¹Praise Yahweh, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is lovely, and praise is fitting.

²Yahweh builds Jerusalem; he gathers in the banished ones of Israel.

³He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

⁴He counts the number of the stars; he calls every one of them by name.

⁵Great is our lord, and great in strength; his understanding has no number.

⁶Yahweh restores the humble and brings low the wicked, down to the land.

⁷Answer Yahweh with thanksgiving; make music to our God on the lyre.

⁸Who covers the skies with clouds, who prepares rain for the land, who makes the mountains sprout with grass.

⁹Who gives to the beasts their food, to the young of the raven, which call out.

¹⁰Not in the might of the horse does he delight; not in the legs of the man does he take pleasure.

¹¹Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who wait for his loyal love.

¹²Praise Yahweh, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.

¹³For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your sons in your midst.

¹⁴He who sets wholeness as your boundary; he satisfies you with the fat of the wheat.

¹⁵He who sends out his utterance to the land; his word runs swiftly.

¹⁶He who gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

¹⁷He who hurls his ice like crumbs; in the face of his cold, who can stand?

¹⁸He sends his word and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

¹⁹He who declares his words to Jacob, his statutes and his justice to Israel.

²⁰He has not done so for any nation; as for justices, they have not known them. Praise Yahweh.