100  ^jMake a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

2  Serve the Lord with gladness!

Come into his presence with singing!

3  Know that ^kthe Lord, he is God!

It is he who made us, and we are his;¹

we are his people, and the ^lsheep of his pasture.

4  Enter his gates ^mwith thanksgiving,

and ⁿhis courts with praise!

Give thanks to him; ^obless his name!

5  ^pFor the Lord is good;

his steadfast love endures forever,

and his faithfulness to all generations.

101  I will sing of steadfast love and justice;

to you, O Lord, ^qI will make music.

2  I will ponder the way that is blameless.

Oh when will you come to me?

I will ^rwalk ^swith integrity of heart

within my house;

3  I will not set before my eyes

anything that is worthless.

I hate the work of those who fall away;

it shall not cling to me.

4  A ^tperverse heart shall be far from me;

I will know nothing of evil.

5  Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly

I will destroy.

^uWhoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart

I will not endure.

6  I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he who walks in the way that is blameless

shall minister to me.

7  No one who practices deceit

shall dwell in my house;

no one who utters lies

shall continue before my eyes.

8  Morning by morning I will destroy

all the wicked in the land,

cutting off all the evildoers

from the ^vcity of the Lord.

102  ^yHear my prayer, O Lord;

let my cry come to you!

2  Do not ^zhide your face from me

in the day of my distress!

Incline your ear to me;

^aanswer me speedily in the day when I call!

3  For my days pass away like ^bsmoke,

and my ^cbones burn like a furnace.

4  My heart is struck down like grass and has withered;

I forget to eat my bread.

5  Because of my loud groaning

^dmy bones cling to my flesh.

6  I am like a desert owl of the wilderness,

like an owl¹ of the waste places;

7  I lie awake;

I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

8  All the day my enemies taunt me;

those who deride me use my name for a curse.

9  For ^eI eat ashes like bread

and mingle tears with my drink,

10  because of your indignation and anger;

for you have taken me up and thrown me down.

11  My days are like an evening ^fshadow;

I wither away like grass.

12  But you, O Lord, are ^genthroned forever;

you are remembered throughout all generations.

13  You will arise and have pity on Zion;

it is the time to favor her;

the appointed time has come.

14  For your servants hold her stones dear

and have pity on her dust.

15  Nations will ^hfear the name of the Lord,

and ⁱall the kings of the earth will fear your glory.

16  For ^jthe Lord builds up Zion;

^khe appears in his glory;

17  he regards the prayer of the destitute

and does not despise their prayer.

18  Let this be recorded for a generation to come,

so that a people ^lyet to be created may praise the Lord:

19  that he looked down from his holy height;

from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,

20  to ^mhear the groans of the prisoners,

to set free those who were doomed to die,

21  that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord,

and in Jerusalem his praise,

22  when peoples gather together,

and ⁿkingdoms, to worship the Lord.

23  He has broken my strength in midcourse;

he has ^oshortened my days.

24  “O my God,” I say, “take me not away

in the midst of my days—

you ^pwhose years endure

throughout all generations!”

25  ^qOf old you laid the foundation of the earth,

and the heavens are the work of your hands.

26  ^rThey will perish, but you will remain;

they will all wear out like a garment.

You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

27  but ^syou are the same, and your years have no end.

28  The children of your servants shall dwell secure;

their offspring shall be established before you.

103  ^tBless the Lord, O my soul,

and all that is within me,

bless his holy name!

2  Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and forget not all his benefits,

3  who ^uforgives all your iniquity,

who ^vheals all your diseases,

4  who redeems your life from the pit,

who ^wcrowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5  who ^xsatisfies you with good

so that your youth is renewed ^ylike the eagle’s.

6  The Lord works righteousness

and ^zjustice for all who are oppressed.

7  He ^amade known his ways to Moses,

his acts to the people of Israel.

8  The Lord is ^bmerciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9  ^cHe will not always chide,

nor will he keep his anger forever.

10  He does not deal with us according to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11  For ^das high ^eas the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

12  as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

13  ^fAs a father shows compassion to his children,

so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

14  For he knows our frame;¹

he ^gremembers that we are ^hdust.

15  As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

16  for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

and its place knows it no more.

17  But the ⁱsteadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,

and his righteousness to children’s children,

18  to those who keep his covenant

and remember to do his commandments.

19  The Lord has established his ^jthrone in the heavens,

and his kingdom rules over all.

20  Bless the Lord, O you his angels,

you mighty ones who do his word,

obeying the voice of his word!

21  Bless the Lord, all his hosts,

his ^kministers, who do his will!

22  Bless the Lord, ^lall his works,

in all places of his dominion.

^mBless the Lord, O my soul!

104  ⁿBless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, ^oyou are very great!

You are ^pclothed with splendor and majesty,

2  ^qcovering yourself with light as with a garment,

^rstretching out the heavens like a tent.

3  He lays the beams of his ^schambers on the waters;

he makes the clouds his chariot;

he rides on the wings of the wind;

4  ^the makes his messengers winds,

his ministers a flaming fire.

5  He set the earth on its foundations,

so that it should never be moved.

6  You covered it with the deep as with a garment;

the waters stood ^uabove the mountains.

7  At your rebuke they fled;

at the ^vsound of your thunder they took to flight.

8  ^wThe mountains rose, the valleys sank down

to the place that you appointed for them.

9  You ^xset a boundary that they may not pass,

^yso that they might not again cover the earth.

10  You make springs gush forth in the valleys;

they flow between the hills;

11  they ^zgive drink to every beast of the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12  Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;

they sing among the branches.

13  From your lofty abode you water the mountains;

the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

14  You cause the grass to grow for the livestock

and ^aplants for man to cultivate,

that he may bring forth food from the earth

15  and wine to gladden the heart of man,

oil to make his face shine

and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

16  The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,

the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

17  In them the birds build their nests;

the stork has her home in the fir trees.

18  The high mountains are for the wild goats;

the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

19  He made the moon ^bto mark the seasons;¹

the sun knows its time for setting.

20  You make darkness, and it is night,

when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

21  The young lions roar for their prey,

^cseeking their food from God.

22  When the sun rises, they steal away

and lie down in their dens.

23  Man goes out to his work

and to his ^dlabor until the evening.

24  O Lord, how manifold are your works!

^eIn wisdom have you made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

25  Here is the sea, great and wide,

which teems with creatures innumerable,

living things both small and ^fgreat.

26  There go the ships,

and ^gLeviathan, which you formed to play in it.²

27  ^hThese all look to you,

to give them their food in due season.

28  When you give it to them, they gather it up;

when you ⁱopen your hand, they are ^jfilled with good things.

29  When you ^khide your face, they are dismayed;

when you ^ltake away their breath, they die

and ^mreturn to their dust.

30  When you send forth your Spirit,³ they are created,

and you renew the face of the ground.

31  May the glory of the Lord endure forever;

may the Lord ⁿrejoice in his works,

32  who looks on the earth and it trembles,

who ^otouches the mountains and they smoke!

33  I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;

^pI will sing praise to my God while I have being.

34  ^qMay my meditation be pleasing to him,

for I rejoice in the Lord.

35  Let sinners be consumed from the earth,

and let the wicked be no more!

^rBless the Lord, O my soul!

Praise the Lord!