1. Praise the Lord!Praise the name of the Lord,give praise, O servants of the Lord,
2. who stand in the house of the Lord,in the courts of the house of our God!
3. Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;sing to his name, for it is pleasant!
4. For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,Israel as his own possession.
5. For I know that the Lord is great,and that our Lord is above all gods.
6. Whatever the Lord pleases, he does,in heaven and on earth,in the seas and all deeps.
7. He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,who makes lightnings for the rainand brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
8. He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,both of man and of beast;