May your servants see your work! May their sons see your majesty!

I will satisfy him with long life, and will let him see my salvation.

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

Tell the nations about his splendor! Tell all the nations about his amazing deeds!

The sky declares his justice, and all the nations see his splendor.

A thanksgiving psalm. Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

when the Lord rebuilds Zion, and reveals his splendor,

May my thoughts be pleasing to him! I will rejoice in the Lord.

Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!

He is the Lord our God; he carries out judgment throughout the earth.

He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake,

The Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

They rejected the God who delivered them, the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,