Praise to God for His Loyal Love

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever.

² Let Israel say, “His loyal love is forever.”

³ Let the house of Aaron say, “His loyal love is forever.”

⁴ Let those who fear Yahweh say, “His loyal love is forever.”

⁵ Out of my distress I called to Yah.¹ Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place.

1. A shortened form of “Yahweh”

⁶ Yahweh is for me; I do not fear. What can mere humans¹ do to me?

1. Or “humankind”

⁷ Yahweh is for me as my helper, and so I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

⁸ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.¹

1. Or “humankind”

⁹ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes.

¹⁰ All nations surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹¹ They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹² They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

¹³ You pushed me hard¹ to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

1. Hebrew intensive “pushing, you pushed me”

¹⁴ Yah¹ is my strength and my song,² and he has become my salvation.³

1. A shortened form of “Yahweh”
2. Or “my might”
3. Or “victory”

¹⁵ The sound of rejoicing and salvation¹ is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.

1. Or “victory”

¹⁶ The right hand of Yahweh has exalted; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.

¹⁷ I will not die but live, and tell of the works of Yah.¹

1. A shortened form of “Yahweh”

¹⁸ Yah has disciplined me severely, but he did not consign¹ me to death.

1. Hebrew “give”

¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to Yah.¹

1. A shortened form of “Yahweh”

²⁰ This is the gate of Yahweh, through which the righteous will enter.

²¹ I will give thanks to you for you have answered me, and you have become my salvation.¹

1. Or “victory”

²² The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

²³ This is from Yahweh; it is wonderful in our eyes.

²⁴ This is the day Yahweh has worked;¹ let us rejoice and be glad in him.²

1. Or “made”
2. Or “in it”

²⁵ O Yahweh, please save; O Yahweh, please grant success.

²⁶ Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. We bless you¹ from the house² of Yahweh.

1. Hebrew plural
2. Or “temple”

²⁷ Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.¹ Bind the festal sacrifice² with cords³ to the horns⁴ of the altar.

1. Or “made his light to shine upon to us”
2. Or “festal procession”
3. Or “branches”
4. Or “and lead up to the horns”

²⁸ You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God; I will exalt you.

²⁹ Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever.