This is the day the Lord has brought about. We will be happy and rejoice in it.

Your loyal followers will be glad when they see me, for I find hope in your word.

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song! Praise him in the assembly of the godly!

I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, “This one was born there.” (Selah)

In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

An evil person suffers much pain, but the Lord’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him.

In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah)

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.

For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.

Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; then his splendor will again appear in our land.

As for me, I cry out to you, O Lord; in the morning my prayer confronts you.

O Lord, the heavens praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly.

I say this about the Lord, my shelter and my stronghold, my God in whom I trust –