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Psalm 145

A praise psalm by David.1

¹ I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

² Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.

³ Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

⁴ One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

⁵ I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor, on your wondrous works.

⁶ Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.

⁷ They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

⁸ Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

⁹ Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰ All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.

¹¹ They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power,

¹² to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.2

¹⁴ Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

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

¹⁷ Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

¹⁸ Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

²⁰ Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

²¹ My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.


  1. 145:0 This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. ↩︎

  2. 145:13 Some manuscripts omit these last two lines. ↩︎