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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. ✦ 2Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever. ✦ 3Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable. ✦ 4One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. ✦ 5Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate. ✦ 6Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness. ✦ 7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. ✦ 8Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. ✦ 9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. ✦ 10All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you. ✦ 11They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power; ✦ 12to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. ✦ 13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. ✦ 14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down. ✦ 15The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. ✦ 16You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ✦ 17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. ✦ 18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. ✦ 19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. ✦ 20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. ✦ 21My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. ✦

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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 145 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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