Comfort from the Word – Day 7

₃₂He is the God who makes me strong,

who makes my pathway safe.

₃₃He makes me sure-footed as a deer;

he keeps me safe on the mountains.

₃₅O LORD, you protect me and save me;

your care has made me great,

and your power has kept me safe.

₃₆You have kept me from being captured,

and I have never fallen.

₁Praise the LORD, my soul!

All my being, praise his holy name!

₂Praise the LORD, my soul,

and do not forget how kind he is.

₃He forgives all my sins

and heals all my diseases.

₄He keeps me from the grave

and blesses me with love and mercy.

₅He fills my life with good things,

so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.

₁I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart;

I will tell of all the wonderful things you have done.

₂I will sing with joy because of you.

I will sing praise to you, Almighty God.

₆Give praise to the LORD;

he has heard my cry for help.

₇The LORD protects and defends me;

I trust in him.

He gives me help and makes me glad;

I praise him with joyful songs.

₈The LORD protects his people;

he defends and saves his chosen king.

₉Save your people, LORD,

and bless those who are yours.

Be their shepherd,

and take care of them for ever.

₁Praise God with shouts of joy, all people!

₂Sing to the glory of his name;

offer him glorious praise!

₃Say to God, “How wonderful are the things you do!

Your power is so great

that your enemies bow down in fear before you.

₄Everyone on earth worships you;

they sing praises to you,

they sing praises to your name.”

₅Come and see what God has done,

his wonderful acts for mankind.

₆He changed the sea into dry land;

our ancestors crossed the river on foot.

There we rejoiced because of what he did.

₇He rules for ever by his might

and keeps his eyes on the nations.

Let no rebels rise against him.

₈Praise our God, all nations;

let your praise be heard.

₉He has kept us alive

and has not allowed us to fall.

₁₀You have put us to the test, God;

as silver is purified by fire

so you have tested us.

₁₁You let us fall into a trap

and placed heavy burdens on our backs.

₁₂You let our enemies trample over us;

we went through fire and flood,

but now you have brought us to a place of safety.

₁₃I will bring burnt offerings to your house;

I will offer you what I promised.

₁₄I will give you what I said I would

when I was in trouble.

₁₅I will offer sheep to be burnt on the altar;

I will sacrifice bulls and goats,

and the smoke will go up to the sky.

₁₆Come and listen, all who honour God,

and I will tell you what he has done for me.

₁₇I cried to him for help;

I praised him with songs.

₁₈If I had ignored my sins,

the Lord would not have listened to me.

₁₉But God has indeed heard me;

he has listened to my prayer.

₂₀I praise God,

because he did not reject my prayer

or keep back his constant love from me.

₁I love the LORD, because he hears me;

he listens to my prayers.

₂He listens to me

every time I call to him.

₃The danger of death was all round me;

the horrors of the grave closed in on me;

I was filled with fear and anxiety.

₄Then I called to the LORD,

“I beg you, LORD, save me!”

₅The LORD is merciful and good;

our God is compassionate.

₆The LORD protects the helpless;

when I was in danger, he saved me.

₇Be confident, my heart,

because the LORD has been good to me.

₈The LORD saved me from death;

he stopped my tears

and kept me from defeat.

₉And so I walk in the presence of the LORD

in the world of the living.

₁₀I kept on believing, even when I said,

“I am completely crushed,”

₁₁even when I was afraid and said,

“No one can be trusted.”

₁₂What can I offer the LORD

for all his goodness to me?

₁₃I will bring a wine offering to the LORD,

to thank him for saving me.

₁₄In the assembly of all his people

I will give him what I have promised.

₁₅How painful it is to the LORD

when one of his people dies!

₁₆I am your servant, LORD;

I serve you, just as my mother did.

You have saved me from death.

₁₇I will give you a sacrifice of thanksgiving

and offer my prayer to you.

_18-19In the assembly of all your people,

in the sanctuary of your Temple in Jerusalem,

I will give you what I have promised.

Praise the LORD!

₁Praise the LORD!

Sing a new song to the LORD;

praise him in the assembly of his faithful people!

₂Be glad, Israel, because of your Creator;

rejoice, people of Zion, because of your king!

₃Praise his name with dancing;

play drums and harps in praise of him.

₄The LORD takes pleasure in his people;

he honours the humble with victory.

₅Let God's people rejoice in their triumph

and sing joyfully all night long.

₆Let them shout aloud as they praise God,

with their sharp swords in their hands

₇to defeat the nations

and to punish the peoples;

₈to bind their kings in chains,

their leaders in chains of iron;

₉to punish the nations as God has commanded.

This is the victory of God's people.

Praise the LORD!

₁Praise the LORD!

Praise God in his Temple!

Praise his strength in heaven!

₂Praise him for the mighty things he has done.

Praise his supreme greatness.

₃Praise him with trumpets.

Praise him with harps and lyres.

₄Praise him with drums and dancing.

Praise him with harps and flutes.

₅Praise him with cymbals.

Praise him with loud cymbals.

₆Praise the LORD, all living creatures!

Praise the LORD!