³ May the Lord bless you from Mount Zion,
    he who made heaven and earth.

My whole being, praise the Lord.
² I will praise the Lord all my life;
    I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.

³ Do not put your trust in princes
    or other people, who cannot save you.
⁴ When people die, they are buried.
    Then all of their plans come to an end.
⁵ Happy are those who are helped by the God of Jacob.
    Their hope is in the Lord their God.
⁶ He made heaven and earth,
    the sea and everything in it.
    He remains loyal forever.
⁷ He does what is fair for those who have been wronged.
    He gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free.
⁸ The Lord gives sight to the blind.
The Lord lifts up people who are in trouble.
    The Lord loves those who do right.
⁹ The Lord protects the foreigners.
    He defends the orphans and widows,
    but he blocks the way of the wicked.

¹⁰ The Lord will be King forever.
    Jerusalem, your God is everlasting.

Praise the Lord!

It is good to sing praises to our God;
    it is good and pleasant to praise him.
² The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem;
    he brings back the captured Israelites.
³ He heals the brokenhearted
    and bandages their wounds.

⁴ He counts the stars
    and names each one.
⁵ Our Lord is great and very powerful.
    There is no limit to what he knows.
⁶ The Lord defends the humble,
    but he throws the wicked to the ground.

⁷ Sing praises to the Lord;
    praise our God with harps.
⁸ He fills the sky with clouds
    and sends rain to the earth
    and makes grass grow on the hills.
⁹ He gives food to cattle
    and to the little birds that call.

¹⁰ He is not impressed with the strength of a horse
    or with human might.
¹¹ The Lord is pleased with those who respect him,
    with those who trust his love.

¹² Jerusalem, praise the Lord;
    Jerusalem, praise your God.
¹³ He makes your city gates strong
    and blesses your children inside.
¹⁴ He brings peace to your country
    and fills you with the finest grain.

¹⁵ He gives a command to the earth,
    and it quickly obeys him.
¹⁶ He spreads the snow like wool
    and scatters the frost like ashes.
¹⁷ He throws down hail like rocks.
    No one can stand the cold he sends.
¹⁸ Then he gives a command, and it melts.
    He sends the breezes, and the waters flow.

¹⁹ He gave his word to Jacob,
    his laws and demands to Israel.
²⁰ He didn’t do this for any other nation.
    They don’t know his laws.

Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord from the skies.
    Praise him high above the earth.
² Praise him, all you angels.
    Praise him, all you armies of heaven.
³ Praise him, sun and moon.
    Praise him, all you shining stars.
⁴ Praise him, highest heavens
    and you waters above the sky.
⁵ Let them praise the Lord,
    because they were created by his command.
⁶ He put them in place forever and ever;
    he made a law that will never change.

⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth,
    you large sea animals and all the oceans,
⁸ lightning and hail, snow and mist,
    and stormy winds that obey him,
⁹ mountains and all hills,
    fruit trees and all cedars,
¹⁰ wild animals and all cattle,
    crawling animals and birds,
¹¹ kings of the earth and all nations,
    princes and all rulers of the earth,
¹² young men and women,
    old people and children.

¹³ Praise the Lord,
    because he alone is great.
    He is more wonderful than heaven and earth.
¹⁴ God has given his people a king.
    He should be praised by all who belong to him;
    he should be praised by the Israelites, the people closest to his heart.

Praise the Lord!

Sing a new song to the Lord;
    sing his praise in the meeting of his people.

² Let the Israelites be happy because of God, their Maker.
    Let the people of Jerusalem rejoice because of their King.
³ They should praise him with dancing.
    They should sing praises to him with tambourines and harps.
⁴ The Lord is pleased with his people;
    he saves the humble.
⁵ Let those who worship him rejoice in his glory.
    Let them sing for joy even in bed!

⁶ Let them shout his praise
    with their two-edged swords in their hands.
⁷ They will punish the nations
    and defeat the people.
⁸ They will put those kings in chains
    and those important men in iron bands.
⁹ They will punish them as God has written.
    God is honored by all who worship him.

Praise the Lord!

Praise God in his Temple;
    praise him in his mighty heaven.
² Praise him for his strength;
    praise him for his greatness.
³ Praise him with trumpet blasts;
    praise him with harps and lyres.
⁴ Praise him with tambourines and dancing;
    praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.
⁵ Praise him with loud cymbals;
    praise him with crashing cymbals.
⁶ Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord!