1As the occupation of the ploughman 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 by His hymns.
2My art and my service are in His hymns, because His love has nourished my heart, and His fruits He poured unto my lips.
3For my love is the Lord; hence I will sing unto 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;
7For the multitude of His mercies, and the strength of His Word.
8For the Word of the Lord investigates that which 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 the heaven, and fixed the stars.
12And He fixed the creation and set it up, then He rested from His works.
13And created things run according to their courses, and work their works, for they can never 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 so that it will be light; but night brings darkness over the face of the earth.
17And by their portion one from another they complete the beauty of God.
18And there is nothing outside of 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.
21Hallelujah.