Because Your favor is better than life, My lips will praise You. So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. | Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. |
For You have put us to the test, God; You have refined us as silver is refined. | For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. |
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I cried to Him with my mouth, And He was exalted with my tongue. | I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. |
God blesses us, So that all the ends of the earth may fear Him. | God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. |
Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Exalt Him who rides through the deserts, Whose name is the Lord, and be jubilant before Him. A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy dwelling. | Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. |
God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious live in parched lands. | God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. |
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah | Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. |
My mouth is filled with Your praise And with Your glory all day long. | Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. |
My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You; And my soul, which You have redeemed. | My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. |
Whom do I have in heaven but You? And with You, I desire nothing on earth. | Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. |
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. | My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. |
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; And save us and forgive our sins for the sake of Your name. | Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. |
Lord God of armies, restore us; Make Your face shine upon us, and we will be saved. | Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. | Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
For a day in Your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than live in the tents of wickedness. | For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. |
For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all who call upon You. | For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. |
Teach me Your way, Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. | Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. |
Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. | Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or like a watch in the night. | For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom. | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
May the kindness of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands. | And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
One who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will lodge in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!” | He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. |
He will cover you with His pinions, And under His wings you may take refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and wall. | He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. |
If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your faithfulness, Lord, will support me. | When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. |
When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comfort delights my soul. | In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. |