¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Song. A Psalm.

Shout joyfully to God,

All the earth.

²Make psalm melody of the glory of his name;

Bestow glory on his praiseworthiness.

³Say to God, “How awesome are your works!”

At the greatness of your strength,

Your enemies will feign obedience to you.

⁴All the earth will worship you

And will make psalm melody to you;

They will make psalm melody to your name.

Selah.

⁵Come and see the works of God.

He is awesome in deed to the sons of Adam.

⁶He turned the sea into dry land;

They crossed the river on foot.

Let us rejoice in him there.

⁷He rules by his might age-abidingly;

His eyes are watching the Gentiles.

Do not let the rebellious vaunt themselves.

Selah.

⁸O you various peoples,

Bless our God,

And cause the sound of his praise to be heard.

⁹He is the one who appoints our being to life

And does not consign our feet to faltering.

¹⁰For you have examined us, O God;

You have refined us,

Like the refining of silver.

¹¹You have brought us into a net;

You have placed an oppressive burden on our loins.

¹²You caused men to ride over our heads.

We have gone through fire and through water,

But you have brought us out

Into a place of abundance.

¹³I will go to your house with burnt offerings;

I will fulfil my vows to you,

¹⁴Which my lips uttered,

And my mouth spoke,

When I was in a strait.

¹⁵I will offer fat burnt offerings to you

– Rams with incense;

I will offer bulls with he-goats.

Selah.

¹⁶Come, all you who fear God and hear,

And I will relate

What he has done for my being.

¹⁷I cried out to him with my mouth,

And he was extolled under my tongue.

¹⁸If I have an eye to iniquity in my heart,

The Lord^* will not hear me.

¹⁹Truly, God has heard me;

He has hearkened to the sound of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God,

Who has not set my prayer aside

Or withdrawn his kindness from me.