God’s Love and Faithfulness

¹It is good to give thanks to the Lord ,

to sing praise to your name, Most High,

²to declare your faithful love in the morning

and your faithfulness at night,

³with a ten-stringed harp[#92:3 Or ten-stringed instrument and a harp]

and the music of a lyre.

⁴For you have made me rejoice, Lord ,

by what you have done;

I will shout for joy

because of the works of your hands.

⁵How magnificent are your works, Lord ,

how profound your thoughts!

⁶A stupid person does not know,

a fool does not understand this:

⁷though the wicked sprout like grass[#92:7 Ps 103:15–16; Is 37:27; 40:6–7]

and all evildoers flourish,

they will be eternally destroyed.

⁸But you, Lord , are exalted for ever.[#92:8 Ps 93:4]

⁹For indeed, Lord , your enemies –

indeed, your enemies will perish;

all evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰You have lifted up my horn[#92:10 Ps 89:17,24; 112:9]

like that of a wild ox;

I have been anointed with the finest oil.

¹¹My eyes look at my enemies;

when evildoers rise against me,

my ears hear them.

¹²The righteous thrive like a palm tree

and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord ,

they thrive in the courts of our God.

¹⁴They will still bear fruit in old age,

healthy and green,

¹⁵to declare, ‘The Lord is just;

he is my rock,

and there is no unrighteousness in him.’