Bless the Lord, O My Soul

Of David.

¹yBless the Lord, O my soul,

and all that is within me,

bless his holy name!

²yBless the Lord, O my soul,

and zforget not all his benefits,

³who aforgives all your iniquity,

who bheals all your diseases,

⁴who credeems your life from the pit,

who dcrowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

⁵who esatisfies you with good

so that your youth is renewed like fthe eagle's.

⁶The Lord works grighteousness

and justice for all who are oppressed.

⁷He made known his hways to Moses,

his iacts to the people of Israel.

⁸The Lord is jmerciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

⁹kHe will not always chide,

nor will he lkeep his anger forever.

¹⁰He does not deal with us maccording to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For nas high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his osteadfast love toward pthose who fear him;

¹²as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he qremove our transgressions from us.

¹³As ra father shows compassion to his children,

so the Lord shows compassion pto those who fear him.

¹⁴For he knows our frame;1

he sremembers that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like tgrass;

he flourishes like ua flower of the field;

¹⁶for vthe wind passes over it, and wit is gone,

and xits place knows it no more.

¹⁷But ythe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on pthose who fear him,

and his righteousness to zchildren's children,

¹⁸to those who akeep his covenant

and bremember to do his commandments.

¹⁹The Lord has cestablished his throne in the heavens,

and his dkingdom rules over all.

²⁰Bless the Lord, O you ehis angels,

you fmighty ones who gdo his word,

obeying the voice of his word!

²¹Bless the Lord, all his hhosts,

his iministers, who do his will!

²²jBless the Lord, all his works,

in all places of his dominion.

kBless the Lord, O my soul!