1Of David.
Bless the LORD, O my soul;
all that is within me, bless His holy name.
1Of David. Bless, O my soul, YHWH, and all within me—His holy name!
2Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and do not forget all His kind deeds—
2O my soul, bless YHWH, and do not forget all His benefits—
3He who forgives all your iniquities
and heals all your diseases,
3the One forgiving all your iniquities, the One healing all your diseases,
4who redeems your life from the Pit
and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
4the One redeeming your life from destruction, the One crowning you with loving devotion and compassion,
5who satisfies you with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
5the One filling your beauty with the good; your youth is renewed like the eagle.
6The LORD executes righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
6YHWH is doing righteousness and justice for all being oppressed.
7He made known His ways to Moses,
His deeds to the people of Israel.
7He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the sons of Israel.
8The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
8Compassionate and gracious is YHWH, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
9He will not always accuse us,
nor harbor His anger forever.
9He will not contend forever, and He will not keep it forever.
10He has not dealt with us according to our sins
or repaid us according to our iniquities.
10He has not done to us according to our sins, and He has not dealt with us according to our iniquities.
11For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so His loving devotion is mighty for those fearing Him.
12As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
12As far as the east is from the west, so has He put our transgressions far from us.
13As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
13As a father has compassion for his children, so YHWH has compassion for those fearing Him.
14For He knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are dust.
14For He knows our form; He remembers that we are dust.
15As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;
15A man—his days are like grass; like the flower of the field, so he blossoms;
16when the wind passes over, it vanishes,
and its place remembers it no more.
16For the wind passes over it, and it is no more; and its place does not recognize it anymore.
17But from everlasting to everlasting
the loving devotion of the LORD
extends to those who fear Him,
and His righteousness to their children’s children—
17But the loving devotion of YHWH is from forever and even to forever upon those fearing Him, and His righteousness to the sons of the sons—
18to those who keep His covenant
and remember to obey His precepts.
18to those keeping His covenant, and to those remembering His precepts, to do them.
19The LORD has established His throne in heaven,
and His kingdom rules over all.
19YHWH has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.
20Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength
who carry out His word,
who hearken to the voice of His command.
20Bless YHWH, His angels, mighty of strength, doing His word, to listen to the voice of His word.
21Bless the LORD, all His hosts,
you servants who do His will.
21Bless YHWH, all His hosts, His ministering ones doing His pleasure.
22Bless the LORD, all His works
in all places of His dominion.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
22Bless YHWH, all His works, in all places of His dominion. O my soul, bless YHWH!