Good News Translation (GNT)

A Hymn in Time of National Trouble

1 O Lord, I will always sing of your constant love;

I will proclaim your faithfulness forever.

2 I know that your love will last for all time,

that your faithfulness is as permanent as the sky.

3 You said, “I have made a covenant with the man I chose;

I have promised my servant David,

4 ‘A descendant of yours will always be king;

I will preserve your dynasty forever.’”

5 The heavens sing of the wonderful things you do;

the holy ones sing of your faithfulness, Lord.

6 No one in heaven is like you, Lord;

none of the heavenly beings is your equal.

7 You are feared in the council of the holy ones;

they all stand in awe of you.

8 Lord God Almighty, none is as mighty as you;

in all things you are faithful, O Lord.

9 You rule over the powerful sea;

you calm its angry waves.

10 You crushed the monster Rahaband killed it;

with your mighty strength you defeated your enemies.

11 Heaven is yours, the earth also;

you made the world and everything in it.

12 You created the north and the south;

Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon sing to you for joy.

13 How powerful you are!

How great is your strength!

14 Your kingdom is founded on righteousness and justice;

love and faithfulness are shown in all you do.

15 How happy are the people who worship you with songs,

who live in the light of your kindness!

16 Because of you they rejoice all day long,

and they praise you for your goodness.

17 You give us great victories;

in your love you make us triumphant.

18 You, O Lord, chose our protector;

you, the Holy God of Israel, gave us our king.

God’s Promise to David

19 In a vision long ago you said to your faithful servants,

“I have given help to a famous soldier;

I have given the throne to one I chose from the people.

20 I have made my servant David king

by anointing him with holy oil.

21 My strength will always be with him,

my power will make him strong.

22 His enemies will never succeed against him;

the wicked will not defeat him.

23 I will crush his foes

and kill everyone who hates him.

24 I will love him and be loyal to him;

I will make him always victorious.

25 I will extend his kingdom

from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River.

26 He will say to me,

‘You are my father and my God;

you are my protector and savior.’

27 I will make him my first-born son,

the greatest of all kings.

28 I will always keep my promise to him,

and my covenant with him will last forever.

29 His dynasty will be as permanent as the sky;

a descendant of his will always be king.

30 “But if his descendants disobey my law

and do not live according to my commands,

31 if they disregard my instructions

and do not keep my commandments,

32 then I will punish them for their sins;

I will make them suffer for their wrongs.

33 But I will not stop loving David

or fail to keep my promise to him.

34 I will not break my covenant with him

or take back even one promise I made him.

35 “Once and for all I have promised by my holy name:

I will never lie to David.

36 He will always have descendants,

and I will watch over his kingdom as long as the sun shines.

37 It will be as permanent as the moon,

that faithful witness in the sky.”

Lament over the Defeat of the King

38 But you are angry with your chosen king;

you have deserted and rejected him.

39 You have broken your covenant with your servant

and thrown his crown in the dirt.

40 You have torn down the walls of his city

and left his forts in ruins.

41 All who pass by steal his belongings;

all his neighbors laugh at him.

42 You have given the victory to his enemies;

you have made them all happy.

43 You have made his weapons useless

and let him be defeated in battle.

44 You have taken away his royal scepter

and knocked his throne to the ground.

45 You have made him old before his time

and covered him with disgrace.

A Prayer for Deliverance

46 Lord, will you hide yourself forever?

How long will your anger burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my life is;

remember that you created all of us mortal!

48 Who can live and never die?

How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

49 Lord, where are the former proofs of your love?

Where are the promises you made to David?

50 Don’t forget how I, your servant, am insulted,

how I endure all the cursesof the heathen.

51 Your enemies insult your chosen king, O Lord!

They insult him wherever he goes.

52 Praise the Lord forever!

Amen! Amen!

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Of God and Human Beings

1 O Lord, you have always been our home.

2 Before you created the hills

or brought the world into being,

you were eternally God,

and will be God forever.

3 You tell us to return to what we were;

you change us back to dust.

4 A thousand years to you are like one day;

they are like yesterday, already gone,

like a short hour in the night.

5 You carry us away like a flood;

we last no longer than a dream.

We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

6 that grow and burst into bloom,

then dry up and die in the evening.

7 We are destroyed by your anger;

we are terrified by your fury.

8 You place our sins before you,

our secret sins where you can see them.

9 Our life is cut short by your anger;

it fades away like a whisper.

10 Seventy years is all we have—

eighty years, if we are strong;

yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;

life is soon over, and we are gone.

11 Who has felt the full power of your anger?

Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

12 Teach us how short our life is,

so that we may become wise.

13 How much longer will your anger last?

Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!

14 Fill us each morning with your constant love,

so that we may sing and be glad all our life.

15 Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us

during all our years of misery.

16 Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;

let our descendants see your glorious might.

17 Lord our God, may your blessings be with us.

Give us success in all we do!

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God Our Protector

1 Whoever goes to the Lord for safety,

whoever remains under the protection of the Almighty,

2 can say to him,

“You are my defender and protector.

You are my God; in you I trust.”

3 He will keep you safe from all hidden dangers

and from all deadly diseases.

4 He will cover you with his wings;

you will be safe in his care;

his faithfulness will protect and defend you.

5 You need not fear any dangers at night

or sudden attacks during the day

6 or the plagues that strike in the dark

or the evils that kill in daylight.

7 A thousand may fall dead beside you,

ten thousand all around you,

but you will not be harmed.

8 You will look and see

how the wicked are punished.

9 You have made the Lord yourdefender,

the Most High your protector,

10 and so no disaster will strike you,

no violence will come near your home.

11 God will put his angels in charge of you

to protect you wherever you go.

12 They will hold you up with their hands

to keep you from hurting your feet on the stones.

13 You will trample down lions and snakes,

fierce lions and poisonous snakes.

14 God says, “I will save those who love me

and will protect those who acknowledge me as Lord.

15 When they call to me, I will answer them;

when they are in trouble, I will be with them.

I will rescue them and honor them.

16 I will reward them with long life;

I will save them.”

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A Song of Praise

1 How good it is to give thanks to you, O Lord,

to sing in your honor, O Most High God,

2 to proclaim your constant love every morning

and your faithfulness every night,

3 with the music of stringed instruments

and with melody on the harp.

4 Your mighty deeds, O Lord, make me glad;

because of what you have done, I sing for joy.

5 How great are your actions, Lord!

How deep are your thoughts!

6 This is something a fool cannot know;

someone who is stupid cannot understand:

7 the wicked may grow like weeds,

those who do wrong may prosper;

yet they will be totally destroyed,

8 because you, Lord, are supreme forever.

9 We know that your enemies will die,

and all the wicked will be defeated.

10 You have made me as strong as a wild ox;

you have blessed me with happiness.

11 I have seen the defeat of my enemies

and heard the cries of the wicked.

12 The righteous will flourish like palm trees;

they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon.

13 They are like trees planted in the house of the Lord,

that flourish in the Temple of our God,

14 that still bear fruit in old age

and are always green and strong.

15 This shows that the Lord is just,

that there is no wrong in my protector.

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God the King

1 The Lord is king.

He is clothed with majesty and strength.

The earth is set firmly in place

and cannot be moved.

2 Your throne, O Lord, has been firm from the beginning,

and you existed before time began.

3 The ocean depths raise their voice, O Lord;

they raise their voice and roar.

4 The Lord rules supreme in heaven,

greater than the roar of the ocean,

more powerful than the waves of the sea.

5 Your laws are eternal, Lord,

and your Temple is holy indeed,

forever and ever.

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God the Judge of All

1 Lord, you are a God who punishes;

reveal your anger!

2 You are the judge of us all;

rise and give the proud what they deserve!

3 How much longer will the wicked be glad?

How much longer, Lord?

4 How much longer will criminals be proud

and boast about their crimes?

5 They crush your people, Lord;

they oppress those who belong to you.

6 They kill widows and orphans,

and murder the strangers who live in our land.

7 They say, “The Lord does not see us;

the God of Israel does not notice.”

8 My people, how can you be such stupid fools?

When will you ever learn?

9 God made our ears—can’t he hear?

He made our eyes—can’t he see?

10 He scolds the nations—won’t he punish them?

He is the teacher of us all—hasn’t he any knowledge?

11 The Lord knows what we think;

he knows how senseless our reasoning is.

12 Lord, how happy are those you instruct,

the ones to whom you teach your law!

13 You give them rest from days of trouble

until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.

14 The Lord will not abandon his people;

he will not desert those who belong to him.

15 Justice will again be found in the courts,

and all righteous people will support it.

16 Who stood up for me against the wicked?

Who took my side against the evildoers?

17 If the Lord had not helped me,

I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.

18 I said, “I am falling”;

but your constant love, O Lord, held me up.

19 Whenever I am anxious and worried,

you comfort me and make me glad.

20 You have nothing to do with corrupt judges,

who make injustice legal,

21 who plot against good people

and sentence the innocent to death.

22 But the Lord defends me;

my God protects me.

23 He will punish them for their wickedness

and destroy them for their sins;

the Lord our God will destroy them.

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A Song of Praise

1 Come, let us praise the Lord!

Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and sing joyful songs of praise.

3 For the Lord is a mighty God,

a mighty king over all the gods.

4 He rules over the whole earth,

from the deepest caves to the highest hills.

5 He rules over the sea, which he made;

the land also, which he himself formed.

6 Come, let us bow down and worship him;

let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

7 He is our God;

we are the people he cares for,

the flock for which he provides.

Listen today to what he says:

8 “Don’t be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,

as they were that day in the desert at Massah.

9 There they put me to the test and tried me,

although they had seen what I did for them.

10 For forty years I was disgusted with those people.

I said, ‘How disloyal they are!

They refuse to obey my commands.’

11 I was angry and made a solemn promise:

‘You will never enter the land

where I would have given you rest.’”

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God the Supreme King

1 Sing a new song to the Lord!

Sing to the Lord, all the world!

2 Sing to the Lord, and praise him!

Proclaim every day the good news that he has saved us.

3 Proclaim his glory to the nations,

his mighty deeds to all peoples.

4 The Lord is great and is to be highly praised;

he is to be honored more than all the gods.

5 The gods of all other nations are only idols,

but the Lord created the heavens.

6 Glory and majesty surround him;

power and beauty fill his Temple.

7 Praise the Lord, all people on earth;

praise his glory and might.

8 Praise the Lord’s glorious name;

bring an offering and come into his Temple.

9 Bow down before the Holy One when he appears;

tremble before him, all the earth!

10 Say to all the nations, “The Lord is king!

The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved;

he will judge the peoples with justice.”

11 Be glad, earth and sky!

Roar, sea, and every creature in you;

12 be glad, fields, and everything in you!

The trees in the woods will shout for joy

13 when the Lord comes to rule the earth.

He will rule the peoples of the world

with justice and fairness.

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God the Supreme Ruler

1 The Lord is king! Earth, be glad!

Rejoice, you islands of the seas!

2 Clouds and darkness surround him;

he rules with righteousness and justice.

3 Fire goes in front of him

and burns up his enemies around him.

4 His lightning lights up the world;

the earth sees it and trembles.

5 The hills melt like wax before the Lord,

before the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,

and all the nations see his glory.

7 Everyone who worships idols is put to shame;

all the gods bow downbefore the Lord.

8 The people of Zion are glad,

and the cities of Judah rejoice

because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 Lord Almighty, you are ruler of all the earth;

you are much greater than all the gods.

10 The Lord loves those who hate evil;

he protects the lives of his people;

he rescues them from the power of the wicked.

11 Light shines on the righteous,

and gladness on the good.

12 All you that are righteous be glad

because of what the Lord has done!

Remember what the holy God has done,

and give thanks to him.

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God the Ruler of the World

1 Sing a new song to the Lord;

he has done wonderful things!

By his own power and holy strength

he has won the victory.

2 The Lord announced his victory;

he made his saving power known to the nations.

3 He kept his promise to the people of Israel

with loyalty and constant love for them.

All people everywhere have seen the victory of our God.

4 Sing for joy to the Lord, all the earth;

praise him with songs and shouts of joy!

5 Sing praises to the Lord!

Play music on the harps!

6 Blow trumpets and horns,

and shout for joy to the Lord, our king.

7 Roar, sea, and every creature in you;

sing, earth, and all who live on you!

8 Clap your hands, you rivers;

you hills, sing together with joy before the Lord,

9 because he comes to rule the earth.

He will rule the peoples of the world

with justice and fairness.

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