Chronological

¹ Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;
    cry out to the rock of our salvation.^(A)
2 Let us come before him with a song of praise,
    joyfully sing out our psalms.
³ For the Lord is the great God,
    the great king over all gods,^(B)
4 Whose hand holds the depths of the earth;
    who owns the tops of the mountains.
⁵ The sea and dry land belong to God,
    who made them, formed them by hand.^(C)

⁶ Enter, let us bow down in worship;
    let us kneel before the Lord who made us.
⁷ For he is our God,
    we are the people he shepherds,
    the sheep in his hands.^(D)

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:^(E)
8     Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
    as on the day of Massah in the desert.^[b]
9 There your ancestors tested me;
    they tried me though they had seen my works.^(F)
10 Forty years I loathed that generation;
    I said: “This people’s heart goes astray;
    they do not know my ways.”^(G)
11 Therefore I swore in my anger:
    “They shall never enter my rest.”^[c]

¹ The Lord is king; let the earth rejoice;
    let the many islands be glad.^(A)
2 Cloud and darkness surround him;
    justice and right are the foundation of his throne.^(B)
3 Fire goes before him,
    consuming his foes on every side.
⁴ His lightening illumines the world;
    the earth sees and trembles.^(C)
5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
    before the Lord of all the earth.^(D)
6 The heavens proclaim his justice;
    all peoples see his glory.^(E)

⁷ All who serve idols are put to shame,
    who glory in worthless things;
    all gods^[b] bow down before him.^(F)
8 Zion hears and is glad,
    and the daughters of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments, O Lord.^(G)
9 For you, Lord, are the Most High over all the earth,^(H)
    exalted far above all gods.
¹⁰ You who love the Lord, hate evil,
    he protects the souls of the faithful,^(I)
    rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
¹¹ Light dawns for the just,
    and gladness for the honest of heart.^(J)
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you just,
    and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.^(K)

Sing a new song to the Lord,
    for he has done marvelous deeds.^(L)
His right hand and holy arm
    have won the victory.^[d](M)
2 The Lord has made his victory known;
    has revealed his triumph in the sight of the nations,
³ He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness
    toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
    the victory of our God.

⁴ Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth;
    break into song; sing praise.
⁵ Sing praise to the Lord with the lyre,
    with the lyre and melodious song.
⁶ With trumpets and the sound of the horn
    shout with joy to the King, the Lord.^(N)

⁷ Let the sea and what fills it resound,^(O)
    the world and those who dwell there.
⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands,
    the mountains shout with them for joy,^(P)
9 (Q)Before the Lord who comes,
    who comes to govern the earth,^(R)
To govern the world with justice
    and the peoples with fairness.

¹ The Lord is king, the peoples tremble;
    he is enthroned on the cherubim,^[f] the earth quakes.^(S)
2 Great is the Lord in Zion,
    exalted above all the peoples.
³ Let them praise your great and awesome name:
    Holy is he!^(T)

⁴ O mighty king, lover of justice,
    you have established fairness;
    you have created just rule in Jacob.^(U)
5 Exalt the Lord, our God;
    bow down before his footstool;^[g](V)
    holy is he!

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel among those who called on his name;
    they called on the Lord, and he answered them.^(W)
7 From the pillar of cloud he spoke to them;
    they kept his decrees, the law he had given them.^(X)
8 O Lord, our God, you answered them;
    you were a forgiving God to them,
    though you punished their offenses.^(Y)
9 Exalt the Lord, our God;
    bow down before his holy mountain;
    holy is the Lord, our God.