Common English Bible CEB
New Revised Standard NRS
8 All you nations, bless our God! Let the sound of his praise be heard!
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Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
9 God preserved us among the living; he didn't let our feet slip a bit.
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who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.
10 But you, God, have tested us— you've refined us like silver,
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For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
11 trapped us in a net, laid burdens on our backs,
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You brought us into the net; you laid burdens on our backs;
12 let other people run right over our heads— we've been through fire and water. But you brought us out to freedom!
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you let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.
13 So I'll enter your house with entirely burned offerings. I'll keep the promises I made to you,
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I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows,
14 the ones my lips uttered, the ones my mouth spoke when I was in deep trouble.
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those that my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer the best burned offerings to you along with the smoke of sacrificed rams. I will offer both bulls and goats. Selah
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I will offer to you burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. (Selah)
16 Come close and listen, all you who honor God; I will tell you what God has done for me:
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Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.
17 My mouth cried out to him with praise on my tongue.
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I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I had cherished evil in my heart, my Lord would not have listened.
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If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
19 But God definitely listened. He heard the sound of my prayer.
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But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the words of my prayer.
20 Bless God! He didn't reject my prayer; he didn't withhold his faithful love from me.
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Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me.