Psalms

¹It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High, ²to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, ³with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. ⁴For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. ⁵How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. ⁶A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this: ⁷though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. ⁸But you, LORD, are on high forever more. ⁹For behold, your enemies, LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered. ¹⁰But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. ¹¹My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. ¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³They are planted in the LORD’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. ¹⁴They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, ¹⁵to show that the LORD is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.