Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.

How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation.

I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.

The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.

Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.

Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)

In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.

God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.

O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.