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Hallelujah! Give praise, you servants of the ; * praise the Name of the.

Let the Name of the be blessed, * from this time forth for evermore.

From the rising of the sun to its going down * let the Name of the be praised.

The is high above all nations, * and his glory above the heavens.

Who is like the our God, who sits enthroned on high, * but stoops to behold the heavens and the earth?

He takes up the weak out of the dust * and lifts up the poor from the ashes.

He sets them with the princes, * with the princes of his people.

He makes the woman of a childless house * to be a joyful mother of children.

Hallelujah! When Israel came out of Egypt, * the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,

Judah became God’s sanctuary * and Israel his dominion.