Psalm 92

1    It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord  ♦

and to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

2    To tell of your love early in the morning  ♦

and of your faithfulness in the night-time,

3    Upon the ten-stringed instrument, upon the harp,  ♦

and to the melody of the lyre.

4    For you, Lord, have made me glad by your acts,  ♦

and I sing aloud at the works of your hands.

5    O Lord, how glorious are your works!  ♦

Your thoughts are very deep.

6    The senseless do not know,  ♦

nor do fools understand,

7    That though the wicked sprout like grass  ♦

and all the workers of iniquity flourish,

8    It is only to be destroyed for ever;  ♦

but you, O Lord, shall be exalted for evermore.

9    For lo, your enemies, O Lord,

    lo, your enemies shall perish,  ♦

and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

10  But my horn you have exalted

    like the horns of wild oxen;  ♦

I am anointed with fresh oil.

11  My eyes will look down on my foes;  ♦

my ears shall hear the ruin of the evildoers

    who rise up against me.

12  The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,  ♦

and shall spread abroad like a cedar of Lebanon.

13  Such as are planted in the house of the Lord  ♦

shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14  They shall still bear fruit in old age;  ♦

they shall be vigorous and in full leaf;

15  That they may show that the Lord is true;  ♦

he is my rock,

    and there is no unrighteousness in him.

 

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