Psalm 66

How Awesome Are Your Deeds

To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.

1 *Ps. 81:1;95:1;98:4;100:1Shout for joy to God, all the earth;

2 sing the glory of his name;

*[Josh. 7:19;Isa. 42:12]give to him glorious praise!

3 Say to God, *See Ps. 65:5"How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power that your enemies *See Ps. 18:44come cringing to you.

4 *See Ps. 22:27All the earth worships you

and sings praises to you;

they sing praises to your name." Selah

5 *ver. 16;Ps. 46:8Come and see what God has done:

*[See ver. 3above]he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.

6 He *[Ex. 14:21] turned the sea into dry land;

they *Ps. 74:15;See Josh. 3:14-17passed through the river on foot.

There did we rejoice in him,

7 who rules by his might forever,

whose *See Ps. 11:4eyes keep watch on the nations—

let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

8 Bless our God, O peoples;

let the sound of his praise be heard,

9 who has kept our soul among the living

and *See Ps. 121:3has not let our feet slip.

10 For you, O God, have *See Job 23:10tested us;

you have tried us as silver is tried.

11 You brought us into *Lam. 1:13;Ezek. 12:13the net;

you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

12 you let men *Isa. 51:23ride over our heads;

we went through fire and through *Isa. 43:2water;

yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings;

I will *See Ps. 50:14perform my vows to you,

14 that which my lips uttered

and my mouth promised *See Ps. 18:6when I was in trouble.

15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,

with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;

I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

16 *ver. 5;Ps. 34:11Come and hear, all you who fear God,

and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

17 I cried to him with my mouth,

and high praise was on*66:17 Hebrew under my tongue.*66:17 Or and he was exalted with my tongue

18 If I had *Job 36:21cherished iniquity in my heart,

*[Prov. 28:9;Isa. 59:2;John 9:31;James 4:3;See Job 27:9]the Lord would not have listened.

19 But truly *Ps. 116:1,2God has listened;

he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God,

because he has not rejected my prayer

or removed his steadfast love from me!