Common English Bible

1 Chronicles 16:32-40 Common English Bible (CEB)

32. Let the sea and everything in it roar!Let the countryside and everything in it celebrate!

33. Then the trees of the forest will shout out joyfullybefore the Lord, because he is comingto establish justice on earth!

34. Give thanks to the Lord because he is good,because his faithful love endures forever.

35. Say: "Save us, God, our savior!Gather us! Deliver us from among the nationsso we can give thanks to your holy nameand rejoice in your praise."

36. Bless the Lord, Israel’s God,from forever in the past to forever always.And let all the people say, "Amen!"Praise the Lord!

37. Then David placed Asaph and his relatives, together with Obed-edom and sixty-eight of his relatives, to minister there continually before the chest containing the Lord’s covenant, following the routines required on each day.

38. Obed-edom, Jeduthun’s son, and Hosah served as gatekeepers.

39. David also placed the priest Zadok and his other priestly relatives at the Lord’s dwelling at the shrine in Gibeon.

40. They were to offer continually, both morning and evening, entirely burned offerings to the Lord on the altar for entirely burned offerings, following the written requirements in the Lord’s Instruction, which he had given Israel.