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Psalm 150

  • 150:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
  • 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
  • 150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
  • 150:4 Praise him with the tambourine and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
  • 150:5 Praise him on the loud cymbals: praise him on the high sounding cymbals.
  • 150:6 Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 149

  • 149:1 Praise you the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
  • 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
  • 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the tambourine and harp.
  • 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
  • 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud on their beds.
  • 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
  • 149:7 To execute vengeance on the heathen, and punishments on the people;
  • 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  • 149:9 To execute on them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 148

  • 148:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
  • 148:2 Praise you him, all his angels: praise you him, all his hosts.
  • 148:3 Praise you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light.
  • 148:4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that be above the heavens.
  • 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
  • 148:6 He has also established them for ever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.
  • 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you dragons, and all deeps:
  • 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
  • 148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
  • 148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
  • 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
  • 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
  • 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
  • 148:14 He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 147

  • 147:1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
  • 147:2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
  • 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
  • 147:4 He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.
  • 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
  • 147:6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
  • 147:7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise on the harp to our God:
  • 147:8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
  • 147:9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
  • 147:10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man.
  • 147:11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
  • 147:12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
  • 147:13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
  • 147:14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.
  • 147:15 He sends forth his commandment on earth: his word runs very swiftly.
  • 147:16 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
  • 147:17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
  • 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
  • 147:19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.
  • 147:20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 146

  • 146:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
  • 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
  • 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • 146:4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
  • 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
  • 146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth for ever:
  • 146:7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:
  • 146:8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:
  • 146:9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • 146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 145

  • 145:1 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever.
  • 145:2 Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name for ever and ever.
  • 145:3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
  • 145:4 One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
  • 145:5 I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works.
  • 145:6 And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts: and I will declare your greatness.
  • 145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness.
  • 145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
  • 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
  • 145:10 All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you.
  • 145:11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power;
  • 145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
  • 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
  • 145:14 The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down.
  • 145:15 The eyes of all wait on you; and you give them their meat in due season.
  • 145:16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
  • 145:18 The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.
  • 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • 145:20 The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
  • 145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Psalm 144

  • 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
  • 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
  • 144:3 LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
  • 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • 144:5 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
  • 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
  • 144:7 Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
  • 144:8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • 144:9 I will sing a new song to you, O God: on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to you.
  • 144:10 It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.
  • 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
  • 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
  • 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
  • 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
  • 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yes, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Psalm 143

  • 143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.
  • 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
  • 143:3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  • 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse on the work of your hands.
  • 143:6 I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
  • 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like to them that go down into the pit.
  • 143:8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul to you.
  • 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to you to hide me.
  • 143:10 Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • 143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for your name’s sake: for your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
  • 143:12 And of your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.

Psalm 142

  • 142:1 I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did I make my supplication.
  • 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.
  • 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path.  In the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for me.
  • 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
  • 142:5 I cried to you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
  • 142:6 Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
  • 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 141

  • 141:1 Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to you.
  • 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
  • 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
  • 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
  • 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
  • 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
  • 141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth.
  • 141:8 But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
  • 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
  • 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape.