¹ My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

² Wake up, harp and lyre! I will Wake up the dawn.

³ I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.

⁴ For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

⁵ Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.

⁶ That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

⁷ God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

⁸ Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

⁹ Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia."

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

¹¹ Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

¹² Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

¹³ Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

¹⁴ Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

¹⁵ Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.

¹⁶ Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

¹⁷ They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

¹⁸ "But even in those days," says Yahweh, "I will not make a full end with you.