Psalms 91–95

¹He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

³For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

⁴He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

⁵You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

⁶nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

⁷A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

⁸You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

⁹Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

¹⁰no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

¹¹For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

¹²They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

¹³You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

¹⁴“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

¹⁵He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

¹⁶I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.

¹It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

²to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

³with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

⁴For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

⁵How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.

⁶A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

⁷though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

⁸But you, LORD, are on high forever more.

⁹For behold, your enemies, LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³They are planted in the LORD’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

¹The LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

²Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

³The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

⁴Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.

⁵Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, LORD, forever more.

¹LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

²Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

³LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

⁴They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

⁵They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,

¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

²Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

³For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,

⁷for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

⁸Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

¹¹Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”