⁷Bless our God, you peoples; *make the voice of his praise to be heard;

⁸Who holds our souls in life, *and will not allow our feet to slip.

⁹For you, O God, have proved us; *you have tried us just as silver is tried.

¹⁰You brought us into the snare; *you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.

¹¹You let enemies ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; *but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.

¹²I will enter your house with burnt-offerings and will pay you my vows, *which I promised with my lips and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.

¹³I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts with the smoke of rams; *I will give you oxen and goats.

¹⁴Come and listen, all you who fear God, *and I will tell you what he has done for me.

¹⁵I called out to him with my mouth, *and his praise was on my tongue.

¹⁶If I had found evil in my heart, *the Lord would not have heard me;

¹⁷But in truth God has heard me; *he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

¹⁸Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, *nor withheld his love from me.