As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare; And the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship; So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord in His praises;
2My craft and my occupation are in His praises; Because His love hath nourished my heart, And even to my lips His fruits He poured out.
3For my love is the Lord And therefore I will sing unto Him.
4For I am made strong in His praise, And I have faith in Him.
5I will open my mouth, And His spirit will utter in me The glory of the Lord and His beauty;
6The work of His hands And the fabric of His fingers;
7For the multitude of His mercies, And the strength of His Word.
8For the Word of the Lord searches out the unseen thing, And scrutinizes His thought.
9For the eye sees His works, And the ear hears His thought.
10It is He who spread out the earth, And settled the waters in the sea:
11He expanded the heavens, And fixed the stars;
12And He fixed the creation and set it up: And He rested from His works.
13And created things run in their courses, And work their works: And they know not how to stand (still) and to be idle.
14And the hosts are subject to His Word.
15The treasury of the light is the sun, And the treasury of the darkness is the night.
16And He made the sun for the day that it might be bright; But night brings darkness over the face of the earth:
17And (by) their reception one from the other They speak the beauty of God.
18And there is nothing that is without the Lord; For He was before anything came into being.
19And the Worlds were made by His Word, And by the thought of His heart.
20Glory and Honour to His name. Hallelujah.