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Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB
1 <To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm.> Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:
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6 (For the one directing. Shir. Mizmor.) Make a joyful shout unto Elohim, kol HaAretz;
2 Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.
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Sing forth the kavod Shmo; make kavod (glorious) His tehillah (praise).
3 Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.
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Say unto Elohim, How norah (awesome) art Thou in Thy ma’asim (works)! Through the greatness of Thy oz (might) shall Thine oyevim cower before Thee.
4 Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. (Selah.)
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Kol ha’aretz shall prostrate before Thee, and shall sing unto Thee; they shall sing praise to Shimecha. Selah.
5 Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.
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Come and see the works of Elohim; He is norah (awesome) in deed toward Bnei Adam.
6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
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He turned the yam into yabashah (dry land; see Gn 1:10); they passed through the nahar on regel; there did we rejoice in Him.
7 He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)
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He ruleth by His gevurah (power) olam (forever); His eyes are a watchman’s eyes over the Goyim; let not the sorerim (rebellious ones) exalt themselves. Selah.
8 Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;
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Barchu Eloheinu, Amim, and make the kol (sound) of His tehillah (praise) to be heard.
9 Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.
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He is the One who set nafsheinu in chayyim and does not permit ragleinu (our foot) to slip.
10 For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
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For Thou, Elohim, hath tested us and hast proved us; Thou hast put us in the crucible’s refining and refined us as kesef.
11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.
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Thou broughtest us into the metzudah (prison); Thou laidst a mu’akah (burden) upon our loins.
12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.
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Thou hast caused enosh (mankind) to ride over rosheinu (our head); we went through eish and through mayim; but Thou broughtest us out into plenty.
13 I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,
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I will come into Thy Beis [HaMikdash] with olot; I will fulfill for Thee my nedarim,
14 Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.
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Which my sfatayim have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in tzoros.
15 I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)
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I will offer unto Thee olot mekhim (burnt offerings of fat animals), with the ketoret (incense, offering) of rams; I will offer bakar with goats. Selah.
16 Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
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Come and hear, Kol Yirei Elohim, and I will declare what He hath done for my nefesh.
17 My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
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I cried unto Him with my mouth, and He was extolled with my leshon.
18 I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
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If I regard avon (iniquity, sin) in my lev, Adonoi will not hear me;
19 But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
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But surely Elohim hath heard me; He hath attended to the kol tefillati (voice of my prayer).
20 Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.
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Baruch Elohim, Who hath not turned away my tefillah, nor His chesed from me.
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