1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
<html><b>Sing the glory of His name</b> Sing in honor of His name. Or: Recite the glory of His name with music and song.</html>
<html><b>How awesome</b> is each one of Your deeds! <b>Through the greatness of Your might</b> When You show the world Your mightthrough pestilence, sword, famine, or lightning— <b>Your enemies</b>, the wicked, confess their lies and sins because of their great fear.</html>
<html><b>awesome in His deeds</b> Feared by mankind, lest He find a transgression in them, for all their deeds are revealed to You.</html>
<html><b>He turned the sea into dry land</b> The Sea of Reeds. <b>there it rejoiced with it</b> I found: There was a thing with which the sea rejoiced, i.e., that the sea saw the Holy One, blessed be He.</html>
<html><b>will not exalt themselves</b> Their hand will not be high.</html>
<html><b>O peoples, bless our God</b> for His wonders, that He kept our soul alive in exile, and you cannot annihilate us.</html>
<html><b>You tested us</b> with distress in the exile. <b>You refined us</b> to remove the dross from us when we repent before You, as they refine silver to remove its dross.</html>
<html><b>You brought us into a trap</b> A narrow place, like in a prison. <b>a chain</b> Heb. מועקה, an expression of locking up, and every [expression of] מֵעִיק and מֵצִיק is like it.</html>
<html><b>You caused man to ride at our head</b> The kings of all the heathen nations.</html>
<html><b>I shall come to Your house</b> when You build the Temple, we shall pay our vows that we vowed in exile.</html>
<html><b>fat</b> Heb. מיחים, fat, an expression of מוֹחַ, marrow.</html>
<html><b>all you who fear God</b> They are the proselytes who became converted.</html>
<html><b>My mouth called out to Him</b> When we were in exile, we called out to Him, and we recited His exaltation with our tongue. <b>and He was exalted</b> 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.”</html>
<html><b>If I saw iniquity, etc.</b> 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.</html>
<html><b>But</b> indeed you should know.</html>
<html><b>Who did not remove my prayer</b> from before Him, and He did not remove His kindness from me.</html>