Psalms 92

Psalm 92

Thanksgiving for Vindication

¹It is good to give thanks to the Lord ,[#Ps 147.1]

to sing praises to your name, O Most High,

²to declare your steadfast love in the morning[#Ps 89.1]

and your faithfulness by night,

³to the music of the lute and the harp,[#2 Chr 23.5; Ps 33.2]

to the melody of the lyre.

⁴For you, O Lord , have made me glad by your work;

at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

⁵How great are your works, O Lord ![#Ps 40.5; Isa 28.29; Rom 11.33]

Your thoughts are very deep!

⁶The dullard cannot know;

the stupid cannot understand this:

⁷though the wicked sprout like grass[#Ps 37.38; 90.5; 93.4; 94.4]

and all evildoers flourish,

they are doomed to destruction forever,

⁸but you, O Lord , are on high forever.[#Ps 83.18]

⁹For your enemies, O Lord ,[#Ps 68.1; 89.10]

for your enemies shall perish;

all evildoers shall be scattered.

¹⁰But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;

you have anointed me with fresh oil.

¹¹My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;[#Ps 54.7; 59.10]

my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

¹²The righteous flourish like the palm tree[#Ps 52.8; 104.16; Isa 65.22; Hos 14.5, 6]

and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³They are planted in the house of the Lord ;

they flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴In old age they still produce fruit;[#Isa 37.31]

they are always green and full of sap,

¹⁵showing that the Lord is upright;[#Deut 32.4; Ps 25.8; Rom 9.14]

he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.