Psalms 66
66
Thank You, Lord
For the Pure and Shining One
A song of awakening # 66 As translated from the inscription found in the Septuagint.
1Everyone everywhere, lift up your joyful shout to God!
2Sing your songs tuned to his glory!
Tell the world how wonderful he is.
3For he’s the awe-inspiring God, great and glorious in power!
We’ve never seen anything like him!
Mighty in miracles, you cause your enemies to tremble.
No wonder they all surrender and bow before you!
4All the earth will bow down to worship;
all the earth will sing your glories forever!
Pause in his presence
5Everyone will say, “Come and see the incredible things God has done;
it will take your breath away!
He multiplies miracles for his people!” # 66:5 The Septuagint reads “His works are more to be feared than the decisions of men.”
6He made a highway going right through the Red Sea
as the Hebrews passed through on dry ground,
exploding with joyous excitement over the miracles of God.
7In his great and mighty power he rules forever,
watching over every movement of every nation.
So beware, rebel lands; he knows how to humble you!
Pause in his presence
8Praise God, all you peoples.
Praise him everywhere and let everyone know you love him!
9There’s no doubt about it: God holds our lives safely in his hands.
He’s the one who keeps us faithfully following him.
10O Lord, we have passed through your fire;
like precious metal made pure,
you’ve proved us, perfected us, and made us holy.
11You’ve captured us, ensnared us in your net.
Then, like prisoners, you placed chains around our necks. # 66:11 Or “you attached suffering to our hips.”
12You’ve allowed our enemies to prevail against us.
We’ve passed through fire and flood,
yet in the end you always bring us out better than we were before,
saturated with your goodness. # 66:12 Or “you brought us out into a wide-open space [a place of rest].”
13I come before your presence with my sacrifice.
I’ll give you all that I’ve promised, everything I have.
14When I was overcome in my anguish,
I promised to give you my sacrifice.
Here it is! All that I said I would offer you is yours.
15I’ll throw it all—the best I have to bring—into the fire
as the fragrance of my sacrifice ascends unto you. # 66:15 The literal Hebrew describes the sacrifice as “burnt offerings of fat beasts and the smoke of rams, bulls, and male goats.”
Pause in his presence
16All you lovers of God who want to please him,
come and listen, and I’ll tell you what he did for me.
17I cried aloud to him with all my heart, and he answered me!
Now my mouth overflows with the highest praise.
18Yet if I had closed my eyes to my sin, # 66:18 Or “If I had cherished iniquity in my heart.”
the Lord God would have closed his ears to my prayer.
19But praises rise to God,
for he paid attention to my prayer and answered my cry to him!
20I will forever praise this God who didn’t close his heart when I prayed
and never said no when I asked him for help.
He never once refused to show me his tender love.
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66
Praise for God's Mighty Deeds
To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.
1Make a joyful noise unto God,
all ye lands:
2sing forth the honor of his name:
make his praise glorious.
3Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works!
Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4All the earth shall worship thee,
and shall sing unto thee;
they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
5Come and see the works of God:
he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 #
Exod 14.21;
Josh 3.14-17. He turned the sea into dry land:
they went through the flood on foot:
there did we rejoice in him.
7He ruleth by his power for ever;
his eyes behold the nations:
let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
8O bless our God, ye people,
and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
9which holdeth our soul in life,
and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
10For thou, O God, hast proved us:
thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11Thou broughtest us into the net;
thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water:
but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
13I will go into thy house with burnt offerings:
I will pay thee my vows,
14which my lips have uttered,
and my mouth hath spoken,
when I was in trouble.
15I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings,
with the incense of rams:
I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
16Come and hear, all ye that fear God,
and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
17I cried unto him with my mouth,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
18If I regard iniquity in my heart,
the Lord will not hear me:
19 but verily God hath heard me;
he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
20Blessed be God,
which hath not turned away my prayer,
nor his mercy from me.
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