³ The voice of the Lord is over ^(C)the waters;
    the God of glory ^(D)thunders,
    the Lord, over many waters.
⁴ The voice of the Lord is ^(E)powerful;
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks ^(F)the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes Lebanon to ^(G)skip like a calf,
    and ^(H)Sirion like a young ^(I)wild ox.

⁷ The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of ^(J)Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of the Lord makes ^(K)the deer give birth^[c]
    and strips the forests bare,
    and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The Lord sits enthroned over ^(L)the flood;
    the Lord sits enthroned ^(M)as king forever.
¹¹ May the Lord give ^(N)strength to his people!
    May the Lord bless^[d] his people with ^(O)peace!

⁵ All day long they injure my cause;^[b]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They ^(G)stir up strife, they ^(H)lurk;
    they ^(I)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
⁷ For their crime will they escape?
    ^(J)In wrath ^(K)cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸ You have kept count of my tossings;^{[c]
    (L)}put my tears in your bottle.
    ^(M)Are they not in your book?
⁹ Then my enemies will turn back
    ^(N)in the day when I call.
    This I know, that^{[d] (O)}God is for me.
¹⁰ In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
¹¹ in God I trust; ^(P)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

¹² I must perform my ^(Q)vows to you, O God;
    I will ^(R)render thank offerings to you.
^13 (S)For you have delivered my soul from death,
    yes, my feet from falling,
^(T)that I may walk before God
    ^(U)in the light of life.

^4 (H)Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.
⁵ Lead me in your ^(I)truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long.

⁶ Remember your ^(J)mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
    ^(K)for they have been from of old.
⁷ Remember not ^(L)the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
    according to your ^(M)steadfast love remember me,
    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

^8 (N)Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he ^(O)instructs sinners in the way.
⁹ He leads the humble in what is right,
    and teaches the humble his way.
¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are ^(P)steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹ For your ^(Q)name's sake, O Lord,
    pardon my guilt, for it is ^(R)great.
¹² Who is the man who fears the Lord?
    Him ^(S)will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
¹³ His soul shall ^(T)abide in well-being,
    and his ^(U)offspring ^(V)shall inherit the land.
^14 (W)The friendship^[b] of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes known to them his covenant.
¹⁵ My ^(X)eyes are ever toward the Lord,
    for he will ^(Y)pluck my feet out of the net.

^16 (Z)Turn to me and be gracious to me,
    for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
    bring me out of my distresses.
^18 (AA)Consider my affliction and my trouble,
    and forgive all my sins.

¹⁹ Consider how many are my foes,
    and with what violent hatred they hate me.
²⁰ Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
    ^(AB)Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
²¹ May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
    for I wait for you.

^22 (AC)Redeem Israel, O God,
    out of all his troubles.

⁵ He established ^(I)a testimony in ^(J)Jacob
    and appointed a law in ^(K)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
⁶ that ^(L)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷     so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget ^(M)the works of God,
    but ^(N)keep his commandments;
⁸ and that they should not be ^(O)like their fathers,
    ^(P)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation ^(Q)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The Ephraimites, armed with^[b] the bow,
    ^(R)turned back on the day of battle.
¹⁰ They ^(S)did not keep God's covenant,
    but refused to walk according to his law.
¹¹ They ^(T)forgot his works
    and ^(U)the wonders that he had shown them.
¹² In the sight of their fathers ^(V)he performed wonders
    in the land of Egypt, in ^(W)the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He ^(X)divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters ^(Y)stand like a heap.
^14 (Z)In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He ^(AA)split rocks in the wilderness
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of ^(AB)the rock
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they sinned still more against him,
    ^(AC)rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ They ^(AD)tested God in their heart
    by demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying,
    ^(AE)“Can God ^(AF)spread a table in the wilderness?
^20 (AG)He struck the rock so that water gushed out
    and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
    or provide meat for his people?”

²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
    ^(AH)a fire was kindled against Jacob;
    his anger rose against Israel,
²² because they ^(AI)did not believe in God
    and did not trust his saving power.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above
    and ^(AJ)opened the doors of heaven,
²⁴ and he ^(AK)rained down on them manna to eat
    and gave them ^(AL)the grain of heaven.
²⁵ Man ate of the bread of ^(AM)the angels;
    he sent them food ^(AN)in abundance.
²⁶ He ^(AO)caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
    and by his power he led out the south wind;
²⁷ he rained meat on them like ^(AP)dust,
    winged birds like ^(AQ)the sand of the seas;
²⁸ he ^(AR)let them fall in the midst of their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
²⁹ And they ^(AS)ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they ^(AT)craved.
³⁰ But before they had satisfied their craving,
    ^(AU)while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed ^(AV)the strongest of them
    and laid low ^(AW)the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they ^(AX)still sinned;
    ^(AY)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³ So he made ^(AZ)their days ^(BA)vanish like^[c] a breath,^[d]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ When he killed them, they ^(BB)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their ^(BC)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(BD)redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(BE)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(BF)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their ^(BG)heart was not ^(BH)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being ^(BI)compassionate,
    ^(BJ)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He ^(BK)remembered that they were but ^(BL)flesh,
    ^(BM)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(BN)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(BO)grieved him in ^(BP)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(BQ)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(BR)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(BS)did not remember his power^[e]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (BT)when he performed his ^(BU)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(BV)marvels in ^(BW)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(BX)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(BY)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(BZ)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(CA)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(CB)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(CC)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(CD)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(CE)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(CF)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(CG)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (CH)He led them in safety, so that they ^(CI)were not afraid,
    but ^(CJ)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(CK)holy land,
    ^(CL)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(CM)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(CN)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(CO)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they ^(CP)tested and ^(CQ)rebelled against the Most High God
    and did not keep his testimonies,
⁵⁷ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
    they twisted like ^(CR)a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸ For they ^(CS)provoked him to anger with their ^(CT)high places;
    they ^(CU)moved him to jealousy with their ^(CV)idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard, he was full of ^(CW)wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He ^(CX)forsook his dwelling at ^(CY)Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
⁶¹ and delivered his ^(CZ)power to captivity,
    his ^(DA)glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶² He ^(DB)gave his people over to the sword
    and ^(DC)vented his wrath on his heritage.
^63 (DD)Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no ^(DE)marriage song.
⁶⁴ Their ^(DF)priests fell by the sword,
    and their ^(DG)widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(DH)awoke as from sleep,
    like a strong man shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶ And he ^(DI)put his adversaries to rout;
    he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of ^(DJ)Joseph;
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he ^(DK)loves.
⁶⁹ He ^(DL)built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
    like the earth, which he has founded forever.
⁷⁰ He ^(DM)chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ from ^(DN)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to ^(DO)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his ^(DP)inheritance.
⁷² With ^(DQ)upright heart he shepherded them
    and ^(DR)guided them with his skillful hand.

³ For you are my rock and my fortress;
    and for your ^(G)name's sake you lead me and guide me;
⁴ you ^(H)take me out of ^(I)the net they have hidden for me,
    for you are my ^(J)refuge.
^5 (K)Into your hand I commit my spirit;
    you have redeemed me, O Lord, ^(L)faithful God.

⁶ I ^(M)hate^[a] those who pay ^(N)regard to worthless ^(O)idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
    because you have seen my affliction;
    you have ^(P)known the distress of my soul,
⁸ and you have not ^(Q)delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
    you have set my feet in ^(R)a broad place.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am ^(S)in distress;
    ^(T)my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and ^(U)my bones waste away.

¹¹ Because of all my adversaries I have become ^(V)a reproach,
    especially to my ^(W)neighbors,
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
    those who see me in the street ^(X)flee from me.
¹² I have been ^(Y)forgotten like one who is dead;
    I have become like ^(Z)a broken vessel.
¹³ For I ^(AA)hear the whispering of many—
    terror on every side!—
^(AB)as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴ But I ^(AC)trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My ^(AD)times are in your hand;
    ^(AE)rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
^16 (AF)Make your face shine on your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love!
¹⁷ O Lord, ^(AG)let me not be put to shame,
    for I call upon you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
    let them go ^(AH)silently to Sheol.
¹⁸ Let the lying lips be mute,
    which ^(AI)speak ^(AJ)insolently against the righteous
    in pride and contempt.

¹⁹ Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
    which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
    ^(AK)in the sight of the children of mankind!
²⁰ In ^(AL)the cover of your presence you hide them
    from the plots of men;
you ^(AM)store them in your shelter
    from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
    for he has wondrously ^(AN)shown his steadfast love to me
    when I was in ^(AO)a besieged city.
²² I had said in my ^(AP)alarm,^[b]
    “I am ^(AQ)cut off from ^(AR)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
    when I cried to you for help.

²³ Love the Lord, all you his ^(AS)saints!
    The Lord preserves the faithful
    but abundantly ^(AT)repays the one who acts in pride.
^24 (AU)Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
    all you who wait for the Lord!