“The LORD has filled my heart with joy;

how happy I am because of what he has done!

I laugh at my enemies;

how joyful I am because God has helped me!

₂“No one is holy like the LORD;

there is none like him,

no protector like our God.

₃Stop your loud boasting;

silence your proud words.

For the LORD is a God who knows,

and he judges all that people do.

₄The bows of strong soldiers are broken,

but the weak grow strong.

₅The people who once were well fed

now hire themselves out to get food,

but the hungry are hungry no more.

The childless wife has borne seven children,

but the mother of many is left with none.

₆The LORD kills and restores to life;

he sends people to the world of the dead

and brings them back again.

₇He makes some poor and others rich;

he humbles some and makes others great.

₈He lifts the poor from the dust

and raises the needy from their misery.

He makes them companions of princes

and puts them in places of honour.

The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD;

on them he has built the world.

₉“He protects the lives of his faithful people,

but the wicked disappear in darkness;

a man does not triumph by his own strength.

₁₀The LORD's enemies will be destroyed;

he will thunder against them from heaven.

The LORD will judge the whole world;

he will give power to his king,

he will make his chosen king victorious.”

₁Praise the LORD!

You servants of the LORD,

praise his name!

₂May his name be praised,

now and for ever.

₃From the east to the west

praise the name of the LORD!

₄The LORD rules over all nations;

his glory is above the heavens.

₅There is no one like the LORD our God.

He lives in the heights above,

₆but he bends down

to see the heavens and the earth.

₇He raises the poor from the dust;

he lifts the needy from their misery

₈and makes them companions of princes,

the princes of his people.

₉He honours the childless wife in her home;

he makes her happy by giving her children.

Praise the LORD!