Psalms 33:1-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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