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