Psalms 33

1 Shout for joy O righteous [people] in Yahweh for upright [people] [is] fitting praise.

Shout for joy in the Lord, you righteous: praise for the upright is seemly.

2 Give thanks to Yahweh with harp with lyre of ten make music to him.

Give thanks to the Lord on the lyre, play to him on a ten-stringed harp.

3 Sing to him a song new do well to play with a shout of joy.

Sing to him a new song, play skilfully and shout merrily.

4 For [is] upright [the] word of Yahweh and all work his [is] in faithfulness.

For the Lord is straight in his promise; and all that he does is in faithfulness.

5 [he is] loving Righteousness and justice [the] covenant loyalty of Yahweh it is full the earth.

Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness.

6 By [the] word of Yahweh [the] heavens they were made and by [the] breath of mouth his all host their.

By his word the heavens were made, all their host by the breath of his mouth.

7 [he is] gathering Like heap [the] waters of the sea [he is] putting in storehouses [the] deeps.

He gathers the sea in a bottle, the ocean he puts into store-houses.

8 Let them fear from Yahweh all the earth from him let them be afraid all [the] inhabitants of [the] world.

Let the whole world honor the Lord, let all who live on earth be in awe.

9 For he he spoke and it was he he commanded and it stood forth.

For at his word it came into being, at his command it stood forth.

10 Yahweh he makes ineffectual [the] counsel of nations he frustrates [the] plans of peoples.

The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,

11 [the] counsel of Yahweh for ever it stands [the] plans of heart his to a generation and a generation.

but the Lord’s own design will stand forever, and what his heart has purposed, through all generations.

12 How blessed! [is] the nation which Yahweh [is] God its the people - [which] he has chosen to an inheritance for himself.

Happy the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for himself as his own.

13 From [the] heavens he looks Yahweh he sees all [the] children of humankind.

The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all of humanity;

14 From [the] place of dwelling his he looks to all [the] inhabitants of the earth.

from where he rules he gazes on all who inhabit the earth.

15 The [one who] forms together heart their the [one who] attends to all deeds their.

He fashions the hearts of them all, and gives heed to all that they do.

16 Not king [is] saved by greatness of army a warrior not he is delivered by greatness of strength.

It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself;

17 [is] a vain hope Horse for victory and by [the] greatness of strength its not it delivers.

false hope is the war-horse to usher in victory, for all its great might it can provide no escape.

18 Here! [the] eye of Yahweh [is] to [those] fearing him to [those who] hope for covenant loyalty his.

See! The eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his kindness;

19 To deliver from death life their and to preserve alive them in famine.

to deliver their life from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

20 Self our it waits for Yahweh [is] help our and shield our he.

We wait for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.

21 For in him it rejoices heart our for in [the] name of holiness his we trust.

For in him our heart is glad, we trust in his holy name.

22 May it be covenant loyalty your O Yahweh toward us just as we hope for you.

Let your kindness, O Lord, be upon us, as is our hope in you.