Psalm 92

It Is Good to Praise the Lord

¹It is good to give thanks to the Lord ,

to make music to your name, O Most High,

²to proclaim your mercy in the morning

and your faithfulness every night,

³with a ten-stringed instrument and with a harp,

with a melody on a lyre.

⁴Yes, you make me glad by your work, O Lord .

I sing loudly at the works of your hands.

⁵How great are your works, O Lord .

Your thoughts are very deep!

⁶The senseless man does not know,

and the fool does not understand this—

⁷when the wicked spring up like weeds,

and all evildoers bloom like flowers,

they will be destroyed forever.

⁸But you are exalted forever, O Lord .

⁹Without a doubt your enemies, O Lord ,

without a doubt your enemies will perish.

All evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰But you have raised my horn like that of a wild ox.[#92:10 Or you have made me as strong as an ox]

I am drenched with fresh oil.

¹¹My eyes have looked in triumph over my adversaries.

When evildoers rise against me, my ears hear their defeat.

¹²The righteous will shoot up like a palm tree.

They will grow tall like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord ,

they will shoot up in the courtyards of our God.

¹⁴They will still produce fruit in old age.

They will stay fresh and green.

¹⁵Yes, they can proclaim, “The Lord is upright.

He is my Rock, and he does no wrong.”