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
Thanksgiving to God for His Works
For the music director. A song. A psalm.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
1Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.
2Sing the glory of his name.
Set forth his glorious praise.#Literally “set for glory—his praise”
3Say to God, “How awesome are your works!
Because of the greatness of your strength,
your enemies will cringe before you.
4All the earth will bow in worship to you,
and sing praise to you.
They will sing the praise of your name.” Selah
5Come and consider#Literally “see” the works of God;
he is awesome in his dealings#Hebrew “dealing” with the children of humankind.
6He turned the sea into dry ground;
they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him.
7He rules by his might forever;
his eyes keep watch on the nations.
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.#According to the reading tradition (Qere) Selah
8Bless our God, O peoples,
and cause the sound of his praise to be heard,
9the one who has kept our soul among the living,
and has not allowed our foot to slip.
10For you have tested us, O God;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
11You brought us into the net;
you placed a heavy burden#Literally “oppression” on our backs.
12You let men#Hebrew “man” ride over our heads.
We went through fire and through water,
but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.#A slightly different Hebrew word yields “a broad place”
13I will come into your house#Or “temple” with burnt offerings.
I will pay to you my vows
14that my lips uttered,
and my mouth spoke in my distress.
15Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you,
with the smoke of rams.
I will do#That is, “offer” cattle with rams. Selah
16Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell
what he has done for me.#Hebrew “my soul”
17I called to him with my mouth,
and he was extolled with my tongue.#A slightly different Hebrew word yields “his exaltation was under my tongue”
18If I had considered evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
19However, God has listened;
he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
20Blessed be God,
who has not turned aside my prayer,
or his loyal love from me.
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