Psalm XXXIII

Ye righteous in the Lord, rejoyce
For [chearful] praise becometh Saints:

Praise God with Psaltery, Harp, and Voice,
And [with sweet] ten-string'd Instruments.

Play skilfully with a loud noise,
And sing [to him] a song that's new:

For all the Word of God is right,
And all his works are [sure and] true.

God greatly loveth righteousness,
And judgment [well ad-] ministred;
And with the goodness of the Lord
The earth's [richly] replenished.

By the Almighty Word of God
The [vast and] glorious Heav'ns were made;
And by the spirit of his mouth
Their whole host [all their] being had.

The waters of the Sea he keeps
[On heaps] confined by the shore:
He layeth up the liquid deeps
As [Treasures] in a house of store.

Let all the people of the earth
The Lord Almighty [serve with] fear;
And all the world's inhabitants
To him due [awe and] reverence bear.

He spake but the creating word,
And it was done and [all things] made;
He did but potently command,
And it stood faft as [firmly] stay'd.

The Counsels of the Nations rude,
The [Ruling] Lord doth bring to nought;
He doth defeat the multitude
Of their device and wicked thought.

But all the counsels of the Lord
Do stand [unchang'd] for ever sure
And all the purposes of God
[Beyond] all ages do endure.

That Nation blessed is, to whom
The Lord as [their own] God is known:
And those whom as an heritage
He [loves and] chooseth for his own.

The Lord looks down from Heav'n and sees
All [done by] men of humane birth;

And from his habitation views
[Even] all [the] dwellers of the earth.

He fashioneth their hearts alike,
[And all] their doings he observes.

No King is saved by an Host,
Much strength no [Mighty] man preserves.

A horse of war is a valn thing
To save a man in [time of] fight,
Nor shall deliver any man
[Either] by swiftness or by might.

But upon those that do him fear,
The Lord doth set his [gracious] eye,
On those that on his mercy do
With [hope and] confidence rely.

To save them from a pining death,
In Famine [food and] life to yield.

Our soul still waiteth for the Lord,
He is our help and [only] shield.

Because his holy name we trust,
Our hearts [in him] shall joyful be.

Lord let thy mercy be on us,
As we do [place our] hope in thee.