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Chapter 33
Psal OEBcth 33:1  Shout for joy in the Lord, you righteous: praise for the upright is seemly.
Psal OEBcth 33:2  Give thanks to the Lord on the lyre, play to him on a ten-stringed harp.
Psal OEBcth 33:3  Sing to him a new song, play skilfully and shout merrily.
Psal OEBcth 33:4  For the Lord is straight in his promise; and all that he does is in faithfulness.
Psal OEBcth 33:5  Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness.
Psal OEBcth 33:6  By his word the heavens were made, all their host by the breath of his mouth.
Psal OEBcth 33:7  He gathers the sea in a bottle, the ocean he puts into store-houses.
Psal OEBcth 33:8  Let the whole world honour the Lord, let all who live on earth be in awe.
Psal OEBcth 33:9  For at his word it came into being, at his command it stood forth.
Psal OEBcth 33:10  The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,
Psal OEBcth 33:11  but the Lord’s own design will stand forever, and what his heart has purposed, through all generations.
Psal OEBcth 33:12  Happy the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for himself as his own.
Psal OEBcth 33:13  The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all of humanity;
Psal OEBcth 33:14  from where he rules he gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
Psal OEBcth 33:15  He fashions the hearts of them all, and gives heed to all that they do.
Psal OEBcth 33:16  It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself;
Psal OEBcth 33:17  false hope is the war-horse to usher in victory, for all its great might it can provide no escape.
Psal OEBcth 33:18  See! The eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his kindness;
Psal OEBcth 33:19  to deliver their life from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psal OEBcth 33:20  We wait for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.
Psal OEBcth 33:21  For in him our heart is glad, we trust in his holy name.
Psal OEBcth 33:22  Let your kindness, O Lord, be upon us, as is our hope in you.