Psalms 66
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Psalm 66
For the choir director; a song; a psalm.
1Shout happily to God, all the earth!
2Make music to praise the glory of his name.
Make his praise glorious.
3Say to God,
“How awe-inspiring are your deeds!
Your power is so great that your enemies will cringe in front of you.
4The whole earth will worship you.
It will make music to praise you.
It will make music to praise your name.” Selah
5Come and see what God has done—
his awe-inspiring deeds for Adam’s descendants.
6He turned the sea into dry land.
They crossed the river on foot.
We rejoiced because of what he did there.
7He rules forever with his might.
His eyes watch the nations.
Rebels will not be able to oppose him. Selah
8Thank our God, you nations.
Make the sound of his praise heard.
9He has kept us alive
and has not allowed us to fall.
10You have tested us, O God.
You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.
11You have trapped us in a net.
You have laid burdens on our backs.
12You let people ride over our heads.
We went through fire and water,
but then you brought us out and refreshed us.
13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
I will keep my vows to you,
14the vows made by my lips and spoken by my ⌞own⌟ mouth
when I was in trouble.
15I will offer you a sacrifice of fattened livestock for burnt offerings
with the smoke from rams.
I will offer cattle and goats. Selah
16Come and listen, all who fear God,
and I will tell you what he has done for me.
17With my mouth I cried out to him.
High praise was on my tongue.
18If I had thought about doing anything sinful,
the Lord would not have listened ⌞to me⌟.
19But God has heard me.
He has paid attention to my prayer.
20Thanks be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or taken away his mercy from me.
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Psalms 66
66
Praise of God, Israel’s Deliverer
1For the leader. A song; a psalm.
I
2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
sing of his glorious name;
give him glorious praise.#Ps 65:14; Is 44:23.
3Say to God: “How awesome your deeds!
Before your great strength your enemies cringe.
4All the earth falls in worship before you;#Ps 18:45; Mi 7:17.
they sing of you, sing of your name!”
Selah
II
5#cf. the events described in Ex 14:1–15, 21; Jos 3:11–4:24 and Ps 114.Come and see the works of God,
awesome in deeds before the children of Adam.
6He changed the sea to dry land;
through the river they passed on foot.#Ps 74:15; 114:3; Ex 14:21f; Jos 3:14ff; Is 44:27; 50:2.
There we rejoiced in him,
7who rules by his might forever,
His eyes are fixed upon the nations.
Let no rebel rise to challenge!
Selah
8Bless our God, you peoples;
loudly sound his praise,
9Who has kept us alive
and not allowed our feet to slip.#Ps 91:12; 121:3; 1 Sm 2:9; Prv 3:23.
10You tested us, O God,
tried us as silver tried by fire.#Is 48:10.
11You led us into a snare;
you bound us at the waist as captives.
12#You let captors set foot on our neck: lit., “you let men mount our heads.” Conquerors placed their feet on the neck of their enemies as a sign of complete defeat, cf. Jos 10:24. A ceremonial footstool of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen portrays bound and prostrate bodies of enemies ready for the king’s feet on their heads, and one of Tutankhamen’s ceremonial chariots depicts the king as a sphinx standing with paw atop the neck of an enemy.You let captors set foot on our neck;
we went through fire and water;
then you led us out to freedom.#Is 43:2.
III
13I will bring burnt offerings#Burnt offerings: cf. Lv 1:3–13; 6:1–4; 22:17–20. to your house;
to you I will fulfill my vows,
14Which my lips pronounced
and my mouth spoke in my distress.
15Burnt offerings of fatlings I will offer you
and sacrificial smoke of rams;
I will sacrifice oxen and goats.
Selah
16Come and hear, all you who fear God,
while I recount what has been done for me.
17I called to him with my mouth;
praise was upon my tongue.
18Had I cherished evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have heard.
19But God did hear
and listened to my voice in prayer.
20Blessed be God, who did not reject my prayer
and refuse his mercy.
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