1. IT IS a good and delightful thing to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises [with musical accompaniment] to Your name, O Most High,
2. To show forth Your loving-kindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night,
3. With an instrument of ten strings and with the lute, with a solemn sound upon the lyre.
4. For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your works; at the deeds of Your hands I joyfully sing.
5. How great are Your doings, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep.
6. A man in his rude and uncultivated state knows not, neither does a [self-confident] fool understand this:
7. That though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to be destroyed forever.