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Psalm 145

I Will Exalt You, My God and King

A Psalm of praise. Of David.1

¹ I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

² Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

³ Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.

⁴ One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

⁵ the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

⁶ They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

⁷ They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

⁸ The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

⁹ The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

¹⁰ All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.

¹¹ They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,

¹² to make known to men Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.2

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

¹⁶ You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

¹⁸ The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

¹⁹ He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

²⁰ The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

²¹ My mouth will declare the praise of the LORD; let every creature bless His holy name forever and ever.


  1. 145:0 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ↩︎

  2. 145:13 The final two lines are supplied by one MT manuscript, LXX, Syriac, and DSS. ↩︎