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1 To David.
Bless Our God, my soul!
With everything that is within me, bless God’s holy Name!
2 Bless Our God, my soul,
and never forget all the things God has done in loving us back!
3 He forgives all our unfaithfulness to Torah,
he cures of of all our sicknesses of body, mind, and soul;
4 She sets us free from the corruption of death,
she garlands us with covenant love and TLC.
5 He causes our violent lusts to meet up with goodness,
he will renew our youth the way he renews the phoenix.
6 Our God does works of compassion,
and pronounces sentence on all those who are unjust.
7 She made her ways known to Moses and Miriam,
and her purposes to the heirs of Israel.
8 Our God brims over with TLC and covenant love,
full of forbearance and freeing of the entangled;
9 He will not be provoked into sending us to our ultimate destiny —
not into the age of the new moon.
10 She does not treat us according to our sins;
she does not make our punishment correspond to our failures of torah.
11 As high as heaven is exalted above the earth,
So greatly does Our God show covenant love to those in awe below;
12 As far as the rising sun is from the setting sun,
that far from us does God make our failures of torah.
13 The same way that parents favor their own children,
Our God showers TLC upon the ones in awe below.
14 For he has known us as intimately as a potter his pot,
remembering that we are clay.
15 Mortal, God’s days are like pasturage —
like a flower of the field, so God blossoms forth —
16 God’s Spirit blows over the pasture, then is gone,
and the flowers perceive God no more.
17 And Our God’s covenant love shines from age to age on those in awe,
and her justice upon the children’s children
18 Who defend his Covenant
and remember to obey his commandments.
19 Our God in heaven has established her throne,
and her kindom extends over the Universe.
20 Bless Our God, all you angels,
you powers who do God’s word,
who hear the voice of his Word;
21 Bless Our God, all you spiritual powers,
you faithful ones who are doing God’s will!
22 Bless Our God, all creation,
to the far reaches of her sovereignty!
Bless Our God, my soul!