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The Message Bible MSG
1 Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!
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Hallelujah! You who serve God, praise God! Just to speak his name is praise!
2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!
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Just to remember God is a blessing - now and tomorrow and always.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
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From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to God!
4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
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God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies.
5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
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Who can compare with God, our God, so majestically enthroned,
6 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?
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Surveying his magnificent heavens and earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
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He picks up the poor from out of the dirt, rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash,
8 to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.
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Seats them among the honored guests, a place of honor among the brightest and best.
9 He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
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He gives childless couples a family, gives them joy as the parents of children. Hallelujah!
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.