The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];
God, our God, blesses us.

But the king will rejoice in God;
Everyone who swears by Him [honoring the true God, acknowledging His authority and majesty] will glory,
For the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.

How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless [those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless],
Who walk in the law [and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will] of the Lord.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

Judah became His sanctuary,
And Israel His dominion.

Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous,
So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.

O house of Israel, bless and praise the Lord [with gratitude];
O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts
And the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.