Psalm 66-67

English Standard Version

How Awesome Are Your Deeds

To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.

66 ^(A)Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
²    sing the glory of his name;
    ^(B)give to him glorious praise!
³Say to God, ^(C)“How awesome are your deeds!
    So great is your power that your enemies ^(D)come cringing to you.
⁴^(E)All the earth worships you
    and sings praises to you;
    they sing praises to your name.” Selah

⁵^(F)Come and see what God has done:
    ^(G)he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
⁶He ^(H)turned the sea into dry land;
    they ^(I)passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
⁷    who rules by his might forever,
whose ^(J)eyes keep watch on the nations—
    let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

⁸Bless our God, O peoples;
    let the sound of his praise be heard,
⁹who has kept our soul among the living
    and ^(K)has not let our feet slip.
¹⁰For you, O God, have ^(L)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.
¹¹You brought us into ^(M)the net;
    you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
¹²you let men ^(N)ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through ^(O)water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

¹³I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will ^(P)perform my vows to you,
¹⁴that which my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised ^(Q)when I was in trouble.
¹⁵I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,
    with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

¹⁶^(R)Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
¹⁷I cried to him with my mouth,
    and high praise was on^[a] my tongue.^[b]
¹⁸If I had ^(S)cherished iniquity in my heart,
    ^(T)the Lord would not have listened.
¹⁹But truly ^(U)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me!

Make Your Face Shine upon Us

To the choirmaster: with ^(V)stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

67 May God ^(W)be gracious to us and bless us
    and make his face to ^(X)shine upon us, Selah
²that ^(Y)your way may be known on earth,
    your ^(Z)saving power among all nations.
³^(AA)Let the peoples praise you, O God;
    let all the peoples praise you!

⁴Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
    for you ^(AB)judge the peoples with equity
    and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
⁵^(AC)Let the peoples praise you, O God;
    let all the peoples praise you!

⁶The earth has ^(AD)yielded its increase;
God, our God, shall bless us.
⁷God shall bless us;
let ^(AE)all the ends of the earth fear him!

Footnotes

Psalm 66:17 Hebrew under
Psalm 66:17 Or and he was exalted with my tongue

Acts 23:16-35

English Standard Version

¹⁶Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered ^(A)the barracks and told Paul. ¹⁷Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.” ¹⁸So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, “Paul ^(B)the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.” ¹⁹The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?” ²⁰And he said, ^(C)“The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. ²¹But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who ^(D)have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.” ²²So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”

Paul Sent to Felix the Governor

²³Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.^[a] ²⁴Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to ^(E)Felix ^(F)the governor.” ²⁵And he wrote a letter to this effect:

²⁶“Claudius Lysias, to ^(G)his Excellency the governor Felix, ^(H)greetings. ²⁷^(I)This man was seized by the Jews and ^(J)was about to be killed by them ^(K)when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, ^(L)having learned that he was a Roman citizen. ²⁸And ^(M)desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council. ²⁹I found that he was being accused ^(N)about questions of their law, but ^(O)charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment. ³⁰^(P)And when it was disclosed to me ^(Q)that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ^(R)ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”

³¹So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³²And on the next day they returned to ^(S)the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him. ³³When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him. ³⁴On reading the letter, he asked what ^(T)province he was from. And when he learned ^(U)that he was from Cilicia, ³⁵he said, “I will give you a hearing ^(V)when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod's ^(W)praetorium.