^4 (E)Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
⁵ For the Lord is good;
^(F)His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

³ For my days ^[a]are ^(C)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
⁴ My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my ^[b]skin.
⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am like an owl of the desert.
⁷ I lie awake,
And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.

⁸ My enemies reproach me all day long;
Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,
¹⁰ Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
¹¹ My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.

¹² But You, O Lord, shall endure forever,
And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
¹³ You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
For the time to favor her,
Yes, the set time, has come.
¹⁴ For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
And show favor to her dust.
¹⁵ So the ^[c]nations shall ^(D)fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord shall build up Zion;
^(E)He shall appear in His glory.
^17 (F)He shall regard the prayer of the destitute,
And shall not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ This will be ^(G)written for the generation to come,
That ^(H)a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
¹⁹ For He ^(I)looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
^20 (J)To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,
²¹ To ^(K)declare the name of the Lord in Zion,
And His praise in Jerusalem,
^22 (L)When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

²³ He weakened my strength in the way;
He ^(M)shortened my days.
^24 (N)I said, “O my God,
Do not take me away in the midst of my days;
^(O)Your years are throughout all generations.
^25 (P)Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
^26 (Q)They will perish, but You will ^[d]endure;
Yes, they will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will change them,
And they will be changed.
²⁷ But ^(R)You are the same,
And Your years will have no end.
^28 (S)The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”

O Lord my God, You are very great:
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
² Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

^3 (C)He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds His chariot,
Who walks on the wings of the wind,
⁴ Who makes His angels spirits,
His ^[a]ministers a flame of fire.

⁵ You who ^[b]laid the foundations of the earth,
So that it should not be moved forever,
⁶ You ^(D)covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ At Your rebuke they fled;
At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
^8 [c]They went up over the mountains;
They went down into the valleys,
To the place which You founded for them.
⁹ You have ^(E)set a boundary that they may not pass over,
^(F)That they may not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰ He sends the springs into the valleys;
They flow among the hills.
¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² By them the birds of the heavens have their home;
They sing among the branches.
^13 (G)He waters the hills from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with ^(H)the fruit of Your works.

^14 (I)He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the service of man,
That he may bring forth ^(J)food from the earth,
¹⁵ And ^(K)wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face shine,
And bread which strengthens man’s heart.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of sap,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests;
The stork has her home in the fir trees.
¹⁸ The high hills are for the wild goats;
The cliffs are a refuge for the ^(L)rock^[d] badgers.

^19 (M)He appointed the moon for seasons;
The ^(N)sun knows its going down.
^20 (O)You make darkness, and it is night,
In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
^21 (P)The young lions roar after their prey,
And seek their food from God.
²² When the sun rises, they gather together
And lie down in their dens.
²³ Man goes out to ^(Q)his work
And to his labor until the evening.

^24 (R)O Lord, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your ^(S)possessions—
²⁵ This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.
²⁶ There the ships sail about;
There is that ^(T)Leviathan^[e]
Which You have ^[f]made to play there.

^27 (U)These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
²⁸ What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
²⁹ You hide Your face, they are troubled;
^(V)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
^30 (W)You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the earth.

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
May the Lord ^(X)rejoice in His works.
³² He looks on the earth, and it ^(Y)trembles;
^(Z)He touches the hills, and they smoke.

^33 (AA)I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
³⁴ May my ^(AB)meditation be sweet to Him;
I will be glad in the Lord.
³⁵ May ^(AC)sinners be consumed from the earth,
And the wicked be no more.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!
^[g]Praise the Lord!

⁴ They wandered in ^(C)the wilderness in a desolate way;
They found no city to dwell in.
⁵ Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted in them.
^6 (D)Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He delivered them out of their distresses.
⁷ And He led them forth by the ^(E)right way,
That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.
^8 (F)Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
⁹ For ^(G)He satisfies the longing soul,
And fills the hungry soul with goodness.

¹⁰ Those who ^(H)sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
^(I)Bound^[b] in affliction and irons—
¹¹ Because they ^(J)rebelled against the words of God,
And ^[c]despised ^(K)the counsel of the Most High,
¹² Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was ^(L)none to help.
¹³ Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
^14 (M)He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in pieces.
¹⁵ Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
¹⁶ For He has ^(N)broken the gates of bronze,
And cut the bars of iron in two.

¹⁷ Fools, ^(O)because of their transgression,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
^18 (P)Their soul abhorred all manner of food,
And they ^(Q)drew near to the gates of death.
¹⁹ Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
^20 (R)He sent His word and ^(S)healed them,
And ^(T)delivered them from their destructions.
²¹ Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
^22 (U)Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And ^(V)declare His works with ^[d]rejoicing.

²³ Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters,
²⁴ They see the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.
²⁵ For He commands and ^(W)raises the stormy wind,
Which lifts up the waves of the sea.
²⁶ They mount up to the heavens,
They go down again to the depths;
^(X)Their soul melts because of trouble.
²⁷ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And ^[e]are at their wits’ end.
²⁸ Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brings them out of their distresses.
^29 (Y)He calms the storm,
So that its waves are still.
³⁰ Then they are glad because they are quiet;
So He guides them to their desired haven.
^31 (Z)Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
³² Let them exalt Him also ^(AA)in the assembly of the people,
And praise Him in the company of the elders.

³³ He ^(AB)turns rivers into a wilderness,
And the watersprings into dry ground;
³⁴ A ^(AC)fruitful land into ^[f]barrenness,
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
^35 (AD)He turns a wilderness into pools of water,
And dry land into watersprings.
³⁶ There He makes the hungry dwell,
That they may establish a city for a dwelling place,
³⁷ And sow fields and plant vineyards,
That they may yield a fruitful harvest.
^38 (AE)He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;
And He does not let their cattle ^(AF)decrease.

³⁹ When they are ^(AG)diminished and brought low
Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,
^40 (AH)He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
^41 (AI)Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,
And ^(AJ)makes their families like a flock.
^42 (AK)The righteous see it and rejoice,
And all ^(AL)iniquity stops its mouth.

^43 (AM)Whoever is wise will observe these things,
And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.