¹ Sing aloud to God our strength;
    shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

⁷ In distress you called, and I rescued you;
    I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah

¹⁰ I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹⁴ Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
    and turn my hand against their foes.

¹⁶ I would feed you^[a] with the finest of the wheat,
    and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty one
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.
¹⁶ For I will not continually accuse,
    nor will I always be angry;
for then the spirits would grow faint before me,
    even the souls that I have made.
¹⁷ Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry;
    I struck them, I hid and was angry;
    but they kept turning back to their own ways.
¹⁸ I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
    I will lead them and repay them with comfort,
    creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.^[a]
19 Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord;
    and I will heal them.
²⁰ But the wicked are like the tossing sea
    that cannot keep still;
    its waters toss up mire and mud.
²¹ There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.

¹ Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
    against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful and unjust
    deliver me!
² For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
    because of the oppression of the enemy?