Scottish Psalter: 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.