Psalms 66

1 To him that excelleth. A song or Psalme. Rejoice in God, all ye inhabitants of the earth.

[Tell] everyone on the earth that they should sing joyfully to praise God!

2 Sing forth the glory of his name: make his praise glorious.

They should sing songs that say that God [MTY] is very great, and they should tell everyone that he is very glorious!

3 Say vnto God, Howe terrible art thou in thy workes! through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies be in subiection vnto thee.

They should say to God, “The things that you do are awesome! You are very powerful, with the result that your enemies (cringe/bow down) in front of you.”

4 All the worlde shall worship thee, and sing vnto thee, euen sing of thy Name. (Selah)

Everyone on the earth [should] worship God and sing to praise him and honor him [MTY].

5 Come and beholde the workes of God: he is terrible in his doing towarde the sonnes of men.

Come and think about what God has done! Think about the awesome things that he has done.

6 He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.

He caused the [Red] Sea to become dry land, [with the result that our] ancestors were able to walk right through it. There we rejoiced because of what he [had done].

7 He ruleth the worlde with his power: his eyes beholde the nations: the rebellious shall not exalt them selues. (Selah)

By his great power he rules forever, and he keeps watching all the nations [to see what things they do], [so] those nations that want to rebel [against him] should not be proud.

8 Prayse our God, ye people, and make the voyce of his prayse to be heard.

You people [of all nations], praise our God! Praise him loudly in order that people will hear you as you praise him.

9 Which holdeth our soules in life, and suffereth not our feete to slippe.

He has kept us alive, and he has not allowed us to (stumble/be defeated).

10 For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.

God, you have tested us; you have allowed us to experience great difficulties [to make our lives become pure] as [people] put precious metals in a hot fire [to burn out what is impure] [MET].

11 Thou hast brought vs into the snare, and layed a strait chaine vpon our loynes.

[It is as if] you allowed us to fall into traps [MET], and you [forced us to endure difficult things which were like] putting heavy loads on our backs [MET].

12 Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.

You allowed [our] enemies to trample on us; we [experienced difficulties/troubles that were like] [MET] walking through fires and floods, but now you have brought us into a place where we have plenty.

13 I will go into thine House with burnt offrings, and will pay thee my vowes,

[Yahweh], I will bring to your temple offerings that are to be completely burned [on the altar]; I will offer to you what I promised.

14 Which my lippes haue promised, and my mouth hath spoken in mine affliction.

When I was experiencing [much] trouble, I said that I would bring offerings to you [if you rescued me]; [and you did rescue me, so] I will bring to you what I promised.

15 I will offer vnto thee the burnt offerings of fat rammes with incense: I will prepare bullocks and goates. (Selah)

I will bring sheep to be burned on the altar, and I will [also] sacrifice bulls and goats, and when they are burning, [you will be pleased when] the smoke [rises up] ([to you/to the sky]).

16 Come and hearken, all ye that feare God, and I will tell you what he hath done to my soule.

All you [people] who revere God, come and listen, and I will tell you what he has done for me.

17 I called vnto him with my mouth, and he was exalted with my tongue.

I called out to him to help me, and I praised him while I was speaking to him [MTY].

18 If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me.

If I had ignored the sins that I had committed, the Lord would not have paid any attention to me.

19 But God hath heard me, and considered the voyce of my prayer.

But because [I confessed my sins], God has listened to me and he paid attention to my prayers.

20 Praysed be God, which hath not put backe my prayer, nor his mercie from me.

I praise God because he has not ignored my prayers or stopped faithfully loving me.