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Psalm 33

¹Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
²Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
³Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
⁴For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.
⁵He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
⁶By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
⁷He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
⁸Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
⁹For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
¹⁰The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
¹¹The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
¹³The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
¹⁴From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
¹⁵He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
¹⁶There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
¹⁷An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
¹⁸Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
¹⁹To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
²⁰Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.
²¹For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
²²Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

¹²Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
¹⁴With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
¹⁷All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
²¹Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
²²It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
²³That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
²⁴Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
³¹But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

⁷Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
⁸For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
⁹For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
¹⁰Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
¹¹Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
¹²And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
¹³To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.