¹And they brought the ark of God^*, and they put it inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and they made burnt offerings and peace-offerings before God^*. ²And when David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord. ³And he distributed to every person of Israel, both men and women – to each one – a loaf of bread and a portion of roast beef and raisin cake. ⁴And in the presence of the ark of the Lord, he appointed some of the Levites who performed service, both to remember and to give thanks and to praise the Lord God of Israel: ⁵Asaph the head, and his adjunct Zechariah, and Jeiel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-Edom and Jeiel, with lutes and with harps, whereas Asaph produced sound with timbrels, ⁶and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets, continually before the ark of the covenant of God. ⁷Then on that day at the start David handed these words over to Asaph and his brothers, to give thanks to the Lord:

⁸Give thanks to the Lord,

Call on his name;

Make his deeds known

Among the various peoples.

⁹Sing to him,

Make psalm melody to him;

Meditate on all his wonders.

¹⁰Boast in his holy name.

Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

¹¹Search for the Lord and his strength;

Seek his presence continually.

¹²Remember his wonders

Which he has performed

– His miracles

And the judgments of his mouth.

¹³The seed of Israel his servant

– The sons of Jacob –

Are his chosen ones.

¹⁴He is the Lord our God;

His principles of justice

Are in the whole land.

¹⁵Remember his covenant age-abidingly

– The word he commanded to a thousand generations,

¹⁶The covenant which he made with Abraham –

And his oath to Isaac,

¹⁷Which he established as a statute to Jacob,

And as an age-abiding covenant to Israel,

¹⁸When he said,

“To you I will give the land of Canaan,

The allocation of your inheritance”,

¹⁹When you were a small company

– Few, but residents in it.

²⁰And they went round from nation to nation,

And from one kingdom to another people.

²¹He did not permit man to oppress them,

And he reproved kings concerning them,

²²Saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones,

And do not harm my prophets.”

²³Sing to the Lord, all the earth;

Proclaim his salvation

From one day to the next.

²⁴Tell of his glory among the Gentiles,

And of his wondrous deeds,

Among all the various peoples.

²⁵For the Lord is great

And much to be praised;

He is awesome

Above all gods.

²⁶For all the gods of the nations are idols,

But the Lord made the heavens.

²⁷Majesty and splendour are before him;

Strength and joy are in his place.

²⁸Ascribe to the Lord,

You families of nations,

Ascribe glory and strength

To the Lord.

²⁹Ascribe the glory of his name to the Lord;

Make a meal-offering

And enter in before him.

Worship the Lord

In the splendour of holiness.

³⁰Tremble in his presence,

All the earth;

Indeed the world will be established

Such that it will not totter.

And the earth be glad,

And let them say among the nations,

“The Lord reigns.”

³²Let the sea roar

With its fulness;

Let the field exult,

And everything in it.

³³Then let the trees of the forest shout for joy,

Before the Lord

When he comes to judge the earth.

³⁴Give thanks to the Lord,

For he is good,

For his kindness is age-abiding.

³⁵And say,

“Save us, O God of our salvation,

And gather us,

And save us from the Gentiles,

To give thanks to your holy name

And to exult in praise of you.

³⁶Blessed be the Lord God of Israel

From age to age.”

And all the people said, “Amen”, and they praised the Lord. ³⁷Then he left Asaph and his brothers there in the presence of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to serve in the presence of the ark continually as a daily matter, ³⁸and Obed-Edom and their brothers – sixty-eight of them – and Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, as gatekeepers, ³⁹and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, in the presence of the tabernacle of the Lord in the raised site which is in Gibeon, ⁴⁰namely to offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar for the burnt offering perpetually in the morning and in the evening, and to carry out everything written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel. ⁴¹And with them were Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest – the elite who were specified by name – to give thanks to the Lord, for his kindness is age-abiding. ⁴²And with them were Heman and Jeduthun, and trumpets and timbrels for those who produced sounds with them, and musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun attended to the gate. ⁴³Then all the people departed – each to his home – and David returned to bless his household.

Reference(s) in Chapter 16: v.31 ↔ Revelation 12:12.