¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

Go ahead, praise the Lord, all you loving servants of God!

Keep it up! Praise him some more!

²For the glorious name of the Lord is blessed forever and ever.

³From sunrise-brilliance to sunset-beauty,

lift up his praise from dawn to dusk!

⁴For he rules on high over the nations

with a glory that outshines even the heavens.

⁵No one can be compared to God, enthroned on high!

⁶He stoops down to look upon the sky and the earth.

⁷He promotes the poor, picking them up from the dirt,

and rescues the needy from the garbage dump.

⁸He turns paupers into princes and seats them

on their royal thrones of honor.

⁹God’s grace provides for the barren ones a joyful home with children

so that even childless couples find a family.

He makes them happy parents surrounded by their pride and joy.

That’s the God we praise, so give it all to him!