1: Good people, cheer GOD! Right-living people sound best when praising.
2: Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano!
3: Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare.
4: For GOD's Word is solid to the core; everything he makes is sound inside and out.
5: He loves it when everything fits, when his world is in plumb-line true. Earth is drenched in GOD's affectionate satisfaction.
6: The skies were made by GOD's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out.
7: He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
8: Earth-creatures, bow before GOD; world-dwellers--down on your knees!
9: Here's why: he spoke and there it was, in place the moment he said so.
10: GOD takes the wind out of Babel pretense, he shoots down the world's power-schemes.
11: GOD's plan for the world stands up, all his designs are made to last.
12: Blessed is the country with GOD for God; blessed are the people he's put in his will.
13: From high in the skies GOD looks around, he sees all Adam's brood.
14: From where he sits he overlooks all us earth-dwellers.
15: He has shaped each person in turn; now he watches everything we do.
16: No king succeeds with a big army alone, no warrior wins by brute strength.
17: Horsepower is not the answer; no one gets by on muscle alone.
18: Watch this: God's eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love.
19: He's ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together.
20: We're depending on GOD; he's everything we need.
21: What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name.
22: Love us, GOD, with all you've got--that's what we're depending on.