Psalm 90-106

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
² Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity you are God.

³ You grind people to dust,
and you say, “Return, children of Adam.”
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are like a day,
like yesterday that has gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
⁵ You sweep them away like a flood.
They are like sleep in the morning,
like grass which changes quickly.
⁶ In the morning it sprouts and grows.
By evening it is cut down, and it withers.
⁷ Surely, we are consumed by your anger,
and by your wrath we are terrified.
⁸ You have laid out our guilty deeds in front of you.
Our hidden sins are revealed in the light of your face.
⁹ For all our days pass away under your fury.
We finish our years like a sigh.
¹⁰ The days of our lives add up to seventy years,
or eighty years if we are strong.
Yet the best of them are trouble and sorrow,
for they disappear quickly, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who can understand the power of your anger?
But your fury is consistent with the fear that is owed to you.

¹² Teach us to number our days in such a way
    that we bring a heart of wisdom.
¹³ Turn, O Lord! How long!
Change your mind toward your servants.
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your mercy,
so that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
¹⁶ Let your deeds be seen by your servants
and your majesty by their children.
¹⁷ May the kindness of the Lord our God rest upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

¹ One who lives in the shelter of the Most High
    will stay in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say to the Lord,
“My refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.”

³ Surely he will rescue you from the fowler’s trap,
from the destructive plague.
⁴ With his feathers he will cover you,
and under his wings you will find refuge.
His truth will be your shield and armor.
⁵ You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ nor the plague that prowls in the darkness,
nor the pestilence that destroys at noon.
⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
⁸ You will only observe it with your eyes.
You will see the punishment of the wicked.

⁹ Yes, you, Lord, are my refuge!

If you make the Most High your shelter,
¹⁰ evil will not overtake you.
Disaster will not come near your tent.
¹¹ Yes, he will give a command to his angels concerning you,
    to guard you in all your ways.
¹² They will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on the lion and the cobra.
You will trample the young lion and the serpent.

¹⁴ The Lord says,^[a]
Because he clings to me, I will rescue him.
I will protect him, because he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him in distress.
I will deliver him and I will honor him.
¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him,
and I will let him see my salvation.

¹ It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name, O Most High,
² to proclaim your mercy in the morning
and your faithfulness every night,
³ with a ten-stringed instrument and with a harp,
with a melody on a lyre.

⁴ Yes, you make me glad by your work, O Lord.
I sing loudly at the works of your hands.
⁵ How great are your works, O Lord.
Your thoughts are very deep!

⁶ The senseless man does not know,
and the fool does not understand this—
⁷ when the wicked spring up like weeds,
and all evildoers bloom like flowers,
they will be destroyed forever.

⁹ Without a doubt your enemies, O Lord,
without a doubt your enemies will perish.
All evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰ But you have raised my horn like that of a wild ox.^[b]
I am drenched with fresh oil.^[c]
11 My eyes have looked in triumph over my adversaries.
When evildoers rise against me, my ears hear their defeat.

¹⁵ Yes, they can proclaim, “The Lord is upright.
He is my Rock, and he does no wrong.”

¹ The Lord reigns. He is clothed in majesty.
The Lord is clothed—he wears strength like a belt.
Yes, the world stands firm. It will not be moved.
² Your throne was established long ago.
You are from eternity.
³ The waves^[d] have lifted up, O Lord,
the waves have lifted up their voice.
The waves roar loudly.
⁴ Mightier than the thundering of the great waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty.
⁵ Your testimonies stand very firm.
Holiness beautifies your house for endless days, O Lord.

¹ O Lord, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth.
² Rise up, O Judge of the earth.
Repay the proud with what they deserve.
³ How long will the wicked, O Lord,
how long will the wicked celebrate?

⁴ They gush. They speak arrogantly.
All the evildoers brag about themselves.
⁵ They crush your people, O Lord.
They oppress the people that belong to you.
⁶ They kill the widow and the alien.
They murder the fatherless.
⁷ Then they say, “The Lord^[e] does not see.
The God of Jacob does not understand.”
⁸ Understand, you brutes among the people.
You fools, when will you become wise?

⁹ The one who planted the ear—will he not hear?
The one who formed the eye—will he not observe?
¹⁰ The one who disciplines nations—will he not rebuke them?
He is the one who teaches mankind knowledge.
¹¹ The Lord knows the thoughts of mankind.
He knows that they are just vapor.
¹² How blessed is the person whom you discipline, O Lord,
whom you teach from your law.
¹³ You grant him rest in days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not desert his people,
and he will never forsake those who are his own.
¹⁵ Then judgment will again be based on righteousness,
and all the upright in heart will pursue it.
¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless the Lord had been my helper,
my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot has slipped,”
your mercy, Lord, upheld me.
¹⁹ When my worries within me were many,
your comfort brought joy to my soul.

¹ Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord.
Let us give a loud shout to the Rock who saves us.
² Let us approach his presence with thanksgiving.
With music we will shout to him.
³ For the Lord is the great God
and the great King above all gods.
⁴ He holds the unexplored places of the earth in his hand,
and the peaks of the mountains belong to him.
⁵ The sea belongs to him, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.

Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸ do not harden your hearts as they did at Meribah,
as they did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
⁹ where your fathers challenged me
and tested me though they had seen what I had done.
¹⁰ For forty years I was disgusted with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people who have hearts that stray.
They do not acknowledge my ways.”
¹¹ So I swore in my anger,
“They shall never enter my resting place.”

¹ Sing to the Lord a new song.
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
² Sing to the Lord. Praise his name.
Proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day.
³ Tell about his glory among the nations,
about his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

⁴ For great is the Lord and worthy of great praise.
He is to be feared above all gods.
⁵ For all the gods of the peoples are “nothings,”^[f]
but the Lord made the heavens.
⁶ Splendor and majesty are before him.
Power and beauty are in his sanctuary.
⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, families of peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and power.
⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name.
Bring a gift and come into his courtyards.
⁹ Bow down to the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.^[g]
Look away from his face,^[h] all the earth.

¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice.
Let the earth celebrate.
Let the sea roar,
and all that fills it.
¹² Let the fields be overjoyed,
and everything that is in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
¹³     before the Lord, for he comes,
    for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness.

¹ The Lord reigns. Let the earth celebrate.
Let the many islands and coastlands rejoice.

² Clouds and deep darkness surround him.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³ Fire goes out in front of him.
It burns up his foes all around him.
⁴ His lightning lights up the world.
The earth sees and writhes in pain.
⁵ The mountains melt like wax
    in the presence of the Lord,
    in the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and all the peoples see his glory.

⁷ All who serve idols are put to shame,
those who boast in “nothings.”^[i]
Bow to him, all you gods!^[j]

⁸ Zion hears and rejoices,
and the daughters of Judah^[k] celebrate
    because of your judgments, O Lord.
⁹ For you, O Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
You are raised up far above all gods.
¹⁰ Let those who love the Lord hate evil.
He guards the lives of his favored ones.
He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
¹¹ Light rises^[l] for the righteous
and joy for the upright in heart.
¹² Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous,
and give thanks as you remember his holiness.

¹ Sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things.
His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

² The Lord has made his salvation known.
He has revealed his righteousness to the eyes of the nations.
³ He has remembered his mercy and his faithfulness
    to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Break out in joyful song! Make music!
⁵ Make music to the Lord with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of music.
⁶ With trumpets and the sound of the ram’s horn
    shout for joy before the King, the Lord.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and everything that fills it,
the world, and all who live in it.
⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands.
Let the mountains sing for joy together before the Lord,
⁹ for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples with fairness.^[m]

¹ The Lord reigns. Let the peoples tremble.
He is seated above the cherubim. Let the earth quake.
² The Lord is great in Zion. He is exalted over all the peoples.
³ Let them praise your name, great and awesome.

⁴ The King is mighty. He loves justice.
You, Lord,^[n] have established fairness.
In Jacob you carried out justice and righteousness.
⁵ Exalt the Lord our God and bow down before his footstool.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests.
Samuel was among those who call on his name.
They called on the Lord, and he answered them.
⁷ From within the pillar of cloud he spoke to them.
They kept his testimonies and the order that he gave them.
⁸ O Lord our God, you answered them.
For them you were a God who removes sin,
but you repaid them for their deeds.

⁹ Exalt the Lord our God,
and bow down before his holy mountain,
because the Lord our God is holy.

¹ Shout to the Lord with joy, all the earth.
² Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him with joyful songs.
³ Know that the Lord is God.
He made us, and we are his.^[o]
We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
⁴ Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courtyards with praise.
Give thanks to him and bless his name.^[p]
5 For the Lord is good. His mercy endures forever.
His faithfulness continues through all generations.

¹ I will sing about your mercy and justice.
To you, O Lord, I will make music.

² I will act wisely, following the way that is honest.
When will you come to me?
Within my palace I will conduct myself with integrity.^[q]

³ I will not tolerate an evil^[r] cause in my sight.
I hate unfaithfulness and apostasy.^[s]
It will not stick to me.
⁴ A perverted heart shall be kept far from me.
I will not acknowledge evil.
⁵ I will silence anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret.
I cannot tolerate anyone who has arrogant eyes and a proud heart.
⁶ My eyes will watch for the faithful in the land,
so that they can be seated with me.
Those who walk in the way of integrity will serve as my ministers.
⁷ Anyone who practices deceit will not sit inside my palace.
Anyone who is a liar will not stand in my sight.
⁸ Every morning I will silence all the wicked in the land,
in order to cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord.

¹ O Lord, hear my prayer,
and let my cry for help come to you.
² Do not hide your face from me on the day when I am distressed.
Turn your ear to me on the day I call.
Hurry! Answer me!

³ For my days go up in smoke,
and my bones are burned like hot coals.
⁴ My heart is cut down and withered like grass,
so I forget to eat my food.
⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning, my bones stick out of my flesh.
⁶ I am like an owl in the wilderness,
like a screech owl^[t] among the ruins.
⁷ I lie awake.
I have become like a lonely bird on a roof.
⁸ All day long my enemies taunt me.
Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse,
⁹ because I eat ashes like bread,
and I mix tears with my drinks.
¹⁰ Because of your rage and your wrath,
    you have picked me up and thrown me away.
¹¹ My days are being stretched out like a shadow,
and I am dried up like grass.

¹² But you, Lord, sit on your throne forever,
and you will be remembered through all generations.
¹³ You will rise and have compassion on Zion.
Yes, it is time to be gracious to her,
because the appointed time has come.
¹⁴ Yes, your servants will show favor to her stones,
and they will have compassion on her dust.
¹⁵ Then the nations will fear the name of the Lord,
and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord will rebuild Zion.
He will appear in his glory.
¹⁷ He will respond to the prayer of the naked.
He will not despise their prayer.
¹⁸ Let this be written till the last generation,
so that a people not yet created may praise the Lord.^[u]
19 For the Lord looked down from his high, holy place.
From heaven he viewed the earth
²⁰     to hear the groans of the prisoner,
    to release those condemned to death.
²¹ So the name of the Lord will be recorded in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem,
²² when the peoples and the kingdoms are gathered together
    to serve the Lord.

²³ He took away my strength during my lifetime.
He cut short my days.
²⁴ I said, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days.”

Your years go on through all generations.
²⁵ Long ago you laid a foundation for the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
²⁶ They will perish, but you remain.
All of them wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them,
and they will be changed.
²⁷ But you are the same,
and your years will never end.
²⁸ The children of your servants will dwell with you,
and their descendants will be established before you.

¹ Bless the Lord,^[v] O my soul.
All that is within me, bless his holy name.

² Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits—
³ who pardons all your guilt,
who heals all your diseases,
⁴ who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with mercy and compassion,
⁵ who satisfies your life^[w] with goodness,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

⁶ The Lord performs righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel.

⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in mercy.
⁹ He will not always accuse.
He will not keep his anger forever.
¹⁰ He does not treat us as our sins deserve.
He does not repay us according to our guilty deeds.

¹¹ Yes, as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so powerful is his mercy toward those who fear him.
¹² As distant as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our rebellious acts from us.
¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
¹⁴ For he knows how we were formed.
He remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass.
Like a wildflower he blossoms.
¹⁶ Then the wind blows over it, and it is gone,
and its place recognizes it no more.

¹⁷ But the Lord’s mercy is from eternity to eternity
    over those who fear him,
and his righteousness is with their children’s children,
¹⁸     with those who keep his covenant,
    with those who remember his precepts in order to obey them.

¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,
and his royal power rules over all.
²⁰ Bless the Lord, you his angels,
you strong warriors who obey his word
    by listening to what he says.
²¹ Bless the Lord, all his armies,
you who minister to him,
you who do whatever pleases him.
²² Bless the Lord, everything he has made
    in all places where he rules.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.

¹ Bless the Lord, O my soul.

² He wears light like a robe.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy.
³ He lays beams on the waters to support his upper chambers.
He makes clouds his chariot.
He travels on the wings of the wind.
⁴ He makes his messengers^[x] winds.
His ministers are blazing fire.

⁵ He placed the earth firmly on its foundations.
It cannot be moved forever and ever.
⁶ You covered it with the deep as a garment.
The waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ At your rebuke they fled.
At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.
⁸ The waters surged up the mountains.
They went down into the valleys,^[y]
to the place that you prepared for them.
⁹ You set a boundary that they cannot cross.
They will not return to cover the earth.
¹⁰ He makes springs flow into streams
    that run between the mountains.
¹¹ They give water to every wild animal.
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² The birds of the sky live by the streams.
From among the branches they send out their song.
¹³ He waters the mountains from his upper chambers.
The earth is filled with the fruit he produces.
¹⁴ He makes grass grow for the cattle,
and plants that people use^[z] to produce food from the earth.
¹⁵ Also wine that makes people’s hearts glad,
olive oil to make their face shine,
and bread that sustains their lives.^[aa]
16 The trees of the Lord have everything they need.
He planted the cedars of Lebanon,
¹⁷     where birds make their nests.
The stork has its home in the fir trees.
¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats.
The crags are a refuge for the rock badgers.

¹⁹ The moon marks off the months and seasons.
The sun knows when to go down.
²⁰ You bring darkness, and it becomes night.
During it all the animals in the forest move about.
²¹ The young lions roar for their prey.
They are seeking their food from God.
²² The sun rises, and they gather together.
They return to their dens and lie down.
²³ Man goes out to his work.
He continues his labor until evening.

²⁴ How many are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ Here is the sea, great and very wide.
In it creatures swarm beyond number—
living things, the small with the large.
²⁶ There the ships go back and forth,
and the leviathan^[ab] that you formed to play in it.
²⁷ All of them wait hopefully for you to give them their food in its time.
²⁸ You give it to them. They gather it up.
You open your hand. They are satisfied with good things.
²⁹ You hide your face. They are terrified.
You take away their breath.
They breathe their last and return to their dust.
³⁰ You send your Spirit—they are created.
You renew the face of the earth.

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever.
May the Lord rejoice in his works.
³² He looks at the earth and it trembles.
He touches the mountains and they smoke.
³³ I will sing to the Lord throughout my life.
I will make music to my God as long as I last.
³⁴ May my meditation be pleasing to him.
I will rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵ May sinners come to an end on the earth,
and the wicked—may they be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!^[ac]

¹ Give thanks to the Lord.
Proclaim^[ad] his name.
Make his deeds known among the peoples.
² Sing to him, make music to him.
Meditate on all his wonders.
³ Take pride in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
⁴ Search for the Lord and his strength.
Seek his face always.
⁵ Remember the wonders which he has done,
his signs, and the judgments from his mouth,
⁶ you descendants of Abraham his servant,
you sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
⁷ He is the Lord our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He remembers his covenant forever,
the word he commanded for a thousand generations,
⁹ the covenant which he made with Abraham,
and his oath to Isaac.
¹⁰ Yes, he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant.
¹¹ He said, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,
the territory you will possess.”

¹² While they were few in number,
just a little group and aliens in the land,
¹³ they moved around from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
¹⁴ He did not allow anyone to oppress them,
and he rebuked kings because of them:
¹⁵ “Do not touch my anointed ones,
and do not harm my prophets.”

¹⁶ Then he summoned a famine on the land.
He destroyed their entire food supply.
¹⁷ He sent ahead of them a man sold as a slave, Joseph.
¹⁸ They hurt his feet with chains.
His throat was clamped in an iron collar,
¹⁹ until the time when his predictions came true.
The promise of the Lord tested him.
²⁰ The king sent for him and released him.
The ruler of peoples set him free.
²¹ He made him master of his house
and ruler over all his possessions,
²² to bind his officials by his will,
to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel came to Egypt.
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.^[ae]
24 Then the Lord made his people very fruitful.
He made them too numerous for their foes.
²⁵ He turned the Egyptians’ hearts so they hated his people.
They dealt deceitfully with his servants.
²⁶ He sent Moses his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They performed his signs among them,
his warning signs in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness, and it became extremely dark,
because Israel^[af] did not rebel against his words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,
and he caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the rooms of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and a swarm of flies came.
There were lice^[ag] throughout their borders.
³² He gave them hail instead of rain,
with blazing lightning throughout their land.
³³ Then he struck down their vines and fig trees,
and he broke down the trees within their borders.
³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came,
and grasshoppers without number.
³⁵ They ate every green plant in their land.
They ate the produce of their soil.
³⁶ Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruit of all their virility.
³⁷ Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold.
From among their tribes no one stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they went out,
because fear of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a canopy
and fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quail,
and he satisfied them with bread from heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock, and water gushed out.
It flowed in the desert like a river.

⁴² Because he remembered his holy word to Abraham, his servant,
⁴³ he brought out his people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with a joyful shout.
⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the work of other peoples
⁴⁵ so that they could keep his statutes and observe his laws.

¹ Praise the Lord.^[ai]

⁶ We have sinned along with our fathers.
We have become guilty. We have acted wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not reflect on your wonders.
They did not remember your abundant mercies,
so they rebelled beside the sea, by the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless, he saved them for his name’s sake,
    to make his might known.
⁹ Then he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up.
He caused them to go through the deep sea as if it were a desert.
¹⁰ He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them.
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹ Then the waters covered their foes.
Not one of them remained.
¹² Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

¹³ They quickly forgot his deeds.
They did not wait for his plan.
¹⁴ Because they were filled with craving in the wilderness,
they challenged God in the wasteland.
¹⁵ So he gave them what they asked for,
but he made them sick so they wasted away.

²³ So he said he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one, stood between God and the people
    to turn aside his wrath, so it did not destroy them.

²⁴ Then they refused the pleasant land.
They did not believe his word.
²⁵ They grumbled in their tents.
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ So he lifted up his hand and swore to them
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷     and make their descendants fall among the nations,
    and he would scatter them throughout the lands.
²⁸ Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,
and they ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
²⁹ They provoked the Lord by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ But Phinehas stood up and interceded for them,
and the plague was restrained.
³¹ So this was credited to him as righteousness
for generation after generation, to eternity.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them,
³⁵ but they mixed with the nations,
and they learned to do what the nations did.
³⁶ They also served their idols,
and the idols became a snare for them.
³⁷ They also sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
³⁸ They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
So the land was polluted by their children’s blood,
³⁹ and they made themselves unclean by what they did.
They prostituted themselves by their actions.

⁴⁰ Therefore the Lord burned with anger against his people,
and he loathed the people who belonged to him.
⁴¹ So he handed them over to the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Then their enemies oppressed them,
and they had to submit to their power.
⁴³ Many times he delivered them,
but they deliberately rebelled,
and they sank down in their guilt.

⁴⁴ But he looked on them in their distress when he heard their outcry.
⁴⁵ So for their sake he remembered his covenant.
Because of his great mercy, he changed his course.
⁴⁶ Then he caused all their captors to have pity on them.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations,
so that we may give thanks to your holy name and praise you confidently.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity,
and all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord.