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Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation.

God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.

God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraam: for God’s mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.

As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.

We have thought of thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy people.

According to thy name, O God, so is also thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.

A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause.

The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?