Psalm 145, side by side

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

¹I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

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

²Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

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

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

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

⁴One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

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

⁵I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

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

⁶And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

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

⁷They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

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

⁸The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

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

⁹The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

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

¹⁰All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

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

¹¹They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

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

¹²To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

¹³Your 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.

¹³Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

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

¹⁴The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

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

¹⁵The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

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

¹⁶Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

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

¹⁷The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

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

¹⁸The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

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

¹⁹He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

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

²⁰The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

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

²¹My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.