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1    O sing a new song to the Lord,

          for wonders he hath done:

     His right hand and his holy arm

          him victory hath won.

2    The Lord God his salvation

          hath caused to be known;

     His justice in the heathen’s sight

          he openly hath shown.

3    He mindful of his grace and truth

          to Isr’el’s house hath been;

     And the salvation of our God

          all ends of th’ earth have seen.

4    Let all the earth unto the Lord

          send forth a joyful noise;

     Lift up your voice aloud to him,

          sing praises, and rejoice.

5    With harp, with harp, and voice of psalms,

          unto Jehovah sing:

6    With trumpets, cornets, gladly sound

          before the Lord the King.

7    Let seas and all their fulness roar;

          the world, and dwellers there;

8    Let floods clap hands, and let the hills

          together joy declare

9    Before the Lord; because he comes,

          to judge the earth comes he:

     He’ll judge the world with righteousness,

          his folk with equity.

1    The Lord doth reign, and cloth’d is he

          with majesty most bright;

     His works do shew him cloth’d to be,

          and girt about with might.

     The world is also stablished,

          that it cannot depart.

2    Thy throne is fix’d of old, and thou

          from everlasting art.

3    The floods, O Lord, have lifted up,

          they lifted up their voice;

     The floods have lifted up their waves,

          and made a mighty noise.

4    But yet the Lord, that is on high,

          is more of might by far

     Than noise of many waters is,

          or great sea-billows are.

5    Thy testimonies ev’ry one

          in faithfulness excel;

     And holiness for ever, Lord,

          thine house becometh well.

1    God reigneth, let the earth be glad,

          and isles rejoice each one.

2    Dark clouds him compass; and in right

          with judgment dwells his throne.

3    Fire goes before him, and his foes

          it burns up round about:

4    His lightnings lighten did the world;

          earth saw, and shook throughout.

5    Hills at the presence of the Lord,

          like wax, did melt away;

     Ev’n at the presence of the Lord

          of all the earth, I say.

6    The heav’ns declare his righteousness,

          all men his glory see.

7    All who serve graven images,

          confounded let them be.

     Who do of idols boast themselves,

          let shame upon them fall:

     Ye that are called gods, see that

          ye do him worship all.

8    Sion did hear, and joyful was,

          glad Judah’s daughters were;

     They much rejoic’d, O Lord, because

          thy judgments did appear.

9    For thou, O Lord, art high above

          all things on earth that are;

     Above all other gods thou art

          exalted very far.

10    Hate ill, all ye that love the Lord:

          his saints’ souls keepeth he;

     And from the hands of wicked men

          he sets them safe and free.

11   For all those that be righteous

          sown is a joyful light,

     And gladness sown is for all those

          that are in heart upright.

12   Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice;

          express your thankfulness,

          When ye into your memory

          do call his holiness.

1    I waited for the Lord my God,
          and patiently did bear;
     At length to me he did incline
          my voice and cry to hear.

2    He took me from a fearful pit,
          and from the miry clay,
     And on a rock he set my feet,
          establishing my way.

3    He put a new song in my mouth,
          our God to magnify:
     Many shall see it, and shall fear,
          and on the Lord rely.

4    O blessed is the man whose trust
          upon the Lord relies;
     Respecting not the proud, nor such
          as turn aside to lies.

5    O Lord my God, full many are
          the wonders thou hast done;
     Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
          above all thoughts are gone:

     In order none can reckon them

          to thee: if them declare,

     And speak of them I would, they more

          than can be number’d are.

6    No sacrifice nor offering

          didst thou at all desire;

     Mine ears thou bor’d: sin-off ‘ring thou

          and burnt didst not require:

7    Then to the Lord these were my words,

          I come, behold and see;

     Within the volume of the book

          it written is of me:

8    To do thy will I take delight,

          O thou my God that art;

     Yea, that most holy law of thine

          I have within my heart.

9    Within the congregation great

          I righteousness did preach:

     Lo, thou dost know, O Lord, that I

          refrained not my speech.

10   I never did within my heart

          conceal thy righteousness;

     I thy salvation have declar’d,

          and shown thy faithfulness:

     Thy kindness, which most loving is,

          concealed have not I,

     Nor from the congregation great

          have hid thy verity.

11   Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me

          O do thou not restrain;

     Thy loving-kindness, and thy truth,

          let them me still maintain.

12   For ills past reck’ning compass me,

          and mine iniquities

     Such hold upon me taken have,

          I cannot lift mine eyes:

     They more than hairs are on mine head,

          thence is my heart dismay’d.

13   Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me;

          Lord, hasten to mine aid.

14   Sham’d and confounded be they all

          that seek my soul to kill;

     Yea, let them backward driven be,

          and sham’d, that wish me ill.

15   For a reward of this their shame

          confounded let them be.

     That in this manner scoffing say,

          Aha, aha! to me.

16   In thee let all be glad, and joy,

          who seeking thee abide;

     Who thy salvation love, say still,

          The Lord be magnify’d.

17   I’m poor and needy, yet the Lord

          of me a care doth take:

     Thou art my help and saviour,

          my God, no tarrying make.

1    Praise God: ye servants of the Lord,

          O praise, the Lord’s name praise.

2    Yea, blessed be the name of God

          from this time forth always.

3    From rising sun to where it sets,

          God’s name is to be prais’d.

4    Above all nations God is high,

          ‘bove heav’ns his glory rais’d.

5    Unto the Lord our God that dwells

          on high, who can compare?

6    Himself that humbleth things to see

          in heav’n and earth that are.

7    He from the dust doth raise the poor,

          that very low doth lie;

     And from the dunghill lifts the man

          oppress’d with poverty;

8    That he may highly him advance,

          and with the princes set;

     With those that of his people are

          the chief, ev’n princes great.

9    The barren woman house to keep

          he maketh, and to be

     Of sons a mother full of joy.

          Praise to the Lord give ye.

1    Praise God, for he is good: for still

          his mercies lasting be.

2    Let God’s redeem’d say so, whom he

          from th’ en’my’s hand did free;

3    And gather’d them out of the lands,

          from north, south, east, and west.

4    They stray’d in desert’s pathless way,

          no city found to rest.

5    For thirst and hunger in them faints

6         their soul. When straits them press,

     They cry unto the Lord, and he

          them frees from their distress.

7    Them also in a way to walk

          that right is he did guide,

     That they might to a city go,

          wherein they might abide.

8    O that men to the Lord would give

          praise for his goodness then,

     And for his works of wonder done

          unto the sons of men!

9    For he the soul that longing is

          doth fully satisfy;

     With goodness he the hungry soul

          doth fill abundantly.

10   Such as shut up in darkness deep,

          and in death’s shade abide,

     Whom strongly hath affliction bound,

          and irons fast have ty’d:

11   Because against the words of God

          they wrought rebelliously,

     And they the counsel did contemn

          of him that is most High:

12   Their heart he did bring down with grief,

          they fell, no help could have.

13   In trouble then they cry’d to God,

          he them from straits did save.

14   He out of darkness did them bring,

          and from death’s shade them take;

     These bands, wherewith they had been bound,

          asunder quite he brake.

15   O that men to the Lord would give

          praise for his goodness then,

     And for his works of wonder done

          unto the sons of men!

16   Because the mighty gates of brass

          in pieces he did tear,

     By him in sunder also cut

          the bars of iron were.

17   Fools, for their sin, and their offence,

          do sore affliction bear;

18   All kind of meat their soul abhors;

          they to death’s gates draw near.

19   In grief they cry to God; he saves

          them from their miseries.

20   He sends his word, them heals, and them

          from their destructions frees.

21   O that men to the Lord would give

          praise for his goodness then,

     And for his works of wonder done

          unto the sons of men!

22   And let them sacrifice to him

          off ‘rings of thankfulness;

     And let them shew abroad his works

          in songs of joyfulness.

23   Who go to sea in ships, and in

          great waters trading be,

24   Within the deep these men God’s works

          and his great wonders see.

25   For he commands, and forth in haste

          the stormy tempest flies,

     Which makes the sea with rolling waves

          aloft to swell and rise.

26   They mount to heav’n, then to the depths

          they do go down again;

     Their soul doth faint and melt away

          with trouble and with pain.

27   They reel and stagger like one drunk,

          at their wit’s end they be:

28   Then they to God in trouble cry,

          who them from straits doth free.

29   The storm is chang’d into a calm

          at his command and will;

     So that the waves, which rag’d before,

          now quiet are and still.

30   Then are they glad, because at rest

          and quiet now they be:

     So to the haven he them brings,

          which they desir’d to see.

31   O that men to the Lord would give

          praise for his goodness then,

     And for his works of wonder done

          unto the sons of men!

32   Among the people gathered

          let them exalt his name;

     Among assembled elders spread

          his most renowned fame.

33   He to dry land turns water-springs,

          and floods to wilderness;

34   For sins of those that dwell therein,

          fat land to barrenness.

35   The burnt and parched wilderness

          to water-pools he brings;

     The ground that was dry’d up before

          he turns to water-springs:

36   And there, for dwelling, he a place

          doth to the hungry give,

     That they a city may prepare

          commodiously to live.

37   There sow they fields, and vineyards plant,

          to yield fruits of increase.

38   His blessing makes them multiply,

          lets not their beasts decrease.

39   Again they are diminished,

          and very low brought down,

     Through sorrow and affliction,

          and great oppression.

40   He upon princes pours contempt,

          and causeth them to stray,

     And wander in a wilderness,

          wherein there is no way.

41   Yet setteth he the poor on high

          from all his miseries,

     And he, much like unto a flock,

          doth make him families.

42   They that are righteous shall rejoice,

          when they the same shall see;

     And, as ashamed, stop her mouth

          shall all iniquity.

43   Whoso is wise, and will these things

          observe, and them record,

     Ev’n they shall understand the love

          and kindness of the Lord.