¹ Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.^(A)
His faithful love endures forever.
² Give thanks to the God of gods.
His faithful love endures forever.
³ Give thanks to the Lord of lords.^(B)
His faithful love endures forever.
⁴ He alone does great wonders.^(C)
His faithful love endures forever.
⁵ He made the heavens skillfully.^(D)
His faithful love endures forever.
⁶ He spread the land on the waters.^(E)
His faithful love endures forever.
⁷ He made the great lights:^(F)
His faithful love endures forever.
⁸ the sun to rule by day,
His faithful love endures forever.
⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night.^(G)
His faithful love endures forever.

59 Indeed, the Lord’s arm is not too weak to save,^(A)
and his ear is not too deaf to hear.
² But your iniquities^(B) are separating you
from your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you^(C)
so that he does not listen.^(D)

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
¹⁰ We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.^(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.
¹¹ We all growl like bears
and moan like doves.^(B)
We hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
¹² For our transgressions have multiplied before you,^(C)
and our sins testify against us.^(D)
For our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:^(E)
13 transgression and deception against the Lord,
turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
¹⁴ Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and honesty cannot enter.
¹⁵ Truth is missing,
and whoever turns from evil is plundered.
The Lord saw that there was no justice,
and he was offended.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man—
he was amazed that there was no one interceding;^(F)
so his own arm brought salvation,
and his own righteousness supported him.

The one who gives the sun for light by day,
the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar^(A)—
the Lord of Armies is his name:
³⁶ If this fixed order departs from before me—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
only then will Israel’s descendants cease
to be a nation before me forever.^(B)

Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below explored,
will I reject all of Israel’s descendants
because of all they have done—
this is the Lord’s declaration.