Psalms 138

1 By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to you.

2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

3 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth.

5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD, for the LORD’s glory is great!

Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

6 For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knows afar off.

7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

8 The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands.