1Praise ye the Lord; for it is good praise to our God to sing: For it is pleasant, and to praise it is a comely thing. | 2God doth build up Jerusalem; and he it is alone That the dispers’d of Israel doth gather into one. | 3Those that are broken in their heart, and grieved in their minds, He healeth, and their painful wounds he tenderly up-binds. | 4He counts the number of the stars; he names them ev’ry one. 5Great is our Lord, and of great pow’r; his wisdom search can none. | 6The Lord lifts up the meek; and casts the wicked to the ground. 7Sing to the Lord, and give him thanks; on harp his praises sound; | 8Who covereth the heav’n with clouds, who for the earth below Prepareth rain, who maketh grass upon the mountains grow. | 9He gives the beast his food, he feeds the ravens young that cry. 10His pleasure not in horses’ strength, nor in man’s legs, doth lie. | 11But in all those that do him fear the Lord doth pleasure take; In those that to his mercy do by hope themselves betake. | 12The Lord praise, O Jerusalem; Sion, thy God confess: 13For thy gates’ bars he maketh strong; thy sons in thee doth bless. | 14He in thy borders maketh peace; with fine wheat filleth thee. 15He sends forth his command on earth, his word runs speedily. | 16Hoar-frost, like ashes, scatt’reth he; like wool he snow doth give: 17Like morsels casteth forth his ice; who in its cold can live? | 18He sendeth forth his mighty word, and melteth them again; His wind he makes to blow, and then the waters flow amain. | 19The doctrine of his holy word to Jacob he doth show; His statutes and his judgments he gives Israel to know. | 20To any nation never he such favour did afford; For they his judgments have not known. O do ye praise the Lord. | |