1  ^yBless the Lord, O my soul,

and all that is within me,

bless his holy name!

2  ^yBless the Lord, O my soul,

and ^zforget not all his benefits,

3  who ^aforgives all your iniquity,

who ^bheals all your diseases,

4  who ^credeems your life from the pit,

who ^dcrowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5  who ^esatisfies you with good

so that your youth is renewed like ^fthe eagle’s.

6  The Lord works ^grighteousness

and justice for all who are oppressed.

7  He made known his ^hways to Moses,

his ⁱacts to the people of Israel.

8  The Lord is ^jmerciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9  ^kHe will not always chide,

nor will he ^lkeep his anger forever.

10  He does not deal with us ^maccording to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11  For ⁿas high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his ^osteadfast love toward ^pthose who fear him;

12  as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he ^qremove our transgressions from us.

13  As ^ra father shows compassion to his children,

so the Lord shows compassion ^pto those who fear him.

14  For he knows our frame;¹

he ^sremembers that we are dust.

15  As for man, his days are like ^tgrass;

he flourishes like ^ua flower of the field;

16  for ^vthe wind passes over it, and ^wit is gone,

and ^xits place knows it no more.

17  But ^ythe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on ^pthose who fear him,

and his righteousness to ^zchildren’s children,

18  to those who ^akeep his covenant

and ^bremember to do his commandments.

19  The Lord has ^cestablished his throne in the heavens,

and his ^dkingdom rules over all.

20  Bless the Lord, O you ^ehis angels,

you ^fmighty ones who ^gdo his word,

obeying the voice of his word!

21  Bless the Lord, all his ^hhosts,

his ⁱministers, who do his will!

22  ^jBless the Lord, all his works,

in all places of his dominion.

^kBless the Lord, O my soul!

1  Rejoice not, O Israel!

Exult not like the peoples;

^efor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.

^fYou have loved a prostitute’s wages

on all threshing floors.

2  ^gThreshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,

and ^gthe new wine shall fail them.

3  They shall not remain in ^hthe land of the Lord,

but ⁱEphraim shall return to Egypt,

and ^jthey shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

4  ^kThey shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,

^land their sacrifices shall not please him.

It shall be like ^mmourners’ bread to them;

all who eat of it shall be defiled;

for their bread shall be for their hunger only;

ⁿit shall not come to the house of the Lord.

5  ^oWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival,

and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

6  For behold, they are going away from destruction;

but ^pEgypt shall gather them;

Memphis shall bury them.

Nettles shall possess ^qtheir precious things of silver;

^rthorns shall be in their tents.

7  ^sThe days of punishment have come;

the days of recompense have come;

Israel shall know it.

^tThe prophet is a fool;

the man of the spirit is mad,

because of your great iniquity

and great hatred.

8  The prophet is ^uthe watchman of Ephraim with my God;

yet ^va fowler’s snare is on all his ways,

and hatred in the house of his God.

9  ^wThey have deeply corrupted themselves

as ^xin the days of Gibeah:

^whe will remember their iniquity;

he will punish their sins.

10  Like grapes in the wilderness,

^yI found Israel.

Like the first fruit on the fig tree

in its first season,

I saw your fathers.

But ^zthey came to Baal-peor

and ^aconsecrated themselves to the thing of shame,

and ^bbecame detestable like the thing they loved.

11  Ephraim’s ^cglory shall fly away like a bird—

^dno birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

12  ^eEven if they bring up children,

I will bereave them till none is left.

^fWoe to them

when ^gI depart from them!

13  Ephraim, ^has I have seen, was like a young palm¹ planted in a meadow;

but ^eEphraim must lead his children out to slaughter.²

14  Give them, O Lord—

what will you give?

Give them ⁱa miscarrying womb

and dry breasts.

15  Every evil of theirs is in ^jGilgal;

there I began to hate them.

Because of the wickedness of their deeds

I will drive them out of my house.

I will love them no more;

all ^ktheir princes are ^lrebels.

16  Ephraim is stricken;

^mtheir root is dried up;

they shall bear no fruit.

Even ⁿthough they give birth,

^eI will put their beloved children to death.

17  ^oMy God will reject them

because they have not listened to him;

^pthey shall be wanderers among the nations.