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Let the peoples praise you, God,let all the peoples praise you.

The earth has produced its harvest;God, our God, blesses us.

God will bless us,and all the ends of the earth will fear him.

God arises. His enemies scatter,and those who hate him flee from his presence.

As smoke is blown away,so you blow them away.As wax melts before the fire,so the wicked are destroyed before God.

But the righteous are glad;they rejoice before God and celebrate with joy.

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name.Exalt him who rides on the clouds—his name is the Lord—and celebrate before him.

God in his holy dwelling isa father of the fatherlessand a champion of widows.

God provides homes for those who are deserted.He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,but the rebellious live in a scorched land.

God, when you went out before your people,when you marched through the desert,Selah

the earth trembled and the skies poured rainbefore God, the God of Sinai,before God, the God of Israel.

You, God, showered abundant rain;you revived your inheritance when it languished.

Your people settled in it;God, you provided for the poor by your goodness.

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,at the mountain God desired for his abode?The Lord will dwell there forever!

You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;you received gifts from people,even from the rebellious,so that the Lord God might dwell there.

Blessed be the Lord!Day after day he bears our burdens;God is our salvation.Selah

Our God is a God of salvation,and escape from death belongs to the Lord my Lord.

Surely God crushes the heads of his enemies,the hairy brow of one who goes on in his guilty acts.

People have seen your procession, God,the procession of my God,my King, in the sanctuary.

Bless God in the assemblies;bless the Lord from the fountain of Israel.