¹ > We give thanks to you, God, We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

¹⁸ Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, To all who call on him in truth.

² I will bow down toward your holy temple, And give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; For you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

¹ > In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

⁶ There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

¹ > Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

¹ > Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed.

¹ > We have heard with our ears, God; Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old.

³³ Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

³⁴ Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

⁷ For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

⁶ Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

²¹ Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.