1 O praise the LORD! His praise proclaim!
All you his servants, praise his name,
2 who stand within the house of the LORD
and humbly serve within his courts.
3 The LORD is good, his praise proclaim;
since it is pleasant, praise his name!
4 The LORD chose Jacob for himself
and loves his treasure, Israel.
5 I know the LORD is high in state;
above all gods our God is great.
6 The LORD will do what he decrees
in heav’n and earth, in depths and seas.
7 He makes the waters to ascend
to clouds from earth’s remotest end.
The lightning and the rain he sends,
and from his storehouse brings the winds.
8 The LORD struck down Egypt’s firstborn;
9 to ransom Israel as he’d sworn,
great wonders and signs he displayed;
till Pharaoh made haste and obeyed.
10 He struck down nations in their might,
11Sihon and Og and Canaanites.
12 He gave their lands to Israël,
a heritage where they might dwell.
13 Your name, O LORD, fore’er endures;
through ev’ry age your fame is sure.
14 The LORD his people will defend,
and great compassion shows to them.
15 The gods of gold are made by hand;
16 their mouths can’t breathe, their eyes are blind,
17 their ears are deaf, their mouths don’t breathe.
18 Those who trust in them cease to be.
19 O house of Isr’el, bless the LORD!
O house of Aaron, bless the LORD!
20 O house of Levi, bless the LORD!
All you who fear him, bless the LORD!
21 Now blest be God with one accord,
the LORD from Zion be adored,
who makes Jerus’lem his abode.
Sing your praise to God in Zion!
– Trinity Psalter Hymnal, alt.
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