Thanksgiving to God for His Works

¹ For the music director. A song. A psalm.¹ Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.

1. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm

² Sing the glory of his name. ⌞Set forth his glorious praise⌟.¹

1. Literally “set for glory—his praise”

³ Say to God, “How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.

⁴ All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing praise to you. They will sing the praise of your name.” Selah

⁵ Come and ⌞consider⌟¹ the works of God; he is awesome in his dealings² with the children of humankind.

1. Literally “see”
2. Hebrew “dealing”

⁶ He turned the sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.

⁷ He rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.¹ Selah

1. According to the reading tradition (Qere)

⁸ Bless our God, O peoples, and cause the sound of his praise to be heard,

⁹ the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip.

¹⁰ For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

¹¹ You brought us into the net; you placed a ⌞heavy burden⌟¹ on our backs.

1. Literally “oppression”

¹² You let men¹ ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.²

1. Hebrew “man”
2. A slightly different Hebrew word yields “a broad place”

¹³ I will come into your house¹ with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows

1. Or “temple”

¹⁴ that my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke in my distress.

¹⁵ Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with the smoke of rams. I will do¹ cattle with rams. Selah

1. That is, “offer”

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me.¹

1. Hebrew “my soul”

¹⁷ I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.¹

1. A slightly different Hebrew word yields “his exaltation was under my tongue”

¹⁸ If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

¹⁹ However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.