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Psalm 152

Slightly modified from W. Wright, Some Apocryphal Psalms in Syriac, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vol. 9 (1886-7) pp.257-258, 264-6

(1) Glorify God with a loud voice; in the assembly of many proclaim His glory.
(2) Amid the multitude of the upright glorify His praise; and speak of His glory with the righteous.
(3) Join your soul to the good and to the perfect, to glorify the Most High.
(4) Gather yourselves together to make known His strength; and be not slow in showing forth His deliverance and His strength and His glory to all that lack heart.
(5) Wisdom has been given that the honour of the Lord may be known; and to tell of His works it has been made known to men:
(6) to make known to all that lack heart His strength, and to make them that lack heart to comprehend His glory;
(7) who are far from His entrances and distant from His gates:
(8) because the Lord of Jacob is exalted, and His glory is upon all His works.
(9) And a man who glorifies the Most High, in him will He take pleasure; as in one who offers fine meal, and as in one who offers he-goats and calves;
(10) and as in one who makes fat the altar with a multitude of burnt offerings; and as the smell of incense from the hands of the just.
(11) His voice shall be heard from your upright gates, and from the voice of the upright, admonition.
(12) And in their eating shall be satisfying in truth, and in their drinking, when they share together.
(13) Their dwelling is in the law of the Most High, and their speech is to make known His strength.
(14) How far from the wicked is speech of Him, and from all transgressors to know Him!
(15) Lo, the eye of the Lord takes pity on the good, and to them that glorify Him will He multiply mercy, and He will deliver their soul from the time of evil.
(16) Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered the wretched from the hand of the wicked; who raises up a horn out of Jacob and a judge of the nations out of Israel;
(17) that He may prolong His dwelling in Zion, and may adorn our age in Jerusalem.