“She despises you, she scorns you—

^wthe virgin daughter of Zion;

she ^xwags her head behind you—

the daughter of Jerusalem.

22  “Whom have you ^ymocked and ^zreviled?

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes to the heights?

Against ^athe Holy One of Israel!

23  ^bBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,

and you have said, ^c‘With my many chariots

I have gone up the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of ^dLebanon;

I felled its tallest cedars,

its choicest cypresses;

I entered its farthest lodging place,

its most ^efruitful forest.

24  I dug wells

and drank foreign waters,

and I dried up with the sole of my foot

all the streams ^fof Egypt.’

25  “Have you not heard

that ^gI determined it long ago?

I planned from days of old

what ^hnow I bring to pass,

that you should turn fortified cities

into heaps of ruins,

26  while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,

are dismayed and confounded,

and have become ⁱlike plants of the field

and like tender grass,

like grass on the housetops,

blighted before it is grown.

27  “But I know your sitting down

^jand your going out and coming in,

and your raging against me.

28  Because you have raged against me

and your complacency has come into my ears,

I will ^kput my hook in your nose

and my bit in your mouth,

and ^lI will turn you back on the way

by which you came.

^m“You are my Son,

today I have begotten you”?

ⁿ“I will be to him a father,

and he shall be to me a son”?

^p“Let all God’s angels worship him.”

^q“He makes his angels winds,

and his ministers a flame of fire.”

^r“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,

the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

9  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;

therefore God, your God, ^shas anointed you

with ^tthe oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

^u“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,

and the heavens are the work of your hands;

11  they will perish, but you remain;

they will all wear out like a garment,

12  like a robe you will roll them up,

like a garment they will be changed.¹

But you are ^vthe same,

and your years will have no end.”

^w“Sit at my right hand

^xuntil I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

1  ^uPraise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord,

give praise, O ^vservants of the Lord,

2  who ⁿstand in the house of the Lord,

in ^wthe courts of the house of our God!

3  Praise the Lord, for ^xthe Lord is good;

sing to his name, ^yfor it is pleasant!¹

4  For the Lord has ^zchosen Jacob for himself,

Israel as his ^aown possession.

5  For I know that ^bthe Lord is great,

and that our Lord is above all gods.

6  ^cWhatever the Lord pleases, he does,

in heaven and on earth,

in the seas and all deeps.

7  ^dHe it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,

who ^emakes lightnings for the rain

and brings forth the wind from his ^fstorehouses.

8  He it was who ^gstruck down the firstborn of Egypt,

both of man and of beast;

9  who in your midst, O Egypt,

sent ^hsigns and wonders

against Pharaoh and all his servants;

10  ⁱwho struck down many nations

and killed mighty kings,

11  ^jSihon, king of the Amorites,

and ^kOg, king of Bashan,

and ^lall the kingdoms of Canaan,

12  and ^mgave their land as a heritage,

a heritage to his people Israel.

13  ⁿYour name, O Lord, endures forever,

^oyour renown,² O Lord, throughout all ages.

14  ^pFor the Lord will vindicate his people

and ^qhave compassion on his servants.

15  ^rThe idols of the nations are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.

16  They have mouths, but do not speak;

they have eyes, but do not see;

17  they have ears, but do not hear,

nor is there any breath in their mouths.

18  Those who make them become like them,

so do all who trust in them.

19  ^sO house of Israel, bless the Lord!

O house of Aaron, bless the Lord!

20  O house of Levi, bless the Lord!

You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

21  Blessed be the Lord ^tfrom Zion,

he who ^udwells in Jerusalem!

^vPraise the Lord!

1  ^wGive thanks to the Lord, for he is good,

^xfor his steadfast love endures forever.

2  Give thanks to ^ythe God of gods,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

3  Give thanks to ^ythe Lord of lords,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

4  to him who alone ^zdoes great wonders,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

5  to him who ^aby understanding ^bmade the heavens,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

6  to him who ^cspread out the earth ^dabove the waters,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

7  to him who ^emade the great lights,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

8  the sun to rule over the day,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

9  the moon and stars to rule over the night,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

10  to him who ^fstruck down the firstborn of Egypt,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

11  and ^gbrought Israel out from among them,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

12  with ^ha strong hand and an outstretched arm,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

13  to him who ⁱdivided the Red Sea in two,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

14  ^jand made Israel pass through the midst of it,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

15  but ^koverthrew³ Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

16  to him who ^lled his people through the wilderness,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

17  to him ^mwho struck down great kings,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

18  and killed mighty kings,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

19  Sihon, king of the Amorites,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

20  and Og, king of Bashan,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

21  and gave their land as a heritage,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

22  a heritage to Israel his ⁿservant,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

23  It is he who ^oremembered us in our low estate,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

24  and ^prescued us from our foes,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

25  he who ^qgives food to all flesh,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

26  Give thanks to ^rthe God of heaven,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

1  Ephraim feeds on the wind

and pursues ^zthe east wind all day long;

they multiply ^yfalsehood and violence;

^athey make a covenant with Assyria,

and ^boil is carried to Egypt.

2  ^cThe Lord has an indictment against Judah

and will punish Jacob according to his ways;

he will repay him according to his deeds.

3  ^dIn the womb he took his brother by the heel,

and in his manhood he strove with God.

4  He strove with the angel and prevailed;

he wept and sought his favor.

^eHe met God¹ at Bethel,

and there God spoke with us—

5  the Lord, the God of hosts,

^fthe Lord is his memorial name:

6  “So you, ^gby the help of your God, return,

^hhold fast to love and justice,

and wait continually for your God.”

7  A merchant, in whose hands are ⁱfalse balances,

he loves ^jto oppress.

8  Ephraim has said, “Ah, but ^kI am rich;

I have found wealth for myself;

in all my labors ^lthey cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”

9  ^mI am the Lord your God

from the land of Egypt;

I will again make you ⁿdwell in tents,

as in the days of the appointed feast.

10  ^oI spoke to the prophets;

it was I who multiplied ^pvisions,

and through the prophets gave parables.

11  ^qIf there is iniquity in Gilead,

they shall surely come to nothing:

^rin Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;

^stheir altars also are like stone heaps

^ton the furrows of the field.

12  ^uJacob fled to the land of Aram;

there Israel ^vserved for a wife,

and for a wife he guarded sheep.

13  By ^wa prophet ^xthe Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,

and by a prophet he was guarded.

14  ^yEphraim has given bitter provocation;

so his Lord ^zwill leave his bloodguilt on him

^aand will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.