Psalm 76 – Israel’s God—Judge of All the Earth

To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

76:11 ‘Make vows to the Lord your God, and perform them’

¹ In Judah God is known,
his name is great in Israel.
² His abode has been established in Salem,
his dwelling-place in Zion.
³ There he broke the flashing arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.
Selah

⁴ Glorious are you, more majestic
than the everlasting mountains.
⁵ The stout-hearted were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.
⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷ But you indeed are awesome!
Who can stand before you
when once your anger is roused?
⁸ From the heavens you uttered judgement;
the earth feared and was still
⁹ when God rose up to establish judgement,
to save all the oppressed of the earth.
Selah

¹⁰ Human wrath serves only to praise you,
when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.
¹¹ Make vows to the Lord your God, and perform them;
let all who are around him bring gifts
to the one who is awesome,
¹² who cuts off the spirit of princes,
who inspires fear in the kings of the earth.