PSALM 118

    ¹Acclaim the LORD, for He is good,

          forever is His kindness.

    ²Let Israel now say:

          forever is His kindness.

    ³Let the house of Aaron now say:

          forever is His kindness.

    ⁴Let those who fear the LORD now say:

          forever is His kindness.

    ⁵From the straits I called to Yah.

          Yah answered me in a wide-open place.

    ⁶The LORD is for me, I shall not fear.

          What can humankind do to me?

    ⁷ The LORD is for me among my helpers,

          and I shall see the defeat of my foes.

    ⁸Better to shelter in the LORD

          than to trust in humankind.

    ⁹Better to shelter in the LORD

          than to trust in princes.

    ¹⁰All the nations surrounded me.

          With the LORD’s name I cut them down.

    ¹¹They swarmed round me, oh they surrounded me.

          With the LORD’s name I cut them down.

    ¹²They swarmed round me like bees,

          burned out like a fire among thorns.

          With the LORD’s name I cut them down.

    ¹³You pushed me hard to knock me down,

          but the LORD helped me.

    ¹⁴My strength and my might is Yah,

          and He has become my rescue.

    ¹⁵A voice of glad song and rescue

          in the tents of the just:

              The LORD’s right hand does valiantly.

    ¹⁶The LORD’s right hand is raised,

          the LORD’s right hand does valiantly.

    ¹⁷I shall not die but live

          and recount the deeds of Yah.

    ¹⁸Yah harshly chastised me

          but to death did not deliver me.

    ¹⁹Open for me the gates of justice—

          I would enter them, I would acclaim Yah.

    ²⁰This is the gate of the LORD—

          the just will enter it.

    ²¹I acclaim You for You have answered me,

          and You have become my rescue.

    ²²The stone that the builders rejected

          has become the chief cornerstone.

    ²³From the LORD did this come about—

          it is wondrous in our eyes.

    ²⁴This is the day the LORD has wrought.

          Let us exult and rejoice in it.

    ²⁵We beseech You, LORD, pray, rescue.

          We beseech You, LORD, make us prosper.

    ²⁶Blessed who comes in the name of the LORD.

          We bless you from the house of the LORD.

    ²⁷ The LORD is God and He shines upon us.

          Bind the festive offering with ropes

              all the way to the horns of the altar.

    ²⁸You are my God, and I acclaim You,

          my God, and I exalt You.

    ²⁹Acclaim the LORD, for He is good,

          forever is His kindness.