1: O my soul, bless GOD. From head to toe, I'll bless his holy name!
2: O my soul, bless GOD, don't forget a single blessing!
3: He forgives your sins--every one. He heals your diseases--every one.
4: He redeems you from hell--saves your life! He crowns you with love and mercy--a paradise crown.
5: He wraps you in goodness--beauty eternal. He renews your youth--you're always young in his presence.
6: GOD makes everything come out right; he puts victims back on their feet.
7: He showed Moses how he went about his work, opened up his plans to all Israel.
8: GOD is sheer mercy and grace; not easily angered, he's rich in love.
9: He doesn't endlessly nag and scold, nor hold grudges forever.
10: He doesn't treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs.
11: As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him.
12: And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins.
13: As parents feel for their children, GOD feels for those who fear him.
14: He knows us inside and out, keeps in mind that we're made of mud.
15: Men and women don't live very long; like wildflowers they spring up and blossom,
16: But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly, leaving nothing to show they were here.
17: GOD's love, though, is ever and always, eternally present to all who fear him, Making everything right for them and their children
18: as they follow his Covenant ways and remember to do whatever he said.
19: GOD has set his throne in heaven; he rules over us all. He's the King!
20: So bless GOD, you angels, ready and able to fly at his bidding, quick to hear and do what he says.
21: Bless GOD, all you armies of angels, alert to respond to whatever he wills.
22: Bless GOD, all creatures, wherever you are--everything and everyone made by GOD. And you, O my soul, bless GOD!