Book of Common Prayer

103 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and all within me, bless his holy name.
² Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits:
³ who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
⁴ who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,
⁵ who satisfies your life with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
⁶ Yahweh does deeds of justice
and judgments for all who are oppressed,
⁷ who made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people^[b] of Israel.
⁸ Yahweh is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger^[c] and abundant in loyal love.
⁹ He does not dispute continually,
nor keep his anger forever.
¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
nor repaid us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so his loyal love prevails over those who fear him.
¹² As far as east is from west,
so he has removed far from us the guilt of our transgressions.
¹³ As a father pities^[d] his children,
so Yahweh pities^[e] those who fear him.
¹⁴ For he knows our frame.^[f]
He remembers that we are dust.
¹⁵ As for man, his days are like the grass.
As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
¹⁶ When the wind passes over it, it is no more,
and its place knows it no longer.
¹⁷ But the loyal love of Yahweh
is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to their children’s children,
¹⁸ to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his precepts.
¹⁹ Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.
²⁰ Bless Yahweh, you his angels,
you mighty heroes who do his word
by obeying^[g] the sound of his word.
²¹ Bless Yahweh, all you his hosts,
you his attendants who do his will.
²² Bless Yahweh, all his works,^[h]
in all the places of his dominion.
Bless Yahweh, O my soul.

114 When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,
² Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
³ The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan turned back.
⁴ The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.^[a]
5 What’s with you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you turned back?
⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
⁷ At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth,^[b]
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸ who turned the rock into a pool of water,
flinty stone into a spring of water.

115 Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
because of your loyal love,
because of your faithfulness.
² Why should the nations say,
“Where, pray tell,^[c] is their God?”
³ But our God is in the heavens;
all that he desires, he does.
⁴ Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
⁵ They have mouths, but cannot speak;
they have eyes, but cannot see;
⁶ they have ears, but cannot hear;
they have noses, but cannot smell;
⁷ they have their hands, but they cannot feel,
their feet, but they cannot walk;
they cannot utter a sound in their throats.
⁸ Those who make them become like them,
as does everyone who trusts in them.
⁹ O Israel, trust Yahweh;
he is their help and their shield.
¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh;
he is their help and their shield.
¹¹ You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh;
he is their help and their shield.
¹² Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us.
He will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron.
¹³ He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
the small with the great.
¹⁴ May Yahweh give you increase,
you and your children.
¹⁵ May you be blessed by Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.
¹⁶ The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to the children of humankind.
¹⁷ The dead do not praise Yah,^[d]
nor any descending into silence.
¹⁸ It is we, we will bless Yah^[e]
from now until forever.
Praise Yah!^[f]