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

²Let the redeemed of the LORD proclaim that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe

³and has gathered them from the lands — from the east and the west, from the north and the south.

⁴Some wandered in the desolate wilderness, finding no way to a city where they could live.

⁵They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he rescued them from their distress.

⁷He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.

⁸Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

⁹For he has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.

¹⁰Others sat in darkness and gloom  — prisoners in cruel chains  —

¹¹because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the counsel of the Most High.

¹²He broke their spirits with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he saved them from their distress.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

¹⁶For he has broken down the bronze gates and cut through the iron bars.

¹⁷Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.

¹⁸They loathed all food and came near the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he saved them from their distress.

²⁰He sent his word and healed them; he rescued them from the Pit.

²¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and announce his works with shouts of joy.

²³Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast water.

²⁴They saw the LORD’s works, his wondrous works in the deep.

²⁵He spoke and raised a stormy wind that stirred up the waves of the sea.

²⁶Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish,

²⁷they reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their skill was useless.

²⁸Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

²⁹He stilled the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰They rejoiced when the waves grew quiet. Then he guided them to the harbor they longed for.

³¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

³²Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into desert, springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a desert into a pool, dry land into springs.

³⁶He causes the hungry to settle there, and they establish a city where they can live.

³⁷They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; he does not let their livestock decrease.

³⁹When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

⁴¹But he lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.

⁴²The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider the LORD’s acts of faithful love.

¹A song. A psalm of David. [1] My heart is confident, God; I will sing; I will sing praises with the whole of my being.

²Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

³I will praise you, LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

⁴For your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵God, be exalted above the heavens, and let your glory be over the whole earth.

⁶Save with your right hand and answer me so that those you love may be rescued.

⁷God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will celebrate! I will divide up Shechem. I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

⁹Moab is my washbasin; I throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹God, haven’t you rejected us? God, you do not march out with our armies.

¹²Give us aid against the foe, for human help is worthless.

¹³With God we will perform valiantly; he will trample our foes.

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. [1] God of my praise, do not be silent.

²For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

⁴In return for my love they accuse me, but I continue to pray.

⁵They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked person over him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let his prayer be counted as sin.

⁸Let his days be few; let another take over his position.

⁹Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.

¹¹Let a creditor seize all he has; let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

¹²Let no one show him kindness, and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.

¹³Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.

¹⁵Let their sins always remain before the LORD, and let him remove all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶For he did not think to show kindness, but pursued the suffering, needy, and brokenhearted in order to put them to death.

¹⁷He loved cursing — let it fall on him; he took no delight in blessing — let it be far from him.

¹⁸He wore cursing like his coat — let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.

¹⁹Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears.

²⁰Let this be the LORD’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

²¹But you, LORD, my Lord, deal kindly with me for your name’s sake; because your faithful love is good, rescue me.

²²For I am suffering and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

²³I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees are weak from fasting, and my body is emaciated.

²⁵I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

²⁶Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your faithful love

²⁷so they may know that this is your hand and that you, LORD, have done it.

²⁸Though they curse, you will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

²⁹My accusers will be clothed with disgrace; they will wear their shame like a cloak.

³⁰I will fervently thank the LORD with my mouth; I will praise him in the presence of many.

³¹For he stands at the right hand of the needy to save him from those who would condemn him.

¹A psalm of David. [1] This is the declaration of the LORD to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”

²The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion. Rule over your surrounding enemies.

³Your people will volunteer on your day of battle. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.

⁴The LORD has sworn an oath and will not take it back: “You are a priest forever according to the pattern of Melchizedek.”

⁵The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his anger.

⁶He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses; he will crush leaders over the entire world.

⁷He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore, he will lift up his head.

¹Hallelujah! I will praise the LORD with all my heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

²The LORD’s works are great, studied by all who delight in them.

³All that he does is splendid and majestic; his righteousness endures forever.

⁴He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered. The LORD is gracious and compassionate.

⁵He has provided food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

⁶He has shown his people the power of his works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.

⁷The works of his hands are truth and justice; all his instructions are trustworthy.

⁸They are established forever and ever, enacted in truth and in uprightness.

⁹He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awe-inspiring.

¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his instructions have good insight. His praise endures forever.