Psalms 136:1-150:6 Oh give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Oh give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Oh give thanks to the God of gods; for His mercy endures forever. ³ Oh give thanks to the Lord of lords; for His mercy endures forever. ⁴ To Him who alone does great wonders; for His mercy endures forever. ⁵ To Him who by wisdom made the heavens; for His mercy endures forever. ⁶ To Him who stretched out the earth above the waters; for His mercy endures forever. ⁷ To Him who made great lights; for His mercy endures forever. ⁸ The sun to rule by day; for His mercy endures forever. ⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁰ To Him who struck Egypt in their first-born; for His mercy endures forever; ¹¹ and brought Israel out from among them, for His mercy endures forever; ¹² with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm; for His mercy endures forever; ¹³ to Him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the middle of it; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁵ but threw Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁶ To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁷ To Him who struck great kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁸ and killed famous kings; for His mercy endures forever: ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁰ and Og the king of Bashan; for His mercy endures forever; ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for His mercy endures forever; ²² an inheritance to Israel His servant; for His mercy endures forever. ²³ Who remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁴ and has redeemed us from our enemies; for His mercy endures forever. ²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh; for His mercy endures forever. ²⁶ Oh give thanks to the God of Heaven; for His mercy endures forever. ¹³⁷ ¹ There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon; also, we wept when we remembered Zion. ² We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst. ³ For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land? ⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. ⁶ If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. ⁷ Remember, O Jehovah, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make it bare! Make it bare, even to the foundation of it! ⁸ O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who will repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us. ⁹ Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones. ¹³⁸ ¹ A Psalm of David. I will praise You with my whole heart; before the gods I will sing praise to You. ² I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name. ³ In the day when I cried You answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul. ⁴ All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O Jehovah, when they hear the Words of Your mouth. ⁵ Yea, they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah; for great is the glory of Jehovah. ⁶ Though Jehovah is high, yet He has respect to the lowly; but the proud He knows afar off. ⁷ If I walk in the midst of trouble, You will give me life; You shall stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand shall save me. ⁸ Jehovah will perfect His work in me; Your mercy, O Jehovah, endures forever; do not forsake the work of Your own hands. ¹³⁹ ¹ To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and have known me. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. ³ You search my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Jehovah, You know it altogether. ⁵ You have closed me in behind and in front, and laid Your hand on me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot go up to it. ⁷ Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your presence? ⁸ If I go up into Heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the furthest parts of the sea; ¹⁰ even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light around me. ¹² Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You. ¹³ For You have possessed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well. ¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written, the days they were formed, and not one was among them. ¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You. ¹⁹ Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; and bloody men, depart from me. ²⁰ Who will speak against You maliciously? Your enemies are lifted up with vanity. ²¹ O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ and see if any wicked way is in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man, ² who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ O Jehovah, keep me from the hands of the wicked; keep me from the violent man who purposed to trip up my steps. ⁵ The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah. ⁶ I said to Jehovah, You are my God; O Jehovah, hear the voice of my prayers. ⁷ O Lord Jehovah, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not help his wicked plans, lest they praise themselves. Selah. ⁹ As for the head of those around me, let the evil of their own lips cover them. ¹⁰ Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, so that they do not rise up again. ¹¹ Do not let an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. ¹² I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor. ¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name; the upright shall dwell in Your presence. ¹⁴¹ ¹ A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, I cry to You; make haste to me, give ear to my voice when I cry to You. ² Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. ³ Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. ⁴ Let not my heart turn aside to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies. ⁵ Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness; and let him correct me, it is oil on my head, let not my head refuse it; for still my prayer also shall be against their wickedness. ⁶ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. ⁷ Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth. ⁸ But my eyes are on You, O Lord Jehovah; in You I take refuge, do not leave my soul naked. ⁹ Keep me from the traps which they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of evil. ¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets together, while I escape. ¹⁴² ¹ An Instruction of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried to Jehovah with my voice; with my voice I prayed to Jehovah. ² I poured out my prayer before Him; I declared my trouble before Him. ³ When my spirit fainted within me, then You knew my path. In the way in which I walked they have secretly laid a snare for me. ⁴ I looked on my right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul. ⁵ I cried to You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Hear my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise Your name; the righteous shall gather around me; for You shall reward me. ¹⁴³ ¹ A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications; in Your faithfulness and in Your righteousness answer me. ² And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just. ³ For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead. ⁴ And my spirit has fainted within me; my heart has become weary within me. ⁵ I remember the days of old; I think on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. ⁶ I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts after You like a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning, for I do trust in You; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You. ⁹ Deliver me, O Jehovah, from my enemies; I flee to You to hide me. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. ¹¹ O Jehovah, for Your name's sake enliven me; for Your righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble. ¹² And out of Your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul; for I am Your servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ A Psalm of David. Blessed is Jehovah my Rock, who teaches My hands for war, my fingers for battle. ² He is my goodness and my fortress; my high tower and my deliverer; my shield and He in whom I trust; who humbles my people under me. ³ O Jehovah, what is man that You take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that You esteem him? ⁴ Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away. ⁵ Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. ⁷ Send Your hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of a foreigner's sons; ⁸ because their mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of lies. ⁹ I will sing a new song to You, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You. ¹⁰ It is You who gives salvation to kings; who delivers David His servant from the hurtful sword. ¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners' sons, because their mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood; ¹² so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building; ¹³ and our storehouses may be full, furnishing kind to kind; and our flocks may breed thousands and ten thousands outside; ¹⁴ and our oxen may be loaded; there is no breaking in nor going out and no crying in our streets. ¹⁵ Blessed are the peoples who are so; blessed are the peoples to whom Jehovah is their God. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ Praise, of David. I will lift You up, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever. ² Every day I will bless You; and I will praise Your name forever and ever. ³ Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; and there is no searching out His greatness. ⁴ One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. ⁵ I will speak of the glorious honor of Your majesty, and of Your wonderful works. ⁶ And men shall speak of the might of Your awesome works; and I will declare Your greatness. ⁷ They shall pour forth the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness. ⁸ Jehovah is gracious and full of pity; slow to anger, and of great mercy. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works. ¹⁰ All Your works shall praise You, O Jehovah; and Your saints shall bless You. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power, ¹² to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your rule endures throughout all generations. ¹⁴ Jehovah upholds all who fall, and raises up all those bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all wait on You; and You give them their food in due season. ¹⁶ You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works. ¹⁸ Jehovah is near all those who call on Him, all those who call on Him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry, and will save them. ²⁰ Jehovah watches over all those who love Him; but all the wicked He will destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all flesh bless His holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul. ² While I live I will praise Jehovah; I will sing praises to my God while I have any being. ³ Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His breath goes forth; he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. ⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose help is in Jehovah his God, ⁶ who made the heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in it; who keeps truth forever; ⁷ who carries out judgment for the mistreated; who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah lets the prisoners loose; ⁸ the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises those who are bowed down; Jehovah loves the righteous; ⁹ Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down. ¹⁰ Jehovah shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise Jehovah; for it is good to sing praises to our God; for praise is delightful and becoming. ² Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the broken-hearted, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He appoints the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our LORD, and of great power; There is no limit to His understanding. ⁶ Jehovah lifts up the meek; He throws the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing praise on the harp to our God, ⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹ He gives the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry. ¹⁰ He delights not in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, who hope in His mercy. ¹² Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For He has made the bars of your gates strong; He has blessed your sons within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders and fills you with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sends forth His Commandment on earth; His Word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. ¹⁷ He casts forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold? ¹⁸ He sends out His Word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He shows His Word to Jacob, His Precepts and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not done so with any nation; and they have not known His judgments. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah 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 stars of light. ⁴ Praise Him, heavens of heavens, and waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of Jehovah; for He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has also settled them forever and ever; He has made a decree which shall not pass away. ⁷ Let praise be to Jehovah from the earth, the sea-monsters, and all deeps; ⁸ fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind fulfilling His Word, ⁹ mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ beasts and all cattle, creeping things and birds of the wing, ¹¹ kings of the earth and all people, princes and all judges of the earth, ¹² both young men and maidens, old men and children; ¹³ let them praise the name of Jehovah; for His name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heavens. ¹⁴ He also lifts up the horn of His people, the praise of all His saints, even of the sons of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise Jehovah! Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise in the congregation of saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. ⁴ For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation. ⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. ⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, ⁷ to carry out vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, ⁸ to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron-bands, ⁹ to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise Jehovah. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the expanse of His power. ² Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness. ³ Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the harp and lyre. ⁴ Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and pipes. ⁵ Praise Him on the sounding cymbals; praise Him with the resounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah. Praise Jehovah!