Solomon’s ¹  Most Excellent ²  Love Song. ³ 

for there our captors ask us to compose songs; ¹  those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: ²  “Sing for us a song about Zion!” ³ 

A song of ascents. ²  From the deep water ³  I cry out to you, O Lord.

Sing to him a new song! ¹  Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him! ² 

For the music director; a song, a psalm. Shout out praise to God, all the earth!

I will sing praises to God’s name! ¹  I will magnify him as I give him thanks! ² 

Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The Lord’s city is in the holy hills. ² 

Sing to the Lord a new song! ²  Sing to the Lord, all the earth!

A song of ascents. ²  In my distress I cried out to the Lord and he answered me.

A song of ascents. ²  I look up ³  toward you, the one enthroned ⁴  in heaven.

A song of ascents. ²  How blessed is every one of the Lord’s loyal followers, ³  each one who keeps his commands! ⁴ 

A song of ascents. ²  “Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.

A song of ascents. ²  O Lord, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort, ³ 

How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?

It is better for a person to receive ¹  a rebuke from those who are wise ²  than to listen to the song ³  of fools.

They no longer sing and drink wine; ¹  the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

I will silence ¹  the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Take away from me your ¹  noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments. ² 

Then Israel sang ¹  this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,