1  Praise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord,

^xgive praise, O servants of the Lord,

2  ^ywho stand in the house of the Lord,

in the courts of the house of our God!

3  Praise the Lord, ^zfor the Lord is good;

^asing to his name, ^bfor it is pleasant!¹

4  For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,

Israel as ^chis own possession.

5  For I know that ^dthe Lord is great,

and that our Lord is ^eabove all gods.

6  ^fWhatever the Lord pleases, he does,

in heaven and on earth,

in the seas and all deeps.

7  He it is who ^gmakes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,

who makes lightnings for the rain

and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.