Psalm 76:1-89:5

English Standard Version

⁴ Glorious are you, more majestic
    ^(H)than the mountains full of ^(I)prey.
^5 (J)The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;
    ^(K)they sank into sleep;
all the men of war
    were unable to use their hands.
⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
    both ^(L)rider and horse lay stunned.

^7 (M)But you, you are to be feared!
    Who can ^(N)stand before you
    when once your anger is roused?
⁸ From the heavens you uttered judgment;
    ^(O)the earth feared and was still,
⁹ when God ^(P)arose to establish judgment,
    to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

¹⁰ Surely ^(Q)the wrath of man shall praise you;
    the remnant^[a] of wrath you will put on like a belt.
^11 (R)Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
    let all around him ^(S)bring gifts
    to him who ^(T)is to be feared,
¹² who ^(U)cuts off the spirit of princes,
    who ^(V)is to be feared by the kings of the earth.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
    I am so ^(AE)troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider ^(AF)the days of old,
    the years long ago.
⁶ I said,^[b] “Let me remember my ^(AG)song in the night;
    let me ^(AH)meditate in my heart.”
    Then my spirit made a diligent search:
⁷ “Will the Lord ^(AI)spurn forever,
    and never again ^(AJ)be favorable?
⁸ Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his ^(AK)promises at an end for all time?
^9 (AL)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    ^(AM)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰ Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
    to the years of the ^(AN)right hand of the Most High.”^[c]

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
    yes, I will ^(AO)remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will ponder all your ^(AP)work,
    and meditate on your ^(AQ)mighty deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is ^(AR)holy.
    ^(AS)What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who ^(AT)works wonders;
    you have ^(AU)made known your might among the peoples.
¹⁵ You ^(AV)with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ When ^(AW)the waters saw you, O God,
    when the waters saw you, they were afraid;
    indeed, the deep trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
    the skies ^(AX)gave forth thunder;
    your ^(AY)arrows flashed on every side.
^18 (AZ)The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    ^(BA)your lightnings lighted up the world;
    the earth ^(BB)trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your ^(BC)way was through the sea,
    your path through the great waters;
    yet your footprints ^(BD)were unseen.^[d]
20 You ^(BE)led your people like a flock
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ He established ^(BN)a testimony in ^(BO)Jacob
    and appointed a law in ^(BP)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
⁶ that ^(BQ)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷     so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget ^(BR)the works of God,
    but ^(BS)keep his commandments;
⁸ and that they should not be ^(BT)like their fathers,
    ^(BU)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation ^(BV)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The Ephraimites, armed with^[f] the bow,
    ^(BW)turned back on the day of battle.
¹⁰ They ^(BX)did not keep God's covenant,
    but refused to walk according to his law.
¹¹ They ^(BY)forgot his works
    and ^(BZ)the wonders that he had shown them.
¹² In the sight of their fathers ^(CA)he performed wonders
    in the land of Egypt, in ^(CB)the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He ^(CC)divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters ^(CD)stand like a heap.
^14 (CE)In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He ^(CF)split rocks in the wilderness
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of ^(CG)the rock
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they sinned still more against him,
    ^(CH)rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ They ^(CI)tested God in their heart
    by demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying,
    ^(CJ)“Can God ^(CK)spread a table in the wilderness?
^20 (CL)He struck the rock so that water gushed out
    and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
    or provide meat for his people?”

²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
    ^(CM)a fire was kindled against Jacob;
    his anger rose against Israel,
²² because they ^(CN)did not believe in God
    and did not trust his saving power.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above
    and ^(CO)opened the doors of heaven,
²⁴ and he ^(CP)rained down on them manna to eat
    and gave them ^(CQ)the grain of heaven.
²⁵ Man ate of the bread of ^(CR)the angels;
    he sent them food ^(CS)in abundance.
²⁶ He ^(CT)caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
    and by his power he led out the south wind;
²⁷ he rained meat on them like ^(CU)dust,
    winged birds like ^(CV)the sand of the seas;
²⁸ he ^(CW)let them fall in the midst of their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
²⁹ And they ^(CX)ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they ^(CY)craved.
³⁰ But before they had satisfied their craving,
    ^(CZ)while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed ^(DA)the strongest of them
    and laid low ^(DB)the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they ^(DC)still sinned;
    ^(DD)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³ So he made ^(DE)their days ^(DF)vanish like^[g] a breath,^[h]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ When he killed them, they ^(DG)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their ^(DH)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(DI)redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(DJ)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(DK)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their ^(DL)heart was not ^(DM)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being ^(DN)compassionate,
    ^(DO)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He ^(DP)remembered that they were but ^(DQ)flesh,
    ^(DR)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(DS)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(DT)grieved him in ^(DU)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(DV)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(DW)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(DX)did not remember his power^[i]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (DY)when he performed his ^(DZ)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(EA)marvels in ^(EB)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(EC)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(ED)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(EE)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(EF)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(EG)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(EH)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(EI)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(EJ)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(EK)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(EL)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (EM)He led them in safety, so that they ^(EN)were not afraid,
    but ^(EO)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(EP)holy land,
    ^(EQ)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(ER)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(ES)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(ET)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they ^(EU)tested and ^(EV)rebelled against the Most High God
    and did not keep his testimonies,
⁵⁷ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
    they twisted like ^(EW)a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸ For they ^(EX)provoked him to anger with their ^(EY)high places;
    they ^(EZ)moved him to jealousy with their ^(FA)idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard, he was full of ^(FB)wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He ^(FC)forsook his dwelling at ^(FD)Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
⁶¹ and delivered his ^(FE)power to captivity,
    his ^(FF)glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶² He ^(FG)gave his people over to the sword
    and ^(FH)vented his wrath on his heritage.
^63 (FI)Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no ^(FJ)marriage song.
⁶⁴ Their ^(FK)priests fell by the sword,
    and their ^(FL)widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(FM)awoke as from sleep,
    like a strong man shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶ And he ^(FN)put his adversaries to rout;
    he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of ^(FO)Joseph;
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he ^(FP)loves.
⁶⁹ He ^(FQ)built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
    like the earth, which he has founded forever.
⁷⁰ He ^(FR)chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ from ^(FS)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to ^(FT)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his ^(FU)inheritance.
⁷² With ^(FV)upright heart he shepherded them
    and ^(FW)guided them with his skillful hand.

^5 (GI)How long, O Lord? Will you be angry ^(GJ)forever?
    Will your ^(GK)jealousy ^(GL)burn like fire?
^6 (GM)Pour out your anger on the nations
    that ^(GN)do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
    that ^(GO)do not call upon your name!
⁷ For they have devoured Jacob
    and laid waste his habitation.

^8 (GP)Do not remember against us ^(GQ)our former iniquities;^[j]
    let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
    for we are ^(GR)brought very low.
^9 (GS)Help us, O God of our salvation,
    for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and ^(GT)atone for our sins,
    for your ^(GU)name's sake!
^10 (GV)Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”
Let ^(GW)the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
    be known among the nations before our eyes!

¹¹ Let ^(GX)the groans of the prisoners come before you;
    according to your great power, preserve those ^(GY)doomed to die!
¹² Return ^(GZ)sevenfold into the ^(HA)lap of our neighbors
    the ^(HB)taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
¹³ But we your people, the ^(HC)sheep of your pasture,
    will ^(HD)give thanks to you forever;
    from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

^3 (HN)Restore us,^[k] O God;
    ^(HO)let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴ O ^(HP)Lord God of hosts,
    ^(HQ)how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
⁵ You have fed them with ^(HR)the bread of tears
    and given them tears to drink in full measure.
^6 (HS)You make us an object of contention for our ^(HT)neighbors,
    and our enemies laugh among themselves.

^7 (HU)Restore us, O God of hosts;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸ You brought ^(HV)a vine out of Egypt;
    you ^(HW)drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹ You ^(HX)cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹ It sent out its branches to ^(HY)the sea
    and its shoots to ^(HZ)the River.^[l]
12 Why then have you ^(IA)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
^13 (IB)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
    ^(IC)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶ They have ^(ID)burned it with fire; they have ^(IE)cut it down;
    may they perish at ^(IF)the rebuke of your face!
¹⁷ But ^(IG)let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
¹⁸ Then we shall not turn back from you;
    ^(IH)give us life, and we will call upon your name!

^19 (II)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
    Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴ For it is a statute for Israel,
    a rule^[n] of the God of Jacob.
⁵ He made it ^(IR)a decree in ^(IS)Joseph
    when he ^(IT)went out over^[o] the land of Egypt.
^(IU)I hear a language ^(IV)I had not known:
⁶ “I ^(IW)relieved your^[p] shoulder of ^(IX)the burden;
    your hands were freed from the basket.
⁷ In distress you ^(IY)called, and I delivered you;
    I ^(IZ)answered you in the secret place of thunder;
    I ^(JA)tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
^8 (JB)Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
    O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹ There shall be no ^(JC)strange god among you;
    you shall not bow down to a ^(JD)foreign god.
^10 (JE)I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    ^(JF)Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ “But my people did not listen to my voice;
    Israel ^(JG)would not submit to me.
¹² So I ^(JH)gave them over to their ^(JI)stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own ^(JJ)counsels.
^13 (JK)Oh, that my people would listen to me,
    that Israel would ^(JL)walk in my ways!
¹⁴ I would soon subdue their enemies
    and ^(JM)turn my hand against their foes.
¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would ^(JN)cringe toward him,
    and their fate would last forever.
¹⁶ But he would feed you^[q] with ^(JO)the finest of the wheat,
    and with ^(JP)honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

^5 (KC)They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
    ^(KD)they walk about in darkness;
    ^(KE)all the foundations of the earth are ^(KF)shaken.

^6 (KG)I said, “You are gods,
    sons of the Most High, all of you;
⁷ nevertheless, like men ^(KH)you shall die,
    and fall like any prince.”^[r]

^8 (KI)Arise, O God, judge the earth;
    for you shall ^(KJ)inherit all the nations!

⁹ Do to them as you did to ^(LC)Midian,
    as to ^(LD)Sisera and Jabin at ^(LE)the river Kishon,
¹⁰ who were destroyed at ^(LF)En-dor,
    who became ^(LG)dung for the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like ^(LH)Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like ^(LI)Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, ^(LJ)“Let us take possession for ourselves
    of the pastures of God.”

¹³ O my God, make them like ^(LK)whirling dust,^[s]
    like ^(LL)chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As ^(LM)fire consumes the forest,
    as the flame ^(LN)sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so may you pursue them ^(LO)with your tempest
    and terrify them with your hurricane!
^16 (LP)Fill their faces with shame,
    that they may seek your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ Let them be ^(LQ)put to shame and dismayed forever;
    let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸ that they may ^(LR)know that you alone,
    ^(LS)whose name is the Lord,
    are ^(LT)the Most High over all the earth.

³ Even the sparrow finds a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
    ^(MB)my King and my God.
^4 (MC)Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
    ever ^(MD)singing your praise! Selah

⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    ^(ME)in whose heart are the highways to Zion.^[u]
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
    they make it a place of springs;
    ^(MF)the early rain also covers it with ^(MG)pools.
⁷ They go ^(MH)from strength to strength;
    each one ^(MI)appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O ^(MJ)Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
    give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
^9 (MK)Behold our ^(ML)shield, O God;
    look on the face of your anointed!

¹⁰ For a day ^(MM)in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be ^(MN)a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the Lord God is ^(MO)a sun and ^(MP)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
^(MQ)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who ^(MR)walk uprightly.
¹² O Lord of hosts,
    ^(MS)blessed is the one who trusts in you!

^4 (MZ)Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
    and put away your indignation toward us!
^5 (NA)Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
⁶ Will you not ^(NB)revive us again,
    that your people may ^(NC)rejoice in you?
⁷ Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.

^8 (ND)Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,
    for he will ^(NE)speak peace to his people, to his ^(NF)saints;
    but let them not ^(NG)turn back to ^(NH)folly.
⁹ Surely his ^(NI)salvation is near to those who fear him,
    that ^(NJ)glory may dwell in our land.

^10 (NK)Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
    ^(NL)righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹ Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
    and righteousness looks down from the sky.
¹² Yes, ^(NM)the Lord will give what is good,
    and our land ^(NN)will yield its increase.
^13 (NO)Righteousness will go before him
    and make his footsteps a way.

⁸ There is ^(OB)none like you among the gods, O Lord,
    ^(OC)nor are there any works like yours.
^9 (OD)All the nations you have made shall come
    and worship before you, O Lord,
    and shall glorify your name.
¹⁰ For ^(OE)you are great and ^(OF)do wondrous things;
    ^(OG)you alone are God.
^11 (OH)Teach me your way, O Lord,
    that I may ^(OI)walk in your truth;
    ^(OJ)unite my heart to fear your name.
¹² I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
    and I will glorify your name forever.
^13 (OK)For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have ^(OL)delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

¹⁴ O God, insolent men have ^(OM)risen up against me;
    a band of ruthless men seeks my life,
    and they do not set you before them.
¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God ^(ON)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
^16 (OO)Turn to me and be gracious to me;
    give your strength to ^(OP)your servant,
    and save ^(OQ)the son of your maidservant.
^17 (OR)Show me a sign of your ^(OS)favor,
    that those who hate me may see and be put to shame
    because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

⁴ Among those who ^(OZ)know me I mention ^(PA)Rahab and Babylon;
    behold, Philistia and Tyre, with ^(PB)Cush^[v]—
    “This one was born there,” they say.
⁵ And of Zion it shall be said,
    “This one and that one were born in her”;
    for the Most High himself will ^(PC)establish her.
⁶ The Lord records as he ^(PD)registers the peoples,
    “This one was born there.” Selah

^7 (PE)Singers and ^(PF)dancers alike say,
    “All my ^(PG)springs are in you.”

³ For my soul is full of troubles,
    and ^(PN)my life draws near to ^(PO)Sheol.
⁴ I am counted among those who ^(PP)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
⁵ like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom ^(PQ)you remember no more,
    for they are ^(PR)cut off from your hand.
⁶ You have put me in ^(PS)the depths of the pit,
    in the ^(PT)regions dark and ^(PU)deep.
⁷ Your wrath ^(PV)lies heavy upon me,
    and you overwhelm me with ^(PW)all your waves. Selah

⁸ You have caused ^(PX)my companions to shun me;
    you have made me ^(PY)a horror^[x] to them.
I am ^(PZ)shut in so that I cannot escape;
^{9     (QA)}my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
    I ^(QB)spread out my hands to you.
¹⁰ Do you work wonders for the dead?
    ^(QC)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
¹¹ Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
    or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
¹² Are your ^(QD)wonders known in ^(QE)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of ^(QF)forgetfulness?

¹³ But I, O Lord, cry ^(QG)to you;
    ^(QH)in the morning my prayer comes before you.
¹⁴ O Lord, why ^(QI)do you cast my soul away?
    Why ^(QJ)do you hide your face from me?
¹⁵ Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.^[y]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
    your ^(QK)dreadful assaults destroy me.
¹⁷ They ^(QL)surround me like a flood ^(QM)all day long;
    they ^(QN)close in on me together.
¹⁸ You have caused ^(QO)my beloved and my friend to shun me;
    my companions have become darkness.^[z]

⁵ Let ^(RB)the heavens praise your ^(RC)wonders, O Lord,
    your faithfulness in the assembly of ^(RD)the holy ones!