| 1. For the conductor, a song of praise; shout for joy to God, all the earth. |
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| 2. Sing the glory of His name; make glorious His praise. |
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| Sing the glory of His name: Sing in honor of His name. Or: Recite the glory of His name with music and song. |
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| 3. Say to God, "How awesome are Your deeds! Through the greatness of Your might, Your enemies will admit their lies to You. |
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| How awesome: is each one of Your deeds! |
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| Through the greatness of Your might: When You show the world Your mightthrough pestilence, sword, famine, or lightningYour enemies, the wicked, confess their lies and sins because of their great fear. |
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| 4. All the earth will prostrate themselves to You and sing praises to You; they will sing praises to Your name forever." |
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| 5. Go and see the deeds of God, awesome in His deeds toward mankind. |
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| awesome in His deeds: Feared by mankind, lest He find a transgression in them, for all their deeds are revealed to You. |
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| 6. He turned the sea into dry land; in the river they crossed by foot; there we rejoiced with Him. |
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| He turned the sea into dry land: The Sea of Reeds. |
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| there it rejoiced with it: I found: There was a thing with which the sea rejoiced, i.e., that the sea saw the Holy One, blessed be He. |
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| 7. With His might, He rules the world; His eyes oversee the nations; the rebellious ones will not exalt themselves, ever. |
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| will not exalt themselves: Their hand will not be high. |
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| 8. O peoples, bless our God, and make the voice of His praise heard. |
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| O peoples, bless our God: for His wonders, that He kept our soul alive in exile, and you cannot annihilate us. |
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| 9. He, Who kept our souls alive and did not let our foot falter. |
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| 10. For You tested us, O God; You refined us as though refining silver. |
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| You tested us: with distress in the exile. |
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| You refined us: to remove the dross from us when we repent before You, as they refine silver to remove its dross. |
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| 11. You brought us into a trap; You placed a chain on our loins. |
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| You brought us into a trap: A narrow place, like in a prison. |
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| a chain: Heb. מועקה, an expression of locking up, and every [expression of] מֵעִיק and מֵצִיק is like it. |
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| 12. You caused man to ride at our head; we came in fire and water, and You took us out to satiety. |
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| You caused man to ride at our head: The kings of all the heathen nations. |
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| 13. I shall come to Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows, |
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| I shall come to Your house: when You build the Temple, we shall pay our vows that we vowed in exile. |
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| 14. Which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke in my distress. |
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| 15. Burnt offerings of fat animals I shall offer up to You with the burning of rams; I shall prepare cattle with he-goats forever. |
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| fat: Heb. מיחים, fat, an expression of מוֹחַ, marrow. |
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| 16. Come, hearken and I shall tell all you who fear God what He did for my soul. |
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| all you who fear God: They are the proselytes who became converted. |
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| 17. My mouth called out to Him, and He was exalted under my tongue. |
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| My mouth called out to Him: When we were in exile, we called out to Him, and we recited His exaltation with our tongue. |
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| and He was exalted: Heb. ורומם, like ונתרומם, and He was exalted. I found: With my mouth, I called out to Him. ורומם is a noun. His exaltation is ready under my tongue to be let out of my mouth, as (Job 20:12): “though he hide it under his tongue.” |
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| 18. If I saw iniquity in my heart, the Lord does not hear it. |
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| If I saw iniquity, etc.: He did not deal with us according to our sins, but He made Himself as though He neither saw nor heard the iniquity that was in our hearts. |
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| 19. But God heard; He hearkened to the voice of my prayer. |
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| But: indeed you should know. |
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| 20. Blessed be God, Who did not remove my prayer and His kindness from me. |
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| Who did not remove my prayer: from before Him, and He did not remove His kindness from me. |
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