Psalm 138 ~ Psalm 138

picture

1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

¶ I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods I will sing praises unto thee.

2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

I will worship the temple of thy holiness and praise thy name above thy mercy and thy truth; for thou hast made thy name to be magnificent and raised up thy spoken word above all things.

3 I n the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

In the day when I called, thou didst answer me and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

4 A ll the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hearken unto the spoken words from thy mouth.

5 Y es, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh’s glory.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

6 F or though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

¶ For the LORD, who is high and lifted up, looks upon the humble, but the proud he does not know.

7 T hough I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me; thou shalt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

8 Y ahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; thy mercy, O LORD, endures for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.