Whole-heart­ed thanks­giv­ing to Thee I will bring
In praise of Thy mar­vel­ous deeds I will sing;
In Thee I will joy and ex­ult­ing­ly cry,
Thy name I will praise, O Je­ho­vah, Most High.

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the people re­joice!
O come to Je­ho­vah, de­clare ye His fame,
And give Him all hon­or, for just is His name.

My ene­mies turn and are scat­tered in fear,
They stum­ble and per­ish because Thou art near;
For Thou hast de­fend­ed my right and my cause,
Thou sit­test in judg­ment, up­hold­ing Thy laws.

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Rebuked are the na­tions, the wick­ed de­stroyed;
Their me­mo­ry per­ished, their dwell­ing place void;
Enthroned and eter­nal, Je­ho­vah shall reign,
The peo­ples to judge and the right to main­tain.

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Thou, Lord, art a re­fuge for all the op­pressed,
All trust Thee who know Thee, and trust­ing are blest;
For ne­ver, O Lord, did Thy mer­cy for­sake
The soul that has sought of Thy grace to par­take.

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Give praise to Je­ho­vah, the migh­ty deeds tell
Of Him who has chos­en in Zi­on to dwell,
Of Him to whom jus­tice and ven­geance be­long,
Who vi­sits the low­ly and ov­er­throws wrong.

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Behold my af­flict­ion, Thy mer­cy accord,
And back from death’s por­tals re­store me, O Lord,
That I in the gates of Thy Zi­on may raise
My song of sal­va­tion and show forth Thy praise.

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The sins of the na­tions their ru­in have wrought,
Their own ev­il­do­ing de­struct­ion has brought;
In this the Lord’s jus­tice eter­nal­ly stands,
That sin­ners are snared in the work of their hands.

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The wick­ed shall per­ish, the na­tions shall fall,
Forgetting their God, who is God ov­er all;
But God will re­mem­ber the pray­er of the weak,
Most sure­ly ful­fill­ing the hope of the meek.

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Arise in Thy jus­tice, O Lord, and Thy might,
No long­er let sin­ners pre­vail in Thy sight;
Great judge of the na­tions, in judg­ment ap­pear
To hum­ble the proud and to teach them Thy fear.

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