To know wisdom and discipline,
To understand the sayings of understanding,
To receive discipline that leads to insight,
Righteousness, justice, and equity,
To give prudence to the simple,
To the youth knowledge and discretion;
Let the wise man hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire guidance,
To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their riddles.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;
Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Praise Yah!
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty expanse.
Praise Him for His mighty deeds;
Praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness.
Praise Him with trumpet blast;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.
Praise Him with resounding cymbals;
Praise Him with clashing cymbals.
Let everything that has breath praise Yah.
Praise Yah!

Praise Yah!
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
His praise in the assembly of the holy ones.
Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.
Let them praise His name with dancing;
With tambourine and lyre let them sing praises to Him.
For Yahweh takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh from the heavens;
Praise Him in the heights!
Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His hosts!
Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!
Praise Him, heavens of heavens,
And the waters that are above the heavens!
Let them praise the name of Yahweh,
For He commanded and they were created.
He caused them to stand forever and ever;
He gave a statute and it will never pass away.

Praise Yahweh from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;
Fire and hail, snow and clouds;
Stormy wind, doing His word;
Mountains and all hills;
Fruit trees and all cedars;
Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and winged bird;
Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
Both choice men as well as virgins;
The old with the young.
Let them praise the name of Yahweh,

For His name alone is set on high;
His splendor is above earth and heaven.
And He has raised up a horn for His people,
Praise for all His holy ones;
For the sons of Israel, a people near to Him.
Praise Yah!

Praise Yah!
For it is good to sing praises to our God;
For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
Yahweh builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He is the One who heals the brokenhearted
And who binds up their wounds,
Who counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.
Great is our Lord and abundant in power;
His discernment is infinite.
Yahweh helps up the afflicted;
He brings down the wicked to the ground.

Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving;
Sing praises to our God on the lyre.
He is the One who covers the heavens with clouds,
The One who provides rain for the earth,
The One who makes grass to sprout on the mountains,
Who gives to the animal its food,
And to the young ravens which call out.
He does not delight in the might of the horse;
He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man.
Yahweh is pleased with those who fear Him,
Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh, O my soul!
I will praise Yahweh throughout my life;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Do not trust in nobles,
In merely a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his plans perish.
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in Yahweh his God,
Who made heaven and earth,
The sea and all that is in them;
Who keeps truth forever;
Who does justice for the oppressed;
Who gives food to the hungry.
Yahweh sets the prisoners free.

I will exalt You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
Great is Yahweh, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is unsearchable.

O Yahweh, what is man, that You know him?
Or the son of man, that You think of him?
Man is like a breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.
O Yahweh, bow Your heavens, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
Send forth Your hand from on high;
Set me free and deliver me out of many waters,
Out of the hand of foreigners
Whose mouth speaks worthlessness,
And whose right hand is a right hand of lying.
O God, I will sing a new song to You;
Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,
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How blessed are the people for whom God is Yahweh!

O Yahweh, hear my prayer,
Give ear to my supplications!
Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
And do not enter into judgment with Your slave,
For no one living is righteous in Your sight.
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Answer me quickly, O Yahweh, my spirit wastes away;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.
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Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
For the sake of Your name, O Yahweh, revive me.
In Your righteousness bring my soul out of distress.
And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies
And cause all those who assail my soul to perish,
For I am Your slave.

I cried out to You, O Yahweh;
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.
Give heed to my cry of lamentation,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are too strong for me.
Bring my soul out of prison,
To give thanks to Your name;
The righteous will encircle me,
For You will deal bountifully with me.”