OEB - Psalms - 33

33:1  Shout for joy in the Lord, you righteous: praise for the upright is seemly.

33:2  Give thanks to the Lord on the lyre, play to him on a ten-stringed harp.

33:3  Sing to him a new song, play skilfully and shout merrily.

33:4  For the Lord is straight in his promise; and all that he does is in faithfulness.

33:5  Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness.

33:6  By his word the heavens were made, all their host by the breath of his mouth.

33:7  He gathers the sea in a bottle, the ocean he puts into store-houses.

33:8  Let the whole world honour the Lord, let all who live on earth be in awe.

33:9  For at his word it came into being, at his command it stood forth.

33:10  The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,

33:11  but the Lord’s own design will stand forever, and what his heart has purposed, through all generations.

33:12  Happy the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for himself as his own.

33:13  The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all of humanity;

33:14  from where he rules he gazes on all who inhabit the earth.

33:15  He fashions the hearts of them all, and gives heed to all that they do.

33:16  It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself;

33:17  false hope is the war-horse to usher in victory, for all its great might it can provide no escape.

33:18  See! The eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his kindness;

33:19  to deliver their life from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

33:20  We wait for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.

33:21  For in him our heart is glad, we trust in his holy name.

33:22  Let your kindness, O Lord, be upon us, as is our hope in you.