1  ^vShout for joy to God, all the earth;

2  ^wsing the glory of his name;

give to him glorious praise!

3  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

4  All the earth worships you

and sings praises to you;

they sing praises to your name.” Selah

5  ^xCome and see what God has done:

he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.

6  ^yHe turned the sea into dry land;

^zthey passed through the river on foot.

There did we rejoice in him,

7  ^awho rules by his might forever,

whose eyes keep watch on the nations—

let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

8  Bless our God, O peoples;

let the sound of his praise be heard,

9  who has kept our soul among the living

and has not let our ^bfeet slip.

10  For you, O God, have ^ctested us;

you have tried us as silver is tried.

11  You brought us into the net;

you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

12  you let men ride over our heads;

we went through fire and through water;

yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

13  I will come into your house with burnt offerings;

I will perform my vows to you,

14  that which my lips uttered

and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.

15  I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,

with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;

I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

16  ^dCome and hear, all you who fear God,

and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

17  I cried to him with my mouth,

and ^ehigh praise was on¹ my tongue.²

18  If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

the Lord would not have listened.

19  But truly God has listened;

he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20  Blessed be God,

because he has not rejected my prayer

or removed his steadfast love from me!

13  ^bSing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;

break forth, O mountains, into singing!

For the Lord has ^ccomforted his people

and will have compassion on his afflicted.

14  But Zion said, ^d“The Lord has forsaken me;

my Lord has forgotten me.”

15  “Can a woman forget her nursing child,

that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?

Even these may forget,

yet ^eI will not forget you.

16  Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

your walls are continually before me.

17  Your builders make haste;¹

your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

18  ^fLift up your eyes around and see;

they all gather, they come to you.

As I live, declares the Lord,

you shall put them all on as an ornament;

you shall bind them on as a bride does.

19  “Surely your waste and your desolate places

and your devastated land—

surely now you will be ^gtoo narrow for your inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

20  The children of your bereavement

will yet say in your ears:

‘The place is too narrow for me;

make room for me to dwell in.’

21  Then you will say in your heart:

‘Who has borne me these?

I was bereaved and barren,

exiled and put away,

but who has brought up these?

Behold, I was left alone;

from where have these come?’”

22  Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,

and ^hraise my signal to the peoples;

and they shall ⁱbring your sons in their arms,²

^jand your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

23  Kings shall be your foster fathers,

and their queens your ^knursing mothers.

With their faces to the ground ^lthey shall bow down to you,

and ^mlick the dust of your feet.

Then you will know that I am the Lord;

those who ⁿwait for me shall not be put to shame.”