Psalms 90

1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. I Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born, the earth and the world brought forth, from eternity to eternity you are God.
3 But humans you return to dust, saying, Return, you mortals!
4 A thousand years in your eyes are merely a yesterday, Before a watch passes in the night,
5 you have brought them to their end; They disappear like sleep at dawn; they are like grass that dies.
6 It sprouts green in the morning; by evening it is dry and withered.
7 II Truly we are consumed by your anger, filled with terror by your wrath.
8 You have kept our faults before you, our hidden sins exposed to your sight.
9 Our life ebbs away under your wrath; our years end like a sigh.
10 Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are sorrow and toil; they pass quickly, we are all but gone.
11 Who comprehends your terrible anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.
12 Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.
13 Relent, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!
14 Fill us at daybreak with your love, that all our days we may sing for joy.
15 Make us glad as many days as you humbled us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16 Show your deeds to your servants, your glory to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God be ours. Prosper the work of our hands! Prosper the work of our hands!

Psalms 91

1 I You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
2 Say to the LORD, My refuge and fortress, my God in whom I trust.
3 God will rescue you from the fowler's snare, from the destroying plague,
4 Will shelter you with pinions, spread wings that you may take refuge; God's faithfulness is a protecting shield.
5 You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon.
7 Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come.
8 You need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see.
9 You have the LORD for your refuge; you have made the Most High your stronghold.
10 No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your tent.
11 For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways.
12 With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the asp and the viper, trample the lion and the dragon.
14 II Whoever clings to me I will deliver; whoever knows my name I will set on high.
15 All who call upon me I will answer; I will be with them in distress; I will deliver them and give them honor.
16 With length of days I will satisfy them and show them my saving power.

Psalms 92

1 A psalm. A sabbath song. I It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praise to your name, Most High,
2 To proclaim your love in the morning, your faithfulness in the night,
3 With the ten-stringed harp, with melody upon the lyre.
4 For you make me jubilant, LORD, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I shout for joy.
5 II How great are your works, LORD! How profound your purpose!
6 A senseless person cannot know this; a fool cannot comprehend.
7 Though the wicked flourish like grass and all sinners thrive, They are destined for eternal destruction;
8 for you, LORD, are forever on high.
9 Indeed your enemies, LORD, indeed your enemies shall perish; all sinners shall be scattered.
10 III You have given me the strength of a wild bull; you have poured rich oil upon me.
11 My eyes look with glee on my wicked enemies; my ears delight in the fall of my foes.
12 The just shall flourish like the palm tree, shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of the LORD, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall bear fruit even in old age, always vigorous and sturdy,
15 As they proclaim: The LORD is just; our rock, in whom there is no wrong.

Psalms 93

1 The LORD is king, robed with majesty; the LORD is robed, girded with might. The world will surely stand in place, never to be moved.
2 Your throne stands firm from of old; you are from everlasting, LORD.
3 The flood has raised up, LORD; the flood has raised up its roar; the flood has raised its pounding waves.
4 More powerful than the roar of many waters, more powerful than the breakers of the sea, powerful in the heavens is the LORD.
5 Your decrees are firmly established; holiness belongs to your house, LORD, for all the length of days.

Psalms 94

1 I LORD, avenging God, avenging God, shine forth!
2 Rise up, judge of the earth; give the proud what they deserve.
3 II How long, LORD, shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked glory?
4 How long will they mouth haughty speeches, go on boasting, all these evildoers?
5 They crush your people, LORD, torment your very own.
6 They kill the widow and alien; the fatherless they murder.
7 They say, The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.
8 III Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you be wise?
9 Does the one who shaped the ear not hear? The one who formed the eye not see?
10 Does the one who guides nations not rebuke? The one who teaches humans not have knowledge?
11 The LORD does know human plans; they are only puffs of air.
12 IV Happy those whom you guide, LORD, whom you teach by your instruction.
13 You give them rest from evil days, while a pit is being dug for the wicked.
14 You, LORD, will not forsake your people, nor abandon your very own.
15 Judgment shall again be just, and all the upright of heart will follow it.
16 V Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
17 If the LORD were not my help, I would long have been silent in the grave.
18 When I say, My foot is slipping, your love, LORD, holds me up.
19 When cares increase within me, your comfort gives me joy.
20 VI Can unjust judges be your allies, those who create burdens in the name of law,
21 Those who conspire against the just and condemn the innocent to death?
22 No, the LORD is my secure height, my God, the rock where I find refuge,
23 Who will turn back their evil upon them and destroy them for their wickedness. Surely the LORD our God will destroy them!

Psalms 95

1 I Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; cry out to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us greet him with a song of praise, joyfully sing out our psalms.
3 For the LORD is the great God, the great king over all gods,
4 Whose hand holds the depths of the earth; who owns the tops of the mountains.
5 The sea and dry land belong to God, who made them, formed them by hand.
6 II Enter, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
7 For this is our God, whose people we are, God's well-tended flock. III Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the desert.
9 There your ancestors tested me; they tried me though they had seen my works.
10 Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: This people's heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.
11 Therefore I swore in my anger: They shall never enter my rest.

Psalms 96

1 I Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; announce his salvation day after day.
3 Tell God's glory among the nations; among all peoples, God's marvelous deeds.
4 II For great is the LORD and highly to be praised, to be feared above all gods.
5 For the gods of the nations all do nothing, but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Splendor and power go before him; power and grandeur are in his holy place.
7 III Give to the LORD, you families of nations, give to the LORD glory and might;
8 give to the LORD the glory due his name! Bring gifts and enter his courts;
9 bow down to the LORD, splendid in holiness. Tremble before God, all the earth;
10 say among the nations: The LORD is king. The world will surely stand fast, never to be moved. God rules the peoples with fairness.
11 IV Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound;
12 let the plains be joyful and all that is in them. Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice
13 before the LORD who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with faithfulness.

Psalms 97

1 I The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad.
2 Cloud and darkness surround the Lord; justice and right are the foundation of his throne.
3 Fire goes before him; everywhere it consumes the foes.
4 Lightning illumines the world; the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The heavens proclaim God's justice; all peoples see his glory.
7 II All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things; all gods bow down before you.
8 Zion hears and is glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O LORD.
9 You, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth, exalted far above all gods.
10 The LORD loves those who hate evil, protects the lives of the faithful, rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light dawns for the just; gladness, for the honest of heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, you just, and praise his holy name.