This is the Lord’s work. We consider it amazing!

I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

You reprimand arrogant people. Those who stray from your commands are doomed.

All your commands are reliable. I am pursued without reason. Help me!

Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

The Lord deserves praise, for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

I will humiliate his enemies, and his crown will shine.

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

He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them.

Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!

Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with clanging cymbals!

To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

So they will give life to you, and grace to adorn your neck.

in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.