Psalms 90-96

Psalm 90

¹A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may get us an heart of wisdom.

¹³Return, O LORD; how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴O satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory upon their children.

¹⁷And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 91

¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under 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 shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

⁴He shall cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shalt thou take refuge: his truth is a shield and a buckler.

⁵Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

⁶For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹For thou, O LORD, art my refuge! thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;

¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

¹¹For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹²They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

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

¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honour him.

¹⁶With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Psalm 92

¹A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High:

²To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

³With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; with a solemn sound upon the harp.

⁴For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵How great are thy works, O LORD! thy thoughts are very deep.

⁶A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this:

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

⁸But thou, O LORD, art on high for evermore.

⁹For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹Mine eye also hath seen my desire on mine enemies, mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³They that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and green:

¹⁵To shew that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 93

¹The LORD reigneth; he is apparelled with majesty; the LORD is apparelled, he hath girded himself with strength: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

²Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

³The floods have lifted up, O 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.

⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for evermore.

Psalm 94

¹O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render to the proud their desert.

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

⁴They prate, they speak arrogantly: all the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

⁵They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

⁷And they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob consider.

⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, even he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest out of thy law;

¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by statute?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

²²But the LORD hath been my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹O COME, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

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

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

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

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker:

⁷For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, Oh that ye would hear his voice!

⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness:

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

¹¹Wherefore I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Psalm 96

¹O SING unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

²Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

⁴For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

⁶Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the peoples, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

⁸Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.

⁹O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, The LORD reigneth: the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved: he shall judge the peoples with equity.

¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;

¹²Let the field exult, and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy;

¹³Before the LORD, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.