I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart;
I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation.
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

For the Lord Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience];
He is a great King over all the earth.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Fair and beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth,
Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north,
The city of the great King.

For Your faithfulness and lovingkindness are great, reaching to the heavens,
And Your truth to the clouds.

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Guard my life from the terror of the enemy.

The Lord gives the command [to take Canaan];
The women who proclaim the good news are a great host (army);

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

When I considered how to understand this,
It was too great an effort for me and too painful

God is known in Judah;
His name is great in Israel.

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?

Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.

The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And its branches were like the cedars of God.

For You are great and do wondrous works!
You alone are God.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

“My faithfulness and My steadfast lovingkindness shall be with him,
And in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].

How great are Your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep [beyond man’s understanding].

For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,

For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.

The Lord is great in Zion,
And He is exalted and magnified above all the peoples.

Let them [reverently] praise Your great and awesome name;
Holy is He.

For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].

Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.

They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

For Your lovingkindness is great and higher than the heavens;
Your truth reaches to the skies.

I will give great praise and thanks to the Lord with my mouth;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.

Great are the works of the Lord,
Studied by all those who delight in them.

He will bless those who fear and worship the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder],
Both the small and the great.

For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him],
And the truth of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

The Lord is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy].
Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness
And in great faithfulness.

Great are Your tender mercies and steadfast love, O Lord;
Revive me and give me life according to Your ordinances.

I rejoice at Your word,
As one who finds great treasure.

Those who love Your law have great peace;
Nothing makes them stumble.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad!

Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty;
Nor do I involve myself in great matters,
Or in things too difficult for me.

For I know that the Lord is great
And that our Lord is above all gods.

Who struck many nations
And killed mighty kings,

To Him who alone does great wonders,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;

To Him who struck down great kings,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;

Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord [joyfully celebrating His wonderful acts],
For great is the glory and majesty of the Lord.

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].

Stretch out Your hand from above;
Set me free and rescue me from great waters,
Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].

They will overflow [like a fountain] when they speak of Your great and abundant goodness
And will sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

Great is our [majestic and mighty] Lord and abundant in strength;
His understanding is inexhaustible [infinite, boundless].

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.

He guards the paths of justice;
And He preserves the way of His saints (believers).

“Do not turn away from her (Wisdom) and she will guard and protect you;
Love her, and she will watch over you.

Take hold of instruction; [actively seek it, grip it firmly and] do not let go.
Guard her, for she is your life.

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment),
And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation].

“But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love and court death.”

There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing at all;
Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control],
But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].

Great and priceless treasure is in the house of the [consistently] righteous one [who seeks godly instruction and grows in wisdom],
But trouble is in the income of the wicked one [who rejects the laws of God].

Better is a little with the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the Lord
Than great treasure and trouble with it.

Better is a little with righteousness
Than great income [gained] with injustice.

A man’s gift [given in love or courtesy] makes room for him
And brings him before great men.

A man of great anger will bear the penalty [for his quick temper and lack of self-control];
For if you rescue him [and do not let him learn from the consequences of his action], you will only have to rescue him over and over again.

A good name [earned by honorable behavior, godly wisdom, moral courage, and personal integrity] is more desirable than great riches;
And favor is better than silver and gold.

The eyes of the Lord keep guard over knowledge and the one who has it,
But He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor [and defenseless],
Nor crush the afflicted [by legal proceedings] at the gate [where the city court is held],

Do not be boastfully ambitious and claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory and celebration;
But when the wicked rise [to prominence], men hide themselves.

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding and common sense [and his wickedness shortens his days],
But he who hates unjust gain will [be blessed and] prolong his days.

I spoke with my heart, saying, “Behold, I have acquired great [human] wisdom and experience, more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of [moral] wisdom and [scientific] knowledge.”

I made great works: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;

I bought male and female slaves and had slaves born in my house. I also possessed herds and flocks larger than any who preceded me in Jerusalem.

So I became great and excelled more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

For there is a man who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, yet gives his legacy to one who has not labored for it. This too is vanity and a great evil.

And though one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

This [illustration of] wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and great it was to me:

There was a little city with few men in it and a great king came against it and besieged it and built great battlements against it.

If the temper of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post [showing resistance], because composure and calmness prevent great offenses.

folly is set in many exalted places and in great dignity while the rich sit in humble places.

Earnestly remember your Creator before the silver cord [of life] is broken, or the golden bowl is crushed, or the pitcher at the fountain is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth;
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have reared and brought up sons,
But they have rebelled against Me and have broken away.

So the common man has been humbled [before idols]
And the man of importance has been degraded,
Therefore do not forgive them [O Lord].

In my ears the Lord of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,
Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.

So the common man will be bowed down and the man of importance degraded,
And the eyes of the proud (arrogant) will be degraded.

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who drag along wickedness with cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes [towing their own punishment];

The people who walk in [spiritual] darkness
Will see a great Light;
Those who live in the dark land,
The Light will shine on them.

Rejoice and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

A sound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

“Sheol below is excited about you to meet you when you come [you tyrant of Babylon];
It stirs up the spirits of the dead [to greet you], all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones [in astonishment at your fall].

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the Lord of hosts
From a people tall and smooth (clean shaven),
From a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place [of worship] of the name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion [in Jerusalem].

The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):

As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through,
So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.

My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned into fear and trembling for me.

And they were on great waters.
The grain of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile River, was Tyre’s revenue;
And she was the market of nations.

“You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character],
Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent
With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

“I, the Lord, am its Keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will harm it,
I guard it night and day.