Psalm 145

¹ I’ll thee extol, my God, O King;

I’ll bless thy name always.

² Thee will I bless each day, and will

thy name for ever praise.

³ Great is the Lord, much to be prais’d;

his greatness search exceeds.

⁴ Race unto race shall praise thy works,

and shew thy mighty deeds.

⁵ I of thy glorious majesty

the honour will record;

I’ll speak of all thy mighty works,

which wondrous are, O Lord.

⁶ Men of thine acts the might shall show,

thine acts that dreadful are;

And I, thy glory to advance,

thy greatness will declare.

⁷ The mem’ry of thy goodness great

they largely shall express;

With songs of praise they shall extol

thy perfect righteousness.

⁸ The Lord is very gracious,

in him compassions flow;

In mercy he is very great,

and is to anger slow.

⁹ The Lord Jehovah unto all

his goodness doth declare;

And over all his other works

his tender mercies are.

¹⁰ Thee all thy works shall praise, O Lord,

and thee thy saints shall bless;

¹¹ They shall thy kingdom’s glory show,

thy pow’r by speech express:

¹² To make the sons of men to know

his acts done mightily,

And of his kingdom th’ excellent

and glorious majesty.

¹³ Thy kingdom shall for ever stand,

thy reign through ages all.

¹⁴ God raiseth all that are bow’d down,

upholdeth all that fall.

¹⁵ The eyes of all things wait on thee,

the giver of all good;

And thou, in time convenient,

bestow’st on them their food:

¹⁶ Thine hand thou open’st lib’rally,

and of thy bounty gives

Enough to satisfy the need

of ev’ry thing that lives.

¹⁷ The Lord is just in all his ways,

holy in his works all.

¹⁸ God’s near to all that call on him,

in truth that on him call.

¹⁹ He will accomplish the desire

of those that do him fear:

He also will deliver them,

and he their cry will hear.

²⁰ The Lord preserves all who him love,

that nought can them annoy:

But he all those that wicked are

will utterly destroy.

²¹ My mouth the praises of the Lord

to publish cease shall never:

Let all flesh bless his holy name

for ever and for ever.