⁹ For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

¹⁵ Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

⁷ For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

⁸ For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

² We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

¹⁴ But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

⁸ Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,

⁹ Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.

¹² Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

¹³ Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

¹⁴ But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

¹⁵ My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

³ But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

⁵ Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.

¹⁸ Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

²⁰ What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

²¹ And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

¹¹ Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

¹⁸ But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

² You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree: