<p class="poetry">For all the gods of the nations are worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens.<n id="2" />p>

Jeroboam<n id="1" /> appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers<n id="2" /> and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.<n id="3" />

He followed in the footsteps of<n id="1" /> the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

<p class="poetry">He does<n id="1" /> great and unsearchable<n id="2" /> things,p> <p class="poetry">marvelous things without<n id="3" /> number;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does great things beyond our understanding.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will come and tell about his saving deeds;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your tongue carries out your destructive plans;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> God, the God of Israel, deserves praise!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He alone accomplishes amazing things!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You are the God who does amazing things;p> <p class="poetry">you have revealed your strength among the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors,p> <p class="poetry">in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do to them as you did to Midian<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For all the gods of the nations are worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> made the sky.p>

<p class="poetry">He does not deal with us as our sins deserve;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Recall the miraculous deeds he performed,p> <p class="poetry">his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">How blessed are those who promote justice,p> <p class="poetry">and do what is right all the time!p>

<p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand gives victory,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand conquers.p>

<p class="poetry">This is the day the <sc>Lordsc> has brought about.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We will be happy and rejoice in it.p>

<p class="poetry">O fire and hail, snow and clouds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O stormy wind that carries out his orders,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">before he made the earth and its fields,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or the beginning<n id="2" /> of the dust of the world.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who is lazy<n id="1" /> becomes poor,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who works diligently<n id="3" /> becomes wealthy.<n id="4" />p>