Psalm 65

New King James Version

Praise to God for His Salvation and Providence

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song.

65 Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;
And to You the ^[a]vow shall be performed.
²O You who hear prayer,
^(A)To You all flesh will come.
³Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions,
You will ^(B)provide atonement for them.

⁴^(C)Blessed is the man You ^(D)choose,
And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts.
^(E)We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.

⁵By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us,
O God of our salvation,
You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of the far-off seas;
⁶Who established the mountains by His strength,
^(F)Being clothed with power;
⁷^(G)You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their waves,
^(H)And the tumult of the peoples.
⁸They also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid of Your signs;
You make the outgoings of the morning and evening ^[b]rejoice.

⁹You ^[c]visit the earth and ^(I)water it,
You greatly enrich it;
^(J)The river of God is full of water;
You provide their grain,
For so You have prepared it.
¹⁰You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its furrows;
You make it soft with showers,
You bless its growth.

¹¹You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance.
¹²They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
And the little hills rejoice on every side.
¹³The pastures are clothed with flocks;
^(K)The valleys also are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.

Footnotes

Psalm 65:1 A promised deed
Psalm 65:8 shout for joy
Psalm 65:9 give attention to

Psalm 66

New King James Version

Praise to God for His Awesome Works

To the Chief Musician. A Song. A Psalm.

66 Make ^(A)a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
²Sing out the honor of His name;
Make His praise glorious.
³Say to God,
“How ^(B)awesome are Your works!
^(C)Through the greatness of Your power
Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
⁴^(D)All the earth shall worship You
And sing praises to You;
They shall sing praises to Your name.” Selah

⁵Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.
⁶^(E)He turned the sea into dry land;
^(F)They went through the river on foot.
There we will rejoice in Him.
⁷He rules by His power forever;
His eyes observe the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

⁸Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
⁹Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our feet to ^[a]be moved.
¹⁰For ^(G)You, O God, have tested us;
^(H)You have refined us as silver is refined.
¹¹^(I)You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on our backs.
¹²^(J)You have caused men to ride over our heads;
^(K)We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to ^[b]rich fulfillment.

¹³^(L)I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;
^(M)I will pay You my ^[c]vows,
¹⁴Which my lips have uttered
And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
¹⁵I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
With the sweet aroma of rams;
I will offer bulls with goats. Selah

¹⁶Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare what He has done for my soul.
¹⁷I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was ^[d]extolled with my tongue.
¹⁸^(N)If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
¹⁹But certainly God ^(O)has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!

Footnotes

Psalm 66:9 slip
Psalm 66:12 abundance
Psalm 66:13 Promised deeds
Psalm 66:17 praised

Psalm 67

New King James Version

An Invocation and a Doxology

To the Chief Musician. On ^[a]stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

67 God be merciful to us and bless us,
And ^(A)cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
²That ^(B)Your way may be known on earth,
^(C)Your salvation among all nations.

³Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
⁴Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
For ^(D)You shall judge the people righteously,
And govern the nations on earth. Selah

⁵Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
⁶^(E)Then the earth shall ^[b]yield her increase;
God, our own God, shall bless us.
⁷God shall bless us,
And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

Footnotes

Psalm 67:1 Heb. neginoth
Psalm 67:6 give her produce

Romans 2

New King James Version

God’s Righteous Judgment

2 Therefore you are ^(A)inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, ^(B)for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. ²But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. ³And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or do you despise ^(C)the riches of His goodness, ^(D)forbearance, and ^(E)longsuffering, ^(F)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵But in accordance with your hardness and your ^[a]impenitent heart ^(G)you are ^[b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶who ^(H)“will render to each one according to his deeds”: ⁷eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; ⁸but to those who are self-seeking and ^(I)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew ^(J)first and also of the ^[c]Greek; ¹⁰^(K)but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹¹For ^(L)there is no partiality with God.

¹²For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law ¹³(for ^(M)not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; ¹⁴for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵who show the ^(N)work of the law written in their hearts, their ^(O)conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) ¹⁶^(P)in the day when God will judge the secrets of men ^(Q)by Jesus Christ, ^(R)according to my gospel.

The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles

¹⁷^[d]Indeed ^(S)you are called a Jew, and ^(T)rest^[e] on the law, ^(U)and make your boast in God, ¹⁸and ^(V)know His will, and ^(W)approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹and ^(X)are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, ^(Y)having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. ²¹^(Z)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? ²²You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, ^(AA)do you rob temples? ²³You who ^(AB)make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? ²⁴For ^(AC)“the name of God is ^(AD)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.

Circumcision of No Avail

²⁵^(AE)For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶Therefore, ^(AF)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? ²⁷And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, ^(AG)judge you who, even with your ^[f]written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? ²⁸For ^(AH)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; ²⁹but he is a Jew ^(AI)who is one inwardly; and ^(AJ)circumcision is that of the heart, ^(AK)in the Spirit, not in the letter; ^(AL)whose ^[g]praise is not from men but from God.