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Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 90 Psalm 90 (Listen) Book Four From Everlasting to Everlasting A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. 90   Lord, you have been our dwelling place1     in all generations. 2   Before the mountains were brought forth,     or ever you had formed the earth and the world,     from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3   You return man to dust     and say, “Return, O children of man!”2 4   For a...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 150 Psalm 150 (Listen) Let Everything Praise the Lord 150   Praise the LORD!   Praise God in his sanctuary;     praise him in his mighty heavens!1 2   Praise him for his mighty deeds;     praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3   Praise him with trumpet sound;     praise him with lute and harp! 4   Praise him with tambourine and dance;     praise him with strings and...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 149 Psalm 149 (Listen) Sing to the Lord a New Song 149   Praise the LORD!   Sing to the LORD a new song,     his praise in the assembly of the godly! 2   Let Israel be glad in his Maker;     let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 3   Let them praise his name with dancing,     making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 4   For the LORD takes pleasure in his people;     he adorns the...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 148 Psalm 148 (Listen) Praise the Name of the Lord 148   Praise the LORD!   Praise the LORD from the heavens;     praise him in the heights! 2   Praise him, all his angels;     praise him, all his hosts! 3   Praise him, sun and moon,     praise him, all you shining stars! 4   Praise him, you highest heavens,     and you waters above the heavens! 5   Let them praise the name of the...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 147 Psalm 147 (Listen) He Heals the Brokenhearted 147   Praise the LORD!   For it is good to sing praises to our God;     for it is pleasant,1 and a song of praise is fitting. 2   The LORD builds up Jerusalem;     he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 3   He heals the brokenhearted     and binds up their wounds. 4   He determines the number of the stars;     he gives to all of them their...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 146 Psalm 146 (Listen) Put Not Your Trust in Princes 146   Praise the LORD!   Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2   I will praise the LORD as long as I live;     I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3   Put not your trust in princes,     in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4   When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;     on that very day his plans...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 145 Psalm 145 (Listen) Great Is the Lord 1 A Song of Praise. Of David. 145   I will extol you, my God and King,     and bless your name forever and ever. 2   Every day I will bless you     and praise your name forever and ever. 3   Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,     and his greatness is unsearchable. 4   One generation shall commend your works to another,     and shall declare...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 144 Psalm 144 (Listen) My Rock and My Fortress Of David. 144   Blessed be the LORD, my rock,     who trains my hands for war,     and my fingers for battle; 2   he is my steadfast love and my fortress,     my stronghold and my deliverer,   my shield and he in whom I take refuge,     who subdues peoples1 under me. 3   O LORD, what is man that you regard him,     or the son of man that you...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 143 Psalm 143 (Listen) My Soul Thirsts for You A Psalm of David. 143   Hear my prayer, O LORD;     give ear to my pleas for mercy!     In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! 2   Enter not into judgment with your servant,     for no one living is righteous before you. 3   For the enemy has pursued my soul;     he has crushed my life to the ground;     he has made me sit in...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 142 Psalm 142 (Listen) You Are My Refuge A Maskil1 of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. 142   With my voice I cry out to the LORD;     with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 2   I pour out my complaint before him;     I tell my trouble before him. 3   When my spirit faints within me,     you know my way!   In the path where I walk     they have hidden a trap for me. 4   Look to...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 141 Psalm 141 (Listen) Give Ear to My Voice A Psalm of David. 141   O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!     Give ear to my voice when I call to you! 2   Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,     and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 3   Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;     keep watch over the door of my lips! 4   Do not let my heart incline to any...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 140 Psalm 140 (Listen) Deliver Me, O Lord, from Evil Men To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 140   Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men;     preserve me from violent men, 2   who plan evil things in their heart     and stir up wars continually. 3   They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s,     and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah 4   Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 139 Psalm 139 (Listen) Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 139   O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2   You know when I sit down and when I rise up;     you discern my thoughts from afar. 3   You search out my path and my lying down     and are acquainted with all my ways. 4   Even before a word is on my tongue,     behold, O LORD, you know it...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 138 Psalm 138 (Listen) Give Thanks to the Lord Of David. 138   I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart;     before the gods I sing your praise; 2   I bow down toward your holy temple     and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,     for you have exalted above all things     your name and your word.1 3   On the day I called, you answered me;     my...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 137 Psalm 137 (Listen) How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song? 137   By the waters of Babylon,     there we sat down and wept,     when we remembered Zion. 2   On the willows1 there     we hung up our lyres. 3   For there our captors     required of us songs,   and our tormentors, mirth, saying,     “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” 4   How shall we sing the LORD’s song     in a foreign...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 136 Psalm 136 (Listen) His Steadfast Love Endures Forever 136   Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,     for his steadfast love endures forever. 2   Give thanks to the God of gods,     for his steadfast love endures forever. 3   Give thanks to the Lord of lords,     for his steadfast love endures forever; 4   to him who alone does great wonders,     for his steadfast love endures...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 135 Psalm 135 (Listen) Your Name, O Lord, Endures Forever 135   Praise the LORD!   Praise the name of the LORD,     give praise, O servants of the LORD, 2   who stand in the house of the LORD,     in the courts of the house of our God! 3   Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;     sing to his name, for it is pleasant!1 4   For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,     Israel as his own...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 134 Psalm 134 (Listen) Come, Bless the Lord A Song of Ascents. 134   Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,     who stand by night in the house of the LORD! 2   Lift up your hands to the holy place     and bless the LORD! 3   May the LORD bless you from Zion,     he who made heaven and earth! (ESV) Pentateuch and...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 133 Psalm 133 (Listen) When Brothers Dwell in Unity A Song of Ascents. Of David. 133   Behold, how good and pleasant it is     when brothers dwell in unity!1 2   It is like the precious oil on the head,     running down on the beard,   on the beard of Aaron,     running down on the collar of his robes! 3   It is like the dew of Hermon,     which falls on the mountains of Zion!   For there the...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 132 Psalm 132 (Listen) The Lord Has Chosen Zion A Song of Ascents. 132   Remember, O LORD, in David’s favor,     all the hardships he endured, 2   how he swore to the LORD     and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 3   “I will not enter my house     or get into my bed, 4   I will not give sleep to my eyes     or slumber to my eyelids, 5   until I find a place for the LORD,     a dwelling place...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 131 Psalm 131 (Listen) I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul A Song of Ascents. Of David. 131   O LORD, my heart is not lifted up;     my eyes are not raised too high;   I do not occupy myself with things     too great and too marvelous for me. 2   But I have calmed and quieted my soul,     like a weaned child with its mother;     like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3   O Israel, hope in...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 130 Psalm 130 (Listen) My Soul Waits for the Lord A Song of Ascents. 130   Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! 2     O Lord, hear my voice!   Let your ears be attentive     to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3   If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,     O Lord, who could stand? 4   But with you there is forgiveness,     that you may be feared. 5   I wait for the LORD, my soul...

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 129 Psalm 129 (Listen) They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth A Song of Ascents. 129   “Greatly1 have they afflicted me from my youth”—     let Israel now say— 2   “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,     yet they have not prevailed against me. 3   The plowers plowed upon my back;     they made long their furrows.” 4   The LORD is righteous;     he has cut the cords of the...