²¹ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(A)
Has it not been told^(B) you from the beginning?^(C)
    Have you not understood^(D) since the earth was founded?^(E)
22 He sits enthroned^(F) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(G)
He stretches out the heavens^(H) like a canopy,^(I)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(J) to live in.^(K)
23 He brings princes^(L) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.^(M)
24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(N) in the ground,
than he blows^(O) on them and they wither,^(P)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(Q)

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?^(R)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.^(S)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(T)
    Who created^(U) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(V) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(W)
    not one of them is missing.^(X)

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(Y)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(Z)
The Lord is the everlasting^(AA) God,
    the Creator^(AB) of the ends of the earth.^(AC)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(AD)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(AE)
29 He gives strength^(AF) to the weary^(AG)
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men^(AH) stumble and fall;^(AI)
31 but those who hope^(AJ) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.^(AK)
They will soar on wings like eagles;^(AL)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.^(AM)

How good it is to sing praises to our God,
    how pleasant^(A) and fitting to praise him!^(B)

² The Lord builds up Jerusalem;^(C)
    he gathers the exiles^(D) of Israel.
³ He heals the brokenhearted^(E)
    and binds up their wounds.^(F)
4 He determines the number of the stars^(G)
    and calls them each by name.
⁵ Great is our Lord^(H) and mighty in power;^(I)
    his understanding has no limit.^(J)
6 The Lord sustains the humble^(K)
    but casts the wicked^(L) to the ground.

⁷ Sing to the Lord^(M) with grateful praise;^(N)
    make music^(O) to our God on the harp.^(P)

⁸ He covers the sky with clouds;^(Q)
    he supplies the earth with rain^(R)
    and makes grass grow^(S) on the hills.
⁹ He provides food^(T) for the cattle
    and for the young ravens^(U) when they call.

¹⁰ His pleasure is not in the strength^(V) of the horse,^(W)
    nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;
¹¹ the Lord delights^(X) in those who fear him,^(Y)
    who put their hope^(Z) in his unfailing love.^(AA)

²⁰ He has done this for no other nation;^(A)
    they do not know^(B) his laws.^[a]

Praise the Lord.^(C)