8 Bless our | God, you peoples;
  let the sound of | praise be heard.
 9 Our God has kept us a- | mong the living
  and has not allowed our | feet to slip. R
 10 For you, O God, have | tested us;
  you have tried us just as sil- | ver is tried.
 11 You brought us in- | to the net;
  you laid heavy burdens up- | on our backs.
 12 You let people ride over our heads; we went through | fire and water,
  but you brought us out into a place | of refreshment.
 13 I will enter your house | with burnt offerings
  and will pay | you my vows—
 14 those that I promised | with my lips
  and spoke with my mouth when I | was in trouble.
 15 I will offer you burnt offerings of fatlings with the | smoke of rams;
  I will give you ox- | en and goats. R
 16 Come and listen, all you | who believe,
  and I will tell you what God has | done for me.
 17 I called out to God | with my mouth,
  and praised the Lord | with my tongue.
 18 If I had cherished evil | in my heart,
  the Lord would | not have heard me;
 19 but in truth | God has heard me
  and has attended to the sound | of my prayer.
 20 Blessed be God, who has not reject- | ed my prayer,
  nor withheld unfailing | love from me.