On the glorious splendor of Your majesty
And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.

Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

The Lord is good to everyone;
His compassion rests on all He has made.

in order to make known your mighty acts to mankind as well as the majestic splendor of your kingdom.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who fall
And raises up all those who are bowed down.

The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

You open your hand and keep on satisfying the desire of every living thing.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

I will praise Jehovah in my life; I will play on the harp to my God. in my continuing.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous [the upright in heart].

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Praise ye Jah: for it is good to play on the harp to our God; for it is pleasant: praise is becoming.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains,

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

Who is sending forth His saying on earth, Very speedily doth His word run.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

And he put them in place forever and ever, [by] a decree he gave that will not pass away.

you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth,

They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour is above earth and heavens.

He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;

to execute vengeance on the nations [and] punishment on [the] peoples,

To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

To do among them the judgment written, An honour it is for all his saints. Praise ye Jah!

Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

Praise him in his mighty acts; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness.

Praise him in the sound of the trumpet; praise him upon the lute and harp.

Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.

Praise Him on the sounding cymbals; praise Him with the resounding cymbals.

To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

We will find and take all kinds of precious possessions,
We will fill our houses with spoil;

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

If you respond to my warning,
then I will pour out my spirit on you
and teach you my words.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;
they will search for me, but won’t find me.

were not interested in my counsel,
and rejected all my correction,

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

“But whoever listens to me (Wisdom) will live securely and in confident trust
And will be at ease, without fear or dread of evil.”

My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

[in order] to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful [ones].

Then you will understand righteousness and justice [in every circumstance]
And integrity and every good path.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him.

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.