Psalm 65-68

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
    O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
    and of the farthest seas.^(E)
6 By your^[a] strength you established the mountains;
    you are girded with might.^(F)
7 You silence the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
    the tumult of the peoples.^(G)
8 Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;
you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.

⁹ You visit the earth and water it;
    you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
    you provide the people with grain,
    for so you have prepared it.^(H)
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
¹² The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
    the hills gird themselves with joy;^(I)
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks;
    the valleys deck themselves with grain;
    they shout and sing together for joy.^(J)

⁵ Come and see what God has done:
    he is awesome in his deeds among mortals.^(O)
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
    they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him,^(P)
7     who rules by his might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations—
    let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah^(Q)

⁸ Bless our God, O peoples;
    let the sound of his praise be heard,^(R)
9 who has kept us among the living
    and has not let our feet slip.^(S)
10 For you, O God, have tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.^(T)
11 You brought us into the net;
    you laid burdens on our backs;^(U)
12 you let people ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.^[b](V)

¹³ I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will pay you my vows,^(W)
14 those that my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.^(X)
15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fatted calves,
    with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah^(Y)

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for me.^(Z)
17 I cried aloud to him,
    and he was extolled with my tongue.
¹⁸ If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
    the Lord would not have listened.^(AA)
19 But truly God has listened;
    he has heard the words of my prayer.^(AB)

²⁰ Blessed be God,
    who has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me.^(AC)

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

⁶ The earth has yielded its increase;
    God, our God, has blessed us.^(AH)
7 May God continue to bless us;
    let all the ends of the earth revere him.^(AI)

⁴ Sing to God; sing praises to his name;
    lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds^[c]—
his name is the Lord—
    be exultant before him.^(AM)

⁵ Father of orphans and protector of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.^(AN)
6 God gives the desolate a home to live in;
    he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
    but the rebellious live in a parched land.^(AO)

⁷ O God, when you went out before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness, Selah^(AP)
8 the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain
    at the presence of God, the God of Sinai,
    at the presence of God, the God of Israel.^(AQ)
9 Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad;
    you restored your heritage when it languished;^(AR)
10 your flock found a dwelling in it;
    in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.^(AS)

¹¹ The Lord gives the command;
    great is the company of those^[d] who bore the tidings:
¹²     “The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!”
The women at home divide the spoil,^(AT)
13     though they stay among the sheepfolds—
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
    its pinions with green gold.^(AU)
14 When the Almighty^[e] scattered kings there,
    snow fell on Zalmon.^(AV)

¹⁵ O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan;
    O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
¹⁶ Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountain,
    at the mount that God desired for his abode,
    where the Lord will reside forever?^(AW)

¹⁷ With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand,
    thousands upon thousands,
    the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.^[f](AX)
18 You ascended the high mount,
    leading captives in your train
    and receiving gifts from people,
even from those who rebel against the Lord God’s abiding there.^(AY)
19 Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily bears us up;
    God is our salvation. Selah^(AZ)
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.^(BA)

²¹ But God will shatter the heads of his enemies,
    the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways.^(BB)
22 The Lord said,
    “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,^(BC)
23 so that you may bathe^[g] your feet in blood,
    so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe.”^(BD)

²⁴ Your solemn processions are seen,^[h] O God,
    the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—^(BE)
25 the singers in front, the musicians last,
    between them young women playing tambourines:^(BF)
26 “Bless God in the great congregation,
    the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”^(BG)
27 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead,
    the princes of Judah in a body,
    the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.^(BH)

²⁸ Summon your might, O God;
    show your strength, O God, as you have done for us before.
²⁹ Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
    kings bear gifts to you.^(BI)
30 Rebuke the wild animals that live among the reeds,
    the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample^[i] under foot those who lust after tribute;
    scatter the peoples who delight in war.^[j](BJ)
31 Let bronze be brought from Egypt;
    let Cush hasten to stretch out its hands to God.^(BK)

³² Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth;
    sing praises to the Lord, Selah
³³ O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens;
    listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.^(BL)
34 Ascribe power to God,
    whose majesty is over Israel
    and whose power is in the skies.^(BM)
35 Awesome is God in his^[k] sanctuary,
    the God of Israel;
    he gives power and strength to his people.

Blessed be God!^(BN)