049) Psalm 33
8.6.8.6.
1 Let all the just to God with joy their cheerful voices raise, For well the righteous it becomes to sing glad songs of praise.
2,3 Let harps, and psalteries, and lutes in joyful concert meet, And new-made songs of loud applause the harmony complete.
4,5 For faithful is the word of God, his works with truth abound;
He justice loves, and all the earth is with his goodness crowned.
6 By his Almighty word at first heav’ns glorious arch was reared, And all the beauteous hosts of light at this command appeared.
7 The swelling floods, together rolled, he makes in heaps to lie; And lays, as in a storehouse safe, the wat’ry treasures by.
8,9 Let earth and all that dwell therein before him trembling stand; For when he spoke the world was made, ’twas fixed at his command.
10 He, when the heathen closely plot, their counsels undermines, His wisdom ineffectual makes the people’s rash designs.
11 Whate’er the mighty Lord decrees shall stand for ever sure; The settled purpose of his heart to ages shall endure.