<p class="poetry">Let everything that has breath praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="bodytext">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">But we will praise the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">now and forevermore.p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">In my distress<n id="1" /> I cried out to the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> answered me and put me in a wide open place.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> gives me strength and protects me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he has become my deliverer.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> severely<n id="1" /> punished me,p> <p class="poetry">but he did not hand me over to death.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>, O my soul!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I thought,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I will no longer see the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> in the land of the living,p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then they say, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> does not see this;p> <p class="poetry">the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">How blessed is the one<n id="1" /> whom you instruct, O <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">the one whom you teach from your law,p>

<p class="poetry">so that they might keep his commandsp> <p class="poetry">and obey<n id="1" /> his laws.p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">He makes the barren woman of the family<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a happy mother of children.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">The dead do not praise the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">in the courts of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple,p> <p class="poetry">in your midst, O Jerusalem.p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">I will not die, but live,p> <p class="poetry">and I will proclaim what the <sc>Lordsc> has done.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Open for me the gates of the just king&#8217;s temple!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will enter through them and give thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">If you, O <sc>Lordsc>, were to keep track of<n id="1" /> sins,p> <p class="poetry">O Lord, who could stand before you?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has chosen Jacob for himself,p> <p class="poetry">Israel to be his special possession.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> deserves praise in Zion<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he who dwells in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">Praise God in his sanctuary!p> <p class="poetry">Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> is my strength and my song,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and he has become my salvation.p> <p class="poetry">This is my God, and I will praise him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">my father&#8217;s God, and I will exalt him.p>