Opening the chapter…
You righteous people should shout joyfully to God because that is what he deserves.
Praise God as you play songs on the harp. Praise him as you play harps that have ten strings.
Sing a new song to him; play those instruments well, and shout joyfully as you play them.
God always does what he says that he will do; we can trust that everything that he does is right.
He loves everything that we do that is just and right. God helps people all over the earth, because he always loves them.
God created everything in the sky by commanding it. By what he commanded, he created all the stars.
He gathered all the water into one huge mass like someone scoops liquid into a container.
Everyone on the earth should honor God; everyone on the earth should honor him.
When he spoke, he created the world. Everything started to exist when he commanded it to be.
God stops the other nations from doing the things they want to do. He prevents them from doing the evil things that they plan to do.
But what God decides to do will last forever. What he plans to do will never change.
God blesses our nation, we who worship him; how fortunate are we, the nation that belongs to him forever!
God looks down from heaven and sees all people.
From where he rules, he looks down on all the people who live on the earth.
He forms our inner beings, and he sees everything that we do.
It is not because a king has a great army that he is able to win battles, and it is not because a soldier is very strong that he is able to defeat his enemy.
It is foolish to think that because horses are very strong, they will be able to win a battle and save their riders.
Do not forget that God watches over those who honor him, those who confidently expect him to faithfully love them.
He saves them from dying before they should die; he preserves them when there is a famine.
We trust God to help us; he protects us as a shield protects a soldier.
We rejoice because of what he has done for us; we trust in him because he is holy.
God, we pray that you will always faithfully love us while we confidently expect you to do great things for us.
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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