Psalm 66
Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel
To the leader. A Song. A Psalm.
1 Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;(A)
2 sing the glory of his name;
give to him glorious praise.(B)
3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
Because of your great power, your enemies cringe before you.(C)
4 All the earth worships you;
they sing praises to you,
sing praises to your name.” Selah(D)
5 Come and see what God has done:
he is awesome in his deeds among mortals.(E)
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him,(F)
7 who rules by his might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations—
let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah(G)
8 Bless our God, O peoples;
let the sound of his praise be heard,(H)
9 who has kept us among the living
and has not let our feet slip.(I)
10 For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.(J)
11 You brought us into the net;
you laid burdens on our backs;(K)
12 you let people ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.[a](L)
13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
I will pay you my vows,(M)
14 those that my lips uttered
and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.(N)
15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fatted calves,
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah(O)
16 Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for me.(P)
17 I cried aloud to him,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.(Q)
19 But truly God has listened;
he has heard the words of my prayer.(R)
20 Blessed be God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me.(S)
Footnotes
- 66.12Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb to a saturation
Cross references
- 66.1 : Ps 81.1; 100.1
- 66.2 : Ps 79.9
- 66.3 : Ps 18.44; 65.5
- 66.4 : Ps 22.27; 67.3, 4
- 66.5 : Ps 46.8; 106.22
- 66.6 : Ex 14.21; Josh 3.16; Ps 105.43
- 66.7 : Ps 11.4; 140.8; 145.13
- 66.8 : Ps 98.4
- 66.9 : Ps 121.3
- 66.10 : Ps 17.3; Isa 48.10; Zech 13.9; 1 Pet 1.6, 7
- 66.11 : Lam 1.13
- 66.12 : Isa 43.2; 51.23
- 66.13 : Eccl 5.4
- 66.14 : Ps 18.6
- 66.15 : Num 6.14; Ps 51.19
- 66.16 : Ps 34.11; 71.15, 24
- 66.18 : Job 36.21; Isa 1.15; Jas 4.3
- 66.19 : Ps 116.1, 2
- 66.20 : Ps 22.24