For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.

• ¹Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
• ²Sing to the glory of his name!
• Offer glory and praise!

• ³Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!
• Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

• ⁴All the earth will worship you,
• and will sing to you;
• they will sing to your name.”

• Selah.

• ⁵Come, and see God’s deeds—
• awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

• ⁶He turned the sea into dry land.
• They went through the river on foot.
• There, we rejoiced in him.

• ⁷He rules by his might forever.
• His eyes watch the nations.
• Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

• Selah.

• ⁸Praise our God, you peoples!
• Make the sound of his praise heard,

• ⁹who preserves our life among the living,
• and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

• ¹⁰For you, God, have tested us.
• You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• ¹¹You brought us into prison.
• You laid a burden on our backs.

• ¹²You allowed men to ride over our heads.
• We went through fire and through water,
• but you brought us to the place of abundance.

• ¹³I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
• I will pay my vows to you, ¹⁴which my lips promised,
• and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

• ¹⁵I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals,
• with the offering of rams,
• I will offer bulls with goats.

• Selah.

• ¹⁶Come, and hear, all you who fear God.
• I will declare what he has done for my soul.

• ¹⁷I cried to him with my mouth.
• He was extolled with my tongue.

• ¹⁸If I cherished sin in my heart,
• the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

• ¹⁹But most certainly, God has listened.
• He has heard the voice of my prayer.

• ²⁰Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer,
• nor his loving kindness from me.