A Praise of David. I will extol Thee, my God, O king; and I will bless Thy name for ever and ever.

A Tehillah [(praise)], of David. I shall exalt You, O G d, the King, and I will bless Your name forever.

Every day I will bless Thee; and I will praise Thy name for ever and ever.

Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Great is the L rd and greatly praised; there is no searching out His greatness.

One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts.

One generation to another shall praise Your deeds and recount Your [acts of] strength.

I will speak of the glorious splendour of Thy majesty, and of Thy wondrous works.

[(And I, likewise,)] the beauty of the glory of Your majesty and the words of Your wonders shall I relate.

And men shall speak of the might of Thy terrible acts: and I will declare Thy greatness.

And they [(one generation to another)] shall declare the strength of Your awesome deeds, and I [likewise,] shall tell of Your greatness.

They shall utter the fame of Thy great goodness, and shall sing of Thy righteousness.

The remembrance of the abundance of Your good shall they express, and Your righteousness shall they sing.

The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of abundant love.

Gracious and merciful is the L rd, withholding wrath and great in lovingkindness.

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

The L rd is good to all, and His mercies are upon all of His creations.

All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord; and Thy pious ones shall bless Thee.

All of Your acts, O L rd, shall praise You, and Your lovingkindnesses shall bless You.

They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom, and talk of Thy power;

And the glory of Your kingdom shall they [(one generation to another)] proclaim, and Your strength shall they declare,

to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

[saying: It is good for us] to make known to the sons of man His strength and the glory of the splendor of His kingdom.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Thy dominion endures throughout all generations.

Your kingdom is a kingdom over all the worlds, and Your reign is throughout the generations.

The Lord upholds all that fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

[The aleph-beth arrangement of the verses is broken at this point by the absence of a verse for the nun, David foreseeing a great fall (nefilah) for Israel — and then, recovery from that fall intimated in the next (samech - "support") verse, viz.:] The L rd supports (somech) all the falling (noflim) and He straightens all the bent.

The eyes of all wait upon Thee; and Thou givest them their food in due season.

The eyes of all aspire to You, and You give them their sustenance in its time.

Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

You open Your hand and You satisfy [the needs of] all living things [with] favor.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Righteous is the L rd in all of His ways and saintly in all of His acts.

The Lord is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Near is the L rd to all who are near Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

The will of those who fear Him will He do, and their outcries will He hear and save them.

The Lord preserves all those who love him: but all the wicked he will destroy.

The L rd guards all of His lovers, and all of the wicked He will destroy.

My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

My mouth will speak the praise of the L rd, and [also] all flesh will bless the name of His holiness forever.