Happy are they all who fear the Lord, *

and who follow in his ways!

You shall eat the fruit of your labor; *

happiness and prosperity shall be yours.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, *

your children like olive shoots round about your table.

The man who fears the Lord *

shall thus indeed be blessed.

The Lord bless you from Zion, *

and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

May you live to see your children’s children; *

may peace be upon Israel.

“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,” *

let Israel now say;

“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth, *

but they have not prevailed against me.”

The plowmen plowed upon my back *

and made their furrows long.

The Lord, the Righteous One, *

has cut the cords of the wicked.

Let them be put to shame and thrown back, *

all those who are enemies of Zion.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops, *

which withers before it can be plucked;

Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, *

nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves;

So that those who go by say not so much as,

“The Lord prosper you. *

We wish you well in the Name of the Lord.”

Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord;

Lord, hear my voice; *

let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.

If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss, *

O Lord, who could stand?

For there is forgiveness with you; *

therefore you shall be feared.

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; *

in his word is my hope.

My soul waits for the Lord,

more than watchmen for the morning, *

more than watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, wait for the Lord, *

for with the Lord there is mercy;

With him there is plenteous redemption, *

and he shall redeem Israel from all their sins.