Songs of Deliverance

¹When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,

²Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

⁵What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

¹Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

²Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

³But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

⁵They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

⁶They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell.

⁷They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

⁸Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

⁹Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

¹⁰House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

¹¹You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

¹²The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

¹³He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

¹⁴May the LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.

¹⁵Blessed are you by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

¹⁷The dead don’t praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence,

¹⁸but we will bless the LORD, from this time forward and forever more. Praise the LORD!

¹I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

²Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

³The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴Then I called on the LORD’s name: “LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

⁵The LORD is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

⁶The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

⁹I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁰I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

¹¹I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

¹²What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the LORD’s name.

¹⁴I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵Precious in the LORD’s sight is the death of his saints.

¹⁶LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

¹⁷I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the LORD’s name.

¹⁸I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people,

¹⁹in the courts of the LORD’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!

²For his loving kindness is great toward us. The LORD’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the LORD!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

²Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

³Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

⁴Now let those who fear the LORD say that his loving kindness endures forever.

⁵Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with freedom.

⁶The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

⁷The LORD is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

⁸It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in man.

⁹It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in princes.

¹⁰All the nations surrounded me, but in the LORD’s name I cut them off.

¹¹They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the LORD’s name I indeed cut them off.

¹²They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.

¹³You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.

¹⁴The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

¹⁶The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD does valiantly!”

¹⁷I will not die, but live, and declare the LORD’s works.

¹⁸The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to the LORD.

²⁰This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous will enter into it.

²¹I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

²²The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

²³This is the LORD’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

²⁵Save us now, we beg you, LORD! LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.

²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the LORD’s name! We have blessed you out of the LORD’s house.

²⁷The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

²⁸You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

²⁹Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.