¹Halleluyah !

How good it is to sing praises to our God!

How sweet, how fitting to praise him!

²Adonai is rebuilding Yerushalayim,

gathering the dispersed of Isra’el.

³He heals the brokenhearted

and binds up their wounds.

⁴He determines how many stars there are

and calls them all by name.

⁵Our Lord is great, his power is vast,

his wisdom beyond all telling.

⁶Adonai sustains the humble

but brings the wicked down to the ground.

⁷Sing to Adonai with thanks,

sing praises on the lyre to our God.

⁸He veils the sky with clouds;

he provides the earth with rain;

he makes grass grow on the hills;

⁹he gives food to the animals,

even to the young ravens when they cry.

¹⁰He takes no delight in the strength of a horse,

no pleasure in a runner’s speed.

¹¹Adonai takes pleasure in those who fear him,

in those who wait for his grace.

¹²Glorify Adonai , Yerushalayim!

Praise your God, Tziyon!

¹³For he strengthens the bars of your gates,

he blesses your children within you,

¹⁴he brings peace within your borders,

he gives you your fill of the finest wheat.

¹⁵He sends his word out over the earth,

his command runs swiftly.

¹⁶Thus he gives snow like wool,

scatters hoarfrost like ashes,

¹⁷sends crystals of ice like crumbs of bread —

who can withstand such cold?

¹⁸Then he sends his word out and melts them;

he makes the winds blow, and the water flows.

¹⁹He reveals his words to Ya‘akov,

his laws and rulings to Isra’el.

²⁰He has not done this for other nations;

they do not know his rulings.

Halleluyah !