1As the occupation of the farmer is the ploughshare, and the occupation of the helmsman is the steering of the ship, so also my occupation is the psalm of the Lord in his hymns.
2My art and my service are in his hymns, because his love nourished my heart, and his fruits he poured into my lips.
3For my love is the Lord; therefore I will sing to him.
4For I am strengthened by his praises, and I have faith in him.
5I will open my mouth, and his Spirit will speak through me the glory of the Lord and his beauty,
6The work of his hands, and the labor of his fingers;
7By the multitude of his mercies, and the strength of his Word.
8For the Word of the Lord investigates what is invisible, and reveals his thought.
9For the eye sees his works, and the ear hears his thought.
10It is he who made the earth broad, and placed the waters in the sea.
11He expanded heaven, and fixed the stars.
12And he fixed creation and established it, then rested from his works.
13And the things created run according to their courses, and work their works, for never can they cease nor fail.
14And the hosts are subject to his Word.
15The reservoir of light is the sun, and the reservoir of darkness is the night.
16For he made the sun for the day that there may be light; but night brings darkness upon the face of the earth.
17And by their portion one of the other they complete the beauty of God.
18And there is nothing outside the Lord, because he was before anything came to be.
19And the worlds are by his Word, and by the thought of his heart.
20Praise and honor to his name. Hallelujah.