¹ Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God for it is pleasant and praise is proper. ² The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He tells the number of the stars he calls them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ⁶ The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving sing praise on the harp to our God ⁸ Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹ He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. ¹⁰ He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ¹² Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For he has strengthened the bars of your gates he has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sends forward his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. ¹⁷ He casts forward his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸ He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.