Psalms 133:1-150:6

MLV(i) 1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that came down upon the skirt of his garments, 3 like the dew of Hermon, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion. Because there Jehovah commanded the blessing, even life everlasting.

134 1 Behold, praise Jehovah, all you* servants of Jehovah, who stand by night in the house of Jehovah. 2 Lift up your* hands to the sanctuary and praise Jehovah. 3 Jehovah bless you out of Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.

135 1 Praise Jehovah. Praise the name of Jehovah. Praise, O you* servants of Jehovah, 2 you* who stand in the house of Jehovah, in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise Jehovah, because Jehovah is good. Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant. 4 Because Jehovah has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.
5 Because I know that Jehovah is great and that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatever Jehovah pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all depths, 7 who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries, 8 who killed* the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast, 9 who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants, 10 who killed* many nations and killed mighty kings– 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan– 12 and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people.
13 Your name, O Jehovah, is everlasting, your memorial, O Jehovah, throughout all generations. 14 Because Jehovah will judge his people and will relent concerning his servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see. 17 They have ears, but they do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them. 19 O house of Israel, praise Jehovah. O house of Aaron, praise Jehovah. 20 O house of Levi, praise Jehovah. You* who fear Jehovah, praise Jehovah. 21 Praise Jehovah out of Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem.
Praise Jehovah.

136 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
2 O give thanks to the God of gods, for his loving kindness is everlasting.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
4 to him who alone does great wonders, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
5 to him who by understanding made the heavens, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
6 to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
7 to him who made great lights, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
8 the sun to rule by day, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
9 the moon and stars to rule by night, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
10 to him who killed* Egypt in their firstborn, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
11 and brought out Israel from among them, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
12 with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
13 to him who divided the Red Sea apart, because loving kindness is everlasting,
14 and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
16 to him who led his people through the wilderness, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
17 to him who killed* great kings, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
18 and killed famous kings, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
19 Sihon king of the Amorites, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
20 and Og king of Bashan, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
21 and gave their land for a heritage, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
22 even a heritage to Israel his servant, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
23 who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness is everlasting,
24 and has delivered us from our adversaries, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
25 who gives food to all flesh, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
26 O give thanks to the God of heaven, because his loving kindness is everlasting.

137 1 We sat down there by the rivers of Babylon, yes, we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 We hung up our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.
3 Because those who led us captive there required of us songs and those who wasted us, gladness, saying, Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How will we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. 6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Jehovah, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation of it.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, he will be fortunate who rewards you as you have served us. 9 He will be fortunate who takes and smashes your little ones against the rock.

138 1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart. I will sing praises to you before the gods. 2 I will worship toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name because your loving kindness and for your truth. Because you have magnified your word above all your name.
3 You answered me in the day that I called. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, O Jehovah, because they have heard the words of your mouth. 5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Jehovah, because great is the glory of Jehovah.
6 Because Jehovah is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.
7 Because I walk in the midst of trouble, you will give me life. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me. 8 Jehovah will perfect what is on my behalf. Your loving kindness, O Jehovah, is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.

139 1 O Jehovah, you have searched and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Because there is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Jehovah, you know it altogether. 5 You have beset me behind and before and laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend 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 outermost parts of the sea, 10 your hand will lead me even there and your right hand will hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness will overwhelm me and the light around me will be night, 12 even the darkness does not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you.
13 Because you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I will give thanks to you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and that my soul knows right well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance and in your book they were all written, even the days that were formed, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 I count them; they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 Surely you will kill the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, you* bloodthirsty men. 20 For they speak against you wickedly and your enemies take it in vain.
21 Do I not hate them, O Jehovah, who hate you? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, O God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, 24 and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

140 1 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man, 2 and men who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of a wicked man. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to thrust aside my steps. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
6 I said to Jehovah, You are my God. Listen to the voice of my supplications, O Jehovah.
7 O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked man. Do not further his evil device. They exalt themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals shake down upon them. Let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, from where they will not rise.
11 An evil speaker will not be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted man and justice for the needy. 13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.

141 1 Jehovah, I have called upon you. Make haste to me. Listen to my voice when I call to you. 2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you, 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 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work wickedness. And do not let me eat of their dainties.
5 Let a righteous man kill* me, as a kindness. And let him reprove me, as oil upon the head. Do not let my head refuse it. Because my prayer will continue even in their wickedness.
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. And they will hear my words, because they are sweet. 7 Like plowing and furrowing the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 8 Because my eyes are to you, O Jehovah the Lord. I take refuge in you. Do not leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me and from the traps of the workers of wickedness. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass over.

142 1 I cry with my voice to Jehovah. I make supplication with my voice to Jehovah. 2 I pour out my complaint before him. I show my trouble before him.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.
5 I cried to you, O Jehovah. I said, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend to my cry, because I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, because they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will encompass me around, because you will deal bountifully with me.

143 1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Listen to my supplications. Answer me in your faithfulness and in your righteousness. 2 And do not enter into judgment with your servant. Because in your sight no man living is righteous.
3 Because the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
5 I remember the days of long-ago. I meditate on all your practices. I meditate on the work of your hands. 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul is as a weary land for you. Selah.
7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah, my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, because I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, because 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, because you are my God. Your Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.
11 Revive me, O Jehovah, for your name's sake. Bring my soul out of trouble in your righteousness.
12 And in your loving kindness cut off my enemies and destroy all those who afflict my soul, because I am your servant.

144 1 Praise Jehovah, my rock, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight, 2 my loving kindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
3 Jehovah, what is man, that you take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that you make account of him? 4 Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
5 Bow your heavens, O Jehovah and come down. Touch the mountains and they will smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them. Send out your arrows and confuse them.
7 Stretch forth your hand from above. Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of aliens, 8 whose mouth speaks deceit and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song to you, O God. I will sing praises to you upon a psaltery of ten strings.
10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 12 That our sons will be as plants grown up in their youth and our daughters as cornerstones hewn according to the fashion of a palace, 13 our garners are full, affording all manner of store, our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields, 14 our oxen are well laden, no breaking in and no going forth and no outcry in our streets, 15 the people who are in such a case are fortunate.
The people whose God is Jehovah are fortunate.

145 1 I will extol you, my God, O King and I will bless your name everlasting and forever. 2 Every day I will bless you and I will praise your name everlasting and forever.
3 Great is Jehovah and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation will laud your works to another and will declare your mighty acts.
5 I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor and of your wondrous works.
6 And men will speak of the might of your fearful acts and I will declare your greatness. 7 They will pour out the memory of your great goodness and will sing of your righteousness.
8 Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving kindness. 9 Jehovah is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 All your works will give thanks to you, O Jehovah and your holy ones will praise you.
11 They will 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 glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion is throughout all generations.
14 Jehovah upholds all who fall and raises up all those who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all wait for 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 gracious in all his works. 18 Jehovah is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon 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 preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.
21 My mouth will speak the praise of Jehovah. And let all flesh bless his holy name everlasting and forever.

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 rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. His thoughts perish in that very day.
5 He who has the God of Jacob for his help is fortunate, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who keeps truth everlasting, 7 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. Jehovah releases the prisoners.
8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.
9 Jehovah preserves the travelers. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
10 Jehovah will reign everlasting, your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise Jehovah.

147 1 Praise Jehovah, because it is good to sing praises to our God. Because it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
2 Jehovah builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. 4 He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by names.
5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. 6 Jehovah upholds the meek. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiving. Sing praises upon the harp to our God, 8 who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He gives to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry.
10 He does not delight 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, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
12 Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion. 13 Because he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you. 14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sends out his commandment upon earth. His word runs very swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool. He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes. 17 He casts forth his ice like morsels. 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 statutes and his ordinances to Israel. 20 He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise Jehovah.

148 1 Praise Jehovah.
Praise you* Jehovah from the heavens. Praise him in the heights. 2 Praise him, all his messengers. Praise him, all his host. 3 Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all you* stars of light. 4 Praise him, you* heavens of heavens and you* waters that are above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah. Because he commanded and they were created. 6 He has also established them everlasting and forever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
7 Praise Jehovah from the earth, you* sea creatures and all depths, 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 flying birds, 11 kings of the earth and all peoples, rulers and all judges of the earth, 12 both young men and virgins, old men and sons.
13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah, because his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
14 And he has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his holy ones, even of the sons of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Jehovah.

149 1 Praise Jehovah.
Sing to Jehovah a new song and his praise in the assembly of the holy ones. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. 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 timbrel and harp.
4 Because Jehovah takes pleasure in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation. 5 Let the holy ones rejoice in glory. Let them sing for joy upon their beds.
6 The high praises of God are in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand 7 to execute vengeance upon the nations and punishments upon the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with chains and their ranking men with fetters of iron, 9 to execute upon them the written judgment. All his holy ones have this honor.
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 horn and trumpet-blast. Praise him with psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe. 5 Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with alarming like cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise Jehovah.
Praise Jehovah.