Psalms 101:1

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!

For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.”

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

My salvation and my honor is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.