Psalms:66-69
rsv@Psalms:66:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Songs. A Psalm.
rsv@Psalms:66:2 @ Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;
rsv@Psalms:66:3 @ sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!
rsv@Psalms:66:4 @ Say to God, "How terrible are thy deeds! So great is thy power that thy enemies cringe before thee.
rsv@Psalms:66:5 @ All the earth worships thee; they sing praises to thee, sing praises to thy name." [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:66:6 @ Come and see what God has done: he is terrible in his deeds among men.
rsv@Psalms:66:7 @ He turned the sea into dry land; men passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,
rsv@Psalms:66:8 @ who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations-- let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:66:9 @ Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
rsv@Psalms:66:10 @ who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.
rsv@Psalms:66:11 @ For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
rsv@Psalms:66:12 @ Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction on our loins;
rsv@Psalms:66:13 @ thou didst let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.
rsv@Psalms:66:14 @ I will come into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,
rsv@Psalms:66:15 @ that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
rsv@Psalms:66:16 @ I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:66:17 @ Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.
rsv@Psalms:66:18 @ I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.
rsv@Psalms:66:19 @ If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
rsv@Psalms:66:20 @ But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@66:21) Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! ]
rsv@Psalms:67:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Songs.
rsv@Psalms:67:2 @ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:67:3 @ that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.
rsv@Psalms:67:4 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
rsv@Psalms:67:5 @ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:67:6 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
rsv@Psalms:67:7 @ The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. [ (Psalms strkjv@67:8) God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! ]
rsv@Psalms:68:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Songs.
rsv@Psalms:68:2 @ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him!
rsv@Psalms:68:3 @ As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
rsv@Psalms:68:4 @ But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy!
rsv@Psalms:68:5 @ Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the LORD, exult before him!
rsv@Psalms:68:6 @ Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
rsv@Psalms:68:7 @ God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
rsv@Psalms:68:8 @ O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:68:9 @ the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God; yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:68:10 @ Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;
rsv@Psalms:68:11 @ thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.
rsv@Psalms:68:12 @ The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the tidings:
rsv@Psalms:68:13 @ "The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil,
rsv@Psalms:68:14 @ though they stay among the sheepfolds-- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
rsv@Psalms:68:15 @ When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.
rsv@Psalms:68:16 @ O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
rsv@Psalms:68:17 @ Why look you with envy, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount which God desired for his abode, yea, where the LORD will dwell for ever?
rsv@Psalms:68:18 @ With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.
rsv@Psalms:68:19 @ Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
rsv@Psalms:68:20 @ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:68:21 @ Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
rsv@Psalms:68:22 @ But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
rsv@Psalms:68:23 @ The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
rsv@Psalms:68:24 @ that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."
rsv@Psalms:68:25 @ Thy solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary--
rsv@Psalms:68:26 @ the singers in front, the minstrels last, between them maidens playing timbrels:
rsv@Psalms:68:27 @ "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"
rsv@Psalms:68:28 @ There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zeb'ulun, the princes of Naph'tali.
rsv@Psalms:68:29 @ Summon thy might, O God; show thy strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us.
rsv@Psalms:68:30 @ Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.
rsv@Psalms:68:31 @ Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.
rsv@Psalms:68:32 @ Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
rsv@Psalms:68:33 @ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:68:34 @ to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.
rsv@Psalms:68:35 @ Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies. [ (Psalms strkjv@68:36) Terrible is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel, he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! ]
rsv@Psalms:69:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:69:2 @ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
rsv@Psalms:69:3 @ I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
rsv@Psalms:69:4 @ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
rsv@Psalms:69:5 @ More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
rsv@Psalms:69:6 @ O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:7 @ Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:69:8 @ For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
rsv@Psalms:69:9 @ I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
rsv@Psalms:69:10 @ For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
rsv@Psalms:69:11 @ When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
rsv@Psalms:69:12 @ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
rsv@Psalms:69:13 @ I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
rsv@Psalms:69:14 @ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help
rsv@Psalms:69:15 @ rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
rsv@Psalms:69:16 @ Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
rsv@Psalms:69:17 @ Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
rsv@Psalms:69:18 @ Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
rsv@Psalms:69:19 @ Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!
rsv@Psalms:69:20 @ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:21 @ Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
rsv@Psalms:69:22 @ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
rsv@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
rsv@Psalms:69:24 @ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
rsv@Psalms:69:25 @ Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.
rsv@Psalms:69:26 @ May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.
rsv@Psalms:69:27 @ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
rsv@Psalms:69:28 @ Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:29 @ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
rsv@Psalms:69:30 @ But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
rsv@Psalms:69:31 @ I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
rsv@Psalms:69:32 @ This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
rsv@Psalms:69:33 @ Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
rsv@Psalms:69:34 @ For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
rsv@Psalms:69:35 @ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
rsv@Psalms:69:36 @ For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it; [ (Psalms strkjv@69:37) the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. ]
rsv@Psalms:70:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
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