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¹My soul, bless the LORD! LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with majesty and splendor.

²He wraps himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

³laying the beams of his palace on the waters above, making the clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,

⁴and making the winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.

⁵He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.

⁶You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

⁷At your rebuke the water fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away  —

⁸mountains rose and valleys sank  — to the place you established for them.

⁹You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

¹⁰He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

¹¹They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the sky live beside the springs; they make their voices heard among the foliage.

¹³He waters the mountains from his palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,

¹⁵wine that makes human hearts glad — making his face shine with oil — and bread that sustains human hearts.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests; storks make their homes in the pine trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the festivals; the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.

²¹The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

²²The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

²⁴How countless are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number — living things both large and small.

²⁶There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

²⁷All of them wait for you to give them their food at the right time.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

²⁹When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

³⁰When you send your breath, they are created, and you renew the surface of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works.

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

³³I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him; I will rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵May sinners vanish from the earth and wicked people be no more. My soul, bless the LORD! Hallelujah!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell about all his wondrous works!

³Honor his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

⁵Remember the wondrous works he has done, his wonders, and the judgments he has pronounced,

⁶you offspring of Abraham his servant, Jacob’s descendants — his chosen ones.

⁷He is the LORD our God; his judgments govern the whole earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he ordained for a thousand generations  —

⁹the covenant he made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,

¹⁰and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as a permanent covenant:

¹¹“I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”

¹²When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan,

¹³wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

¹⁴he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch my anointed ones, or harm my prophets.”

¹⁶He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

¹⁷He had sent a man ahead of them — Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the LORD tested him.

²⁰The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

²¹He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions  —

²²binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.

²³Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

²⁴The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them more numerous than their foes,

²⁵whose hearts he turned to hate his people and to deal deceptively with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed his miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and it became dark — for did they not defy his commands?

²⁹He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

³¹He spoke, and insects came  — gnats throughout their country.

³²He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.

³³He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and locusts came — young locusts without number.

³⁵They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their land.

³⁶He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.

³⁷Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they left, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud as a covering and gave a fire to light up the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.

⁴²For he remembered his holy promise to Abraham his servant.

⁴³He brought his people out with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.

⁴⁵All this happened so that they might keep his statutes and obey his instructions. Hallelujah!

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.

²Who can declare the LORD’s mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due him?

³How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Come to me with your salvation

⁵so that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your nation, and boast about your heritage.

⁶Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea — the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his power known.

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

¹⁰He saved them from the power of the adversary; he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

¹¹Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.

²⁰They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.

²³So he said he would have destroyed them — if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD.

²⁶So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desert

²⁷and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.

²⁸They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹They angered the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.

³²They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them;

³³for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them

³⁵but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.

³⁶They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

³⁸They shed innocent blood — the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; so the land became polluted with blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹He handed them over to the nations; those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power.

⁴³He rescued them many times, but they continued to rebel deliberately and were beaten down by their iniquity.

⁴⁴When he heard their cry, he took note of their distress,

⁴⁵remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!