Psalm 103

New American Standard Bible

Praise for the Lord’s Mercies.

A Psalm of David.

103 ^(A)Bless the Lord, my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His ^(B)holy name.
²Bless the Lord, my soul,
And ^(C)do not forget any of His benefits;
³Who ^(D)pardons all your guilt,
Who ^(E)heals all your diseases;
⁴Who ^(F)redeems your life from the pit,
Who ^(G)crowns you with favor and compassion;
⁵Who ^(H)satisfies your ^[a]years with good things,
So that your youth is ^(I)renewed like the eagle.

⁶The Lord ^(J)performs ^[b]righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are ^(K)oppressed.
⁷He ^(L)made known His ways to Moses,
His ^(M)deeds to the sons of Israel.
⁸The Lord is ^(N)compassionate and gracious,
^(O)Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.
⁹He ^(P)will not always contend with us,
Nor will He ^(Q)keep His anger forever.
¹⁰He has ^(R)not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds.
¹¹For as high ^(S)as the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who ^[c]fear Him.
¹²As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He ^(T)removed our wrongdoings from us.
¹³Just ^(U)as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who ^[d]fear Him.
¹⁴For ^(V)He Himself knows ^[e]our form;
He ^(W)is mindful that we are nothing but ^(X)dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are ^(Y)like grass;
Like a ^(Z)flower of the field, so he flourishes.
¹⁶When the ^(AA)wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its ^(AB)place no longer knows about it.
¹⁷But the ^[f]^(AC)mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who ^[g]fear Him,
And His justice ^(AD)to the children’s children,
¹⁸To ^(AE)those who keep His covenant
And remember His precepts, so as to do them.

¹⁹The Lord has established His ^(AF)throne in the heavens,
And His ^[h]^(AG)sovereignty rules over ^[i]all.
²⁰Bless the Lord, you ^(AH)His angels,
^(AI)Mighty in strength, who ^(AJ)perform His word,
^(AK)Obeying the voice of His word!
²¹Bless the Lord, all you ^(AL)His ^[j]angels,
You ^(AM)who serve Him, doing His will.
²²Bless the Lord, ^(AN)all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, my soul!

Footnotes

Psalm 103:5 Or desire
Psalm 103:6 Or deeds of vindication
Psalm 103:11 Or revere
Psalm 103:13 Or revere
Psalm 103:14 I.e., what we are made of
Psalm 103:17 Or faithfulness
Psalm 103:17 Or revere
Psalm 103:19 Or kingdom
Psalm 103:19 I.e., the universe
Psalm 103:21 Lit hosts

Psalm 108-110

New American Standard Bible

God Praised and Pleas to Give Victory.

A Song, a Psalm of David.

108 ^(A)My heart is steadfast, God;
I will sing, I will sing praises also with my ^[a]soul.
²Awake, harp and lyre;
I will awaken the dawn!
³I will give thanks to You, Lord, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You among the nations.
⁴For Your ^(B)mercy is great ^(C)above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the skies.
⁵^(D)Be exalted above the heavens, God,
And may Your glory be above all the earth.
⁶^(E)So that Your beloved may be rescued,
Save with Your right hand, and answer me!

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

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

Vengeance Invoked upon Adversaries.

For the music director. A Psalm of David.

109 ^(K)God of my praise,
^(L)Do not be silent!
²For they have opened a ^[h]wicked and ^(M)deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken ^[i]against me with a ^(N)lying tongue.
³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And have fought against me ^(O)without cause.
⁴In return ^(P)for my love they act as my accusers;
But ^(Q)I am in prayer.
⁵So they have ^[j]^(R)repaid me evil for good,
And ^(S)hatred for my love.

⁶Appoint a wicked person over him,
And may an ^[k]^(T)accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷When he is judged, may he ^(U)come out guilty,
And may his ^(V)prayer become sin.
⁸May ^(W)his days be few;
May ^(X)another take his office.
⁹May his ^(Y)children be fatherless,
And his ^(Z)wife a widow.
¹⁰May his ^(AA)children wander about and beg;
And may they ^(AB)seek sustenance ^[l]far from their ruined homes.
¹¹May ^(AC)the creditor ^[m]seize everything that he has,
And may ^(AD)strangers plunder the product of his labor.
¹²May there be none to ^[n]^(AE)extend kindness to him,
Nor ^(AF)any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
¹³May his ^(AG)descendants be ^[o]eliminated;
May their ^(AH)name be wiped out in a following generation.

¹⁴May ^(AI)the guilt of his fathers be remembered ^[p]before the Lord,
And do not let the sin of his mother be ^(AJ)wiped out.
¹⁵May ^(AK)they be before the Lord continually,
So that He may ^(AL)eliminate their memory from the earth;
¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the ^(AM)afflicted and needy person,
And the ^(AN)despondent in heart, to ^(AO)put them to death.
¹⁷He also loved cursing, so ^(AP)it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
¹⁸But he ^(AQ)clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it ^(AR)entered ^[q]his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
¹⁹May it be to him as ^(AS)a garment with which he covers himself,
And as a belt which he constantly ^(AT)wears around himself.
²⁰May this be the ^(AU)reward of my accusers from the Lord,
And of those who ^(AV)speak evil against my soul.

²¹But You, ^[r]God, the Lord, deal kindly with me ^(AW)for the sake of Your name;
Because ^(AX)Your mercy is good, rescue me;
²²For ^(AY)I am afflicted and needy,
And ^[s]my heart is ^(AZ)wounded within me.
²³I am passing ^(BA)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off ^(BB)like the locust.
²⁴My ^(BC)knees ^[t]are weak from ^(BD)fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
²⁵I also have become a ^(BE)disgrace to them;
When they see me, they ^(BF)shake their head.

²⁶^(BG)Help me, Lord my God;
Save me according to Your mercy.
²⁷^[u]And may they ^(BH)know that this is Your hand;
You, Lord, have done it.
²⁸^(BI)They will curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they will be ashamed,
But Your ^(BJ)servant will be glad.
²⁹^[v]May ^(BK)my accusers be clothed with dishonor,
And ^[w]may they ^(BL)cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord;
And ^(BM)I will praise Him in the midst of many.
³¹For He stands ^(BN)at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who ^(BO)judge his soul.

The Lord Gives Dominion to the King.

A Psalm of David.

110 ^(BP)The Lord says to my Lord:
“^(BQ)Sit at My right hand
Until I make ^(BR)Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
²The Lord will stretch out Your strong ^(BS)scepter from Zion, saying,
“^(BT)Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
³Your ^(BU)people ^[x]will volunteer freely on the day of Your ^[y]power;
^(BV)In ^[z]holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,
^[aa]Your youth are to You as the ^(BW)dew.

⁴^(BX)The Lord has sworn and will ^(BY)not ^[ab]change His mind,
“You are a ^(BZ)priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”
⁵The Lord is ^(CA)at Your right hand;
He ^[ac]will ^(CB)shatter kings in the ^(CC)day of His wrath.
⁶He will ^(CD)judge among the nations,
He ^[ad]will fill them with ^(CE)corpses,
He ^[ae]will ^(CF)shatter the ^[af]chief men over a broad country.
⁷He will ^(CG)drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will ^(CH)lift up His head.

Footnotes

Psalm 108:1 Lit glory
Psalm 108:7 Or sanctuary
Psalm 108:8 Lit protection
Psalm 108:8 Or lawgiver
Psalm 108:10 Or has led
Psalm 108:12 Lit of
Psalm 108:13 Or In; or With
Psalm 109:2 Lit wicked mouth and the deceitful
Psalm 109:2 Lit with
Psalm 109:5 Lit laid upon me
Psalm 109:6 Or adversary, Satan
Psalm 109:10 Or out of their desolate places
Psalm 109:11 Lit ensnare, strike at
Psalm 109:12 Lit continue
Psalm 109:13 Lit for cutting off
Psalm 109:14 Lit to
Psalm 109:18 Lit his inward parts
Psalm 109:21 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Psalm 109:22 Lit one has pierced my heart within me
Psalm 109:24 Or totter
Psalm 109:27 Or That they may know
Psalm 109:29 Or My accusers will be
Psalm 109:29 Or they will cover
Psalm 110:3 Lit will be voluntary offerings
Psalm 110:3 Or army
Psalm 110:3 Or the splendor of holiness
Psalm 110:3 Or The dew of Your youth is Yours
Psalm 110:4 Lit be sorry
Psalm 110:5 Or has shattered
Psalm 110:6 Or has filled
Psalm 110:6 Or has shattered
Psalm 110:6 Lit head over

Psalm 122

New American Standard Bible

Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

122 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let’s ^(A)go to the house of the Lord.”
²Our feet are standing
Within your ^(B)gates, Jerusalem,
³Jerusalem, that has been ^(C)built
As a city that is ^(D)firmly joined together;
⁴To which the tribes ^(E)go up, the tribes of ^[a]the Lord—
^[b]An ordinance for Israel—
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.
⁵For ^(F)thrones were set there for judgment,
The thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the ^(G)peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who ^(H)love you.
⁷May peace be within your ^(I)walls,
And prosperity within your ^(J)palaces.”
⁸For the sake of my ^(K)brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “^(L)May peace be within you.”
⁹For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will ^(M)seek your good.

Footnotes

Psalm 122:4 Heb Yah
Psalm 122:4 Or A testimony

Psalm 124

New American Standard Bible

Praise for Rescue from Enemies.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

124 “^(A)Had it not been the Lord who was on our side,”
^(B)Let Israel say,
²“Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
When people rose up against us,
³Then they would have ^(C)swallowed us alive,
When their ^(D)anger was kindled against us;
⁴Then the ^(E)waters would have flooded over us,
The stream would have ^[a]swept over our souls;
⁵Then the ^(F)raging waters would have ^[b]swept over our souls.”

⁶Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us ^[c]to be ^(G)torn by their teeth.
⁷Our souls have ^(H)escaped ^(I)like a bird from the trapper’s ^(J)snare;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
⁸Our ^(K)help is in the name of the Lord,
Who ^(L)made heaven and earth.