Philistia.”

^10 (OS)Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who ^[fi]will lead me to Edom?
¹¹ God, have You Yourself not ^(OT)rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, God?
¹² Give us help against the enemy,
For ^(OU)deliverance ^[fj]by man is worthless.
^13 [fk]Through God we will do valiantly,
And ^(OV)it is He who will trample down our enemies.