BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

Psalm 1

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Tremble and do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent.

Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.

I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.

I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.

Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.

Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression.

Be exalted in your strength, Lord; we will sing and praise your might.

“He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.

Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty,

Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.

Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people; praise his holy name.

that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever.

Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

Psalm 32

Of David. A maskil.

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!

Psalm 33

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.

Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,

Psalm 36

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord.

I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.

But all sinners will be destroyed; there will be no future for the wicked.

Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

Psalm 39

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.”

When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.

I said, “Have mercy on me, Lord; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.

Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise.

Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.

I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

See how they lie in wait for me! Fierce men conspire against me for no offense or sin of mine, Lord.

For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

You are my strength, I sing praise to you; you, God, are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.

Then I will ever sing in praise of your name and fulfill my vows day after day.

I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions.

The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious.

All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing the praises of your name.”

If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;

May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.

Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord.

God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.

Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the young women playing the timbrels.

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to the Lord,

I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.

For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.

Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.

As for me, I will declare this forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,

But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.

Psalm 81

For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph.

Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!

You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.

As they make music they will sing, “All my fountains are in you.”

Psalm 89

A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them.

Psalm 95

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Psalm 96

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.

Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.

Psalm 98

A psalm.

Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

I will sing of your love and justice; to you, Lord, I will sing praise.

who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,

he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the Lord, my soul. Praise the Lord.

Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.

We have sinned, even as our ancestors did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.

Psalm 108

A song. A psalm of David.

My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.

I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

ש Sin and Shin

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.

May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.

If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.

May your priests be clothed with your righteousness; may your faithful people sing for joy.’”

I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy.

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.

for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

Psalm 138

Of David.

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise.

May they sing of the ways of the Lord, for the glory of the Lord is great.

I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Psalm 147

Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!

Sing to the Lord with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp.

Psalm 149

Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.

Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.