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Hallelujah!^[a] Happy is the man who fears the Lord , taking great delight in His commands.^(a)

His descendants will be powerful in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.^(b)

Wealth and riches are in his house,^(c) and his righteousness endures forever.^(d)

Light shines in the darkness for the upright.^(e) He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.^(f)

Good will come to a man who lends generously and conducts his business fairly.^(g)

He will never be shaken.^(h) The righteous man will be remembered forever.⁽ⁱ⁾

He will not fear bad news; his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord .^(j)

His heart is assured; he will not fear.^(k) In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.^(l)

He distributes freely to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.^(m) His horn will be exalted in honor.⁽ⁿ⁾

The wicked man will see it and be angry; he will gnash his teeth in despair.^(o) The desire of the wicked man will come to nothing.^(p)

Hallelujah! Give praise, servants of Yahweh; praise the name of Yahweh.^(a)

Let the name of Yahweh be praised both now and forever.^(b)

From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of Yahweh be praised.^(c)

Yahweh is exalted above all the nations,^(d) His glory above the heavens.^(e)

Who is like Yahweh our God— the One enthroned on high,^(f)

who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?^(g)

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the garbage pile^(h)

in order to seat them with nobles— with the nobles of His people.⁽ⁱ⁾

He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children.^(j) Hallelujah!

When Israel came out of Egypt— the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language^(a)—

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.^(b)

The sea looked and fled;^(c) the Jordan turned back.^(d)

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.^(e)

Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back?^(f)

Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs?^(g)

Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,^(h)

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.⁽ⁱ⁾