O God, your deeds are extraordinary! What god can compare to our great God?

By David. Praise the Lord, O my soul! With all that is within me, praise his holy name!

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.

For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.

May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts.

“Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.

By David. I will give you thanks with all my heart; before the heavenly assembly I will sing praises to you.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

By David. The Lord, my protector, deserves praise – the one who trains my hands for battle, and my fingers for war,

How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.

The one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin.

Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.

The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.

One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.