¹ Praise Jehovah; for it is good to sing praise to our God; because praise is delightful and becoming.

² Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel.

³ He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows.

⁴ He appoints the number of the stars; He calls to them all by names.

⁵ Our Lord is great and of great might; there is no limit to His understanding.

⁶ Jehovah relieves the meek; He throws the wicked down to the ground.

⁷ Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing praise on the lyre to our God,

⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds; who prepares rain for the earth; who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

⁹ He gives the animals their food, to the young ravens that cry.

¹⁰ He takes no delight in the strength of the horse, nor any pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, those who hope in His mercy.

¹² Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.

¹³ For He has made strong the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you.

¹⁴ He makes peace in your border, He satisfies you with the fat of the wheat.

¹⁵ He sends His command out on the earth; His word runs very swiftly;

¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the white frost like ashes;

¹⁷ He casts out His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?

¹⁸ He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow.

¹⁹ He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

²⁰ He has not done so with any nation; and they have not known His judgments. Praise Jehovah!