Psalm 33 Common English Bible

Psalm 33

33 All you who are righteous,
    shout joyfully to the Lord!
    It’s right for those who do right to praise God.
²Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre!
    Sing praises to him with the ten-stringed harp!
³Sing to him a new song!
    Play your best with joyful shouts!
⁴Because the Lord’s word is right,
    his every act is done in good faith.
⁵He loves righteousness and justice;
    the Lord’s faithful love fills the whole earth.
⁶The skies were made by the Lord’s word,
    all their starry multitude by the breath of his mouth.
⁷He gathered the ocean waters into a heap;
    he put the deep seas into storerooms.
⁸All the earth honors the Lord;
    all the earth’s inhabitants stand in awe of him.
⁹Because when he spoke, it happened!
    When he commanded, there it was!

¹⁰The Lord overrules what the nations plan;
    he frustrates what the peoples intend to do.
¹¹But the Lord’s plan stands forever;
    what he intends to do lasts from one generation to the next.
¹²The nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom God has chosen as his possession,
    is truly happy!
¹³The Lord looks down from heaven;
    he sees every human being.
¹⁴From his dwelling place God observes
    all who live on earth.
¹⁵God is the one who made all their hearts,
    the one who knows everything they do.

¹⁶Kings aren’t saved by the strength of their armies;
    warriors aren’t rescued by how much power they have.
¹⁷A warhorse is a bad bet for victory;
    it can’t save despite its great strength.
¹⁸But look here: the Lord’s eyes watch all who honor him,
    all who wait for his faithful love,
¹⁹    to deliver their lives^[a] from death
    and keep them alive during a famine.

²⁰We put our hope in the Lord.
    He is our help and our shield.
²¹Our heart rejoices in God
    because we trust his holy name.
²²Lord, let your faithful love surround us
    because we wait for you.