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The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

< > Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds -- To Yah, his name! Rejoice before him.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, But the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

God, when you went forth before your people, When you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai -- At the presence of God, the God of Israel.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, At the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

They have seen your goings, God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

"Bless God in the congregations, Even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!"