Good News Translation (GNT)

God the Supreme King

1 The Lord is king,

and the people tremble.

He sits on his throne above the winged creatures,

and the earth shakes.

2 The Lord is mighty in Zion;

he is supreme over all the nations.

3 Everyone will praise his great and majestic name.

Holy is he!

4 Mighty king,you love what is right;

you have established justice in Israel;

you have brought righteousness and fairness.

5 Praise the Lord our God;

worship before his throne!

Holy is he!

6 Moses and Aaron were his priests,

and Samuel was one who prayed to him;

they called to the Lord, and he answered them.

7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;

they obeyed the laws and commands that he gave them.

8 O Lord, our God, you answered your people;

you showed them that you are a God who forgives,

even though you punished them for their sins.

9 Praise the Lord our God,

and worship at his sacred hill!

The Lord our God is holy.

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A Hymn of Praise

1 Sing to the Lord, all the world!

2 Worship the Lord with joy;

come before him with happy songs!

3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God.

He made us, and we belong to him;

we are his people, we are his flock.

4 Enter the Temple gates with thanksgiving;

go into its courts with praise.

Give thanks to him and praise him.

5 The Lord is good;

his love is eternal

and his faithfulness lasts forever.

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A King’s Promise

1 My song is about loyalty and justice,

and I sing it to you, O Lord.

2 My conduct will be faultless.

When will you come to me?

I will live a pure life in my house

3 and will never tolerate evil.

I hate the actions of those who turn away from God;

I will have nothing to do with them.

4 I will not be dishonest

and will have no dealings with evil.

5 I will get rid of anyone

who whispers evil things about someone else;

I will not tolerate anyone

who is proud and arrogant.

6 I will approve of those who are faithful to God

and will let them live in my palace.

Those who are completely honest

will be allowed to serve me.

7 No liar will live in my palace;

no hypocrite will remain in my presence.

8 Day after day I will destroy

the wicked in our land;

I will expel all who are evil

from the city of the Lord.

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The Prayer of a Troubled Youth

1 Listen to my prayer, O Lord,

and hear my cry for help!

2 When I am in trouble,

don’t turn away from me!

Listen to me,

and answer me quickly when I call!

3 My life is disappearing like smoke;

my body is burning like fire.

4 I am beaten down like dry grass;

I have lost my desire for food.

5 I groan aloud;

I am nothing but skin and bones.

6 I am like a wild bird in the desert,

like an owl in abandoned ruins.

7 I lie awake;

I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.

8 All day long my enemies insult me;

those who mock me use my name in cursing.

9-10 Because of your anger and fury,

ashes are my food,

and my tears are mixed with my drink.

You picked me up and threw me away.

11 My life is like the evening shadows;

I am like dry grass.

12 But you, O Lord, are king forever;

all generations will remember you.

13 You will rise and take pity on Zion;

the time has come to have mercy on her;

this is the right time.

14 Your servants love her,

even though she is destroyed;

they have pity on her,

even though she is in ruins.

15 The nations will fear the Lord;

all the kings of the earth will fear his power.

16 When the Lord rebuilds Zion,

he will reveal his greatness.

17 He will hear his forsaken people

and listen to their prayer.

18 Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done,

so that people not yet born will praise him.

19 The Lord looked down from his holy place on high,

he looked down from heaven to earth.

20 He heard the groans of prisoners

and set free those who were condemned to die.

21 And so his name will be proclaimed in Zion,

and he will be praised in Jerusalem

22 when nations and kingdoms come together

and worship the Lord.

23 The Lord has made me weak while I am still young;

he has shortened my life.

24 O God, do not take me away now

before I grow old.

O Lord, you live forever;

25 long ago you created the earth,

and with your own hands you made the heavens.

26 They will disappear, but you will remain;

they will all wear out like clothes.

You will discard them like clothes,

and they will vanish.

27 But you are always the same,

and your life never ends.

28 Our children will live in safety,

and under your protection

their descendants will be secure.

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The Love of God

1 Praise the Lord, my soul!

All my being, praise his holy name!

2 Praise the Lord, my soul,

and do not forget how kind he is.

3 He forgives all my sins

and heals all my diseases.

4 He keeps me from the grave

and blesses me with love and mercy.

5 He fills my lifewith good things,

so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.

6 The Lord judges in favor of the oppressed

and gives them their rights.

7 He revealed his plans to Moses

and let the people of Israel see his mighty deeds.

8 The Lord is merciful and loving,

slow to become angry and full of constant love.

9 He does not keep on rebuking;

he is not angry forever.

10 He does not punish us as we deserve

or repay us according to our sins and wrongs.

11 As high as the sky is above the earth,

so great is his love for those who honor him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our sins from us.

13 As a father is kind to his children,

so the Lord is kind to those who honor him.

14 He knows what we are made of;

he remembers that we are dust.

15 As for us, our life is like grass.

We grow and flourish like a wild flower;

16 then the wind blows on it, and it is gone—

no one sees it again.

17 But for those who honor the Lord, his love lasts forever,

and his goodness endures for all generations

18 of those who are true to his covenant

and who faithfully obey his commands.

19 The Lord placed his throne in heaven;

he is king over all.

20 Praise the Lord, you strong and mighty angels,

who obey his commands,

who listen to what he says.

21 Praise the Lord, all you heavenly powers,

you servants of his, who do his will!

22 Praise the Lord, all his creatures

in all the places he rules.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

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In Praise of the Creator

1 Praise the Lord, my soul!

O Lord, my God, how great you are!

You are clothed with majesty and glory;

2 you cover yourself with light.

You have spread out the heavens like a tent

3 and built your home on the waters above.

You use the clouds as your chariot

and ride on the wings of the wind.

4 You use the winds as your messengers

and flashes of lightning as your servants.

5 You have set the earth firmly on its foundations,

and it will never be moved.

6 You placed the ocean over it like a robe,

and the water covered the mountains.

7 When you rebuked the waters, they fled;

they rushed away when they heard your shout of command.

8 They flowed over the mountains and into the valleys,

to the place you had made for them.

9 You set a boundary they can never pass,

to keep them from covering the earth again.

10 You make springs flow in the valleys,

and rivers run between the hills.

11 They provide water for the wild animals;

there the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 In the trees near by,

the birds make their nests and sing.

13 From the sky you send rain on the hills,

and the earth is filled with your blessings.

14 You make grass grow for the cattle

and plants for us to use,

so that we can grow our crops

15 and produce wine to make us happy,

olive oil to make us cheerful,

and bread to give us strength.

16 The cedars of Lebanon get plenty of rain—

the Lord’s own trees, which he planted.

17 There the birds build their nests;

the storks nest in the fir trees.

18 The wild goats live in the high mountains,

and the rock badgers hide in the cliffs.

19 You created the moon to mark the months;

the sun knows the time to set.

20 You made the night, and in the darkness

all the wild animals come out.

21 The young lions roar while they hunt,

looking for the food that God provides.

22 When the sun rises, they go back

and lie down in their dens.

23 Then people go out to do their work

and keep working until evening.

24 Lord, you have made so many things!

How wisely you made them all!

The earth is filled with your creatures.

25 There is the ocean, large and wide,

where countless creatures live,

large and small alike.

26 The ships sail on it, and in it plays Leviathan,

that sea monster which you made.

27 All of them depend on you

to give them food when they need it.

28 You give it to them, and they eat it;

you provide food, and they are satisfied.

29 When you turn away, they are afraid;

when you take away your breath, they die

and go back to the dust from which they came.

30 But when you give them breath,they are created;

you give new life to the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord last forever!

May the Lord be happy with what he has made!

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;

he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;

as long as I live I will sing praises to my God.

34 May he be pleased with my song,

for my gladness comes from him.

35 May sinners be destroyed from the earth;

may the wicked be no more.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

Praise the Lord!

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God and His People

1 Give thanks to the Lord,

proclaim his greatness;

tell the nations what he has done.

2 Sing praise to the Lord;

tell the wonderful things he has done.

3 Be glad that we belong to him;

let all who worship him rejoice.

4 Go to the Lord for help;

and worship him continually.

5-6 You descendants of Abraham, his servant;

you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose:

remember the miracles that God performed

and the judgments that he gave.

7 The Lord is our God;

his commands are for all the world.

8 He will keep his covenant forever,

his promises for a thousand generations.

9 He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham

and his promise to Isaac.

10 The Lord made a covenant with Jacob,

one that will last forever.

11 “I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said.

“It will be your own possession.”

12 God’s people were few in number,

strangers in the land of Canaan.

13 They wandered from country to country,

from one kingdom to another.

14 But God let no one oppress them;

to protect them, he warned the kings:

15 “Don’t harm my chosen servants;

do not touch my prophets.”

16 The Lord sent famine to their country

and took away all their food.

17 But he sent a man ahead of them,

Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

18 His feet were kept in chains,

and an iron collar was around his neck,

19 until what he had predicted came true.

The word of the Lord proved him right.

20 Then the king of Egypt had him released;

the ruler of nations set him free.

21 He put him in charge of his government

and made him ruler over all the land,

22 with power over the king’s officials

and authority to instruct his advisers.

23 Then Jacob went to Egypt

and settled in that country.

24 The Lord gave many children to his people

and made them stronger than their enemies.

25 He made the Egyptians hate his people

and treat his servants with deceit.

26 Then he sent his servant Moses,

and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27 They did God’s mighty acts

and performed miracles in Egypt.

28 God sent darkness on the country,

but the Egyptians did not obeyhis command.

29 He turned their rivers into blood

and killed all their fish.

30 Their country was overrun with frogs;

even the palace was filled with them.

31 God commanded, and flies and gnats

swarmed throughout the whole country.

32 He sent hail and lightning on their land

instead of rain;

33 he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees

and broke down all the trees.

34 He commanded, and the locusts came,

countless millions of them;

35 they ate all the plants in the land;

they ate all the crops.

36 He killed the first-born sons

of all the families of Egypt.

37 Then he led the Israelites out;

they carried silver and gold,

and all of them were healthy and strong.

38 The Egyptians were afraid of them

and were glad when they left.

39 God put a cloud over his people

and a fire at night to give them light.

40 Theyasked, and he sent quails;

he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.

41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out,

flowing through the desert like a river.

42 He remembered his sacred promise

to Abraham his servant.

43 So he led his chosen people out,

and they sang and shouted for joy.

44 He gave them the lands of other peoples

and let them take over their fields,

45 so that his people would obey his laws

and keep all his commands.

Praise the Lord!

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The Lord’s Goodness to His People

1 Praise the Lord!

Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good;

his love is eternal.

2 Who can tell all the great things he has done?

Who can praise him enough?

3 Happy are those who obey his commands,

who always do what is right.

4 Remember me, Lord, when you help your people;

include me when you save them.

5 Let me see the prosperity of your people

and share in the happiness of your nation,

in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

6 We have sinned as our ancestors did;

we have been wicked and evil.

7 Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God’s wonderful acts;

they forgot the many times he showed them his love,

and they rebelled against the Almightyat the Red Sea.

8 But he saved them, as he had promised,

in order to show his great power.

9 He gave a command to the Red Sea,

and it dried up;

he led his people across on dry land.

10 He saved them from those who hated them;

he rescued them from their enemies.

11 But the water drowned their enemies;

not one of them was left.

12 Then his people believed his promises

and sang praises to him.

13 But they quickly forgot what he had done

and acted without waiting for his advice.

14 They were filled with craving in the desert

and put God to the test;

15 so he gave them what they asked for,

but also sent a terrible disease among them.

16 There in the desert they were jealous of Moses

and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy servant.

17 Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan

and buried Abiram and his family;

18 fire came down on their followers

and burned up those wicked people.

19 They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai

and worshiped that idol;

20 they exchanged the glory of God

for the image of an animal that eats grass.

21 They forgot the God who had saved them

by his mighty acts in Egypt.

22 What wonderful things he did there!

What amazing things at the Red Sea!

23 When God said that he would destroy his people,

his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God

and kept his anger from destroying them.

24 Then they rejected the pleasant land,

because they did not believe God’s promise.

25 They stayed in their tents and grumbled

and would not listen to the Lord.

26 So he have them a solemn warning

that he would make them die in the desert

27 and scatter their descendants among the heathen,

letting them die in foreign countries.

28 Then at Peor, God’s people joined in the worship of Baal

and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.

29 They stirred up the Lord’s anger by their actions,

and a terrible disease broke out among them.

30 But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty,

and the plague was stopped.

31 This has been remembered in his favor ever since

and will be for all time to come.

32 At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry,

and Moses was in trouble on their account.

33 They made him so bitter

that he spoke without stopping to think.

34 They did not kill the heathen,

as the Lord had commanded them to do,

35 but they intermarried with them

and adopted their pagan ways.

36 God’s people worshiped idols,

and this caused their destruction.

37 They offered their own sons and daughters

as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.

38 They killed those innocent children,

and the land was defiled by those murders.

39 They made themselves impure by their actions

and were unfaithful to God.

40 So the Lord was angry with his people;

he was disgusted with them.

41 He abandoned them to the power of the heathen,

and their enemies ruled over them.

42 They were oppressed by their enemies

and were in complete subjection to them.

43 Many times the Lord rescued his people,

but they chose to rebel against him

and sank deeper into sin.

44 Yet the Lord heard them when they cried out,

and he took notice of their distress.

45 For their sake he remembered his covenant,

and because of his great love he relented.

46 He made all their oppressors

feel sorry for them.

47 Save us, O Lord our God,

and bring us back from among the nations,

so that we may be thankful

and praise your holy name.

48 Praise the Lord, the God of Israel;

praise him now and forever!

Let everyone say, “Amen!”

Praise the Lord!

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In Praise of God’s Goodness

1 “Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good;

his love is eternal!”

2 Repeat these words in praise to the Lord,

all you whom he has saved.

He has rescued you from your enemies

3 and has brought you back from foreign countries,

from east and west, from north and south.

4 Some wandered in the trackless desert

and could not find their way to a city to live in.

5 They were hungry and thirsty

and had given up all hope.

6 Then in their trouble they called to the Lord,

and he saved them from their distress.

7 He led them by a straight road

to a city where they could live.

8 They must thank the Lord for his constant love,

for the wonderful things he did for them.

9 He satisfies those who are thirsty

and fills the hungry with good things.

10 Some were living in gloom and darkness,

prisoners suffering in chains,

11 because they had rebelled against the commands of Almighty God

and had rejected his instructions.

12 They were worn out from hard work;

they would fall down, and no one would help.

13 Then in their trouble they called to the Lord,

and he saved them from their distress.

14 He brought them out of their gloom and darkness

and broke their chains in pieces.

15 They must thank the Lord for his constant love,

for the wonderful things he did for them.

16 He breaks down doors of bronze

and smashes iron bars.

17 Some were fools, suffering because of their sins

and because of their evil;

18 they couldn’t stand the sight of food

and were close to death.

19 Then in their trouble they called to the Lord,

and he saved them from their distress.

20 He healed them with his command

and saved them from the grave.

21 They must thank the Lord for his constant love,

for the wonderful things he did for them.

22 They must thank him with sacrifices,

and with songs of joy must tell all that he has done.

23 Some sailed over the ocean in ships,

earning their living on the seas.

24 They saw what the Lord can do,

his wonderful acts on the seas.

25 He commanded, and a mighty wind began to blow

and stirred up the waves.

26 The ships were lifted high in the air

and plunged down into the depths.

In such danger the sailors lost their courage;

27 they stumbled and staggered like drunks—

all their skill was useless.

28 Then in their trouble they called to the Lord,

and he saved them from their distress.

29 He calmed the raging storm,

and the waves became quiet.

30 They were glad because of the calm,

and he brought them safe to the port they wanted.

31 They must thank the Lord for his constant love,

for the wonderful things he did for them.

32 They must proclaim his greatness in the assembly of the people

and praise him before the council of the leaders.

33 The Lord made rivers dry up completely

and stopped springs from flowing.

34 He made rich soil become a salty wasteland

because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

35 He changed deserts into pools of water

and dry land into flowing springs.

36 He let hungry people settle there,

and they built a city to live in.

37 They sowed the fields and planted grapevines

and reaped an abundant harvest.

38 He blessed his people, and they had many children;

he kept their herds of cattle from decreasing.

39 When God’s people were defeated and humiliated

by cruel oppression and suffering,

40 he showed contempt for their oppressors

and made them wander in trackless deserts.

41 But he rescued the needy from their misery

and made their families increase like flocks.

42 The righteous see this and are glad,

but all the wicked are put to silence.

43 May those who are wise think about these things;

may they consider the Lord’s constant love.

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A Prayer for Help against Enemies

1 I have complete confidence, O God!

I will sing and praise you!

Wake up, my soul!

2 Wake up, my harp and lyre!

I will wake up the sun.

3 I will thank you, O Lord, among the nations.

I will praise you among the peoples.

4 Your constant love reaches above the heavens;

your faithfulness touches the skies.

5 Show your greatness in the sky, O God,

and your glory over all the earth.

6 Save us by your might; answer my prayer,

so that the people you love may be rescued.

7 From his sanctuaryGod has said,

“In triumph I will divide Shechem

and distribute Sukkoth Valley to my people.

8 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too;

Ephraim is my helmet

and Judah my royal scepter.

9 But I will use Moab as my washbowl,

and I will throw my sandals on Edom,

as a sign that I own it.

I will shout in triumph over the Philistines.”

10 Who, O God, will take me into the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

11 Have you really rejected us?

Aren’t you going to march out with our armies?

12 Help us against the enemy;

human help is worthless.

13 With God on our side we will win;

he will defeat our enemies.

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