See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

May my tongue sing about your instructions, for all your commands are just.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord will be blessed in this way.

Certainly the Lord has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

He said, “This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

Indeed, the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.

For the Lord vindicates his people, and has compassion on his servants.

to the one who performs magnificent, amazing deeds all by himself, for his loyal love endures,

to the one who spread out the earth over the water, for his loyal love endures,

the sun to rule by day, for his loyal love endures,

the moon and stars to rule by night, for his loyal love endures,

with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loyal love endures,

to the one who divided the Red Sea in two, for his loyal love endures,

and tossed Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, for his loyal love endures,

to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.

Let them sing about the Lord’s deeds, for the Lord’s splendor is magnificent.