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¹Bless and affectionately praise the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty,

²[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

³Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,

⁴Who makes winds His messengers, Flames of fire His ministers.

⁵He established the earth on its foundations, So that it will not be moved forever and ever.

⁶You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

⁷At Your rebuke they fled; At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

⁸The mountains rose, the valleys sank down To the place which You established for them.

⁹You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰You send springs into the valleys; Their waters flow among the mountains.

¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.

¹²Beside them the birds of the heavens have their nests; They lift up their voices and sing among the branches.

¹³He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

¹⁴He causes grass to grow for the cattle, And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man, So that he may bring food from the earth—

¹⁵And wine which makes the heart of man glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And bread to sustain and strengthen man's heart.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD drink their fill, The cedars of Lebanon which He has planted,

¹⁷Where the birds make their nests; As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the shephanim.

¹⁹He made the moon for the seasons; The sun knows the [exact] place of its setting.

²⁰You [O LORD] make darkness and it becomes night, In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

²¹The young lions roar after their prey And seek their food from God.

²²When the sun arises, they withdraw And lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to his work And remains at his labor until evening.

²⁴O LORD, how many and varied are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.

²⁵There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Creatures both small and great.

²⁶There the ships [of the sea] sail, And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.

²⁷They all wait for You To give them their food in its appointed season.

²⁸You give it to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are filled and satisfied with good [things].

²⁹You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their breath, they die And return to their dust.

³⁰You send out Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever; May the LORD rejoice and be glad in His works—

³²He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

³⁴May my meditation be sweet and pleasing to Him; As for me, I will rejoice and be glad in the LORD.

³⁵Let sinners be consumed from the earth, And let the wicked be no more. Bless and affectionately praise the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

¹O give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the people.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonderful acts and devoutly praise them.

³Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those who seek and require the LORD [as their most essential need] rejoice.

⁴Seek and deeply long for the LORD and His strength [His power, His might]; Seek and deeply long for His face and His presence continually.

⁵Remember [with awe and gratitude] the wonderful things which He has done, His amazing deeds and the judgments uttered by His mouth [on His enemies, as in Egypt],

⁶O you offspring of Abraham, His servant, O you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

⁷He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,

⁹The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His sworn oath to Isaac,

¹⁰Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the measured portion of your inheritance."

¹²When there were only a few men in number, Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;

¹³And they wandered from one nation to another, From one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴He allowed no man to oppress them; He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,

¹⁵"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

¹⁶And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸His feet they hurt with shackles; He was put in chains of iron,

¹⁹Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true, The word of the LORD tested and refined him.

²⁰The king sent and released him, The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.

²¹He made Joseph lord of his house And ruler of all his possessions,

²²To imprison his princes at his will, That he might teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt; Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴There the LORD greatly increased [the number of] His people, And made them more powerful than their enemies.

²⁵He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.

²⁶He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They exhibited His wondrous signs among them, Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).

²⁸He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark; And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

²⁹He turned Egypt's waters into blood And caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of flies And gnats in all their territory.

³²He gave them hail for rain, With flaming fire in their land.

³³He struck their vines also and their fig trees, And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came, And the young locusts, even without number,

³⁵And ate up all the vegetation in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.

³⁷He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold, And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed, For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.

³⁹The LORD spread a cloud as a covering [by day], And a fire to illumine the night.

⁴⁰The Israelites asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He remembered His holy word To Abraham His servant;

⁴³He brought out His people with joy, And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples' labor,

⁴⁵So that they might observe His precepts And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them]. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

¹Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His mercy and lovingkindness endure forever!

²Who can put into words the mighty deeds of the LORD? Or who can proclaim all His praise [that is due Him]?

³Blessed are those who observe justice [by honoring God's precepts], Who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O LORD, when You favor Your people. Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],

⁵That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned like our fathers; We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles; They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts, But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, That He might make His [supreme] power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.

¹⁰So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.

¹²Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words; They sang His praise.

¹³But they quickly forgot His works; They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],

¹⁴But lusted intensely in the wilderness And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.

¹⁵So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶They envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the LORD,

¹⁷Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a fire broke out in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai) And worshiped a cast image.

²⁰Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt,

²²Wonders in the land of Ham, Awesome things at the Red Sea.

²³Therefore He said He would destroy them, [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan]; They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

²⁵But they sulked and complained in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them, That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,

²⁷And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

²⁸They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices, And a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded, And so the plague was halted.

³¹And that was credited to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.

³²They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

³³Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the LORD commanded them,

³⁵But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations And learned their ways,

³⁶And served their idols, Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.

³⁷They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons

³⁸And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with their blood.

³⁹In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other "gods"].

⁴⁰Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He detested His own inheritance.

⁴¹He gave them into the hands of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.

⁴³Many times He rescued them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And sank down in their wickedness.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress When He heard their cry;

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],

⁴⁶He also made them objects of compassion Among those who had carried them away captive.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks to Your holy name And glory in praising You.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)