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Psalm 90-99
BOOK IV Psalm 90 1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
2Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
5Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:
6In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.
7We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
10Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13Relent, LORD ! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
14Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.
17May the favor
Psalm 91
1Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
3Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
4He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
6nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
8You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
9If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
11For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
12they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14“Because he
15He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Psalm 92
2proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
3to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
4For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD ; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!
6Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,
7that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
8But you, LORD, are forever exalted.
9For surely your enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
10You have exalted my horn
11My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, 15proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
Psalm 93 1The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength; indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
2Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.
3The seas have lifted up, LORD, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
4Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is mighty. 5Your statutes, LORD, stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days.
Psalm 94 1The LORD is a God who avenges. O God who avenges, shine forth.
2Rise up, Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.
3How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant?
4They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
5They crush your people, LORD ; they oppress your inheritance.
6They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.”
8Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
9Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
10Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?
11The LORD knows all human plans; he knows that they are futile.
12Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from your law;
13you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.
15Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
17Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
18When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, LORD, supported me.
19When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
20Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
21The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge. 23He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.
Psalm 95 1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD ; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
9where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
Psalm 96 1Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
2Sing to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.
3Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
4For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
6Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
7Ascribe to the LORD, all you families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
8Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.
9Worship the LORD in the splendor of his
10Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.
11Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. 13Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Psalm 97 1The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice.
2Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side.
4His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
6The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all peoples see his glory.
7All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols— worship him, all you gods!
8Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, LORD .
9For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
10Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11Light shines
Psalm 98 1A 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.
2The LORD has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
5make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,
6with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn— shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
7Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
8Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy; 9let 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 99 1The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.
2Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.
3Let them praise your great and awesome name— he is holy.
4The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.
5Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his footstool; he is holy.
6Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the LORD and he answered them.
7He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.
8LORD our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.